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Honesty Is Mandatory

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Birth 00:07
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Woke up early morning with a “Yes!” Morning mist, smell of dropling dew so fresh Last night was so hot and icky Today is so cool, get frisky Touch large green leaf, wet and sticky Mother with me, heart and loving Days like this how can you help not love everybody Even self, yea haven't shown you so much health Change that, today is day of loving wealth Inhale large cold fresh breath What is this aroma roaming? Pulls to inside, now inside I see Hot yummy tea, ooh just for me! Every day is such a rebirth I didn't even sleep so much Foggy grays blanket me, ahh clouds behave Caught the first warmth of sunshine rays Bristly brusquely, tallish trees Up up up up, won't you come and grow with me? Won't you come and glow with me? Early Mornin – I'm reborn X4 On planet Masquerade, we search for Earth We search for honest, search for worth Alien telescope to study people, freaky sweat Dawn upon, the dying light Hey heyyy, too early bright Charade of charades, parade parade Parade all the way to our dearest graves Learn to love or return back to dust Bursting crust, global hot n such Corpulent, gluttony more and more we clutch What's bought and sold?, the human soul My friend Bobby says “we are human beings, not human doings” (Doing proving grounds of being) Early morning, morning glory Hello Earth, take take take take Sorry sorry There's no glory in the end of Rome, end of Story There is no glory, until Rome is ended Early Mornin – I'm reborn X4
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Man is like attrition to the innocent soul Bursting, with the innumerable dualism of Albert Camus Heinous quarrel with the thirsting Rappin for some respect, contain thy meaning even if nothing left Find the woes of depth I haven’t sneezed in years, I think people are guessin I ain’t blessed Realize what it meant Live and love life to the utmost And while you ride, note the nihilist meaninglessness Shift to eagerness, kiss the sense of evanescence Splurge in the message beneath the surface Understood perfect Wage wit clipped angels and chipped soldiers Engage clever endeavors of legitimacy Lust thrill that only death brings the reality Shrill in giggles, save the children a breath For their time to reform the sodden soil Boiled in obscurity Revolutionizing Revelations until Genesis is a cadaver Art is my universal cure Relinquishing hate, secret is sacred But everybody wants some truth Embroidery of a radiating sun splashing the canvas’ womb Voluptuous methods of salutation What is life? What is life? Is life a microcosm of death? Of course, life is a paradox Until all men are the ark of the covenant Redundant surprises That moron needs some oxyclean Oxymoron whore on subjunctives 'Uck cash, inner self be the true wealth Always demonstrate purpose Even if its all worthless only the worthless be worthless It hurts less to be unattached, that’s cowardice Powerless work away from society Not much for the reconcile Admire the ideologies, suffocate the water with the tree Knee deep in blood of wounds uncut Muffled in triumph, silent in screaming agony Consciousness has been liquidated Faded in the chaotic turmoil Coil and propel with tenacity of loyalty Death is thy greatest fear, but is it that that ends your fear Stick up gat, lets see how much you fear fear What is life? What is life? Is life a microcosm of death? Of course, life is a paradox Laughing hysterically, how ugly women get no luck in work place Miss pageant wasn’t qualified and they fired ugly one her ass anyway Take thee sins away Lil ugly duckling, haha super dummy, know whats funny Is it our weaknesses that make us strong? I feel sorry for those with no problems No wonder they always the ones we find making excuses for the wrong choice Or on the otha side o’ town wit their love closed Let woe gones, be woes gone And I know no one stronger than a single parent female Oh and how the ugly stares can freeze over hell What is life? What is life? Is life a microcosm of death? Of course, life is a paradox The sky is blue (ash, grayish, whites, magenta, multi-shaded and yellow) Everybody wanna hang out, but you ain’t wanna hang out on a rope Your enemies enemy is your, hey wanna be friends? Water’s thicker than blood?, I cut myself We’re married, what the fuck happened to my individuality, you're not my soul But you’re the sole one for me Everybody wanna be free, but everyone wants to be someone (or) somethings master More immortal words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, “the mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort” And if I was truly free, would I even need to live? I don’t feel like it right now, I think ill die then wake up I don’t wanna obey the