SG Verse: He Couldn't GET THIS/ INFECTIOUS/ Rusty Drum TETANUS/ Beat Out Of His Hollow Head, His Mom Said He Was RESTLESS/ TV Blaring DEATH WISH/ Using An Empty Lighter To Crack His GUINNESS EXTRAS/ Pulling From A Binder Of UNFINISHED LECTURES/ His Lines Were POIGNANT IMPRESSIONS/ He Was Dodging The LOAN SHARK// Couldn't Pay The PHONE CHARGE// Kept Loke, AVOIDING The COLLECTORS/ "I'll Scratch You Off My HIT LIST"/ He SAID THIS/ And ADDRESSED THIS/ Towards The Mic, The Mic Aimed To Where His CHEST IS/ Smoking A Bowl With His LAST MATCH/ He Had A Baggie Of Roaches, But Forgot Where He STASHED THAT/ Nothing Left From His LAST SACK/ So He Smoked The ASH BLACK/ Stepped Back Inside, Spit A FAST RAP/ One Take, The Beer Spilt, The GLASS CRACKED/ Bearing The Face Of A Dictator On His T-SHIRT/ Stood Spitting Till His FEET HURT/ Most Will Never Recognize The Nuances Of EACH WORK/ He Was FOCUSED MAN// Dims The Light On His LOTUS LAMP// Before He SPEAKS WORTH/ His Dad Yelling At Him To "Go EAT FIRST!"/ He Wrote RAPS// As Cute As A BABY'S BONNET/ Next TRACK// Describing The Destruction Of DEFREITAS COMET/ And Some Other Shit That MADE ME VOMIT/ He Was CRAZY ON IT/ His CLEVER STEADY FLOW// Was Dark As A CEMETERY CROW// Sounded Like Something... MAYBE ONYX?/ A Nobody Who Would ADORN The ART/ The Way He Would Use His Words To WARM Your HEART/ Stayed Stuck Spitting In A SWARM Of DARTS/ His Words Would Never Be TORN APART/ That Was The Night He Was BORN The GUARD/ The Very Moment His MIND// Physically ALIGNED// With The MORNING STAR/ MS Verse: The Last Time I Saw The Homie We Talked About How The Business Was DYING/ Those At The Top Were Still Collecting Royalties While The Rest Were Reminiscing And CRYING/ About The Golden AGE/ They Were Spewing On The RAGE/ Of Downloads, Free Albums And EPs/ No GREASE/ To Make In Rap MUSIC/ Because Motherfuckers Took It Way Too Far When They ABUSED IT/ And Raped It And Pimped It, But His Soul Was GOLDEN/ Never FOLDING/ Even THOUGH THE/ Race Had No END/ No MEND/ For The Hole In His HEART/ The Thirst To Rip A Mic Twenty Ways APART/ The ART/ Was Dominated, But His Mind Ran Rampant And Wild, The Streets Was Empty From COMPETITORS/ He Had Slashed Every Last Word They Spit Like An Asphalt EDITOR/ But He Would See No PAPER/ Way LATER/ In The Night His Mood Was TURNING/ The Reefer Was All Out, He Had Cigarette Butts That He Kept Chain BURNING/ I Told Him, "Straight Up, Get A Job And Pay Your Mom Some RENT/ Because You're Hell BENT/ On Nothing, Go And Listen To The RADIO/ The Skills You Drop Are Way Above Any Single Thing They PLAYING YO!/ Keep Rhyming Till You Die, But Get Your Shit STRAIGHT"/ He Couldn't WAIT/ For Me To Finish And Was Off, Turned Left Down To The Alley, He Said The Rhymes Were Not His, That They Were All SENT/ He Didn't Say How Or Where From, But I Think I Know What He MEANT/

Verse 1: He Was Told He Was The DOPEST/ A Closet CLAUSTROPHOBIC/ LOCKED// In A BOX// And Couldn't Get It OPEN/ Antiquated, Still Sounding Like His OLD SHIT/ DROPPED// Into An Anaphylactic SHOCK// Started COMATOSING/ He Reached For His Epinephrine DOSAGE/ His Life Flashed Before His Eyes In That MOMENT/ His Throat SWOLLEN/ Constricted As The Effect SOAKED IN/ He Began CHOKING/ But The Neighbours, They Didn't Seem To NOTICE/ When HE Was YOUNGER/ He Would SPEAK With THUNDER/ He Stood Upside DOWN// From The GROUND// That He's Now Buried UNDER/ With Concern His Parents Would WONDER/ If He Would Become A Success Or A BLUNDER/ If He Would Achieve His Potential Or Crash ASUNDER/ I Guess That's A Matter Of PERSPECTIVE/ Because He Born ACCEPTED/ As The Voice Of A Generation By The COLLECTIVE/ Parents OVERPROTECTIVE/ Because He Was EPILEPTIC/ But He Was An ECLECTIC/ DEFECTIVE/ Who Could Satisfy The Most SELECTIVE/ SKEPTIC/ Verse 2: A TORTURED GENIUS/ He'd Pluck At Your Heart Strings Like An AWKWARD SEAMSTRESS/ Connecting With The Youth Because He Would TALK Through SPEAKERS/ Unhealthy Obsession With A MORBID CLEANNESS/ A Puppet To Some, Rag Dolled By These FORTUNE SEEKERS/ Left His ORCHARDS LEAFLESS/ Branded On A Pair Of AWFUL SNEAKERS/ Shipped To The STORES IN EASTER/ The Consumer Response Was OFF The METER/ He Would TORCH The CHEEBA/ After A Freak Accident Had SCORCHED His FEATURES/ But It Doesn't Matter Anymore Because