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Deep Sea Diving

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the way the world ends

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You've probably never heard me talking bout killing the game,
Spend some time spitting bout that same damn shame of existence with infinite persistence
More likely I'll lament the tragedy of the loss of your faculties when I prevent you from receiving the things that you've been needing
But instead you just lay there bleeding out from the blight of the devout a rotting sickness brought on by richness of your same slickness
But in the end I gotta get paid too, what's any old fucker gonna do
Can't get by without it, so I'm gonna make some hundreds no doubt about it

I get paid in hundreds only,
gotta make them hundreds only
that's how I live it hundreds only
I want to see them hundreds only

Same game for fame and riches that we all keep in our wishes 
a dream of the Cream of the Crop something sick before you drop 
and yet it's kept all for none like its a secret locked in Area 51 
some brutal truth kept from the youth 
to kill the game you gotta kill your name 
that's the only way you'll get what you desire 
but it'll never be what you aspire for 
because you didn't want to be that kind of person that sold out your fellow man for a chance at some fancy crib and a van
And then if that was your plan from the start that you a cold ass bitch that couldn't give a shit bout anyone but yourself so why you listening to my words when the only thing that matters is your own absurd worldview seen through the veil of your purview
We all hypocrites so don't fret, if it works out then you won't have to worry yet
But I digress since I possess something that is unmarketable and unprofitable, must be so unremarkable to be another rapper that wants to be a rock star and go far from the place where it all began but ultimately I would like to make some hundreds easily but that's not the way the game goes fighting on against the same foes

Ben Franklin certainly could kill the game, get all the bitches back in the 1750s
And now that clever old bastards on the only thing that matters to the people that require some cash while they perspire and crash into one another
guess that's all they gotta bother with so I just spit this shit cause I need the money and I need the fame but forget it, at the end of the day I know I'll never have either, stuck in place like I'm dying of a fever
So I'll work and slave to have the money to make this into a rave, we the people but it isn't true, just like Ben Franklin I'll be killin it too.


Hundreds Only (Killin' The Game) (album mix)

swing for the fences every time
otherwise you might as well be waiting in line
while the rest of us
keep building trust
while everything we have just goes and rusts
so fight the decay
at least for today
and hope it was more than just a delay

brimstone fountains keep on spitting clouds into the sky

burn it all to ashes every time
just some more matches for this listless climb
so you drift through life
well it must be nice
to have nothing but some bad advice
so keep your shit in your own head
go and poison yourself that way instead
no one wants to hear that anyway 
so go on get the hell out of here and pray

sun sets on your old plan 
start drawing a new hand
suns sets on your old plan
cause i guess you were never really in demand

brimstone fountains keep on spitting clouds into the sky

a life worthy of such derision 
was never really your decision
or so you say
as you go astray
least every day
when really every little choice you make 
comes down to how much shit can you take
do you fight for love or just give on up
or i guess have you really really had enough

clear view now what's ahead
shuffle right on back to where you've been
that's all there is for you
but hey i know where i'm going too
true love was hard to find
but i got someone that's so divine
so here's something you can take off the shelf
i'll be happy while you fool yourself
sun sets on your old plan 
cause i guess you were never really in demand
swing for the fences every time
only way to hold on to what's mine
spent a whole life struggling for nothin
now ain't that really really somethin
won't make the same mistakes
i'll do whatever it takes
to ensure i don't become like you
all full of regrets and burning through
sun sets on your old plan 
cause you were always the company man

brimstone fountains keep on spitting clouds into the sky
brimstone fountains keep on spitting clouds into the sky

Clouds (album mix)

Circular Logic it's almost atomic
That's how it feels when you've been smoking the chronic
Circular Logic it's always comic
When you project all the toxic tonics that you just left in your caustic diagnostics

Drunken reality, seems alright to me
No matter our choices we never get free
So smoke up and drink it all down
Listen for the faint sound
You'll hear it calling you
But you won't remember what you were supposed to undo

A little bit of hope is a dangerous thing, grows like a cancer, faster and faster
Until at last you surmise that every little hope was just some more white smoke until you're broke inside and you cannot hide
So you drop to your knees and scream at the stars
But no one is listening all the way out past Mars
But go far enough and here's what you'll find deep within the recesses of your own god damn mind
Now see a man with a grinning disposition, he smiles and acts with no contrition
Says it's nice to meet you, how do you do, but it's at least 5 times he's been introduced to you.

