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Sober
03:30
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Magician waves his hands
Devoid of feeling
If you drink his drought
You’ll be appealing
Practiced in his art
He’s sure to deceive
With some persuasion
You may soon believe
Value placed in lost memory
You had good times, believe, surely
Feasting on the hungry
Ever-filling cup
When you lose your vision
Have you had enough?
On your own you are
Sadly unattractive
But with draft in hand
You’re so great and tough
Value placed in lost memory
You had good times, believe, surely
I won’t take his hand
Fall for his schemes to destroy my own self
For him to make a sale
Throw down that toxic culture
Alcoholic
Magician waves his hands
Devoid of feeling
If you drink his drought
You’ll be appealing
Practiced in his art
He’s sure to deceive
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Chances Of Success
04:13
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Build your empire on sand
Fraught with a negative hand
However can I relate
To people here, not frustrate?
All messages I see point to drugs and drinking
So this negativity gets me thinking
I want to have healthy relationships with those
People all around me
Life built on hard drugs and drinking
Chances of success slim to none
I search for relief in things
Positive, not damaging
Want to build a space where we
Can coexist respectfully
I won’t put up walls to deny people
Opportunities to thrive and be creative
Lay the groundwork and plant the seeds to
Sew success so illusive
Genuine connections realized
When we look within we open up our eyes
Time has come to grow outward, not divide
Join me and we’ll make this a fascinating time
Build your empire on sand
Fraught with a negative hand
However can I relate
To people here, not frustrate?
All messages I see point to drugs and drinking
So this negativity gets me thinking
I want to have healthy relationships with those
People all around me
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Rather Be Alive
02:48
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Veins pumped full
Of poison
Toxic substance
Why do we inject?
Why do we ingest?
These choices damage us
I would rather be alive
I would rather be alive
I would rather be alive
I would rather be alive
I want to know
Why we destroy
Our own bodies
To feel pleasure
Someone explain
The appeal of
Paying money
To die sooner
I would rather be alive
I would rather be alive
I would rather be alive
I would rather be alive
I would rather be alive
I would rather be alive
I would rather be alive
I would rather be alive
I would rather be alive
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Hook Up
03:09
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Door is open just a crack
Shared no feelings, can’t take back
Cut my losses, take no fall
My protection is a wall
I don’t need emotional intimacy
Can’t be hurt if you get none of me
I don’t need emotional intimacy
Can’t be hurt if you get none of me
Solid outside, hard as brick
Inside buried deep as diamond
Try to connect, genuine
That’s a battle you can’t win
I don’t need emotional intimacy
Can’t be hurt if you get none of me
I don’t need emotional intimacy
Can’t be hurt if you get none of me
I don’t need emotional intimacy
Can’t be hurt if you get none of me
I don’t need emotional intimacy
Can’t be hurt if you get none of me
I don’t need emotional intimacy
Can’t be hurt if you get none of me
I don’t need emotional intimacy
Can’t be hurt if you get none of me
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Be A Man
02:32
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Facial muscles clenched
Always in a grimace
Arms are always tense
Never can relax
Talk of women dirty
Always disrespectful
If you show your caring
You must be a weakling
Cold as ice / strong as bull / sharp as knives / ego full
Be a man
Cold as ice / strong as bull / sharp as knives / ego full
Be a man
Calloused hands conform to rough
Expectations tough for humans
Build relationships on stones
Lifted from the Earth’s soft shell
Let your labor break your back
Expectations of attack
When it comes time to show love
You will see how much you lack
Cold as ice / strong as bull / sharp as knives / ego full
Be a man
Cold as ice / strong as bull / sharp as knives / ego full
Be a man
Cold as ice / strong as bull / sharp as knives / ego full
Be a man
Cold as ice / strong as bull / sharp as knives / ego full
Be a man
Cold as ice / strong as bull / sharp as knives / ego full
Be a man
Cold as ice / strong as bull / sharp as knives / ego full
Be a man
Cold as ice / strong as bull / sharp as knives / ego full
Be a man
Cold as ice / strong as bull / sharp as knives / ego full
Be a man
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Play To Win
03:52
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These aren’t just games
This is life
These aren’t just games
This is life
Shoulders hunched forward
Eyes are peeled
Keep my focus
On the field
Lose myself in
Competition
So my goal now
Is revealed
I now only play to win
I now only play to win
I now only play to win
I now only play to win
These aren’t just games
This is life
These aren’t just games
This is life
Sleeves rolled up
Muscles bulging out
Stay out of my way
I’ll run you down
Don’t care for your safety
This is sports
Who needs fair play?
I will win
These aren’t just games
This is life
These aren’t just games
This is life
I now only play to win
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Ideals
02:20
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Life spent following
Advice of others
I don’t look within
But listen to my brothers
This has been the way it was
For so long
I don’t have a backup plan
If you’re wrong
Don’t know how to think for myself
Trapped inside this cage
And this lack of coping
Fills me with rage
Try and slow down, reflect some
Take the humble path
It’s not easy and so
Rarely it appeals
Culture always telling me to
Act with wrath
Now I know to never
Betray my ideals
Challenges surround me
From all sides I hear opinions
Now is time to raise
The flag of dissent
Use these precious rights
For which they’re meant
Time is ticking, quickly ebbing
Slips away like wind
Between our fingers
Like a right soon to rescind
Try and slow down, reflect some
Take the humble path
It’s not easy and so
Rarely it appeals
Culture always telling me to
Act with wrath
Now I know to never
Betray my ideals
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Challenge (Instrumental)
01:06
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People complain that noone’s real
People say nobody can feel
People say noone is genuine
But people don’t expect what they want
The problem with sincerity is that noone believes that you’re real
The problem with sincerity is that nobody thinks that you feel
The problem with sincerity is that you’ll scare people off real quick
The problem with sincerity is that people will think you’re a *
They say our world is so desensitized
That common humanity fails to see with its eyes
Yet more can be seen than these people have realized
With open eyes and minds we may see through all the thin disguise
The problem with sincerity is that noone believes that you’re real
The problem with sincerity is that nobody thinks that you feel
The problem with sincerity is that you’ll scare people off real quick
The problem with sincerity is that people will think you’re a *
Why do we lie, act, and pretend?
Why do we play the part and fake it?
Why do we lie, act and pretend?
Why do we play the part and fake it?
The problem with sincerity is that noone believes that you’re real
The problem with sincerity is that nobody thinks that you feel
The problem with sincerity is that you’ll scare people off real quick
The problem with sincerity is that people will think you’re a *
The problem with sincerity is that noone believes that you’re real
The problem with sincerity is that nobody thinks that you feel
The problem with sincerity is that you’ll scare people off real quick
The problem with sincerity is that people will think you’re a *
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Nyentek Chicago, Illinois
An “adventurer in electronic sounds-poetry” whose music is “mind-bending, at times blissfully bizarre.”
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