Now He WALKS With JESUS/ Rasp Voice Made The CHORUS DEEPER/// Whistling With A LOOSE TOOTH/ When He SPILT, MAD CHILLS// Kept Rhyming Like His USED TO/ He STILL HAD SKILLS// Was Never Into The WHOSE WHO/ But He Could KILL AT WILL// Studying With The Dog In The Basement Like BLUE'S CLUES/ He Would SWILL His FILL// As His Dependence To BOOZE GREW/ An Unexpected Split Was The Cause For His BEMUSED VIEWS/ Long After Life Had LOST ITS THRILLS// POPPING PILLS// He Died ALONE/// At HOME/// Surrounded By A Swarming Circus Of NEWS CREWS/ Verse 3: With His SILENT ANGER/ He'd COMPILE// With STYLE// A VIOLENT BANGER/ Heard Reciting Classic Verses At His Private ISLAND HANGAR/ When The CRITICS// INSISTED// It's TIME To HANG UP/ He Only Switched His RHYMING SLANG UP/ Became As Aggressive As A FLYING SPANNER/ All His Closest Friends Were RAISED Without FATHERS/ So He Felt The STRANGEST Of CALMNESS/ With His Dad His Heart REARRANGING It's ARMOUR/ He Felt Like ESCAPING NIRVANA/ Because He Was Tired Of TAMING The PIRANHAS/ Who Keep PREYING UPON US/ Felt He Was SAVING The HONEST/ He Kept AT IT/ Like Multiple Hacks From A Bloody HATCHET/ He Had An AMAZING HABIT/ Of Producing A CREATIVE RACKET/ Sampled Garbage CAN LIDS// Used Fish Lens CAMERAS// His Last Album Was Self-Titled "The MAVERICK"/ They Said He Was NEVER The SAME/ When Sales Dropped Down To Only TEN PERCENT Of Their AIM/ He Was Told It Was The END Of HIS REIGN/ It's A SHAME/ Because He Died And They MADE/ More Off His NAME/ Than He Had Ever Been PAID/ His Memory Became A Book And Then Adapted Into A GAME/

HG Verse: We Embarked On What Would Be Our LAST VOYAGE/ From The Start We Ignored The Warnings The DRAFT WARDED/ Reality DISTORTED/ The Waters LITTERED// With Wood SPLINTERS// And Whatever The CRAFT BOARDED/ I Tried To LAST Till MORNING/ But The Stars Were TOO SLOW/ The Seas RAGED// ENCAGED// And Formed Our TOMBSTONE/ My Face Only Seen Under The MOON'S GLOW/ Seeing Things That Only The DOOMED KNOW/ DreadKnaut POLTERGEIST/ Stimulate Volcanoes And Erupt MOLTEN ICE/ Any Door Forcibly OPENED TWICE/ Is A MISTAKE// ROLL The DICE/ And Face The Glare From A SNAKE// The Past Is Where I LEAVE GUILT/ Passing Time As The LEAVES WILT/ Was It All Meant To Be Or Does The Pattern WEAVE AS IT WILLS/ Time HOLDING STILL/ The Pillaging Providing GOLDEN FILLS/ From All The STOLEN GIL/ RAVAGE Your Village And Burn Down EVERY HOME/ SAVAGES Paying An Eternal Debt To DAVY JONES/ SG Verse: They Put Me On This Ship, But I Was NEVER Their SLAVE/ We Sailed By With Speed, Always AHEAD Of The WAVES/ Until Half Of The Crew Ended Up DEAD In A DAY/ I CRIED// And Looked To The SKIES// With My EYES// Set HEAVEN ABLAZE/ We Anchored At An ISLAND Housing A Makeshift CEMETERY// Trying To Read What Was SAID On Their GRAVES/ The Captain WILDING When A SNAKE BIT His HEAD SQUARELY// I REMEMBER His FACE/ Because He Died Instantly Bearing A MENACING GAZE/ I Was So SCARED Of This PLACE/ The Quartermaster Lost It, All He Could Do Is STARE Into SPACE/ I Couldn't JAR HIS/ EYES// I Held Him As He DIED// In My ARMS QUICK/ I Saw Beings That RESIDE In The DARKNESS/ Come To The Light, One Would SLIDE Off The HARNESS/ Of An Apocalyptic Horse With Its EYES Full Of CARNAGE/ It Was The NIGHT// That My SIGHT// Had Been TARNISHED/ From The Scenes I Had Seen, But The Images Are Still In My MIND And Have HARDENED/ Like The LIES And The GARBAGE/ Disregarded By The WISE And The HEARTLESS/ Truth Be Told, We Felt Like FLIES To A CARCASS/ Shocked Numb From The Constant Psychological BOMBARDMENTS/ In An INTIMATE// STATE Of SHOCK/ I Saw Time, The INFINITE// CHASED By CLOCKS/ I Saw Giant Planets From SPACE JUST DROP/ I Thought I Even Saw The FACE Of GOD/ From Above I Was Watching Our Bodies Just WASTE And ROT/ As We Illuminated The Night, Our Souls DRAPED In CLOTH/ I Don't Think It Was An Option Whether We Would ESCAPE Or NOT/ And My Physical Will Never Get That Bitter TASTE To STOP/ Like The CELL MATES// Behind HELL'S GATES// Being RAPED By WROTH// Demons In The SHAPE Of COPS/ Instead I Found Myself CAPED In MOTH/ WINGS// Welcoming The SPRING// As We Haunt SAILORS ACROSS/ The Ocean Into The Night, SAIL Off In SWATHS/ Then Vanish Into The Sunrise Like The FRAILEST Of FROST/ Holding Onto Our Own Sorrowful TALES Of LOSS/

