nowadaze from hermetechknowledGee. [remastered] by joe AllOne

nowadaze it's hard wakin' up / been married to my mind for a long time, thinkin' bout breakin' up / if i do, there's no makin' up / let my soul - not - be stirred, internal words, i'm shaken up / i'd burn the crosses that i've taken up / but i know me only too well, i'd see yours by the wayside & take 'em up / it's always been in my nature to save the hated / and try to redeem them, a dream that's never validated / i sit beside a man-made lake, next to a landfill / make man-made plans to stand up to the standstill / i've arrived at a stand, still, yet still it stands / to reason, i'd rather be mad then pop the pill in hand / within the eye's iris, spy a white ibis in mid-flight / permanent daylight, bright midnight / using insight, i can tell that my insides / have been dried, left with a mortal shell, stretched skin-tight / hellish helicopter propellers, like a ceiling fan / hung from the clouds, life's too real to be appealing, man / it seems to be peeling tan flesh from my old bones / the man that i've become visits the past like an old home / mold in my dome, grown from calcified thinkin' / floating like preserves in formaldehyde, sinkin' / as war cries rise like blood tides & more die / pops forced into retirement, watches rawhide

pain on the inside, pain on the outside / aiming for the stars, while i dangle over south fire / friends offer words of encouragement, i don't care though / when you feel this empty, it's hard to care about careful / piss on good judgment & throw caution to the wind / i can't cope, i can't handle, do you have a hand to lend? / a lot of mindwash newspeak, so disarming /  it's alarming, friendly fire, disarmed by this army / fractured reflections in mirror shards, are not mine / so many lives within this lifetime, forgot mine / entranced in stationary placement, i need a transformation / stagnation's dragging me under, let's face it / something's wrong, i can't place it, caught up in the dragnet / fingers tippin' scales of the dragon's tail i'm chasin' / i never manage to catch up to past phantoms / on a white horse galloping, hands on a black lantern / illuminated by the dark truth, shimmer obsidian / stars don't shine on lost souls, they never pity them / feel like burnt offerings on the wrong end of a pitchfork / at every turn i get caught, whichever way the witch walks / within this maze, the children of the maize slip through / stalks of corn, awkward born, stuck out like a chip tooth / wordsmith tempura temperament tempered exemplar / semper fi to i & i eternal night, templar 

once in a while the gears turn, wheels spin, no traction / so i let the fears return, seals me in, no action / frozen cryogenics, denial becomes medicine  / life's knocking, but i'd probably die if i let it in / on an existential seesaw, everything i see, i seen before / except i used to wanna see more /  now i just close my eyes, i wanna sleep forever / take my hand, it's better in neverland, we'll sleep together.

• Hip-Hop/Rap
• boom bap
• experiemental
• hip hop
• indie
• shoegaze
• Jersey City