I am nothing but a shell of the man i once was
so you could put me to your ear
and actually hear yester-year's ocean
I was in shape then
A much better built body
Of water with infinite waves
and fathomless depths
where you could have gone deep-sea fishing for compliments
and caught plentiful schools of reassuring comments
Now all you get is the boot
You fell for the bait and got hooked on what...
Day one, I played with her blood
Day two, left her face bruised and we called it making love
Day three, her blood played with me
Dirty talk caught me off guard
Had the nerve to ask me if I thought she was crazy.
Baby you don't know where my mind has been
Fell off the bike more than twice but it's time to ride again
This time I've learned from my past falls
Old wounds might reopen soon
Burn the...
AUTHOR: Sage Francis
Chorus
Verse One:
Who wants to play a game? /
Game Boy /
Boy George /
George Bush /
Bush pie /
Pie plate /
Plate Tectonics /
Catch my continental drift /
Driftin' /
Inward /
Word play /
Play time /
Stop quick /
Quick pick /
Pixie stick /
Stick shift /
Shifty eye /
Imus in the Morning /
Mourning the death /
Death Metal /
Medal award /
Award winning /
Winning vote /
Vote for...
AUTHOR: Sage Francis
Now I know it ain't right, but I decided I hadta' /
Us poets paint life, but don't get recognized till afta' /
So I faked my own death just to see what would happen /
As I taje shallow breaths and wait for people's reaction /
It was funny at first, but I had to hold my laughter...wait /
Before long I was on display at an open casket wake /
And I'm the main attraction who d...
Tonight I'm in the mood for some unscheduled affection
Spontaneous combustion...I'm playing with my fire inside
Burning my inner child blackened his skin to the tint of his sweatshirt
quot;Hey...when you play with the big boys, you get hurtquot;
I used to suck my thumb while rubbing silk blankets across my cheek
Until my mom denied me access. I bawled for weeks
We don't speak to this day. I ca...
Maze broken
She's runnin'
Feet swollen
He's commin'
She's stolen
And before he even knows it she's gone.
Tea cups sittin' on the hollow tree stumps
He's dumped, and can't seem to swallow these lumps
The best goes on?
Same fire
New passion
Old flame
Trade it in for a summer fling
There's nothing like that sweet old song?
Tip over
Root the trees
Bend the leaves
Blend in with the open wound
The f...
Chorus
Shes a fairy with broken wings
I used to watch her perform
And if she hears me I hope she sings songs
That had me going right back
Couldn't find anyone in town to talk
About how no one like that
Should be confined to the ground we walk
She glides but just seems like she floats
And these folks decide to crush her wings until they're permanently broke
She rides gusts of wind just by the w...
Had I known then what I know now
Had I thought now what I knew then..
I might still be human
with all the little stupid fix-ins
As I fix sins and vixens vick souls
Stitch clothes for the characters they play then switch roles
Nail me to the cross dress
The holy cloth costs less
I'd toss less
if I still had your soft breasts to rest my head on
Since you've been gone
I recalled my issues with pr...
Author: Sage Francis
We walk as two, but we'll leave one set of tortured footprints/
Now here she comes...walking through the door...giving that look. Since/
I roll with shook wimps...I'm shaking in my boots/
Kids are behind me eating steak and soup, talking 'bout beatbreaks and loops/
And I wanna' turn around...join in on the convo, but I ain't got jack to say/
And it's sad to say...I'm just ...
[Chorus]
Can I kick it? yes you can 3X
Well I'm gone go on then
Can I kick it,to all my people who get wicked like Sage does
before this did you know what my real name was
Paul Francis acting like he's on the same drugs
Never even felt the authects of a strange buzz
You never ever catch me holding a beer mug
Your talking shit like as if you was a real thug
if that's true lick a shot BUCK feel ...