Dictator Verse: At Home Half ASLEEP/ Thinking Of My Buddy STEVE/ And The Life He LEADS/ From Playing Ball On The High School TEAM/ To The College Days Tearing Up The SCENE/ Couldn't Pick A Single Girl As His QUEEN/ Running Around With Chicks In Their Late TEENS/ The Days CHANGED// When He Met JADE// And They Had A SEED/ She Was A DREAM/ But Steve Can't Handle His GREED/ His Lustful Ways, On His KNEES/ To Get Inside Another Woman's JEANS/ That's All He NEEDS/ Jade Ain't KEEN/ On Who He's Been SEEING/ Always LEAVING/ I Can't BELIEVE IT/ Cheating On A Beautiful Human BEING/ Can't Help But To Know What He's THINKING/ My Thoughts Interrupted By My Phone RINGING/ Picked Up, It Was Jade, You Could Tell She'd Been DRINKING/ "Vinny, Can You Come Out My Head Is SPINNING/ Don't Know What To Do And I Have Nobody To LISTEN"/ She REMARKED/ Her Voice Sounded As If Her HEART/ Was Stabbed With Something SHARP/ I Walked Outside Where She Was PARKED/ Got In The CAR/ Saw Her Face Drenched In The DARK/ Her Tears Resembled SCARS/ Without A Word We DASHED/ She Was Driving Too FAST/ But ALAS/ I Knew Where We Were HEADED/ Couldn't Cut The TENSION/ With A KNIFE/ She Stopped The Car And Turned Out The LIGHTS/ Right OUTSIDE/ One Of Steve's Many DELIGHTS/ She CRIED/ And Asked Me WHY/ Her Love Was Grown On LIES/ I TRIED/ To Wipe The Streams From Her EYES/ "Even Though Steves A Friend Of MINE/ Leave This GUY/ You'll SURVIVE/ And Have A Better LIFE"/ She SHUDDERED/ And STUTTERED/ I Wasn't Sure What She MUTTERED/ At That Point I Think I Always Had LOVED HER/ So I HUGGED HER/ Then One Thing Led To ANOTHER.../ SG Verse: I Wasn't SURE// ANYMORE// If I Could TRUST HER/ Couldn't Remember The Last Time I Had TOUCHED HER/ Instead I Held A BOXCUTTER/ Home Alone Again For SUPPER/ Felt Like A FILTHY DUDE/ Because I Was GUILTY TOO// I Had CRAZY OTHERS/ Aside From My BABY'S MOTHER/ But That's What MADE ME LOVE HER/ I Knew There Was Someone Else, But Not Sure; Who Is This SHADY LOVER?/ I Suspected Her For Quite Some TIME NOW/ Until I REACHED// The PEAK// Of Mistrust And I Couldn't CLIMB DOWN/ Plus I Was Never The Type To Be TIED DOWN/ It Was Already NIGHT OUT/ Which Increased My MIND'S DOUBT/ Give This One Bitch A Call And SLIDE Into TOWN/ Truth Is I Wore My LIES As A CROWN/ So I Walked With My EYES On The GROUND/ She Opened The Door As I Stepped INSIDE With A FROWN/ I Started Lusting For The Her Body, Her Curves Wouldn't HIDE In Her GOWN/ I Could Feel The Blood INSIDE Of Me POUND/ We Got RIGHT Down To BUSINESS/ Her Well Toned Body Was TIGHT With FITNESS/ But I Was Playing Blind Like A SILENT WITNESS/ Because There I Was, Not With My WIFE, But With My MISTRESS/ On The NIGHT Of CHRISTMAS/ The SIGHT Was VICIOUS/ The SLIGHTEST KISS PRESSED/ Against The SIDE Of My RIPPED CHEST/ My MIND Was LISTLESS/ I Watched As She Took Her TIME Putting On Her SLICK DRESS/ I Picked My Clothes Off The Floor Rubbing My TEMPLE/ Wondering What I Got Myself INTO/ I Live In SIN TOO/ I Stepped Out, The Breeze Was GENTLE/ But What Do I See Parked Outside The House Of This THIN HOE/ None Other Than My Girl's RENTAL/ So I Walked Up, My Heart BEAT// INCREASED// Its TEMPO/ Getting SENTIMENTAL/ Because Through The Foggy WINDOWS/ I See VIN'S CLOTHES/

SG Verse: From Winning At KENO/ To Flying Out To The CASINOS/ Down In RENO/ With A Couple G-NOTES/ We Had To CREEP LOW/ Saw My Girl Through The PEEP HOLE/ Behind The Door I'm Calling My PEOPLE/ So We CREPT LOW/ Speaking In Sexual INNUENDOS/ Turned Off The NINTENDO/ I'm Doing It Because I SAID SO/ We Hopped On The NEXT FLIGHT/ I TEXT MIKE/ About To Have The BEST NIGHT/ Out The Limo Showing MY BARE BUTT/ We All Got The Same HAIRCUT/ Ed Hardy And Affliction Sweaters We WEAR, WHAT?