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Swords (feat. Dope Mine)
03:40
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Es Dot:
Add an s to my words and they'll cut your tongue when spoken
Listen to my lesson take away this life token
It's hard to stand for something when both of your legs are broken
Last words of a samurai slipped away and can't be woken
They both fought with honor and the utmost respect
But when the dust settles only one can be left
That doesn't make it right but it happens none the less
Now these words don't hurt they put the blades to the test
Both fighting with a little something in their chest
But if you ask God neither one of them was blessed
He may have won the battle but he was still inside the war
And he asked himself what could he've done differently before
Yeah Kickz:
He should've listened to more folklore
It's most hard to separate a man from a myth
A legend in control of elements you can hardly feel a sword
Only hear a whiff
Gone with the wind or here a vengeance
Swinging through the sky send your head to the heavens
Watch your soul tremble before the presence of a whole blacker than the resin in this bowl
Blacker than the next gun to show
But if the shogun pulls is sword
Oh lord you better pray for a bullet hole
Life's too short to be slain by a criminal
Cut his throat
Find the truth in the subliminal then find the body at the bottom of the swimming hole
Say hello to a soul so giant that death ain't even dying
It just frees the giant
Lucid Optics:
Nothing short of horrifying
Visioning the sword of Ryan scissoring a horde of lions
He's a master with the blade skill
Rain's still polar giving whole earth a brain chill
The snow was stained blood color
Swords cut flesh turn his life force to rubber under cover
They found the stipulations aren't many
The honor fades quickly when the bloodshed's getting heavy
It's all that remains in the levy
Sneak peaks
His reflection stares back like dead meat
Now his lying eyes troubled
Acting like they aren't so scared they're seeing doubles of a man that made villages once stand to sand and rubble and keeps the fingertips of adversaries in a duffle
Never lost too many scuffles
One cut deep but he was able to rebuttal
Chatter gets muffled like the crowd's got a muzzle
Only after having to witness a man struggle for his life
Couldn't reach his chi energy
He was blocked by opponent
Syphoned all his focus
Some call it bogus, others call it hocus pocus
He's a master of environment with combat quotients
Practiced till the outcome is nothing short of magic
Build their own walls and didn't realize they could grab it themselves
All out assault upon the enemy
The Jolteon is lighting up his skull beyond complexion that is mostly on the cheeks and sees the light like it's a holy bomb
His mind leaks petroleum and holds a match like he's a bully's son
One man dead
The other now fled from the only people left that saw a bounty on his head
Hopefully forgiven for bringing death to the living
Unless the guilt piles up to make his own clock stop ticking
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Acatalepsy
03:04
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Brain worn like a first born
Your color is magenta mixed with bilious orange
Acatalepsy
So certain that you're skeptic
Space is only dark where the stars aren't detectives yet you still hide skeletons like classified specimen
Snub nose is sub rosa hidden like the rest of men
Now you fail to recognize your own disguises
Your shadows are black holes that swallowed your identity
A crisis
Maybe I'm a little nihilistic or maybe those demands eviscerate what is realistic
God is only good compared to devils
Positive and negative on a molecular level
I never try to run from the inevitable but I'm chasing at the same pace of those trying to catch my tail
I decorate no rap stale
Leaving no money trails like they're after Frank Abignale
Stop this fraudulence
Organized politics now becoming mosh pits
A bunch of silly monkeys trying to operate the cockpit
I feel I'm on my own and even Butters got a bottom bitch
The responses: this is the way it is
It's time for rearranging our priority list!
Prove me wrong because I know it won't happen
It's money over all so watch the humanism fall
It's free pain killers and cheap alcohol
Overdose to watch the apocalypse while comatose
Unconscious dreaming of writing a set
The cause of my unrest
A midnight sunset
Used to be depressed
Now it's euphoric
Today is on its way to becoming prehistoric
I wonder if they'll even get to laugh at us... or will everything describing us evaporate to gases?
War became a hobby
Came to get a room and got arrested in the lobby
My advice is as bad as anyone else's
I don't know what I'm saying anymore, I just felt it
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Abiding by the plans like he couldn't die tomorrow
Death doesn't greet with sorrow
Kind of an understanding grin that speaks soft, like,
"You need some rest, my friend. How's the end?
Your bed is like stone and I can make that shit a gem."
He's got his life down to a science
Pockets swollen like eye sockets during his infected sinuses
Plus, the minuses are only loneliness, confinement
They've only taken enough for hesitation, but you'll still sign it
Your name's in ink for at least a couple blinks
Space shrinks to cubicles and so did all your real dreams
Life cycles in a circle but it should be like a sphere
I gained a little depth every time my steps returned me here
When three people talk sometimes I try to mute two
Not as psychic as I thought I was just psycho like the both of you
Humanity died yesterday
We're carrying the weight since robots are probably better for taking our place anyway
I hate most this picture you all have painted for me
I was asking for the skills to paint, not your interpretation!