Sun set and sun rise I'm my own personal light show
Flipping switches...moving from basin bottoms to plateaus
The Earth...manipulates itself beneath me
I stand still...stagnate. Can't kill...this lagged state
Life...manipulates itself around me, but I'm dead still
Upright...but dead still
Word is still born...I will not stoop to the level of the stoop that y'all chill on
If the building's boar...
verse
Let me rub my back against the notches on your bedpost
scratch these afterthoughts off my flesh and shed ghosts
My head's close to your closet door.
I've got the glass to my ear. My nose is in your
business I smell something fishy here.
I hear bones rattling. Poems battling for space and time
Phones that'll ring when I make judgement calls with pick-up lines
S**ual hang-ups leave me wait...
I'd give a twenty one gunshot salute
With a toy rifle that you bought me but it won't shoot
And all is well because there's been one too many shots
The sterile robots want to talk to me about Detox
Stop the presses, there's been an update
Delivered via 1:30 AM phone call
When an only half-informative source talks discretely
Meet me-- at the family room at the side of the Intensive Care Unit
Im...
[random sample]
To All them people who said I wouldn't last
Don't make me laugh, don't make me laugh
[Sage Francis]
I'd give a twenty one gunshot salute
With a toy rifle that you bought me but it won't shoot
And all is well because there's been one too many shots
The sterile robots want to talk to me about Detox
Stop the presses, there's been an update
Delivered via 1:30 AM phone call
When an ...
They'VE said it every year but this times it seems like
The end is near and i'm in line to see the light
How far does this black tunnel go
I got a car but the gas is running low
And as long as i've known the bumps and creeks of this house
It's starting to make the types of sounds that only comes from people's mouths
You cant tell me it's still settling
Built on an indian burial ground killing ...
Every midnight we sit at the coffee table and we share a cup of tea
He stays up with me and we discuss things
Most of the time he just listens
Other times offers suggestions or he just ignores my questions
It gets more depressing as time passes, because every night
I ask this one question and all he does is wipe his glasses
It's aggrevating as hell and I'm just waiting to tell
whether or not h...
[Chorus]
I'm doing Damage uh, Damage uh, Damage uh, Damage uh
Damage uh, Damege uh, Destruction terror, Motherf***er say WHAT?
ONE something's got to give
TWO something's got to give
THREE something's got to give
rrrAArrrrrggghhhhhhh...
[Verse 1]
Sage Francis is out of it. He done switched his tone
Closet Alcoholics Anonymous, b****, I drink alone
Nobody knows so I press on..
I go to Fugazi sh...
ride.
i got two left hooves, two on test.
well, since nobody's steppin' to me
huh take me to your cult leader
huh huh take me to your local drug dealer
take me to the man in the mirror
when you stand and deliver with your hand on the trigger
an emotional terrorist
I double-M U N E
never make my enemy public
i'm a private dancer, dancin' for money
dance monkey, dance you goddamn monkey
do that ...
Nothing at last is sacred. Oh how the great have fallen
What have I done to myself? It's been way too long"
We need to reacquaint. Things are different now, I ain't the same man I was
Hi, how are you doing? I'm new and improved with even less to lose
A collector's edition version of a virgin drink ordering c***tail teller
Gone way wrong...to the point of no rerun
Over the edge and burned out b...
[Brother Ali]
Damage, uh, damage, uh 4x
Y'all know good and goddamn well
You're f***ing with a brother who ain't never had his hand held
and never seen Pastel
Rolling baby strollers over broken floating bottles
In a frozen forest with a dying shot of hope inside you
For this respect, I sweated and bled
and have yet to be discredited by what a critic ever said
We're unaware of his racial make-u...
When I first got in to magic, yeah.
When I first got into magic, it was an underground phenomenon
Now everybody's like pick a card, any card
If I shot my full load with the first hand I played
I'd be a monkey in a box hangin' with the David Blaines
I be swimmin' with the sharks, mouths full of razor blades
But I'm not, I got out of that game
Escape Artist
I talk 'til I'm red in my face with st...