/ Dropping JAGGER BOMBS/ A Couple Of Herbs TAGGED ALONG/ But DAMN IT'S ON/ CINNAMON WHISKEY/ FEELING A BIT RISKY/ Blood Rushing Like A BLITZKRIEG/ Sat Down Next To A Fat Dude In His FIFTIES/ My Gut Told Me To DOUBLE DOWN/ Oh Shit, We're In TROUBLE NOW/ I Could Really Use My Mother's CUDDLE/ Because I Thought I Blew My Whole BUNDLE/ Something Suspicious About The Dude With The SUBTLE BROW/ Because He Fucked Up The SHUFFLE SOMEHOW/ I Ain't Complaining, I Came Away With A COUPLE THOU/ GWS Verse: Flying FROM The SCENE/ Rented Car FULL Of GREEN/ Just Got Out Of A BAR FIGHT/ It Was A HARD NIGHT/ I Beat The House TWICE By CHEATING/ My ADVICE: If You're Gonna Bring Your Own Cards Make Sure They All The Same TYPE/ I Pack LIGHT/ Because I Don't Like To Carry The BAGGAGE/ Unless I'm Carrying CABBAGE/ Off The CASINO/ Floor, Started Out Scheming CEE-LO/ Fooling FEEBLE/ FOOLS/ Learning TOOLS Of The TRADE/ JEWELS As SHARP As BLADES/ A POOL SHARK/ Quick With CARDS/ I Hit Them HARD/ In Their POCKETS/ WATCHES/ And GOLD CHAINS/ Thousands In POKER GAMES/ Now I'm Strolling In The Streets Of VEGAS/ Cashing OUTRAGEOUS/ Suits Getting TAKEN/ For Their BACON/ No FAKING/ Sat Down At A BLACKJACK/ Table With A FAT CAT/ Rocking My Lucky BLACK HAT/ Stacking My CASH FLAT/ In Cahoots With The DEALER/ She Glanced At Me FAST And HARD/ Didn't Deal Me The LAST CARD/ But She Ain't No SQUEALER/

SG Verse: "Pleased To MEET YOU/ Are You A Celestial Or An Evil CREATURE?"/ She Seemed To Be Pure Judging From Her Agreeable FEATURES/ I Wasn't Sure How To GREET HER/ She Asked If I Could BE HER TEACHER/ And That She Didn't Have Long Until She Would Have To Return To Her KEEPER/ So In A SWEET BLUR/ We Were Off To The Leaning Tower Of PISA/ Then The Pyramids In GIZA/ "Have You Seen The Lost City Of Atlantis?", "Nope", "Well, Me NEITHER"/ The SEA BIRDS/ SEEMED TO/ Especially INTRIGUED HER/ As The Craft Shifted Into Something With A SUBMARINE'S CURVES/ As We Submerged DEEPER/ I Couldn't Believe What I Was Seeing With My Own PEEPERS/ I Saw Natural Hot Springs Of Various Forms Of ETHERS/ She Asked What I Would Be Doing Right Now, I Said "Probably Blazing REEFER/ Sipping On A CESAR/ Or A MARGARITA"/ She Was Down For EITHER/ We Ended Up Back At The LAB// Checking Out My STABS// Which Clearly PLEASED HER/ We WATCHED FLICKS All Night By The HEATER/ Checking TOP PICKS By EBERT/ It SEEMS TO/ Feel Like I Really NEED HER/ So I Was Shocked To SEE HER/ FALL// Into A SMALL// SEIZURE/ And Break Into A FEVER/ She Said She's About To MEET THE/ REAPER/ She Placed One Hand On A LEVER/ And The Vessel Began To HEAT UP/ But Before She Faded To What Sounded Like A BEEPER/ She Said That "Between Living And Dying, Life Is CHEAPER/ And Between The Soul And Body, The Physical Is The Greatest CHEATER"/

MS Verse: The Light That Came From Beside The SEA/ That's How The Oldest Of The Old Said Our People Came To BE/ The Plumed Serpent Impregnated The Waters To Create The Dawn Of LIFE/ The Beginning Of What The Blind Perceived As STRIFE/ ARISE/ The Being, Heart Of The Sky Became Father, Heart Of The Earth Was Holy MOTHER/ Beyond That There Was No OTHER/ And Forth Came Those With Human TRACES/ The First People Were Wiped Away By The Gouger Of FACES/ Then Came The Twins Like Helix Intertwining CONSISTENT/ Defeating Every House Of The Underworld With Spiritual RESISTANCE/ And After Games Were Played, Ripped Hearts Grew Into Trees That Bore FRUIT/ Which SEDUCED/ The Daughter Of Darkness, The Fruit Spit SHOOT/ On Her HAND/ And Just Like That Another STRAND/ Of The Same Intertwining Pair Of SOULS/ That Protects My OWN By Perpetually Aligning With The Heavens SG Verse: We Saw The Seraphim Like The ANCIENT MARINERS/ We Weighted Upon Their Wings, SAFE, They CARRIED US/ We Stepped Off On To BLAZING CHARIOTS/ They Took Us To This AMAZING PLACE Without BARRIERS/ We Walked FOREVER, But They Never HARRIED US/ Our Talks Were CLEVER And To Say The Least Quite VARIOUS/ They Told Us Tales As Amazing As HARRIET'S/ They Told Us That They Were Sometimes Referred To As ALIENS/ Among Other ALIASES/ And That They BIRTHED// The FIRST// And Last ARYANS/ Some Of Whom Were Later Known As The SUMERIANS/ They Controlled The Matters Of Men Like MARIONETTES/ Before Returning Home On Their Intercelestial CARRIERS/ They Sniffed Out The LIGHT// LIKE// TERRIERS/ Then Planted Their Children In Those Selected AREAS/ And When The Time Was Right, They Would All Live And DIE VICARIOUS/ Some Would MARRY US/ But They Would All Live A Human Life In A State Of SALIENCE/