Green light the tremors crystallized in the better pieces of centers of lives that were wasted and times that went past, return back to where you were always last.

Circular Logic, the eternal reminder that nothing ever really makes a cynic kinder
You can't divorce the lies from the liar,
Next you'll tell me bout making some coals without a fire as it all burns higher

Skirt round the edges of what is acceptable
Blurt out all the lyrics that were so memorable
I'll go on to tell you something in fathomable
Thought that things were wonderful?
You will lose all you love so valuable

If the wolves at your heels you gotta face facts if you can't keep it real you better make tracks

Retread every path through the life
you have led, yet you still don't know why you can't get ahead
That feeling won't stop til we're dead and buried but if you're harried on your journey from beginning to end then listen my friend, you must learn to suspend or you'll never mend so accept your station with no remediation from the Circular Logic that is really so flawless just leaves you to express your lack of solace

Reached for the stars and you came up short guess nothing is really left here for me to report to recycle the wavelength will tAke all the strength that you just don't possess so i must confess if you can't forget then
all you will end up with is regret

Circular Logic (album mix)

we all know what happens when we grow old
our time is gone and so we go
doesn't matter if we made mistakes, or if we did alright
but this i do deny
all that you really ever wanted to know tonite
is did you hold on to your love

when your words can't cut the air
don't you ever start to despair
don't get yourself down 
my love my love my love
we have always found a way to survive
got a better way to stay alive alive alive

hey hey hey how are you gonna feel when you live life like you're runnin a race now
hey hey hey 
how are you gonna feel when you find out that you're in your place now
hey hey hey 
how is it gonna be when you find out that you'll never get enough
hey hey hey how is it gonna be
hey hey hey how is it gonna be

if there's one thing I really need 
its to show this world i can make this scene
is it really so obscene to believe in a dream, in a dream, in a dream
we only get so much time and if i waste mine i know it won't be fine

if your words can't cut the air
don't you ever start to despair
don't get yourself down
my love my love my love
we have always found a way to survive
got a better reason to stay alive alive alive

radio wasteland 
radio wasteland
radio wasteland
radio wasteland

we all know what happens when we grow old
our lives dissolve into the unknown
nothin we can leave behind
but maybe just one more time

if your words can't cut the air
don't you ever start to despair
don't get yourself down
my love my love my love
we have always found a way to survive
got a better reason to stay alive alive alive

hey hey hey 
how are you gonna be when you live life like you're runnin a race now
hey hey hey
how are you gonna be when you find out that you're in your place now
hey hey hey
how are you gonna be when you find that you'll never get enough
hey hey hey 
how are you gonna be
hey hey hey 
how are you gonna be
hey hey hey 
how are you gonna be

live life in a radio wasteland
kill the static and start to dream again
give life in a radio wasteland 
kill the static and start to live again

Hey Hey Hey (album mix)

Lyrics:

what matters more, the journey or the destination you ask with a sense of resignation
don't think for a second your time didn't matter just cause you didn't spend it on the right chatter
That banter will cloud your mind, these brimstone fountains will clear in time
From then on you'll see the skies for what they are, opportunities and possibilities stretch into liabilities but don't fear the probabilities just enjoy the time we have the lives we live they're not so bad
Even in the darkest timeline clouded by a sad symphony
You'll eventually see that positivity can be more than a fad
So even though I know I can be a tad overzealous you shouldn't get jealous cause they always tell us how much worse everything could be
If you were actually free

Sometimes I wonder if Steven King had it all wrong, the journey to the end of the song wasn't the real test we're all just guests searching for the richest place in the west
If there's nothing at the end of your quest then what was it all for, we all die before becoming blessed
So I address the question to you
Does life require meaning or are we just robots machining a new Gleaming generation within this nation with a fixation on relationships
So as I write this does it matter or am I just spitting blabber with no meaningful patter
The illusion of free will paralyzed within the eyes of a lover
Can you have everything forever
And would that really be any better