F***in' doin' it
This song is called Eviction Notice, it's a 2-parter
It's about how drugs are the gateway to fun and flat laugh lines
There's effort in her smile and it shouldn't be that way
Her last days are being snuffed out in an ashtray, and that's pricely
Trying to intercept the passing away I've asked nicely
But I've learned not to feed the hand that bites me
This morning the cradle roc...
Risin' up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance now I'm back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive
So many times it happens too fast
You trade your passion for glory
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them alive
It's the eye of the tiger
IT'S THE THRILL OF THE FIGHT
Rising up to the challenge of our rival
And the last...
The secretive type
I like to creep in the night
But I speak under my breath to be polite
I'm talking about you
Unconspicuous keep killing that sweet feeling
The mystique's building
I only speak to the freakishly sheep children
For some cheap thrill thing
I'll be willing to make purchases on my credit card
As long as its of discrete billing
I am expected to get murdered by bombs
So I open up my...
I'm over time
Welcome to my life welcome
Welcome to my life welcome
Welcome to my life welcome
Welcome to my life where everybody wants to cipher
They've never held a mic, but they swear they nice,
'cause they boys told 'em so
and surely enough they suck my d*** in front of they girlfriend like
???Look, this is how you do it, you gotta f***in' do it slow then fast, slow then fast,
eat that shi...
Sad Sad Monster. Turn those horns up.
Burn the back roads. Find your way out.
Troubled love life... give the gift of yourself...
to the dark
quot;Ground control to lost soul,
Ground control to lost soul.
If you copy... come in lost soul.
Come in lost soul.
We lost contact.quot;- Josh Brown
Abort Mission. We lost contact.
Don't these dead streets back you into bad corners?
Curbs crumble once yo...
i'm on fire, i'm on fire
me too, me too
guns yo, i keep one in my pillowcase
it keeps me safe when i sleep, still i keep awake
what if my dream girl pays a midnight visit?
i see the world thru the scope but i gain no insight with it
when i get introspective i put the safety on
make these songs
with the biscuit sittin in my shaky palms
i'm a man now a real man
not the one who went to two colleg...
The first thing he says to me
quot;If you could know it all would you want to?quot;
and I'm wondering if it's a question he poses everybody with
I was warned about the gift that he's got and the kind of things he sees
Me? . . . well I got a few tricks up my sleeve
I was waitin' for him to show his hand
til I discovered the difference between an old mind and the mind of an old man
so I stand co...
AUTHOR: Sage Francis
By the time the flags rotted off of their antennas,
they were questioning who the real threat is.
Big Brotherly love is the 21rst Century's plague.
no matter how bloody the glove, question evidence displayed.
Don't forget what two plus two equals.
Don't let them upgrade your math no matter what they have as proof of evil.
Remember when they went after the Jewish people?
Yo...
I played connect the dots with your beauty marks
And I ended up with picture perfect sheet music
I read your musical notes with a composer's eyes
And heard our song for the first time
My spine is still tingling, mental images of your fine tune
is what I've been nodding my head to lately
Every now and then you can catch me humming
your nudity under my heavy breath
I heavily suggest you resurrec...
song: I Apologize featuring Sole
written by: Sage Francis
album: Sick of Waiting Tables
label: Strange Famous Records
these lyrics are for the Sage Francis segments of the song. Sole's segments need to be transcribed by him and sent to us if he wants them posted. I could guess but I would rather not.
No one else make notes to know thyself.
those who loathe?...love them,
those who love?...show ...
AUTHOR: Sage Francis
Chorus
Intro:
Pick up, Pick up...Pick up, Pick up...
Verse One:
Now I can't even think back. Self-induced amnesia has made its impact /
Mental health produced at leisure was frayed once it was intact /
I voluntarily refuse to remenisce /
If I could choose any wish...I'd lose my genesis /
And prove to my nemesis that I don't need Memory Lane on my way home /
But I got lost ...