Stranded Verse: A Child Was BORN In VAIN/ Only For Her Mother To Die While She Was ON The WAY/ She CAME OUT// FACE DOWN// She Never SAW Her FACE/ She Aged Taking The BLAME/ For Why Her Father Was ABSORBED By PAIN/ Because She Was Ignorant To What Went ON In His BRAIN/ He Could Tell Her How He Was TORN Two Different WAYS/ By The JOY And The PAIN/ Joy For Her, PAIN/ For The Woman FROM Which She CAME/ But She Knew He Loved Her So She Would Never BELIEVE What He'd SAY/ So He Let Things Just BE AS They MAY/ It Wasn't Something That NEEDED To CHANGE/ Despite Their Despair The Love BETWEEN Them REMAINED/ He's Been On A Dark Journey Since That DAY/ Seeing Her In That COFFIN Sparked An Eternal FLAME/ He Thought Of Her OFTEN And Drifted AWAY/ The Harder He Focused, The Further He STRAYED/ He Left The Planet, But Visited On A Regular BASE/ To Mourn At Her GRAVE/ In Silence For There Were No Amount Of Words He Could SAY/ To Soothe His Soul Or To EXPLAIN/ How He Felt Borderline To INSANE/ He Read Her Book, But Never Got To The Last PAGE/ And He Was Far More Than A Chapter AWAY/ The Pages Abandoned When She Passed AWAY/ There Was So Much He Had To SAY/ But He Always Bit His Tongue Now He'll Never Get Rid Of The AFTERTASTE/ Never Will The Emptiness EVAPORATE/ His Heart Broken Never To HEAL/ It Was Only Held Together By His Daughter's WILL...// Both WOMEN/ Make Him Feel The Same, But It's DIFFERENT/ Because His Daughters A Constant Reminder Of What He's MISSING/ Looking At Her Hurt Just As MUCH AS It DIDN'T/ An Unknown Force DOUBLED His VISION/ It Was Blurred, But He Saw Her And Her MOTHER IN IT/ He Would Close His Eyes To SHUT OUT The IMAGE/ But That Only Made It Much More VIVID/ SG Verse: It Was In A LOCKET He Kept As A MEMENTO/ Put It In The Front POCKET Of An OLD RENTAL/ Under His VEST// Lay His Naked STRESS// He Would ROCK IT As A STENCIL/ Plus It Was A Big EVENT TOO/ Flying Economy Class, CONTINENTAL/ About To Land, Filling Out The Custom Card With A SHORTENED PENCIL/ He Had Never Spoken To Her Before Even Though He Had ALWAYS MEANT TO/ Not Sure Of What Was About To ENSUE/ He Held Tightly To The Invitation That Came OUT Of The BLUE/ Wrapped In A RIBBON// GLITTERED// And Then POWDERED With GLUE/ He Planned To Take Her Out And AROUND To The ZOO/ Thought He Could Make It All Up To Her, But Then He DOUBTED It TOO/ He Had Been Granted The GIFT Of MERCY/ Never Thought He'd Again See The FACE Of COMPASSION// But On This TRIP To JERSEY/ MAYBE It COULD HAPPEN// Work Was A MAJOR DISTRACTION// So He QUIT DISPERSEDLY/ Whatever It TAKES, PERHAPS THEN// She'd Become The Only Light LEFT In His LIFE/ Since The SPLIT From His WIFE/ Trying To Sleep Through The STRESS In The NIGHT/ He Ducked Out Before Her DUE DATE// Thought It Was TOO LATE// But Now He Finds Himself Standing Outside Their NEW PLACE/ Lotus Verse: And Ever Since His First BIRTHDAY/ He Never Seen His Father Who Always WORK LATE/ Come Home Licking The PLATE/ Then Off To BED/ Moms Got No Attention, Sick Of His Shit And LEFT/ Not That She FELT// He Wasn't A Good PROVIDER/ It Was More About How He Was A Selfish LIAR/ His BELT DEALT FIRE/ After A Few Drinks Of WHISKEY/ Not LUCID// Becomes ABUSIVE// And TIPSY/ They MADE An ESCAPE At A LATER DATE, SPLIT/ Young Boy Says To His Mother "I HATE THIS/ I Hate You! Why Did You Take Me From DADDY?"/ "Because He Sleeps On A Bench Seat In The Back Of The CADDY"/ Years Had Passed, Moms Thinks He'd FORGOTTEN/ One Night Pretends To Sleep, Playing POSSUM/ Contempt For His Mother, He Seemed To BLAME HER/ Outside Pop's Window, Two Kids And A STRANGE GIRL/

Stranded Verse: He Was All Alone Or SO He THOUGHT/ An Entire World BELOW His SKULL/ MILLENNIA// Ago PANGAEA// Began To FLOAT APART/ But Despite That DISTANCE// Those He Now KNOWS ABROAD/ Are There WITH HIM// Even THOUGH They're NOT/ The Bond That Music Forms SPANS INFINITY/ TRANSCENDS PROXIMITY/ He's By Himself, But Not Alone; Paradoxic CHEMISTRY/ Brotherhood Merges Germany, Canada And In Between; They Share Common INTERESTS/ People Who Constitute His SIBLINGS/ They Give Him Reasons To Want To Leave The Solitude He LIVES WITH/ Much Like A Star He Roams Planes Largely UNOCCUPIED/ But Just As Far// As Those STARS// Are NOT COMBINED/ He Takes A Step Back And Counts The Stars ACROSS The SKY/ There Are Many, But When You FOCUS/ MICROSCOPIC/ The Rest LIE// OUTSIDE// The OUTLINE// Of What You Decided To NOTICE/ He LEARNS His LESSON/ For Humble INCURS ACCEPTANCE/ While PRIDE// Can BLIND// The Stubborn And BLUR The MESSAGE/ That's Not To Say That Such Mistakes Would Not RECUR They're EXPECTED/ He's Always BEEN ALONE/ So Despite His New