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(Intro):
Things are a whole lot different.
I've grown colder.
The hunger and the thirst.
The hunger and the thirst.
(Verse 1):
You did it this time, and I swear, I’ll make you pay.
Insensitive crimes. I’m aware of ways you play.
I am in awe that you would take the risk
of pushing me way beyond my limit and awakenin’...
I've been turnin’ up in a cruel way;
Vintage shit for the New Age.
Quick fix = lit like a blue flame.
Back away and give me room. Get a clue. Ay...
Couple tricks in my sleeve for a goofy.
Ivory in my blood-stream and I’m woozy.
Ride with me, or you must sleep where the tombs be.
Unruly.
(Hook):
Try me. I'm dying
for that one rush. Coming undone.
Something is wrong with me. I can only wonder…
Bloodlust. (x2)
(Verse 2):
You did it this time, and I swear, I’ll make you pay.
I live for the grime. It's where I shake the shade.
Undeniable. I defy the rules.
Teeth-grinding Wolf that pulled aside the wool.
Everything's different and changed.
Caught the virus, now I'm smitten with rage.
Charles de Lorme in the midst of The Plague,
but the mask with the beak has got slits in it. Glitches and breaks.
Uh. Flickers and waves when I ingest.
It's rivers of hate that I swim. Yes...
(Chorus):
I crave the medicine.
You can't tame it yet again.
(Hook):
Try me. I'm dying
for that one rush. Coming undone.
Something is wrong with me. I can only wonder…
Bloodlust. (x2)
(Bridge):
I crave the medicine.
You can't tame it yet again.
I lose myself to find it.
This storm could shift the climate.
To you, this is a crisis.
In the Eye, just know: I’m fine.
(Hook):
Try me. I'm dying
for that one rush. Coming undone.
Something is wrong with me. I can only wonder…
Bloodlust. (x2)
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(Intro)
It's never what you think it is.
They're never who they say they are.
So, I take my dosage
and drink the potion.
I pray for those
and don't pay them no attention,
I'm surrounded. There ain't a
set of eyes I could trust, but I'm grounded.
(Hook):
It’s never what you think it is.
How could you say that I’m lost?
Two-stepping with a mirage:
easiest route to a coffin.
Why would I befriend a charlatan?
Don't you dare say “it's a part of it.”
Why are you wearing that suit?
Show me the real side of you.
(Break)
It's never what you think it is.
They're never who they say they are.
I don't even want to take part.
Stay far.
Maybe it's you. Maybe it's me;
and the way I perceive. I’m jaded, it seems;
quite tainted and predisposed
to walk that thin rope of disarray with my feet.
It's a chain just for me. Am I making believe and endangering peace?
I'm surrounded. There ain't a
set of eyes I could trust, but I'm grounded.
(Bridge):
You say I’m to blame.
Possibly, but fuck your claims. You're insane.
No way. No way.
No way.
(Hook)
Give me a second to think.
Things bend when I blink. I’d do best with a shrink.
Need to lessen the time in my little head ‘cause I sink.
Really, I want to flex; breakfast in bed in a mink.
Exit my dreams and get right to sex on the beach.
Minimal stress, sippin’ an excellent drink.
Instead, I’m killin’ my system with too much chemicals
to be level-headed. This shit I do’s unethical.
It's been this way for as long as I can remember, too…
Still, I wake up and execute the incredible.
What's on the other side of this mind that I’m tethered to.
Maybe the grass is green, but I flick cigarettes into it.
Could be a pageantry of silence with excessive beauty.
They say that's louder than words, but being deafened ruins
all of it.
Honestly, it's hard to quit.
Truthfully, I’m ‘bout to get gone from this
Labyrinth of Awfulness.
Labyrinth of Awfulness.
(Outro)
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(Verse 1):
Sometimes I feel like I’m more than a god.
There's still no chinks in my armor.
I cannot sleep any longer in this bed that I have made.
All hail. Give praise.
(Chorus):
I’ll lead you to the fountain.
So, drink and become boundless.
and indulge in the prowess.
Tell me how it tastes.
All hail. Give praise.
Sometimes I feel like I’m more than a god.
Don't pray for me - pray to me.
All is fair in Love and Warfare. (x2)
(Break)
I could be humble, but what’s the use in playing a peasant?
I might cop a studded crown [that would make me the freshest],
and expect you to come and bow as I’m making my entrance.
African King with Arabian Essence.
Take it offensively, but shit, I doubt I could change my genetics.
Royalty runs in the blood, and I'm made of electric.
I am the voice of a whole generation, a relic;
famous for turning a rope into a chain of expression,
with gems that reflect the jewels we never were able
to tell our children, out of fear we’d be severed and strangled.
I’m so proud to drop the truth and discredit the fables.
Taught myself to be a man when I was left in the cradle.