[Verse One]
I didn't tell anyone about what I seen or heard that day amongst the words still
I'm scared to plant ideas into your head while your rebellious side is fertile
Hurdles are getting knocked down
I'm running a losing race
Your legs aren't the only ones marked up - how many dreams have you chased?
If I could have said this to your face maybe you wouldn't have to write like I do,
Except...
Yeah. Holler at ya boy
Holler at your boy. Do shit
Do remember, Holler at your boy
Go back, a few weeks on this one. Go way way back
This life aint for everyone,
But for some of us. Yeah. Life is easy
This song right here, going out a childhood mentor of mine, father John.
Holler.
Touched me as a kid, i want you to know, still feeling you.
Life is easy
Jah didn't kill Johnny
He had a date with...
Jesus In a Bowl of Germs
Pictures of fields without fences...
Shangri La...
and Jesus, Jesus in a bowl of germs
don't get scared dad...
after all god loves this whole of worms, but hates common black sheep who refuse to follow the shepherd. Who heard little lambs into slaughter?-LISTEN - to the silence of the man's-LIFE-is a serial killer far
too complex to expose any logical pattern, below sa...
Yeah
Yo, this is Sage representin Secret Service, yo
Welcome to my world kid I've been waitin for a long time
You come with memories and leave with a free will and a strong mind
It's all fine I hope your girl came prepared
My facial hair is like a web I'm catchin knowledge in my beard
Not much is kept though, I let go into the dying hunger
I'm catching teardrops on my tongue from the crying th...
Got a caveman banging on my back door
Got a hang man hanging on my front lawn
Got an old maid wasting away in the living room
Kids in the kitchen with their mouths full of silver spoons
Got a paper full of yellow journalism
A restraunt waiter selling me words of wisdom
The small town crier is chilling with the village idiots
The big city slickers are still busy building pyramids
Got a dimploma...
Yo I got this, I got this, it goes like this, unh
Life is what distracts you from death
Gaspin for breath
Grabbin your chest
Now look to God and ask him what's left?
No answer, now how can I pass the test?
I can't figure out the order of this bastard's mess
I'm feelin disasterous
Massive stress
It's futile like you child trying to sell me bags of sess
Now put that to rest
I'm sportin rags when...
Chorus
Then one day it all dawned on me yo
I wasn't down with the mainstream or should I say their team
Easier said than done
I wasn't down with the mainstream or should I say their team
Gotta find a way
I wasn't down with the mainstream or should I say their team
Easier said than done
I wasn't down with the mainstream or should I say their team
Gotta find a way
Waste away
Sad to see you go th...
hook
I'ma take you back, take take you back
I'ma take you back, take take you back
I'ma take you back, take take you back
I'ma take you back, take take you back W-W-W-Way Back
I'ma take you back, take take you back
I'ma take you back, take take you back
See, 'cause it's twisted..
In the future, scientists will prove that we never even existed
[Verse One]
I got lectured once while eating breakf...
LYRICS FROM: Billy Decker
Frank, what's up man?
I'm just watching some bullshit
On the news. It's f***ing bullshit
Reporters trying to a f***ing win an Emmy.
X3
Makeshift Patriot
The Flag Shop Is Out Of Stock
I Hang Myself at Half Mast
It?s the Makeshift
The Patriot
The Flag Shop is Out of Stock
I hang myself... via live telecast
Coming live from my own funeral, beautiful weather offered a nic...
Frank, what's up man?
I'm just watching some bullshit
On the news. It's f***ing bullshit
Reporters trying to a f***ing win an Emmy.
X3
Makeshift Patriot
The Flag Shop Is Out Of Stock
I Hang Myself at Half Mast
It's the Makeshift
The Patriot
The Flag Shop is Out of Stock
I hang myself... via live telecast
Coming live from my own funeral, beautiful weather offered a nice shine
Which is suitable ...