Now I'm standing half a man in a world of machines that reshaped the land and the means
I'm a split atom that did my best to hold together
Exploding in your vision ultra v like the sun's weather
Shadow's chance is better but I'm hunting till forever
See, you're smart without the clever and I'm packing extra effort
Five years without much money and I'm happy, imagine that
My friends are kind of human and most human groups are rat packs
My world is in my backpack
Papers, pens and laptop
It's the only oasis that remains untainted by the backdrop
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Snotsicle
01:36
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Do you remember the December my Nintendo froze solid?
Ought to be reparable but melted when we thawed it
Fireside or frostbite: a very simple riddle
Not like lasting ripples of a real tough pickle
You're embarrassed and hide your knots like a snotsicle
Mop fickle thoughts like the illusion is optical but I'm capricious even after leeches try reaches
She's stuck believing that I'm lying through my teeth and I'm wrong
But if she listened up she'd probably realize that it's nobodies fault
Seems every mind's eye is staring off in different galaxies
My life's a paradox and every second is a fallacy
Blame the Articuno for the ruckus
I'm a drop in the bucket frozen right before the plummet
I'm here because Obi Wan Kenobi couldn't cut it
Imperial soldiers used to be rebels to The Republic
But time changes all, don't you forget that!
Rotate the framework and gain your own respect back
I'd rather do a whole lot of nothing than listen to you talk, see, I'm a man that really values my time
Most people talk about shit that puts me to sleep
It's probably how I can masturbate and not really mind
And why does every woman apologize for what isn't bugging me?
Well, if I tell them what does it chews them up like a gum disease
This is why my hope is in the attic
She treats me like dumpster liquid and calls me dramatic!
I am well beyond fine here without you
And honestly I hope you're doing better than myself, if anything
I'm trying to achieve what most people don't believe
I wish you weren't fucked if you had to rely on me but probably you are so it's best if you leave
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Lucid Optics:
Death served cold by the glasses
It's rapid action to a fraction of the masses
His life is like a chronologic madlib; he's probably going to slash wrist before getting a last wish
Fills the blanks with the bricks
Just a bunch of names on another man's list
Lies seem to derive from truth
Kind of like the day you saw god die inside of you
So here we are fading from this world now
Say we're strong and tough but knowing that it isn't long enough
I live my life as a sign holder
Even still your mind's folded over every warning that they told you and this is like the last rock tossed across the water outcasted to the bottom where the moss don't even want him
Talking thoughts like Golem
Like his mind's divided by too many whats and why did Is
White in his lies but neither eyes
Eating his demise in a wad of meat and side of fries
Only redemption is the water cup, however, it does taste a little like blood
Well, maybe if your luck's right you'll live to remember this only as a rough night
Quench thirst with a water cup
Would've tried a number if the other woman brought our stuff
Another night flying solo with anything-but-white porno echoing in the ozone
I'd rather go anywhere than go home and learn about your life even if it leads to no moans
She throws bones for me to fetch
Might let them rot forever like an unfinished sketch and remember how it really feels when I enter my temper
I'm living in ideas you can't render
I lack the language to communicate
Or maybe you created all the clouds in your reign of space
Your brain is a mangled place and shut itself down to any notion of a change of pace
Airospace:
Render, bender temperment, intricate
speak to yourself, the soul might be separate but permanent
service is - ripple effect of reflect, regret
glass breaking in your hands, blood taints what is
Taints what could've been
that mistress is a appration that you can't quite fit in
hearts are muscle, work it out to make it stronger
endurance, dexterity experience helps it last longer
see your lost, caves are you best friend
claustrophic spaces and only shadows really listen in
And I'm walking through the hollow space
Trying to connect the voices to the people to and the masks to the faces
This belief is only makeshift
five gears and first pushes the hardest
nitroglycerin, liquid cooling, pistons punching tarnished
blown cerebral like a gasket combusting in mid race
now you're falling back from the ace of spades
to another joke trying to fit the color palatte of the place
This is you - no this is the you see yourself as
runny water from a broken faucet, exhausted from jet lag
step back -
she's her own flower with thorns
and there's a reason why rams heads have horns
every being is a universe being born
with their planets moons and magenetic storms
worn torn, convoluted and apprehensive, the norm
sworn in, deformed kin, hearthits swords miss and torches
its a battle for your sanity
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Circle Walking
02:30
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Hi, it's Lucid Optics
Got a lot of topics
Overtime working, little pay, it's the day synopsis
I don't like to wrap my head around the same few
Nothing will remain glued
The mind is like a brain zoo
Brain stew
I've been hanging with the same crew
They maim the same names every day the raid came through
The energy is better when it’s solar
Holding the controllers with a motor by the molars but for a minute we competed with the rat murmers
No talk
Captions only stacking on the back burner
That last swing was tapping on my last nerve
Hyrule Castle: the tactic is attack and murder
Left to find him looming in the moon room
Odor pretty potent to opponents like Gloom's fumes
Took convincing just for him to put some clothes on
Moved at a snail’s pace dancing to a slow song
Went out to get a meal cheaply
Some times the meaning leaves me feeling uneasy
Five twenty-three is all they took from me
Employees destroyed by the look of me
But I’m working it: six o'clock shadow
Rough to the public eye from here to Seattle
He offered me a cigarette I handed him it back, though
I do more damage to myself than that tobacco
Yeah, I’m rough around the edges
Proof is in the pudding and it makes my exes’ heads itch
Growing cynicism on the weekly
I need to find a job so I can make enough to feed me
I’m always getting robbed by someone
Time’s the kind of currency a lot will want to run from
Most days I feel fly passed me
A mirror of the one before a month or more of last week
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Saber Tooth
02:43
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What on earth was I thinking?