I remember what the quote said.
Uh. Can't hide the letters that were wrote yet.
Yeah. No way the power can be oppressed.
I wake up, smoke, stretch, and then I go flex.
Who can tell me otherwise?
Who can tell me otherwise?
(Hook):
Sometimes I feel like I’m more than a god.
Don't pray for me - pray to me.
All is fair in Love and Warfare. (x2)
This right here's been dormant.
It might appear that I'm morphin’.
So glorious; full of endorphins. Ay...
Good morning, motherfucker.
It comes easy and I don't gotta’ force it.
Try to knock me, but you're not that important.
I get to know myself to see who the Lord is. Ay...
Son of the Morning, motherfucker.
(Chorus):
I’ll lead you to the fountain.
So, drink and become boundless.
and indulge in the prowess.
Tell me how it tastes.
All hail. Give praise.
(Outro):
Don't pray for me. Pray to me.
All is fair in Love and Warfare.
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(Intro)
(Verse):
This that "go crazy," that "oh baby, I'm on one."
It's a few shots and like three blues that I'm gone from.
I had wild thoughts in my brain soon as I saw ya'.
I just can't tell if it's real, or the booze mixed with the pills.
I'm just sayin'. Shit gets iffy. Things get trippy like the sixties.
Seeing two of you's quite the hallucination.
Whoa, yeah. Double the fun,
double the fun.
Whoa, yeah. Cover the Sun,
I love it, I love it, I love when we…
(Hook):
Dim the room and act up.
You say that you've never had love.
I don't believe you.
You're so see-through.
You've got tricks, tricks, tricks.
Where'd you learn to do that shit?
You've got tricks, tricks, tricks.
Show me more.
You've got tricks, tricks, tricks.
Where'd you learn to do that shit?
Show me. Now, show me.
(Verse 2):
Black Magick Woman; Medusa slithering through my medulla.
Had me entombed and subdued, and right then, I knew who my muse was.
I came and, then I came in (for the sake of entendres.)
Boy, I sank into lava. You are dangerous, mama…
'Fore I met you, talkin' dirty was the wave for a lot of…
the time, while I was ragin' on cocaine like a monster.
I got a taste and it had me prayin' to Brahma.
It's way too uncommon. You's a freak with the ways of a Shaman…
Now, stick your tongue out like Kali and twist that
thing up with mine. It's hot; before Sundown in Cali.
I'll show you what I can do. We're making love-sounds and dallying.
Yeah, my loving is art. Motherfucker, I'm Dali.
(Verse 3):
This that "go crazy," that "oh baby, I'm on one."
It's not so typical for me to be caught up…
I just tip-toe and do temp-checks 'cause I'm cautious.
But, I'm awe-struck. Yeah, I'm awe-struck.
I'm just sayin'. You're a gypsie, little missy. I'm not prissy.
We gon' see if you're truly able to take it.
Aw shucks. Double the fun,
double the fun.
Whoa, ha. Cover the Sun,
I love it, I love it, I love when we…
(Hook)
(Verse 4):
Don't be shy, baby.
Let's keep the lights on.
I'm so high, baby.
Let bygones be bygones.
I've had a long night.
Maybe we can take it down.
You got tricks, tricks, tricks that I wanna' see.
Take it off in front of me...
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(Intro)
touching;
good loving.
touching;
good loving.
oh yeah.
(Verse 1):
Let me enter your palace and show you a good time, good time.
I've been fiendin' for so long. You knew I would try, would try
to swim your body of water until you're spilling over.
Tell me go deeper and touch even lower.
(Chorus):
Oh, girl, I'm cold.
Can I come in and get warm?
In the bed, on the couch, or the floor?
Anywhere's okay, I'm sure.
(Hook):
Interior, exterior, I must explore.
Why else do you think I would pop up here for?
Tried you out before, but now I just need more.
I need more. I need more.
(Verse 2):
Lips on you to see which one of us will misbehave first.
We is what we once was at one point in the past.
Wide spectrum; so many poles. I'd like to watch you strip down all of your layers.
Want to love, want to touch, want to fuck;
get familiar so we can both cum-fort eachother. Yeah.
(Chorus):
Oh, girl, I'm cold.
Can I come in and get warm?
In the bed, on the couch, or the floor?
Anywhere's okay, I'm sure.
(Bridge):
So dirty, but divine.
They say Sex is Magick. We'll open the Heavens and watch it pour out light.
(Hook)
(Break)
(Chorus 2):
So dirty, but divine. (x2)
They say Sex is Magick. We'll open the Heavens and watch it pour out light.
(Outro)
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(Intro)
(Verse 1):
We had one hell of a ride.
But, the road is calling me.
I gotta’ go…
I see those tears in your eyes.
It'll haunt me constantly.
But, I hope you know
I’ll forever love you so.