Family Spread Across This SPINNING GLOBE/ A Certain Degree Of Isolation Is STILL HIS HOME/ SG Verse: A Lone Wolf Who ABANDONED The PACK/ He Went In, Head First Without A PLAN Of ATTACK/ He Had MANAGED To STACK/ About A GRAND In A SACK/ Buried Deep In Some SAND In A BURLAP/ Behind The Abandoned Building Where The LAND Had COLLAPSED/ It Was The DAY/ He RAN AWAY/ Unsure Of Where He Would HAVE To STAY/ But THAT'S The BREAKS/ He Didn't Believe In The Words He'd HAVE TO SAY/ "I'M SORRY"// Would Have Been End Of STORY// The Weather Added To This SAD DISPLAY/ Never Again Would He Ever Look His DAD In His FACE/ He Was Quick Witted, But He Had An Even FASTER MOUTH/ So-Called Friends BECAME// ESTRANGED// When He ASKED To CRASH The COUCH/ "You're A Useless BASTARD NOW"/ Someone They Would LAUGH ABOUT/ It Got To The Point Where It Was Well PAST A DOUBT/ That All Of His Luck, At LAST, RAN OUT/ His Funds EVAPORATED LIKE WATER/ He Took Refuge At The Condemned Building, Sleeping In A DILAPIDATED CORNER/ Burning Junk Kept Him CAPTIVATED And WARMER/ Years Passed By As He Began PAN HANDLING/ But The SADDEST THING/ Was The Reflection Of His FACE// In The Loose CHANGE// His DAD Just HANDED HIM/

Verse 1: It Was The STRESS HE HATED/ Feeling Like He Couldn't Clean Up The MESS He CREATED/ A Topic BEST LEFT LESS DEBATED/ Told To Be LESS ABRASIVE/ His Wife Suggested Sensory DEPRIVATION/ She'd Been Told This Method Was Supposed To Be The SAFEST/ He Went In For A SINGLE SESSION/ Felt A TINGLE PRESENT/ From The Standing Hairs On The Back Of His FINGERS, STRESSING/ Displaying A WRINKLED EXPRESSION/ In The WAITING ROOM/ The Attendant BILINGUALLY ADDRESSED HIM/ She Walked Him To A VACANT ROOM/ He Hid The Fact That He'd Be SHAKING SOON/ She Had A Few Steps She Had To TAKE HIM THROUGH/ So He Listened Like A PATIENT DUDE/ But He Didn't Want To WAIT, IT'S TRUE/ He Entered The VESSEL In The CENTER/ Like An Unborn Child In The Warm Medium NESTLED In The PLACENTA/ His Mind WRESTLED With This ADVENTURE/ Before He Knew It, He Fought LESS THAN HE MEANT TO/ Without Any Immediate Influence He Stood Above The TRESTLE With The INVENTOR/ Verse 2: His SPIRITUAL SAW/ His Stressors Taking A PHYSICAL FORM/ He Saw It ALL/ How Negative Energies Combined In CYCLICAL SCORN/ Along ELLIPTICAL HORNS/ To How The RESIDUALS BORN/ Sobbing In Naked Loneliness Blaring DIGITAL PORN/ He Felt How The MISERABLE MOURN/ Saw The Weathered Faces The DRIZZLE Had WORN/ After What Felt Like An Eternity, He Grew SICK Of The NORM/ Of Being CYNICAL And WITHDRAWN/ The Sharp Teeth Of RIDICULE BIT Off His ARM/ But He Picked Up The Pieces Exuding A CRITICAL CALM/ For The First TIME In His LIFE/ He's Able To RISE UP And FIGHT/ Became One With The SCIENCE Of SIGHT/ Revealed Unto Him: The GIANT Of LIGHT/ Full Of VIBRANCE, But RIGHT/ Then And There A Tremor Caused The EQUATOR To SHAKE/ CREATED A QUAKE/ Crushed Him Under The WEIGHT Of The PLACE/ We Heard He Lost Both His Legs LATER That WAY/ Alone In A Coma, LAY THERE For DAYS/ But I Guess The Lord Giveth And The Lord TAKETH AWAY/ Verse 3: They Had Been Trying To CONCEIVE For MONTHS/ He Started Drinking More Than His Wife Even Though He Didn't NEED As MUCH/ How He Longed For A Son He Could FEED And TOUCH/ Sat There Thinking Of All The Things That He Could TEACH Him OF/ Doctors Said He CONGENITALLY STERILE/ And Even Though He Was STRONG, MENTALLY VIRILE/ He Was Devastated Leading To A LONG EVENTUALLY PERIL/ CRUSHING DEPRESSION/ Didn't Say MUCH IN CONFESSION/ His Heart TOUCHING AGGRESSION/ And Over STUFFED With REPRESSION/ You'd Say It Was BORDERLINE/ If You Ever SAW HIS MIND/ The Type Shared By The TORTURED KIND// Living In DISTORTED TIME/ He Was Up At UNUSUAL HOURS/ Obsessing Over Some DELUSIONAL POWERS/ Seems He Was CONFUSED And AFOUL/ Making It THROUGH The STRESS/ DOING HIS BEST/ But The Bourbon Stains That RUINED His VEST/ Continued To Fuel The Flames That GREW In His CHEST/ Verse 4: It Had Now Been Over Three Years Since They Began TRYING TO CONCEIVE/ Felt Like His Unborn SEED/ Was Just DYING TO BREATH/ Frustrated At Work Clenching His TIE In His TEETH/ Struggling To Make His Quota; He Had To LIE And DECEIVE/ Another Late Night, Spilt The RYE On HIS SLEEVE/ Reckless Abandon, Driving Home TRYING To WEAVE/ When He Was Alone He Would CRY And Just GRIEVE/ He Worked For A Family Man Who Kept His EYE On His CHEESE/ Promised Her A GET AWAY/ They Had Seen BETTER DAYS/ She Ensured Him She Still Loved Him And That Love Would NEVER STRAY/ He Made A Fatal Mistake And Initiated A HEAD ON COLLISION/ Medics Thought He Was DEAD On ADMISSION/ Instead He FELL In REMISSION/ Luckily He Lost One Of His Eyes INSTEAD Of His VISION/ Woke Up To His Wife Sitting Next To His BED With A GLISTEN/ With Tears In Her Eyes, She Was MERRY With A SMILE/ As She Told Him She Was Now CARRYING His CHILD/