I've got some letters inside of my drawer
that should have been stamped and delivered
One is addressed to my ex
it says I'm the type of kid who can't be lived with
One is addressed to my friends
it says I'm a mess so y'all can't visit
One is addressed to myself
but I don't know what personality or hand to give it
I'm a God damn misfit...mismatched, but never missed much
Mr Right-time-wrong-pla...
It was the beatboxing that got me beatboxing
It was the beatboxing break beatboxing
Deflate 'cause I was gassed
head over heals in love with the electric drums
and spoken vocals which was the joke of locals
and laughing stock of my rock and roll ass town
but the rhythmic acupuncture pierced my skin
pinning the butterflies to my stomach
which would flutter everytime i heard the beatboxing
more ...
Rollin' on some lonesome highway, East of Omaha
You can listen to the engine ?? out as one long song
You can think about the woman
Or the whore you mongered the night before
I'm really feelin' those lighters
Sometimes you can hear 'em talk, other times you can't
All the same old cliches, quot;Is that Sage or Xaul Xanquot;
And you'll always feel outnumbered when you go to the Scribble Jam
Uh, a...
[Chorus]
I don't look at myself in the mirror because I'm a narcissist
I simply like to watch myself exist...HHHH
Now I'm in a fog and mist...HHHH
Now my reflection is anonymous
Ponder this
I've seen a reflection of my soul in the store window
Caught in limbo 'cause I was dressed all in Timbo's
Having fantasies of playing Polo with Ralph Lauren on a Tommy Hill
And my paper thin spirit was stil...
AUTHOR: Sage Francis
quot;Find Godquot; exclaimed the man, who lost everything he owned, looking stoned
I groaned back, quot;Find a job???here's an application.quot;
Retaliation:
quot;Here's a pamphlet.quot;
I said, quot;F*** this damn shit.quot;
My man flipped
and threw his hand into his pocket.
Pulled out a bible
with a design that looked tribal
The Next Testament was its title
quot;Look it ...
Reminiscing of when I was living in fear
Is he here yet?
I feel sweat building on my upper back
Children are under attack
With every question mark
When testing starts
Hearts burn and stomachs knot
Inner organs begin to morph in
To dinnerless orphans
Asking for more things to digest for Oliver
But I love her
You do?
I guess
What part, all of her?
Yeah except when she tempts men
You know those u...
Slug:
...With sage francis, to aesop rock,
we're trying to save the spot, we'e trying to save the spot,
we're trying to save the spot, we'e trying to save the spot,
cut
Eyedea:
We're tryin' to save the spot,
hey, yo I break your props,
you see me do a lot of shows,
I get paid a lot...
So when I hit the mike I make the instrumentals distort,
MC's are on my nuts just like a genital wart,
and the...
[Sage Francis]
Condoliza Rice I don't need your lies your jittery when under attack
It's funny at least for you to lie through your teeth cause there's a credibility gap
Got big Saddam but we missed Bin Laden and Bush still ain't found no weapons
Headline quot;WE GOT 'EMquot; is still a big problem in Iraq there killing Americans
I thought the war was over we're sending more soldiers something...
Sage Francis
Personal Journalist
1968-2001
He left with deep breaths in each chest that needs less innovating,
Because they're still debating over what quot;rhyme skillquot; is.
Got Sick of Waiting...for time killers to get over their murder raps.
Then he sold his own shirt off his back
For cheap exposure. He'd seek for closure but stayed open minded.
Always seemed to keep composure peeking ov...
i never held a funeral for that big part of me that died.
i need to put these thoughts to rest. i need to find a peace of mind.
i need to piece my mind, find a piece of mind to rest in.
need to find someone to confide in, and with the rest i need to start restin'.
needless to say, i couldn't hide.
fifteen grown men shouldn't cry.
had i known then what i know now.
had i thought now what i knew ...
It's a tangible death and I can almost handle it.
When it cancels my breath hold your hand over my candle then rest.
There's no pain in this fist's release.