(Hook);
City Lights, not living right;
so young, too fast to slow down.
It gives me life to risk it all.
Nothing in the World I want more.
All the way from LA to New York.
The Party is the Paradise you're looking for.
Looking for…
(Verse 2):
We had one swell of a time.
But, I know I must be free.
I gotta’ go…
I think you were made to be mine.
How about you come with me
and dive into the glow?
Baby, we could put on a show.
(Hook);
City Lights, not living right;
so young, too fast to slow down.
It gives me life to risk it all.
Nothing in the World I want more.
All the way from LA to New York.
The Party is the Paradise you're looking for.
Looking for…
(Verse 3):
I can't be what you want me to be.
People change no matter what you believe.
If you never live, you won't be lucky to see
how much every day can be a wonderful scene.
Can't nobody hold me back.
Designer things that most don't have
to get me through these nights of sin.
If God was one of us, she’d be the life of it.
We had one hell of a ride.
But, the road is calling me.
I gotta’ go…
I'm glad you were made to be mine.
How about you come with me
and dive into the glow?
Baby, we could put on a show.
(Bridge):
Can't nobody hold me back.
Designer things that most don't have
to get me through these nights of sin.
If God was one of us, she’d be the life of it.
(Hook)
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(Intro)
(Verse 1):
How do I undo my calloused heart? I'm at a loss.
Lately, I desire to love again, love again.
I trek through this life as a vagabond.
with no need for embrace or touch of skin. Can it end?
(Chorus):
Strip me of this disease. A tricky event, it seems.
But, I'll find a way.
(Hook):
All we need, all we need is someone to calm us, call us, set us free.
All we need, all we need is a little compassion and some understandin'.
When those doves shed tears, I hope you'll still be here...
When those doves shed tears, will you still be here?
(Verse 2):
How do I undo my calloused heart? I'm at a loss.
Lately, I desire to love again, to love again.
I know I've been a bit grimmer.
My innermost self isn't pinned to its center.
Naturally, I exhibit this bitterness -
knowing you'll think that I hate you and may end up splittin'.
My temper renders my presence unpleasant.
If you were to exit, I'd get it.
Constantly making a mess of us,
then saying, "please, let me fix it." I don't wish to wither;
yet it progresses, but can we detain
the rest of the reckless, unsettling pain?
Shall we return where those memories lay?
I left from my state; New Jersey to West Virginia,
but it wasn't Almost Heaven 'til I felt you
caressing my chest with your face; blessed with your grace...
I've been as empty as space,
but the light from your eyes, I'll let it pervade.
(Hook):
All we need, all we need is someone to calm us, call us, set us free.
All we need, all we need is a little compassion and some understandin'.
When those doves shed tears, I hope you'll still be here...
When those doves shed tears, will you still be here?
(PFV)
(Hook):
All we need, all we need is someone to calm us, call us, set us free.
All we need, all we need is a little compassion and some understandin'.
When those doves shed tears, I hope you'll still be here...
When those doves shed tears, will you still be here?
(Bridge / Outro):
I know sometimes I'm like a ghost just tryna' look alive...
Will you? Will you?
Will you? Will you?
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(Intro)
Forever...
(Verse 1):
Yeah.
Nothing Was The Same ever since I sprouted these wings.
Everything is different with the crown of a King;
was broken, but I healed like an arm that's out the sling.
I waltz about and walk through town without any bling,
except my baphomet rings, and still my aura is blinding.
I can read the minds all around me. Call it The Shining.
Blessed is the man who exists in a higher realm,
emitting the light so well. I was given the right to helm
this ship to an island so distant and vibrant.
I went from lifeless to a body full of crystals and diamonds.
I never want to go back to the abyss again.
I lost myself, and when I found him,
I felt as if I went away and missed a friend.
Hello, Hello.
I never want to go back to the abyss again.
Aurora-borealis.
(Hook):
I think I want to live forever...
Forever.
I want to live forever.
Yeah, I want to live forever.
(Verse 2):
Baby, we're swingin'.
Our souls are singin'.
Tonight, we're leavin'.
Feels like we're dreamin'.
I can't believe it.
I feel immortal; forget perfection and morals.
This feeling is otherworldly. I might project through a portal.
I'm stripping down to the basics. Don't make this setting so formal.
It's cool. I could get used to this forever. Adventurous Fool.
People are so accustomed to dirt and gravestones.
Right now, I'm so in love with the Earth. I cain't go
Walt Disney got his brain froze.
I might be 1,000 years young; chilling in the same clothes.
NotebookLives. Death is way old.
Aurora-borealis.
(Hook):
I think I want to live forever...
Forever.
I want to live forever.
Yeah, I want to live forever.
(Bridge):
I felt as if I went away and missed a friend.
Hello, Hello.
