Living in squaller 
Forgot what to call'er
The ceiling's getting smaller
For our sons and our daughters
Emancipation
Race relations
Terms that we swallow
The declarations of our patrons
Are just ships in a bottle

They're just a dream in a bubble
Take what you got to get double
But then they take what you give 
And leave you double the trouble
Tear down the walls till they crumble
Leave you to die in the rubble
Without even a shovel
Can't you see this house was built to tumble
And fall to the ground without a sound to be heard

I'll live on the curb
Eat my words
And flip'em the bird
Before I surrender the surge
Of energy that occurs
Scratch and claw to find the words
There's power in these absurd 
And painfully selected, seldom tested collection of verbs

Even when not accepted
Elect to spit them with courage 
And fight to flourish
Despite the pollution
The light in me's the purest
Without a solution 
The enigmatic serve
In lifting this curse

(Chorus)
But, damn. Guess that's the way it is
Genius drowning in a bottle
While the streets, they claim another generation of kids
Lady justice slit her throat
To busy bitching on your twitter to read the note that she wrote

She said, "Stand. This ain't the way to live."
Still we're clowning over garbage 
While the one percent strong-arming 
And refusing to give
'Cause we refuse to grow
Sleeping in their towers while our children lie awake in the snow

There's an immediate spark in the heart
When rhymes I flow. They impart
The afflicted with a start
Of a fire designed to burn the briar
And blaze beyond the borders
Of hoarders and brave the mire
'Til we raze their entire empire
I vow to never retire the mic

'Til the day I expire
Persist to spit rapid fire
With quick witted satire
Bringing attention to affection
For the weak and the tired
And existing with intention 
'Til ascension's acquired 
Is my desire.

So let's stand and give birth
To a world without oppression
Greed, dissension and mirth

Hidden Insaneness

The Way It Is

It’s amazing
Absolutely terrifying
How we're relying on the plans of men who’d sooner get paid then save us from dying

I stand in wonder at the face of each race
Each knowing their place
Given by the grace of those men more fortunate
Tapping our vanes for blood to grow their fortune with
All I hear are complaints
Focused on our own pain
It’s fallacy 
Traveling down a paved path
We’re drowning deep
It’s a wonder we can even breath
Beneath the weight of our own belief
No peace for the weary 
That’s our disease

We quibble at the slightest breeze
Caught in irrelevancies
Begging, “Please,
“…good sir, may I have another?”
All while turning a blind eye to the needs of our brother
And forgetting the face of our father and mother
As our dignity’s smothered
By the whim of another elite asshole
With more force than a black hole
If I’m poor and black best believe I'll play that role
Or I’m poor and white, in which case I’m defacto
Complacent 
Plus a little racist
Best to face reality
There's no escaping our stations
They say to show patience
If we hope to ascend
It’s a delusion
Designed to keep the blind
Content in confusion

Awash in a world that turns on collusion and greed
If only we could be free 
of all that’s beholden
to the will of the golden
And weren’t caught in this net
Tangled in shame and weighted with regret

Research & Development

Regret

(Lyrics)

     Wait…
     Hold on a minute…
     Something’s happening. 
     I can feel this…
     This pressure…
     It’s not pain but it’s…
     It’s kinda like…
     I don’t know...
     I guess It’s kinda like...
     Dying…

Wait this can’t be right
It’s way too dark for it to be so bright
There’s so many lights
I’m wrapped up way too tight
I’m all boxed in
It’s like I’ve lost my sight
Like I know what I’m feeling
But got no means to express it
Like I know there's a test
But I forgot all my lessons 
This life is a blessing
That much is clear
Can’t even hear my thoughts
Too much pollution in my ear
Alright wait
Just breathe
There are plenty voices 
They were here before me
It’ll come into focus
Give it time and you’ll see
Look around and you’ll notice
Like it came on a breeze
But you gotta stay busy
You gotta find you intention 
This life is a race
Hide your pain, never mention
The truth that you lost
Or show your real face
bury it deep 
This ain’t the time or the place 

But there’s gotta be more…
Something’s missing, I know it…
There’s so much darkness…
So much pain…
Confusion…
I’m lost…

But then I hear this voice...
And it speaks to me...
It tells me...
The truth...