What matters more the journey or the destination, we ask with a sense of damnation
But why do you speak with such despair in your voice, you should know that you have always had a choice
Just cause you hate the options doesn't make it unfair
Everyone lives in this world and not every life can compare to the standards elsewhere
Don't you dare stare at what someone else has and say that should be mine cause there's always another man staring up at your stature saying the same wishing he was better at the game of life ain't that a bit of irony you can only see what you don't have and swear that if you had his square you'd be worth more than his whole affair
And you'll never be self aware
Enough to make this realization of the journey and the destination
The life always wasted by our blind ambitions and by my own admission
it's my own condition and my own tradition to blatantly share this disposition through one final definition

Holding on to something more,
Is that what I've been fighting for?
To strip this world down to its core
And remake it all as an encore
But if there's one thing of which I'm sure it's that I could never endure this War

So is it the journey or the destination, tell me which one you seek with no hesitation
And maybe you'll find your answer there but just beware
The king and the pauper end in the same place so you must face everything that this life brings and enjoy your time and fall right in line
So sing for the journey and the destination this is everything within our station always ending With a standing ovation


The Journey And The Destination (album mix)

Through The AEther

Lyrics:
Well it must have been a day just like any other

Wake up go to work one after another

But something told me this time its gonna change

It's all Not quite the same way it's been arranged

Tried to see what the hell I missed 

And I knew I'd be pissed if anything was amiss

But it was just this, I couldn't tell what was different

The only part deliberate is the same that make you feel considerate

So maybe just consider this

It's not just a twist or a ruse 

hereafter is how we choose



Wonder about it all you want

But at some point the haunting 

Will Turn your soul gaunt 

It feels like a massive taunt

To see such happiness behind a vaunted shield

And yet it will never yield

The sealed barricade eternally made



Yet maybe just then at that point of lost indifference

You're finally freed from the bitterness

You found your deliverance from fear

and the ignorance of the years 



So take a deep breath, take it all in

But better watch yourself before you fall in

Head on a swivel mind on the devil

Think you all fine but you ain't on the level



have you been following the meaning

Just like that you've been learning

All the facts in this meandering life

Just make sure the strife doesn't take you straight to the afterlife

Your bed to sleep in

Your grave to lay in

Ever alone doesn't equal the stage

You'll just be a shut in and not a sage

Do the best you can, that old page

Meant to assuage your fear of failure

By your own nature be your own savior

And have all the same major behavior

Find your wealth beyond yourself

Find your partner and live with good health 

Don't worry about anything else

There's no reason to get so stressed

In the end even you will be blessed





The girl I love

The one I treasure

What's it all made of

These things without measure



So take a deep breath, take it all in

But better watch yourself before you fall in

Head on a swivel mind on the devil

Think you all fine but you ain't on the level

Spring

Learning Curve

Barry's Treasure

Sleeping Bears

Barry's Song

Peace and Quiet

All About (instrumental)

Wagging Tails and Happy Tales

Sleepy Eyes

101 Bars

song for a rainy day

Lyrics:

Some conflicts are easily resolved
But still leave you with too many problems to solve
Nothing like feeling overwhelmed why isn’t anybody ever just whelmed
Slim pickings left in the cabinet
Results in inefficient government
Lose lives for the sake of finances
Maybe thats just how this life is
Steal from the poor and give it to the wealthy
A fealty of unknown origin but it feels like drinking cheap gin
Overpowering Pine tree flavor sets you free from the limits of unity
You're telling me an overbearing story
But please as I lay like stones in a quarry
hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, for me

Get to the point
I said with regret
I really didn’t want to reset the conflict
Stretch it out now it’s disjointed
A failed king falsely anointed

Spell it out for me, you know I can’t read between the lines
A fine time spent disoriented
But I really only want to be painted
Like the sky before I die
Shining through the leaves on high
Maybe start a new chapter but is that what I’m after?
I don’t think so
I mean shit goes slow and the best time you have is gone in an instant
A persistent resistance to change, no cage required
You can even call me a liar, I won’t deny it
Just remember the truth on this planet
Look for the proof you won’t find
So I’ll remind you to rewind
Everyone is lame to the overlord
Make sure you don’t take it overboard

Get to the point
I said with regret
I really didn’t want to reset the conflict
Stretch it out now it’s disjointed
A failed king falsely anointed

get to the point

Fall

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