Verse 1: You Can Never Test My Mental In The WAR Of PATIENCE/ In My Mind I Incessantly Run Armed Raids With Military COORDINATION/ VIOLATION// Of HUMAN RIGHTS// Producing PUTRID SIGHTS/ Sleeping In The Trenches With The Rats, We RECOUP At NIGHT/ The TRUTH? I DIED/ They Saved My Memory To SALUTE My LIFE/ After I Was ORDERED To RUN/ Straight TOWARDS The GUN/ UNFAZED// The Bullets Just GRAZED// And Only SORT Of STUNG/ Until AN AWKWARD ONE/ CAUGHT My LUNG/ And I Was ALL BUT DONE/ It's MORBID SON/ Because I've Been Party To A LOT Of HORRORS/ But I Never Thought I'd See Today: The Day I FORGOT My SORROWS/ My HYPER SPIRIT/ Was Caged In A Shell Of CYBERNETICS/ A Nano Nuclear TYPE OF KINETICS/ My MIND And My GENETICS/ Preserved Within A Lutetium Frame, I Put ASIDE The ETHICS/ Don't DARE// COMPARE// Me To Other Soldiers Seems KIND Of PATHETIC/ Now I'm Running Under The COVER FIRE Of PAVE LOWS/ I Watch As Souls Leave Their Bodies Drowned In The MUDDY MIRES Dressed In PLAIN CLOTHES/ Embracing The BLOOD And FIRE With Their HALOS/ I Share An UGLY DESIRE With The Rest Of My STRANGE FOES/ Verse 2: On My CHEST TWO MOUNTED/ F-TWO THOUSANDS/ Dripping In Blood Like I'm Standing To Close NEXT TO The FOUNTAIN/ Disable The ENEMY RADAR/ Numb On KETAMINE I STAY SCARRED/ It's Like There's TEN OF ME God, The Way I SPRAY HARD/ Sanctioned By A HIGHER AUTHORITY/ Baptized By FIRE In A SORORITY/ Where They CONSPIRE Against The MAJORITY/ Overhead AC ONE THIRTIES/ Leaving The PLACE CLEAN And Our GUNS DIRTY/ Don't Sleep, We ERASE DREAMS When We're UP EARLY/ HELL IS OUR HOME// Precision Air Strikes And PREDATOR DRONES// Is That The Burning Flesh Of A FRIEND OR A FOE?/ I Can DISCERN The SMELL/ Because I RETURNED From HELL/ With A BURNING SHELL/ COMPETITION// In OPPOSITION// Must Be DETERMINED To FAIL/ Even Though My Heart Pumps Mechanical Fluid That's Been WIRED Through A SYRINGE/ This Cold Shell Can't EXPIRE My DESIRE For REVENGE/ So Until I See The Gunner Who Got Me DRIPPING In RED/ I'm Going To Keep Looking Until I Stop THINKING I'm DEAD/

Verse 1: The Name's BRUCE BANNON/ A Fucking LOOSE CANNON/ On Duty Rocking A ROOTS JACKET/ Plus His SHOES SLAMMING/ A Case Revolving Around A RECLUSE CABIN/ Where A Sour Deal PRODUCED STABBINGS/ The GRUESOME ASSASSIN/ Made Examples Out Of His Victims To REDUCE The DAMAGE/ The Place Looked Like Blood Was Splattered Over A BRUISED CANVAS/ Found An Abandoned CAR/ In The GARAGE/ A Mitsubishi MIRAGE/ "Looks Like We Got Ourselves A Killer At LARGE"/ WEBBING// The EVIDENCE// In An Informational BARRAGE/ Coffee Break, His Mind Forming A COLLAGE/ While He's At The Parlor For A MASSAGE/ HOLLOW INDEED/ Now FOLLOWING A LEAD/ Shining Like APOLLO With GREED/ Bitch Just SWALLOWED HIS SEED/ Ditched The Stolen Car After He Went And He PAWNED IT/ Now He's Rolling Around With About Two G's In His WALLET/ Worked With His Partner, WALLACE/ An Ex-ALCOHOLIC/ Who Was Still Clean, But Soon To Become His INFORMANT/ Verse 2: They STOPPED BLOCKS/ From A Syndicated CHOP SHOP/ Found The Bodies Of Two TOP COPS/ On The Bathroom Floor With Their KNOTS CHOPPED/ Trying To Figure Out WHAT'S WHAT/ The Duo Jumping AROUND// TOWN// Like It's A Game Of HOP SCOTCH/ It's A Dirty Job, But Someone's Got To DO IT/ SCREW IT/ The Last CASE// They PLACED// The Suspect Down To His SEMINAL FLUID/ Exposing Bodily Oils When The Lab Puts CHEMICALS TO IT/ But The Guilty Party Remains Hidden Like A SENTINEL DRUID/ Info Comes In The Form Of An ANONYMOUS CALLER/ Traced To A Part Of Town SYNONYMOUS With SQUALOR/ A Few Words On A Big Case Made ALL Of IT SMALLER/ The Source Was Vocally Recognized As An ECONOMIST SCHOLAR/ Approached, Bannon Began DUMBING And SHUNNING Their EXPLANATIONS/ In A SUDDEN ESCALATION/ Clouds Of Smoke Or SOMETHING Began To INFEST The STATION/ As Masked Men Came GUNNING DRESSED As HAITIANS/ Wallace Made The CUNNING ESTIMATION/ That The Crook Behind The Whole Show Was The Same Man RUNNING The INVESTIGATION/