I put my elbows on the window frame, glass pressed against my cheeks.
Everything I see is mine.
I never look back--I couldn't ask the same of those I leave behind.
They're just bubbles rushing toward the water's surface.
A clumsy stage han...
She said forever..
I said forever?
Forever ever? forever ever ever ever ever ever ever?
Apparently forever only means four year
This is the rewrite... this right here
this is the rewrite... this right here
this is the re-write, to anyone who has been f***ed over in their life
This to the woman who I used to respect
Now I call her a b**** cause I'm constantly upset
So this is to the b**** who c...
Sage Francis
It's time to rethink every fact that is imaginable
Survival instinct dwells in a past that is inhabitable
I happen to pull fast ones over the slow parole board
Who likes to speak to de-fanged wolves who cry sheep
Time seeps into our skin, age indicates how long we've been lost in space
I keep putting expression-less upon my face
An awful waste of human skin who waits for Autumn to...
The force of my love was strong
The Sea Lion lay down long
Song in the air, why should singer care?
When singer can be among song
Ma, ma, look what I did, ma
Look what i did to my hands, I broke 'em
You gave me the stone, gave me the chisel
Didn't say how to hold 'em
Didn't say to give away every piece of the puzzle
Till I was left with nothin'
But I took it upon myself to crush it up
And dist...
There once was a song called arrest the president.
Contemporary music, a hit with the kids, it was a top ten.
I wasn't pop then so I missed the bus a bit.
But politics was on everybody's hot this summer lists.
The cool kids were all rocking votes,
I shit you not, I was pistol whippin' cops for hip hop
BooYea
I'm a soap box yelling into megaphones.
Killing hard rocks using carcasses as stepping...
[Sage Francis]
I am..
More than two faced, I've got at least six with cheap tricks
To hide my not-so-pretty side while accentuating cheeks and lips
I use battin' rouge to battle crews who don't like the remix
And you just act confused by the way I choose to f*** with a double helix
Cuddle with me quick, get befuddled and sea sick
My ugly mug'll be equipped to make it a struggle to see shit
The...
You don't want me here, now do you?
You don't want me here
You don't want me here, now do you?
You don't want me here
You don't want me here, now
You don't want me here, now
Now you don't really want me
From what I hear my extra baggage is a turn off
My carry on luggage gets smuggled in the bags under my eyes
I'm a travelin' man
Without sleep on my itenerary
I eat whatever's vegetarian
I'll li...
The one that I'm with thinks s** is a beautiful thing
And that's simply adorable
When my time is affordable
Dimes pay the price I get abusive and that's the truth
It's just a f***ing shame this is how I choose to communicate
Excuses I produce have their roots in the music I make
She's not a fan nor am I famous
I may just change and adjust when I branch out
Leave, get off my damn couch and achi...
Maybe you're never really living till you've understood what death is
So I touched the human spirit with lyrics some say are breathless
It's that breathlessness that inspired my tired hand
To write these endless epilogues that some call pretentious
Living verse existence surviving, verse thriving in an environment
Vitamin supplements and a government's removal of pensions retirement
Empty out ...
Th-the devil,
Th-th-the devil,
repeat x4 then continues until quot;settle their differencesquot;
The devil only exists because of your belief in him,
Same goes for that other guy,
I believe the sun is simply reflecting the shine from the moon word?
Stealing its spotlight, they'll have a c***fight at noon,
To settle their differences,
At midnight, rematch,
To stir up their similarities on turnt...
Recorded Voice
You are listening to the heartbeat of the Sage
Sage posses the newest and most revolutionary advance in split second presentation
As well as split second calculation
To protect the future of America
The defense techniques of tomorrow had to be discovered now
But Sage needed more than this
New concepts, new tools, new weapons
By analyzing the past, Sage can project into the futur...