(Outro)
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(Intro)
(Verse 1):
I've caught my stride; with all my might.
My walk, my vibe has changed. Pardon my display
of confidence. For so long, I fought for this.
I lay back in my sarcophagus.
Damn right I’m playing hard to get.
Time and energy ain't free.
Villainous, venomous strokes and coats
layered on every wound; stitching my woes with growth.
I’m no longer a familiar soul to most.
Overdosed on a bit of my own repose.
What a breath of fresh air. I was choked and closed
off from inhaling the scent of the lotus. Not a pedal was broken.
Its colorless head had a glow lit.
I picked it up and promised that I’d never let go.
Tucked it right behind the ear for memorabilia’s sake;
a sign of rebellion. I chose to spit in the face
of whatever was wrote and scripted as fate.
My flesh is the whole abyss in a physical state.
(Chorus):
Oh...
Many of times, I didn't accept and simply declined.
This is a different time. I'm ready and willing to fly.
(Hook):
If it's all for nothing, I’ll make it about something.
You fooled me once, so never twice. I’m Infinite and can never die.
Take me on. (x4)
(Verse 2):
I've caught my stride; with all my might.
My walk, my vibe has changed. Pardon my display
of confidence. Got so many scars for this
from myself and the war I’m in.
Can't rest ‘til I’m gone, and it's the end of the song.
Momma’, I’m a warrior. You gave the sharpened sword.
Still, you never seen the mess, or when my arms were sore.
Grandmomma’, your faith in me kept me alive and well;
although, I hide my Hell and the impurities inside my shell.
But, I swear I’m invincible now.
I could lift into the clouds.
(Chorus):
Oh...
Many of times, I didn't accept and simply declined.
This is a different time. I'm ready and willing to fly.
(Hook):
If it's all for nothing, I’ll make it about something.
You fooled me once, so never twice. I’m Infinite and can never die.
Take me on. (x4)
(Bridge / Outro):
Its colorless head had a glow lit.
I picked it up and promised that I’d never let go.
Black Lotus. (x2)
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(Intro):
Straight to it.
(Verse 1):
Look how they treat us; the governments and crooked policemen.
I saw the clip and wished I wouldn't of seen it: head pushed to the cement.
This broken turntable's good for repeatin'.
They think they own the air we inhale. It gets took if we breathe it.
I'm scared we're in Hell. Won't cushion my thesis.
Science says that everything is matter, but whenever we get battered,
it's as if we don't exist. I'm shook 'cause my features
forever seem not flattering. The blacker the berry, the quicker
we're booked or deleted. All Lives are important,
but when some get shoved to the floor before others,
give me a good enough reason
to believe that we're really looked at as equals
'cause all I see is pinewood for my people. Listen...
It's beyond political, not so minimal. Cops are fillin' their glocks
to lick a few shots, often for the profit / revenue.
Why the ridicule? Check Fox. It's no conspiracy.
They see I'm black and say they're fearin' me, but it's so clear to see...
they itch for blood and wish for us to disappear with ease.
I guess that's Black Magic, huh? Well, that's enough.
George Floyd was the icing on the cake. The celebrations cease.
You'll pay the price until you're broke. Until then, may he lay in peace...
(Bridge):
I can't take it.
No. We can't take it.
(Hook)
I'm surrounded by the same old faces
full of hatred, full of hatred.
Always going through these cycles and mazes.
Tell me what's our destination?
Dystopia.
Dystopia.
Dystopia.
Dystopia.
(Verse 2):
How do I feel safe in my own skin when these pieces of shit
always discriminate without knowin' my personality-traits?
When I show 'em, stereotypes activate in their brain.
They can't focus or face me like grown men.
Decades of atrocious behavior. I'm so sick.
Every day, I wanna' wake and spray up these known pigs.
I walk around with a knife, prayin' I don't get
confronted for how I look, or berated and scolded -
and I'll be damned if I'm gunned down, stamped, or choked
for a worthless bitch like Candace Owens to defend it, man. I won't.
Fuck you and everyone that you stand with, hoe;
another house-negro protecting connections.
They watch you dance for show.
(Chorus):
I can't take it.
No, we can't take it.
(Bridge):
We gon' get some changes,
and go to war 'til we make it.
(Hook)
I'm surrounded by the same old faces
full of hatred, full of hatred.
Always going through these cycles and mazes.
Tell me what's our destination?
Dystopia.
Dystopia.
Dystopia.
Dystopia.
(Outro)
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In this life that we lead, it has taken Notebook. years upon years to reach the peak of this mountaintop. He's fought monsters along his journey upwards, they've beaten him down, he's become one himself, and has gotten back on his feet & defeated them this time around. This is the tale of a boy who has become a Man. Better yet, this is the story of a fallen soul who has shed old layers and placed on the Skin of a Conqueror.