Gotta stop, I might
Climb a mountain to it’s peak 
Just to die in flight
Tumble down a thousand feet
Just to feel alive
No rest
No hope
While I’m on this side
     (Big boys don't cry)
On my knees at night
Slanging pain up at the sky
Gaining stains with no reply
Draining veins, but never die
Look around with one eye closed
Never see what that eye knows
Baring chains made out of lies
But I’ve been trained to like this
Be strained and fight with
The gifts that I’ve been given
’Til this life, it ain’t worth living
Like K-Wiz I reached my limit
Live and dying by my fists
Should I risk
it all 
Stop being pissed
And admit
That I pissed it all away
Chewed it up and broke it down 
Turned it into shit and then I flushed it down the mother fucking drain
Would rather diss than play
Yeah, “I’m made that way.”

Something good’ll happen if you wait 
(Wait)
Try to hard and you’ll make a mistake
(Wait)
You gotta play the cards the way they lay
(Just wait)
Ya better get to work or you’ll be late
(Wait)
 Do they even believe the words they say
(Wait)
I know there’s gotta be a better way
(Wait)
I’m starting to believe this world is fake
(Just wait)
You do you but me? Yeah, not gonna…

Wait for what!?
I got the oil in the pan
You still can’t get up
Fuck the pan
You the man
Eating off bran pasta straight out the can
No pants,
And it's half past noon
I wonder why you can’t advance
I’m asking you 
Gotta plan?
Sticking out a hand?
Leave it up to chance?
Still don’t understand
Why you 
     (struggle)
Always bitching on line at the plant 
Saying “man this sucks”
Making someone else a million bucks
     (They don’t)
Give a fuck
How you bust
Your ass
It makes them laugh
Looking at your last 6 weeks pay stubs
I think I might hack in
Start a website and put your shit on blast
Man, I’m putting shit on fast
     (Forward)
Tried to play their game, I got
     (bored)
‘Cause they can’t keep up
I run at 90 fp
If you don’t know what that means
I run lean
And I keep that gas 
     (Floored)

Prime EP

Birth

(Lyrics)

When I woke up this morning 
I saw this mem’ry of your face
It was so opaque
I coulda sworn that it happened just the other day
Out by the lake
Mosquitos swarming
Sunlight slowly fading away
You grabbed my leg and said softly 
“Son, let's go in; it’s getting late”
We packed up our things
Our Rod’n reels
Our hooks’n bobbers’n weights
You promised when we got in
We’d find the chess board and play
That’s where it fades
You disappeared
And left title waves in your wake
I was shading alone
In bed at home
Wishing we had one more day
Just to play another round
of around the world in our driveway
Walk the highway alone
Eating peaches off the tree in the backyard 
Oh, the seeds that you’ve sown 
It don’t matter who knocked up my momma
You’re the only dad that I've ever known
No other man has been there for me, like you  
Oh, the love you’ve shown
But now you’re gone

But now you’re gone

You may be gone but not in my heart
In my thoughts you’re a constant
Who’d of thought that
In response to the greatest loss of my life
That I might 
Find the light in myself 
But it wasn’t instant 
It’s a process
Still learning keys to the wealth
Of the spirit you helped nurture
But it still hurts-your death? 
The greatest pain that I’ve felt
I know I could’ve dealt with it a bit better
Instead of using solitude as a fetter
That beast got stronger the more that I fed’er
Then again, I knew the day that I met’er
That she would be the death of me
So I’m leaving you my thoughts 
Wrote’em down in this letter
Even though you’re not here right now
It seems we all pay the debtor
Before we’re gone

Counting all the times you walked with me and held my hand
I would be lying if I said that I completely understand
How much you meant to my life
I guess there must be a plan
Some lessons that I have to learn before I see you again
So as I travel down this road, although I know not what’s in store
Because of you, despite my struggles, I am sure that I will endure
I'll make the most of my life
And promise not to ignore
All of the lessons that you taught me, spread my wings and I’ll soar
Before I’m gone

Before I’m gone

But you're not gone
If I’m being honest
Even though the hole has been felt
I keep you with me
Every moment
Through every failure, I’m dealt
Your spirit speaks to me
Through my instinct 
To offer guidance and help
When the mind is quiet
And I’m all alone 
Before your alter, I’ve knelt
And if I could take one thing out into the world
I would tell to all the parents to be parents 
To take whatever they have and to share it 
To lighten the load of a child and bear it
And to be grateful
It’s an honor to shape a life 
And how rare it is 
For a child to find in love what’s it’s lost in blood
That one who will continue to shape them 
When they’re...

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