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You Don't Know Anything

by Lucid Optics

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ryan wilson if you know and love art... know this!!!his wordplay can paint a master peice!!!!! thanks lucid optics....!!!!!!!!!! brings me back to center! Favorite track: Yugen (feat. Anthony By Himself).
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1.
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
2.
Acatalepsy 03:04
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
3.
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
4.
Snotsicle 01:36
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
5.
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
6.
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
7.
Saber Tooth 02:43
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!
8.
Malnutrition 02:48
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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I would rather say "oh well" than "what if."

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released August 3, 2012

Airospace (Verse 2 in Water Cup), Anthony by Himself (Synth melodies, LSDj, and outro drums in Yugen), and Dope Mine (Es Dot verse 1, Yeah Kickz verse 2 in Swords) have all played roles in this album.

I would also like to thank everyone. That's right. Everyone. Thanks.

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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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