laws! Okay don’t, be disobedient, your obediently doing that Laughter marked by asterisk, haha, a lotta these fools consider themselves rappas True art challenges, hmm I guess all is pointless cus it challenges me how much your unchallenging Check my mispronunciations when I feel, oops gotta enunciate renunciation Loser screamin we will survive, cus everything is possible Wrong, I wont merely exist, suffice to the higher understanding Knowledge is subjective and objective in our receptive minds A person with reason can see how many reasons their can be many reasons, I guess that explains my insanity Man cant comprehend the logic of god, Her (Him) knowing is preposterous but true Life is a paradox Yin and Yang Life is (it is) Life is Life is (life is) Never use superlatives Laughter* Life is a Paradox
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Okay okay, lets get this party started whacha got to drink there, sometin to get ya real naughty one set to get your daughter hot n bother another cold rap, to get ya wet but hotter dont gimme that beat, all I need is a loop fool dont sweat it, let your body shake to the groove ooh check the lips how I groove to the loop turn you to an animal, hey check the platitude guess not jus anotha nigga wit an attitude see how you bust moves, dance easy easy slow down no need to get rude scratch that, look how them hips move they say wit no dance track no paper over lines on paper we orchestrate your flavour lazy acres, you shopping for a soulmate taste o rhythm and eye candy randy sex pots galore, cultural debauchery got me crochity, sufferin sucukatash see the lil suffrogate, wit the tight ass slim waist well make haste to heaven Betty crock me up a beat, ready to crash ova call it hip hop, but my souls a bit more rock n rolla look into them eyes, did I see a supernova hyper corny I know, but one of us gotta get this paper no need for morals, you can save it for your savior save the lyrics for that art shit this be sexy entertainment On this one lets just get nasty you only live once, so lets do it fastly said you only live once, so lets get trashy They don't want art, so lets give em entertainment They don't listen to the words, they just wanna dance Bass Snare Bass Snare I got my drink, so Take me there Bass Snare Bass Snare I got my drink, so I don't care 4/4 K, I, S, S You kiss me, and I kiss you 4/4 K, I, S, S You kiss me, and I kiss you Keep it simple stupid got the drums mate, so lets loose it Don't wanna conversate, I just wanna dance Good luck, in their head theyre sayin I just wanna fuck Nonchalant steps, the tongue flex I'll divorce you for some good sex Tonights the night, who cares what come next Rip off their clothes, nah hustler mode, just jack their dough Who needs the power of cunnin lyrics when you got that cunninlingus Spread eagle style is the best way to eat this I'll take a quick fix over what inspire said I'll take some good head, over a good head rip o melody so passionately and no one is listening yeah yeah struggling artist, just shut up and relate to me Not a child no more, the world wore me cold stop I didn't hear you, but on that hook did you see my pop lock The world revolves around me, no time for books and poetry Just give me those 4 beats and relate to me, yo let that beat drop, you're killing me
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All a human is, is a mind with appendages... And one day we will all grasp... Or maybe that's just my idea of heaven... To be completely enamored by all the ugliness and beauty inside all of us To identify each characteristic and emotion in every human as another part of ourselves, even the undiscovered ones Those bits and pieces, those specs of star dust sprinkled ever so gently into all of us Whether we have found it in ourselves or through others, All that there is to be human lies in me, And of course by me I mean we... "Each person is an intricate piece of infinite" When we can all understand that we are all the same person...understand each part of ourselves... The human soul will finally become one... Only here is life everlasting, Only here is humanity free unto infinite... Only here can Honesty and Love be resounded in us... Call it as you wish, Humanity's final master form, God, Honesty, Love... It doesn't matter, because its all Nothing and its all Everything... The ultimate endless struggle of Life...The point in which, we are Always reaching for, yet will Never achieve (We will achieve!) I progress every step toward this non-end and aspire for all my fellow Man and Woman to also... And not out of martyrdom or self-importance But out of true compassion and empathy To find this final form of Love and God... And only through this connectedness can we all evolve into this new human...Through Pain And Happiness... And whatever else emotions we don't know exist that run through our very blood...