Written By: Sage Francis
I listen for secrets hidden in whispers...in the winter time/
And catch them tickling my whiskers...colliding with wind chimes/
The kind that send shivers...up and down tingling spines/
Thinking time could stretch if...
we'd spin a design inside our web that would catch drifts/
The type that blow out birthday candles before we make our death wish/
I'm waiting for a mes...
By the time the flags rotted off of their antennas,
they were questioning who the real threat is.
Big Brotherly love is the 21rst Century's plague.
no matter how bloody the glove, question evidence displayed.
Don't forget what two plus two equals.
Don't let them upgrade your math no matter what they have as proof of evil.
Remember when they went after the Jewish people?
You don't recognize tha...
Closing out our feature for you now
Captain of our slam team - Sage Francis.
It was the beatboxing that got me beatboxing
It was the beatboxing break beatboxing
It was the...beatboxing 8x
Name's Francis but everybody calls me free baby
any of you guys call me Francis
and ill kill you
and i dont like nobody touching my style
i catch any of you guys in my style i'll kill you
also i dont like any...
Consider me to be a fly on the wall with a bird's eye view
I stare, as my birthtime drew near
The only Earth I knew reared me in a world I grew to fear
I do appear quite nude and warm
I'm like quot;What's up with the lights and the white uniforms?quot;
You're damn right you're truly wrong when a hand strikes the newly born.
quot;I can't fightquot; I'm cruely scorned.In a man's life, the beauty...
Written By: Sage Francis
Verse One:
The weak link is quivering...determining the chain's strength/
Wimpering...VIBRATING...the wave length/
of its stress signals are more or less symbols. It just trembles/
Knowing it'll take the weight when the chain breaks and disassembles/
See Mr. Wendell? He knew nothing of this daily struggle/
Sit under the disfunctional family tree and prepare for trouble...
this is to the woman who I loved but lost.
intertwined souls of the universe got divorced.
but it wasn't forced. got single thoughts of being double crossed,
still there's no love lost.
now i can't even start this. i see no light inside the darkness.
so whatcha want, miss? don't check my pulse because i'm heartless.
you were my life support. and in a sense my defense fights the thought.
i'll t...
This is to the uh-uh intertwined souls
the hands I've been trying to hold
This is to the uh-uh love that I lost
and all the troubling thoughts of how I got double-crossed
and this is to the uh-uh divorce I was forced to settle with
and the remorse I fought off with metal fists
and this is to the uh-uh wet, watery kiss I left you with
on your porch while I watched your trembling lips
This is to...
I'm a construct of your world, deep-rooted, polluted and tortured
Abused and altered, I just caught you eves dropping
Adam's rising to pluck the fruit from off the branch
reaching out to touch your inner-drives
Cut me open and count the rings inside to see how long I've been alive
Containing forms of records about the types of storms I've weathered
Leave a stump for kids to carve initials as l...
[Sage Francis]
i'm having identity crises.
quot;no we're not.quot; quot;yes we are.quot;
i'm having identity crises.
quot;no we're not.quot; quot;yes we are.quot;
i don't have a feeling that hasn't been felt, feeling on my felt tip,
showing my hand...revealing what i've dealt with.
and how i'm dealing. cut the deck. evenly distribute the pieces
of shit talking during our disputes on weekends.
...
Motherf***ers
Peace
Shut the f*** up
And I don't know their looking dead tonight x3
Ain't looking like they got the strength to fight
Switch up your pulse patterns
What's the RPM of your breath
Kickstart your heart with a punch
Beating your chest
Squeezing your head till I pop vessels in your eye sockets
We talk your ears off till your blood pressure sky rockets
If ? check for lumps in your th...
verse
my popularitys on the ri-ise.my self-image is somewhat
sinking
my heads expanding in size but my stomachs shrinking
it all evens out in the end thats what I'm thinking
sing the cashregister raps ch-ching ching.green backs bring the bling bling
na na I may stay home.rev got the ring ring ha ha hey hey poem
while my answering machine screening calls.hailing safe and alone
I want change in ...