ignominy, lived in denial what is wrong with me
the one who stood and exposed my sickness was my own blood

and it's tarnished my name
please don't let this make you think less of me
look i'm fine! view me with anything but pity

i refuse to drop this, the law's too sacred to abuse!
i digress! he wasn't disbarred although he confessed!

insurance rate doubles based on my mental state
forced to retire, i tried to sue but now i'm too tired

time to go now

you appal me! your disregard for everything i hold dear,
wish you'd disappear
'you've never mattered all that much to me'
i'm turning out all the lights in my house
sat in darkness with no-one left to see
i kick over the flame and the light goes out in me

Ignominy

first we're gonna scrap private schools and property
birth above the gap shouldn't be a lottery
millions in the lap of some undeserving seeds
while billions on the map don't have fundamental needs

then we'll abolish borders, be one global society (in a dreamland)
everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves in dreamland

there wouldn't be any more excuses to conquer or wage war on our self
so everyone could lay around with deuces and leave tours of duty on the shelf
poverty would now seem medieval and money could go, nothing on loan
and 'cause it's the root of all the evil we're killing two birds with one stone

there'd be tolerance between all religions and philosophies

just as we achieve it, i wake up and leave it, sadly
now it's not up to me where you live but i would live there gladly

Dreamland

to view the universe as it grew
obscured by the new, billions of years flew

to glance through the looking glass
into deep space and deep in the past
in fact so far back that you fail to compute

to visualise in the mind's eye
a celestial body towering light years high

to think about nothingness
and how something (even) came to exist
"well if you insist"
we're all negligible

things that we don't know are dwarfed by the things that we don't know we don't know
for self-awareness that perspective brings, just gaze at the night sky aglow

//

if you think the sun revolves around your worth
your ego's just fat or ready to give birth
to denial, stop and be mindful
and smile while you accrue mental wealth, yeah

if stardom's the top, be careful up that road
aspiring to be what's likely to implode
just keep in mind- if you shoot for the stars
you might wind up shooting yourself, yeah

fame's fleeting, far from fulfilling
so watch what you chase

if validation's all you're clinging to you'll drown
you're in the shallow end but your feet aren't on the ground
you're small after all, the higher you climb the further you will fall
it can't be helped, yeah

Stars Are Starlike

you approach the indigo where they abide
the emerald, which you don't know can subside,
propelled you outside
and now your eyes have zoned in on a magenta/crimson hue
you've decided what you have to do
you storm in and the excess of violet in the room
horrifically becomes maroon

you were furtively observed on your advance
the yellow obstruction meant they didn't break your trance
they can't turn back time as their heart turns cyan
and grows heavy under the vast navy sky
a tear falls from their eye
you zoned in on a magenta/crimson hue
you knew what you had to do

Spectrum

run along
morecambe prom
you're gone out of sight
feel sea windbite
i run fartlek
but by accident
had to catch my breath

i play a pedestrian
then pick up a sprint and fool everyone

not my flat
habitat
i'm at the last stretch
not much zeal left
but you hand me
the dash that i need
to scrape sub 30

You Can't Beta Hat

will they and can they learn
they're watching australia burn (i know)
this is the tragic cost
hope, hectares and lives lost

if you are a cynic you're soaking up lies
it's around you
get increasingly frequent and cause our demise
it's bound to

will they and can they care
as cities breath toxic air (and it's)
too dire to be undone
the end's only just begun

Terror Australis

the alarm blares
straightens arm hairs
and my calm wears
thin

smoke then all streams
awoken from dreams
focus on leaving

waiting outside one person short
just gone midnight, nobody's sure

One Person Short

not a nightmare (i'm not that far)
it's not quite there (tune my radar)
(i'm on my way)

didn't used to be (i've always been)
it deluges me (rising within)
(anxiety)

i don't let it show
you may never know how i feel when i'm alone
how long can i go
until they overflow, the fears that fester below
if the panic plateaus
just try to stay afloat, and down the river of regrets i will row

Deluge

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there's a time and there's a place
there's alignment out in space
there's a slower pace
debase the moment
disown it

do it while it's on your mind
although it always is you'll find
you can't press rewind
or bind yourself to
the old you

if you're not waiting for the perfect time to tell me
you'd be home by now
or if you're waiting for the perfect lie to sell me
sell what your conscience will allow

as you get old you see through yourself
as if i was told to wait for the iron to strike
while it's cold
me, myself and i wait
as if i was told to wait for the iron to strike

the suspense killed me long ago
i'm buried now in i don't know
and i'm buried low
so resenting
and venting

