Bleeding Hearts
There’s no fight worth more than the fight
To keep pigs from gulping the light
And making the rest of the world follow
In the mess they leave behind to wallow
Or against the dogs who kindly obey
Orders to fetch and attack master’s prey
Don’t forget peacocks who can be so dumb
As to put war hawks to lead peaceful fronts
Picking and clawing at trust in the crowds
Marshal them all into the wolf’s jowls
It’s a fight that’s worth ev’ry threat
Because life is worth ev’ry breath
Be it ostrich, lion, and all the sheep
Jackass hyenas who chuckle to sleep
Do not give up from what little birds say
Or let foxes con you out of a day
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I Don't Know Regrets
Choices laid and voices paid lip service worth Rolls Royce’s plate
And everywhere I went today someone offered up something to say
On my behalf, how I behave
Are you master? Should I be slave?
Are you the life? Am I the grave?
How the hell can I live my life this way?
That’s not an option that I want to try
To be the bee, with you as the hive
For me to see the world through your eyes
I’d rather climb a tower and dive
Onto a windshield just like those bugs
Or swim in sand dunes without nose plugs
I operate my life like a doctor
In the moment and with no scrubs
Some decisions though that I made
Weren’t the best that I could’ve made
But it was either I go or stay
And the opportunity knocked with the pay
So if you want to hate me that’s fine
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Meddle
Calmly waking up to a hot pot of coffee
Moments later struggling and screaming “get off me! ”
You never saw it coming
But someone didn’t appreciate the tune you were humming
Or the strings you were strumming
Now your heart beats more than the little boy drumming
You were placed on a list of a suspicious sort
And someone somewhere filed a report
Mentioned to someone on how you planned to contort
The news being spread with the rest of your consort
Showed them blueprints you authored in black and white
You planned to cut society’s fabric like
The dreams of the hobos and the other destitute
Too bad now you don’t sound so resolute
Who you gonna call when your case is to be settled?
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You know who to trust when you decide not to meddle
-You’re fighting a losing battle but yet and still you march on
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Still (Rough Edit)
Folks Still blindly trust in all aspects of the government
Not knowin their best friends could be under cover men
for the establishment
Still feeds those with a lot of cheese
And the ones who can’t afford it can continue saying please
Tactics for control Still taken outta history
They worked then as they do now and yet it’s Still a mystery
Still very few witnesses who don’t value their lives
But to find questions for answers, they jeopardize their wives
Husbands, cousins, sisters and mothers
Brothers in arms with intent to discover
We're all Still equal, some Still more so than others
You Still buzz in everyday an unappreciated drone
Money can buy happiness, it’s just never your own
New blood grows old blood Still gets fired so
Still getting told with no sign of pretense though
You’ll always have a place here like the old Nintendo
Pretend? No, trust us with your dividends
Blindly work hard and you’ll be a model citizen
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What You Leave Behind pt.III
They manufactured a need for greed
That demanded speed when they made the dirt bleed
While the others fought for the bread they knead
They wanted to get rich at any and all costs
Buy now and sell the futures, they would all be the boss
On private planes with private tutors
And legal suitors they courted with lavish
Donations and gifts then they openly ravished
The buffet and banquet, but they were still famished
They built a house of cards and set it on quick sand
And congratulated each other for the innovation
There was an ace on the roof ‘Wow! That's sick, man! '
And a joker greeted them with the invocation
‘You can throw all the sticks and the stones at this home
But by the grace of god, it's bulletproof'
They were all that mattered, no sense in hiding it
‘Live now, die later'
They could do anything with paper
There was no sense in denying it
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Slim Riches
It’s well known that fortune’s never an even thing
When some vertebrates are paperbacks
Thinner than Stephen King
And other spineless, yellow bellies
In need of their square pants
Soak up everything, including a fair chance
Rare stances taken by the very elite
To really give something back, instead of deplete
The earnings and the savings of the ones they call cheap
By waging war until the poor meet their defeat
That deserves a repeat
A toast to the end of poverty
To all those who can’t get a check without an arrest
In forgotten shacks being played like the lottery
And the victims of mockery
Who are broken more than pottery
To the saps that must move in and out of careers
With more soul than James Brown in South Korea
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Illuminated
Turn the lights on!
Change the channel cuz the fight's on
You know you can't watch all the stars dance without the right song
So turn the music up!
Let it beat on your soul til it uses up
The foolish acoustics, your ears lose enough
Wait, you don't need three squares for a cubic cup
Just do the math
And the read the numbers
They must think they're too clever by two halves
You don't encumber
Cuz you know that
Bright 5th graders can be smarter than a plutocrat
So light it up once
Roll it down twice
Puff puff pass, three steps and the roll the dice
You see it in their eyes
Covered by suits and ties
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Braggadocio
I am everything
Man, I am everything
I reign more than clouds
I am above every king
I’m a gentleman and a truant
From the streets to the scholars
All tongues, I speak them fluent
It’s better to ask whom I haven’t influenced
A challenge to most, to me is a nuisance
I’ve got more heart than surgeons
Working on Valentine’s
My heroism is a burden
My courage the paradigm
Loose fitting, I’m never slackin’
I’ve got more guts than Patton
On Friday with Jason Voorhees
I’m sharper than Krueger’s knives
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If I Could...
If I could
Spit 1 word or 1 verse to dispel and disperse
All this hurt that they blurt
When I’m told my life’s only worth
When it’s inside a hearse
And they curse till I curse all my days on this earth
I’m just 1 more black sheep in the herd
Unable to soar like a high flying bird
Not a gift from above like I was during birth
Instead I am put and made equal with dirt
That belongs to nothing inside this universe
Nowhere to immerse in the darkness of space
I belong to no race
And so daily disgrace is 3 courses a day
On a plate that a dog won’t use to defecate
But if I should break the saucer they say
I’m a menace to order and must be put away
Or they smile with a feign and the laughs real fake
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Marvel
There’s nothing in the universe, nothing in DC
That’s fantastic or galactic enough to be me
I’m a marvel
So amazing and venomous with a lyrical hook
I cause carnage in the streets and everywhere you look
I’m a marvel
It all started out like any other normal day
My shirt was quicksilver and my jeans were grey
A fresh sheet in front of me and a pencil mixing in
Rhymes deadly as weapon x, like I’m from Michigan
Slick as night crawlers and with twice the mystique
Wiser than any professor teaching magnetism
Word factors multiplied into a strange pragmatism
I wrote like a colossus while in a toad’s physique
Then it hit me, I suddenly realized
I could write with a fury that could shield the sky
Or set it on fire in waves like a jet ski
I wouldn’t need a phoenix to come resurrect me
From America to Britain, no captain could defend me
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