SG Verse 1: He Had An HONEST QUERY/ Decided To Make His Way Up To The MONASTERY/ Feared Being ALONE// But It Was NOT AS SCARY/ As The Implications Of The UNKNOWN// He STOPPED, But BARELY/ Discarded His PHONE// And Proceeded ATOP An AIRY/ Field AMONG The MOSSES/ Usually CLUNG To LOSSES/ But It Was A Time Of Change And He Had Just BEGUN The PROCESS/ Along The Trail He Saw A Monk Sitting In CONTEMPLATION/ Upon His ARMS WERE PAINTINGS/ The ART Was AMAZING/ With The CALMEST PATIENCE/ And The SMARTS Of The ANCIENTS/ He STARTED WAITING/ Saw A SERENE BREEZE// Shuffle Over The GREEN TREES// Grazed PRAYER WHEELS/ To The CHIRPS Of CICADAS// Carved In Gold Were RARE SEALS/ Denoting CERTAIN VEDAS// HIGHER STILL/ Passing A Pond Of LILY PADS// His Mind Tempered By His FIRE WILL/ Forgot What Made Him REALLY SAD// At LAST He REACHED/ The Mountain PASS, Then The PEAK// Looked Down Upon The Land Littered With The VASTEST CREEKS// He Observed His Reflection In A RIVER/ Seemed So Much CLEARER/ Than The Man In The MIRROR/ To HIMSELF// He FELT// He Had Been DELIVERED/ Falcon Verse: Cloaked A Lone Poet, Wanders In The TREES/ Clutches Pen And Pad Dims A Glow Of TRANQUILITY/ Sense Of Purpose, Settles On A PATH Of LEAVES/ Cross Legged Posture, Ready For The MASTERPIECE/ In The GRASP Of PEACE/ He Opens Up The CHAKRAS/ Wrote His Finest Scrolls With Inspiration Of The FOREST/ Whispers Of A Redwood, Seep A SILENT WISDOM/ Soaks In Their Awareness, Heights REDEFINE His VISION/ A Conscious PRESENCE Found In EVERY SAPLING/ Among The Bees And Birds, CONNECTIONS EVERLASTING/ Discard Mental Barriers, Taken Off The MASKING/ Saw Life In Purest Form, Droplets Wash Away The FALLACY/ Hits A Blinding Light, Ascension Of DIVINE STRENGTH/ Inhales A TIMELESS BREATH/ Transcending LIFE Or DEATH/ The Unrefined Essence Beyond Flesh And BLOOD/ Found All Things Below Blends With Everything ABOVE/ Assertive Inner Peace, Temple Surging He OBSERVES/ Beautiful, A Moment Transcending All The Hell On EARTH/ Total Ego Dissolution As Nature He BECAME ONE/ Harmonious With All, Friction Less, The Inner SAGE SHONE/ SG Verse 2: An Unassuming Lady Who Found Delight In The MUNDANE And GRANDE/ From A Cold Town In England, Preferred The SUN RAYS And SAND/ One DAY UNPLANNED/ She PAID A GRAND/ Found Herself On The Mexican Hills Looking Like WAVES In The LAND/ Back Home She Had A Mazatec Inscribed SWORD Of IRON/ FORTIFIED THEN/ Fully RESTORED Like ZION/ But It Was About MORE Than BUYING/ A COLLECTOR'S ITEM/ She Simply Had An Insatiable Curiosity FOR The MAYAN/ Said Her SIGHT Was SORE/ So She Could Skip The GUIDED TOUR/ Instead She Sneaked Down Some Pyramid Steps BEHIND The SHORE/ She TRIED The DOOR/ Stepped INSIDE With AWE/ Tears Streamed Down Her Face Like She Never CRIED BEFORE/ Saw Something Shining BESIDE The FLOOR/ She Almost Had A HEART ATTACK/ When She Realized It Was An ARTIFACT/ It Was Still SHARP IN FACT/ She Touched The Symbols CARVED IN BLACK/ And Thought What It Would Be Like If She BROUGHT IT BACK/ Both BOLD AND SHALLOW/ She Grabbed The BOW AND ARROW/ Standing Before A Statue Resembling A GOLDEN PHARAOH/ COLD AND NARROW/ Held It Tight Like How A BONE Holds The MARROW/ Knowing She'd Be Looking Upon It In Her HOME IN HARROW/ Stranded Verse: While It's STRANGE/ What Many Consider Noise PERFORMS In A WAY/ That TELEPORTS Him AWAY/ All It TAKES/ Is A Yin And Yang SNAKE/ To Swirl With A CRANE/ And Something Goes ON IN His BRAIN/ He Grows Like Fast FORWARDING AGE/ And Presses Onward To Explore His Head's DORMANT REMAINS/ He Lights Up REGIONS// That Have Seldom SEEN THEIR// NEURON'S AFLAME/ His Sight Travels Beyond His Actual Eyes' NORMAL RESTRAINTS/ No Longer Held By The Force Field He ESCAPES/ And Vanishes Like A Man With A VORTICAL FACE/ Where He Arrives Is An INCORPOREAL PLACE/ Not Unlike Where Neo And MORPHEUS TRAINED/ AMORPHOUS TERRAIN/ That With Absence DISORIENTATES/ When He Leaves, His Memory Of BEFORE Is SO VAGUE/ All He Remembers Is It Exists Not The WORLD IT CONTAINS/ He Always Wonders Afterward What TORE HIM AWAY/ But Just The Knowledge That It Happened ENDORPHINS The PAIN/