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Growth 00:07
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When I was a little kid in Sunday school, they told me The Devil Always remembers and Jesus always forgets Thats how I knew I was evil, I never forget yet I always forgive shedding love whereever it lets, even to those I shouldnt im so much my mother but the blood wont let into wine when I was young my stepfather held up a knife and told me there aint nothin but air and opportunity and thats the day I learned sometin maybe not, but at least I have sometin to rap about I take that passion and I let it loose I live every day by the edge o the blade not to make pit to pat, I gotta lust for life, shoutouts to iggy pop down the rabbit hole and Alice of hip hop boo bippity wop, you can call it scat rock insert joke about feces here constantly juggling the dream and real world and ive learned to be a damn good clown from the painted smile to the big goofy shoes riding thru space without dropping the balls Think pink elephants in the grooves of the carpet flying off the floor and into the ya know, Dumbo wasn't well liked If I really was born on Earth than how can I be homeless? Alien thoughts of alienation A nation of aliens I think therefore – I'm hungry, guess i'm made empty void-full celebrations Devoid of devout these are religious symbols George Carlin said lets leave symbols for the symbol-minded this is an honest sentiment cus I'd rather be honest than believe yearning to learn, unquenchable quest this chase of life will never leave who doesn't lieeeee yeah, ya know what I mean
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A Dead Soul 02:04
So here I lay... No longer able to see first, second and third view of every perspective No longer New Human, a human trapped with only its small window A human with only its meager insight, its singular slice of the whole human mind that we are all apart of No longer able to see the bigger picture...No longer able to see God... No longer able to see both the real and dream world simultaneously The majestic colors that don't exist are no longer painted over the Earth I once knew Help, I can't dream anymore! Is this the final piece of my innocence carved away? Have I forever killed off who I really am? I need those voices forever screaming at me I need to feel every emotion and feeling in the universe down to its most excruciating core All at once To where even the good feelings hurt so bad Pang me to death's waking door I thought I wanted to be normal I'll gracefully take my crazies back if they come with my intelligence... Though I can't feel anymore...A shattered dead soul... Soul dies...Soul gone... I have to fake it until I get my superpowers back For what is a little girl without her emotions and everyone else's with it Break little girl, Break Help, I'm not me anymore Help, I'm not me anymore Help, I'm not me anymore...
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One day, a baby bear, or cub if you must, was stolen from her mother and kept in captivity... Many torturous and unconceivable things were done to the cub during this time...But my Nature, let's not go into that shan't we... And Mother Bear went berserk...she even stopped eating her trout and began eating “stonefish”... No amount of “bear medicine” could reinvigorate Mother... By the time they got Baby Cub back to her Mother Bear again, she had already clawed out all of her gutsy wutsies...And their home, will never be the same again... The formidable “Never”, but here her use is mandatory... For here lies no longer a mother bear, but the Felt And the only thing felt, is the panging of Pelt And Baby Cub Forever Running from Captivity...
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Sing: When the butterflies inside// equate to the angel's lies An ocean of children's tears// that ripples across the universe Hurts to hide what's real inside// so you show that pain as smiles And there's nothing left to fear// now you can let out all your cries Rap: The story told a thousand times, the unloved beat kids Felt death before they even got to experience life This little girl watched all the hits, mom's black eye and her bruised ribs Taught early on how to hide and avoid socialize (social eyes) When mom was away working two J-O-Bs, thought hey its normal to be lonely Hey that's life, mom's gotta get ends meat At nights shes shouting “daddy, no please!” Eventually, she goes numb to the beast Went to school and showed her only friend the scars But she was too young to help, but she helped show how things really are --She is all alone-- Mom screams “Not Again”, Dad yells “Shut the fuck up Bitch” Glass is smashed, or is that the sound of unloved kids screaming at high pitch Sing: When the butterflies inside// equate to the angel's lies An ocean of children's tears// that ripples across the universe Hurts to hide what's real inside// so you show that pain as smiles And there's nothing left to fear// now you can let out all your cries What a cute scene, seems surreal how its so serene The little boy sits in front of babysitter, no wait I think its a screen Images are seen Whatever he sees is certainly not reality Actuality, of his step-dad hiding cocaine in his bedroom Faded dirty baige curtains blinds what consumes Never is the face of the ever impending doom Always is the face of creativity which blooms He lay under his bed and writes those songs Learned early on how to be gone Those aren't God's tears, thats his first kiss The pound of the fist is the warmthy squish when hugs his teddy He doesn't even remember this hell, just the eternal bliss What's real is make belief, imagination is what holds him steady Ready for the concrete braille, now what does life spell? Sing: When the butterflies inside// equate to the angel's lies An ocean of children's tears// that ripples across the universe Hurts to hide what's real inside// so you show that pain as smiles And there's nothing left to