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Masquerade (Produced by Notebook)

from DARKWAVE by Notebook.

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the angels told me to grin and bare it.
it's apparent that I'm sick and tearing and my shins are wearing out.
Running so much. Incoherent speech.
Preaching when I'm in despair. I'm a hypocrite that reaches,
deep into the abyss that stares me in the face daily.
Hail me as a bag of bones that hasn't honed thick skin.
I perish a little more when I'm feeling daring,
and slaughter my instincts to be Holy. It isn't fair to be controlled.
What's holding me is the merits shown to me when I barely needed the guidance...
I can see the science in your religion, carefully woven...
to get us scared to flip the script and kick the chair where the rope sits.
Felt the pressure in my glare as I wrote this.
But, I'm aware it's better to sin than stare & be hopeless.
Both fists clenched to my horns.
I resent. Won't conform. No.

Eyes closed. I don't listen.
Deaf and blind to all your lies.
It's been too long in this prison.
I refuse to go six-feet-deep in this disguise.

It's a masquerade; better yet, a mad parade.
Everybody's crazy, pretending the path is made.
All I want to do is Soar (sore), and I haven't Ached...
this bad since I was a little kid; couldn't have my way,
but, in due time, I always did.
Causing ruckus 'til I got my heart's content,
and right now, I'm yelling out with disrespect to all convention;
all the fiction. Getting rough. I'm starting friction.
Ya'll can witness every move while you're stalling, sittin'.
I ain't here to make bonds or friends. I'm on a mission,
to know why the caged-bird sings,
so I can recite the songs for the children.
I am not a Satanist and I am not a Christian.
Cannot be explained, and it's a lot of contradiction.
I am the embodiment of everything you love,
and everything you hate, and I promise not to fix it.

Eyes closed. I don't listen.
Deaf and blind to all your lies.
It's been too long in this prison.
I refuse to go six-feet-deep in this disguise.

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from DARKWAVE, released January 1, 2016

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Notebook. Clayton, New Jersey

Notebook. is an Alternative / Hip-Hop Musician that has been breaking down the boundaries between genres for seventeen years, all while putting his graphic, movie-like journey sonically on display. Limitation in Art is not a rule that he abides by, and the extreme highs and gut-wrenching lows of Notebook.'s life-experience is what also makes his work so relatable. ... more

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