Strike While The Iron's Cold

I can put your words in a headlock
Look whatcha makin' me do like dreadlock
No deadlock
Your defeat'll be a sight to see like Red Rock
If you tempt me
I'll kick you over the sea like Dempsey
Like lockdown your bars are empty
You're out in the rain and dressed unkemptly
That's my reign of terror
End score: 404-0 no error
Seeing me lose is even rarer
Than seeing Stoke win I'm the crown bearer
The beat- don't even lie I'm on that
Don't even try to combat
Your last name's Marshall like Mathers
I'll celebrate the irony like Wombats
Slide in your girl's diems like carpe
Make your day all PM- a dark day
I'd bet on myself like a parlay
And blend up your soul like I'm Sade
You live under Lyme
My lines carry disease they're malign
Your time's tickin' away cause you'll find
Your rhymes aren't able to neutralise mine

Ending careers like a blacklister
I'll make you fall like Twister
These Burns will cause a blister
You can call me Mr
Competitor Dismisser
I've got bars like Mitzvah
13 I'm bringing you bad luck
Getting battered this bad is a bad look
Pen and pad game locked down like padlock
Never on the defense like Matlock
But you're on it like the Brooklyn Nets
My offense military like cadets
As regimented and precise as it gets
We're not even- look at the odds place your bets

I'll send you out of the atmosphere
After I end you three times like a trilogy
You'll drift farther into the sun and wholly turn into a ghost
Those last three lines are a holy trinity
You studied at Trinity Catholic
But you can't learn this flow I'm a maverick
I body a beat I cadaver it
Then I cook it and serve it and have a bit
All my serves are aces
So you can't save face it's
Like I'm Hannibal let's face it
I make this all look basic
A lad in his bag, ingenious
You've got no function, I'm like Frobenius
If by the end you're not flattened:
Stranger Things have never happened
This beat- gonna Ryder like Wino
I'm a powerhouse you're a minnow
An underdog who'll never win tho
Dead meat I'll glaze twice like window
Read this diss track's lines back like Shakespeare's
After streaming this track like your tears
I've got all these layers, you hearing this?
Not chopped but you're screwed and you're fearing this
Engine full throttle while I'm engineering this
There's a dichotomy you are not nearing this
That throttle got you by the throat
I never bottle it like a boat
Of matchsticks but you'll twist and go bust
If you found all these hidden bars there'd be a gold rush

Upfront, don't lurk
Get my scrubs on and get to work 
Long and painful, no percs
A surgical take down like I'm Turk
Fiddly, the chest open tho
Ridley, alien how hard I go
You're a kid, need to learn how to flow
Kidneys, don't need two of those
I'll put a hole in one, 
You'll be above par
Got this locked down, you're locked up
Gotta keep up, you're behind bars
And staying there, no need for cuffing
Your ties to the world I'm severing
Your verses equate to nothing
Mine to Everything Everything
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You're held to ransom
Like black X6 I'll
Make you a phantom


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I turned up worryingly unprepared
If not for other concerns I might have cared
In advance for my future-self’s state
My mind occupied, it was left too late
Cue the regrets

Under the cover all’s well
Out in the open it’s hell
It seems insane now to think
I thought I could avoid the mud rink
How wrong I was

Youth and naivety plain
Since cynicism seemed the sane prediction
I wrongly went against the grain

It worsens with the arrival of rain
Pikehall Events Planning- for shame!
The disaster made national news
They made the bomb and nature lit the fuse
It’s not annual any more

The reception down
I spend the night walking around soaked through
I’ve never felt so helpless and blue

Naivety plain
Since cynicism seemed the sane prediction
I wrongly went against the grain

And with each second that goes by
Fading light, fading light
And I know that the means to the end’s nearby 
But out of sight, out of sight
As it gets colder and darker, I
I might die, I might die
And I walk up a mile to no avail 
What a surprise, what a surprise

the elEPhant

Abbott Is Death Process

a writer and performer of original songs from the city of derby

Luca Vincent

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