fear// now you can let out all your cries Adapted to living with the pain Overwhelmed, cold clutch, colossal touch way past the point of enough is enough "And I never want to remember again," screams the Now very aged child... Tremendously tumbling towards surreptitious secrets How agonizing one gets...when the struggling kicks...and the thoughts won't bequit Tough in the trenches, there you sit where the feel of death never exits to the brink where you smile, even if only to exist the only defense mechanism that allows you to persist so please, unloved child feel this even if only in a mirror aww that moment, when you look directly into a song, past the music into that glimmer of sweet, gooey love you then glance at your lover, you both instantly have the shared experience of that feeling that moment is now forever tied to your souls each of your minds saw that thought in visual space and acquired it together souls bounded together, yet completely free and unbounded...limitless the prospect of love and the power it gives
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Babies have bleeding hearts too, sometimes they love and sometimes they spill But on the real, that's a euphemism for innocent chills Sometimes they strengthen us, sometimes they scar us Anonymous, Whether hard as steel, or soft as egg shells Tip toe thru life by method of cheap thrills Obscure revelations from once no longer friends Tellin' ourselves they'll be there till the end Don't take life too seriously, no one makes it out alive I thought that was a funny joke, but I don't do coke Contrive what's independence, We're in this together A remembrance why we strive to to pride our individuality Tethered to uniqueness in the same, we are all human Spirituality of the fact we can all think freely Dreamin' universally we can live how we think Intensely romantic like that of bottomless ink Crying out not a world for our babies, but where they should be even babies, they bleed adult tears we're just struggling, not to die in a world of tragic fear
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Death 00:07
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A story that starts from the end A childhood friend I saw (his) mother after he hung himself with rope My first encounter with a real life ghost Top left corner on top my dresser thats where my step-father hid his dope You call them dreams, I call them cope I don't care which nation of reality you're from The only one I'm livin in is my imagination When I was a baby my eyes were a light hazel By the time I'm dead they'll be black as plague
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im sorry my loving makes you uncomfortable but this love, is forever And you know, you are eternal And you know that we share links And i will wait Cus my love is unconditional And I'm a tryin man but tryin man is an open man An open man is easy to be broken man And there I stand Open Arms, just waitin for my good woman You're such a good woman You're such a warm woman Don't run away from whats always gonna last I dont want to be broken Help me be a good man lets runaway together lets go hand in hand And I dont know the weather but we'll storm it for the thirst we'll storm it together And babyyyyy it dont matter cus Where ever we are we are together Dont let me be a bad man and I won't let you be a bad woman I can't stand I can't stand it I can't This love is forever Fuck man, and fuck woman Love as one (Is won)
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Our dear Jeanne of Arc In the moonlight solo she dance Don't need two for romance Wounded in the neck How faithful she bleed This won't stop her from her great deed Today its the past And tomorrow its history You call it just, she calls it misery In these trying times a woman dies with a silent fight, a silent fight, silent fight To never know, that cross she bears To wear her triumph To wear her despair Every single day women fight like Jeanne To protect her heart To build her Arc Today its the past And tomorrow its history You call it mankind, she calls it misery In these trying times a woman dies with a silent fight, a silent fight, silent fight Captured and trialed by man But she dies a woman Searching for the day we can all be human The execution of our dear Jeanne All because she wanted freedom Today its the past And tomorrow its history You call it the law, she calls it misery In these trying times a woman dies with a silent fight, a silent fight, silent fight In these trying times a woman dies with a silent fight, a silent fight, silent fight In these trying times a woman dies with a silent fight, a silent fight, silent fight In these trying times a woman dies Burning at the stake she dies in these trying times In these trying times A woman dies
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It feels like my brain keeps switching who I am and I don't know why...Dissociatives seem to be the only thing that - make it feel better?...I really am Alice you know, must be easy for all those folks who know exactly who they are and exactly who they'll be that day...My mind seems to make up my mind for me, but its still always me...I don't have multiple personalities I just have a really big personality...I don't think people like people with big personalities, like they feel intimidated or squished, like the world isn't big enough...I try to be as invisible as possible...Its important to be polite and I would never want to get in anyone's way...I wish it wouldn't be a weird thing to run up to everyone and hug and kiss them and tell them you love them...It seems Alienation actually sells better than love, oh well...There are way too many people to love in big cities...Humans are so beautiful, but the silly creatures can't even see themselves when they look into a mirror, they'll never know how actually precious they are...That's fine, we can always make pretend :)