I was fucking with cats that cast spirit bombs without blinking
Shrinking my lifespan
Time really flies, man
They mutated the food and now we're growing up with five hands
I got the Dragon Breath
You cannot silence me!
I caught the daggers kept right inside his tiger teeth
Saber Tooth slicing up the irony beside of me like Poison Ivy leaking pheromones and wreaking terror zones
Isley rose beyond the botany
Plants are real camaraderie and men are for lobotomies
Top to the bottom blown to small pieces atomically
I tried to stop her plotting but she ended up on top of me
Joe-san with a very lucid optic
That nobody from yesterday blasting further than Team Rocket
Dismantling the plans from off the rocker and disturbing the focus of your forces like a chi blocker
I'm adapting to the world like camo
She kind of turns me on talking shit about Monsanto
Rotting in pot that used to taste a little virtuous
The things that bring us closer are the ones that slowly murder us
But my enemy is holy
Learn to love it all, something father never told me
Discoveries grow
So does the world to discover
Rupturing this vacuum with a little life hovering in nothing
Suspended by something I can't pronounce
We classify the world as if the separation counts
It's probably going to end up a shelf to keep our relics in
We're all a bunch atoms running around the same cell again
All I wanted was to write an honest chapter while surrounded by a bunch of actors and piggy-backers
The orphanage brought me to hate slackers who don't even want to fathom that they're living ass backwards
My dry eyes were pried wide open
I divide the oceans and I fiddle with the quotient
I'm a mime that started thinking at the speed of time
I design rhymes like your god entwines minds
So here I stand half withering
Watch the world shivering as humans burst to smithereens
They like the puppets who ignore the lessons, so swallow to the grave and stop asking questions!
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Malnutrition
02:48
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I can't tell if I'm ecstatic or outright depressed
Life is such a clever joke it had me laughing straight to death
Some design their limits and convince into a sickness and spend their time trying to find a way to make their mind fit inside
Goliath was too damn giant
Can't expect eye too eye that's like peace at a riot
So you know this: I'd wander rings around the locust
My blood is not the focus, though, they're scoping where the dope is
I trained myself to tread water
Floated long enough to watch a lot shit go shipwreck
Every inch of life will tell a story
Most people that I come across pretend not to ignore me but I like the truth and think that it's better raw
How well you understand can be perceived by your metaphors and similes
Riddles so the simple see
A middle peak
You never thought passed the little league
You'd like to meet Mike, I'd like to meet Neil
Tie suns together watch the universe congeal
I like to question what is real
If time is really money acid is a real steal
Keep thinking
Your understanding is vital
If you're frightened of your thoughts you're on your way to being psycho
Keep yourself crazy and bored of the routine that you put yourself through daily thinking life's about the money
The root of what's fucked up: everything
The Black and White way to sum it up
I'll trade life from the balcony
Send it off the rails in place of satire, sedatives, and all the music sales... well, they don't exist
I work to no avail
It's not impossible but unlikely dead men sing again
Most humans live in shells gone stale
If my species won't listen I'll send frequencies to whales
So meet me at the shore since my human friends don't want me being honest anymore
I'll bite my tongue and she'll bite her lips as if that's the way to get me worshipping her existence
And for a person that complains about my topics, you've never seen the world from another pair of optics
That's why it's blurry
To you the world's a flurry
I watch death from a distance observing those who still worry
Why try to exit in a hurry?
Rest only when you need it
It's a little too early for this...
It'd be interesting to live forever
Criticizing apes and grow to see that we were hardly better
Malnutrition: it's fucking with our insides
Why'd I check the symptom list?
Ignited the anxiety
Slight hypochondriac asking what is wrong with that
Took the medicine by asking friends where the bong is at
These days no one pays to listen
If this rate stays zero I'll have to pay the grave a visit
Left to our minds like a museum
Tell God I got his wallet, for me, next time you see him
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Justjoey San Jose, California
psychedelic bops from a composer/rapper making monuments out of a tiny little life.
also in Lucid Logic w/ ILLOGIC & Modern Language with Museum and formerly known as Lucid Optics.
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