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Oh dear year of 98, that's the year that I turned ten In Japanese that translates to sky or heaven A haven after beaten as present for birthday of cardinal So with ravens forevermore I taketh refuge And I declared that I shall never want again Then found endless colors in my nameless friend Terms I dedicated to matter of gray Abduction can't be so different from runaway Reduction idea of this time its by my own admission Though with wet tears I see clearly through with blurry vision Panicking around room with fear and anticipation Pondering on exit for most expedient escape direction Should I sneak out bedroom window or dash to front door to make my break Meanwhile hands fervently shiver and quake, as mind paces what to pack and take Concerning critical decisions such as which stuffed animal is my favourite Already got my snacks and warmest blanky in my backpack ----Can God not feel my pain? Does he too not die when child cry? Why does step dad beat me and mommy? Why does she stay with man who doesn't love me? Does she too not love me? Does God not love me? Lost, alone, helpless, ugly, the eternal unloved manifested deep within me Why is it that lies more than truth is whats deemed to resemble reality? ----No matter how many times a child sees a hand other than its own inflict pain on it, it still sees the blame as its own hands...A mark that does not wash off with strong soaps and long talks... But I know a family is like a gun, point it in the wrong direction and someone is bound to get killed And I know inside every man is murderer In my soul I scream this shall be the last time I bleed for them Now I got my shit ready to never look back again Thats when my sister Raquel came in and grabbed hold Held me and said nothing could be further from the truth A slight moment of realization of God's unconditional Love, an ethereal understanding of the universe Every day since then has been a falling out of my mind consumed by death and growth into light and life's eternal breath Brother Ali clip “the devil has to die where ever he resides, even if hes inside me hes got to die” Every night I die, Every night I cry, Every night I feel I'm the luckiest alive Every night I die, Every night I cry, Every night I feel I'm the luckiest alive Eyedea clip “ devil convinced me I was him” Always felt God deep inside, child pondering if mirror reflects my devil Level-headed thoughts that wondering error deflects practical Practically anyone can feel any pain, but can they feel everyone at once As young as eight, fear of death was far too great Hence thinking far beyond an age, if the future is the past then time will never come So young and dumb, born old n gray in this withered kingdom Heathen heaving hubris upon others for what was done to Him 'Rinda was the only one who could reach my most closed timid But humans have perfected nothing but forms of oppression Do ye yet taste my pain and angst? Let me shove it down your throat Just like I ate mommy's, transferring psychotic suppression cacophonous 'cept for silent screams that rang bottomless ----“Does my mother know I'm here” I asked “Of course, stay here” they said Sleepy woozy dreamily drooling the good lie that blurry brain eludes me Remembering a palace of love as teddy I squeeze and squeeze and squeeze and fuckin wheeze Asthmatic constantly at hospitals with listless breeze So the escape was never a fail, we fight we flight Blight stain of rigid reach for innocence Though wind's fury is mightier than sense Sensationally inundated with wishes of death The family curse I'll end myself Locked myself in to smash the evil in the mirror and cut Tonight, mark my words is where the devil fuckin dies Tragically the orphan went kicking and screaming home As if the universe can be connected and simultaneously a demon dwells alone No, both my elder sister's voices lifted me off that bathroom floor At gravity's greatest pressure is when the mind soars ----Could not the cold stench of alcohol numb the cold feel of trauma All the drugs turned to colors and laughter's the best drama The blood that leaked from my soul was nothing but infinite love And all the fragments of the mirrors were fractals from above Yeah, there's been moments where a force compelled to overwhelm Whether capturer or family I'll make a hell of a run until I die Yet with animal in heart, I still believe I'm the luckiest person alive Every night I die, Every night I try, Every night I feel I'm the luckiest alive Every night I die, Every night I strive, Every night I feel I'm the luckiest alive An illusion of truth is a black hole that never stops growing, it is your soul being consumed and therefore your mind blind to its game of death...The only feeling of death for the living is resisting what is inside...Truth is an incessant bone projected before you on to everything...For everything outside of you is a reflection of what is inside of you...

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Art Is War...Overriding studios, full DIY bedroom album...Poems enraged in the form of rap, dreaming off the page and into a fractaling multi-dimensional soundscape...

This album started as a stand to quit running...A final scream to end the pain we've all endured, and a plea for social change...Towards the end it became a poem of love and eternity, an ultimate thanking to God...Thank you, to God, to Cat Power, to music, to my family and friends, and all the powers that be that helped save me...The only end in sight I saw was Death...Now I see the Eternal...I was Lost, but now I'm Found...I was blind, but now I See...God Is Love...Truth is Light...With every tide change there is a push back...But One day the water will cover every inch and the land will be cleansed again...Revolution bound by Evolution will Born US Anew...

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released April 24, 2015

Duals - vocals, lyrics, instrumentation, sampling, arrangement, production, mixing, mastering

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