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Space Invasion
01:38
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You & I
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2. |
My Name
02:00
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Tell me you know my name
Tell me you know my name
Who are you?
And who am I?
And who has brought us here to be together?
Tell me you know my name
Tell me you know my name
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3. |
Freak feat. Salomon Faye
03:42
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I was lost
In a cloud of doubt, in a sea of questions
Kept swimming but it got me nowhere
I was starved
By the endless drought
By unlearned lessons
Found the truth
In pursuit of you, in my sea of questions
Kept swimming but it got me nowhere
I was wrong, about who I was
About what I’ve done
And where in hell I’d come from
Still sleeping on couches
Crashed at a couple of houses
Borrowed every part of my outfit,
but that ain’t about shit
My life is a book full of changes,
right now we just flipping through pages
Living in ages
back in time, a travelling mind
is trying to grasp the past that was left behind
While exploring the signs that I have at hand
What does it mean for a black man to be an active activist
Or an artist activated by hardships
And all this backwards involvement
The struggle, for a true sense of being
Where nothing has any meaning and meaning is everything
The severing of old friends and old ties
The opening of blue skies and sunshine
The truth lies in what changes at nighttime
It’s half time, I’m only half past mine
I was lost
In a lucid lie
In a low life high
In a burning dream
Couldn’t see
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Close your eyes
Let loose of all inside of your mind for a time
Where did everybody go?
Where did everybody go?
Close your eyes
Let loose of all inside of your mind for a time
Where did everybody go?
Where did everybody go?
Close your eyes
Let the time go by
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She said that everything’s right now
But is it all right now?
We’re only moving in the right now
But are we alright, are we alright now?
She said she don’t need no one
To run her life, and make it to the heights where she going
“No one, no one can tell me nothing”
She said she don’t need idols
Who paint their lies, pretending like they
Control what’s going on,
they don’t
Why does everybody live in fear of what they love?
Fear is killing love
Don’t let our differences lead you blind
We’re all one within a time,
now
So don’t be bought and sold
‘Cause love is the real gold
Can you tell me what you fear?
Can you show me what you’re afraid of?
Can you tell me what you feel?
Can you show me what you’re made of?
Can you show me this is real?
‘Cause if not I gotta wake up
‘Cause I’m feeling like it’s made up
Right now, right now
All your idols living lies,
everybody riding highs
All afraid to look inside,
all the same, let ego die
Escaping life by taking pills,
will numb your heart and kill your will
If this is how you really feel,
is how you’re living really real?
I know that everything’s right now, but is it all right now?
Left living in the right now, but are we alright, are we alright now?
I can see it in your eyes, I can see you’re telling lies right now
How can I help you see, you’re all you have to be?
I want you to be free, without the shit you think you need
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6. |
Micromoog
03:49
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[Instrumental]
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7. |
IMfat
03:40
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I look around,
what I see doesn’t phase me
Can’t help but laugh
Count every pound that I keep,
it outweighs me
Can’t help but laugh, can’t help but laugh
I feel I’m drowned by my fear of behaving
Can’t help but laugh
Just trying not to sink too deep
Sometimes some thoughts can be endless
So just try not to think
(How will I find, How will I find you?)
Just trying not to sink too deep
Sometimes some thoughts can be endless
So just try not to think
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8. |
Emotional Heat
03:38
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Feel a feeling so clear
Found a smile in your tears
You can say that you care
But
Can you say that you care?
You’re trying to find your words
But someone has said them for you
Believing the things you heard
Your feelings have gone…
Cold
Generation, we grew old
Too fast, or so we’re told
An entire nation sold
On a trip to lose their souls
Generation, we grew old
Too fast, or so we’re told
An entire nation sold
On a trip to lose their souls
We’re awake inside our screens
Sent to sleep in a cyber dream
Are we really here?
Looking into your pixel eyes
I can see where your conscious lies
Did you disappear?
Hide behind a profile
I Found a lie in your smile
You can say you know me
But
Can you say you know me?
You’re trying to find your words
But someone has said them for you
Believing the things you heard
Your feelings have gone…
Cold
Generation, we grew old
Too fast, or so we’re told
An entire nation sold
On a trip to lose their souls
Generation, we grew old
Too fast, or so we’re told
An entire nation sold
On a trip to lose their souls
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Think I miss them
Cordless phone, the radio
Think you know, until you don’t
Sick of spinning
In and out, caught up again
Missing in action, going out just to feel again
And around we go
And around we go
Losing all we know
Fading into the unknown
And around we go
And around we go
Losing all we know
Fading into the unknown
I cheated death when I started this rhyme
Suicidal lines are heavy on my mind
Disintegrating into time & space,
I close my eyes
To face the darkest parts of me
And feel my heart beating on my chest
This is my 7th life and 8th death
Up and down the 10 steps, round and round it goes
Filling in the holes, sometimes this life blows
Light shows in the nightlife, Reflecting the state of my soul
Letting it go, it’s hard to handle
Discuss and dismantle, put a fire to a candle
For the life my words hand you
Plans the rhymes give you
The vibe is instrumental
Every line that I’ve been through, to exchange it with your mental
Text not a pencil
Picture without a stencil
Digital spirit hit you, stimulating your temples
Purifying the temple, living the way we meant to
Offering the official
And around we go
And around we go
Losing all we know
Fading into the unknown
And around we go
And around we go
Losing all we know
Fading into the unknown
Intuition
I’m giving in, I’m over it
Listening, blowing out, breathing in
Sick of living
I saw the light and thought of you
Left alone, when all we know is all we knew
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10. |
Pink
03:55
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I see you in dreams
What could that mean?
Close my eyes and set the scene
My nightly visions grow more obscene
I have you in mind
All the time
Your hand held in mine
Bad nights fall far behind
Far behind
Oh…
Could you be what I’m looking for?
The only one that’ll keep me strong?
Could you be?
You told me to stay
Calling my name
The light bleeding from the day
Time passes, all the same
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11. |
All Your Words
03:33
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Questions in disguise
Your eyes
ask all your words can’t say
Your mouth
won’t let escape
Your hands
reach out to find
You’re out of time, you’re out of line
Too young to die
with all the questions in disguise
Secrets in the lies
I’ll try
to make it my own way
To blindly duel with fate
Find meaning in the signs
I’m out of time, no peace of mind
An endless high
Seals all the secrets in the lies
I told you you could see
You know that you were free
We proved your morals empty
And showed you there’s no way to be
Way to be
We on that 34th & 7th, commercial beings heaven
A million lost souls trying to find themselves in excess
Head up in the billboards, captured by the message
Pushing you to be you in every product they’re selling
Breathe deep, friend, there’s more to life than the gimmicks
Don’t sell yourself to corporate dreams that use you for their image
The only one who’s stopping you is you, the only one who’s moving you is you
The only one who’s there for you is you, the only one to make it true is you
Questions in our mind
Our lives wash over like the sea
The days show no relief
What moments we control
We search our souls to find our roles
Too old to go through all the years with no control
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12. |
Radiosex
05:34
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If I’m breathing I’m alive
Alive,
I am here, here with you
Held you in my arms
Still I couldn’t keep you close to me
Living in a world
Where sex is suicide (suicidal)
Making love to feel inside, we watch each other die
Living by a limit, reaching past our means
Our bodies and our dreams, living (falling) in the inbetween
Stuck in making love that we don’t mean
To be in this machine with you, is all I ever need
Me, and this machine, and you
Where nothing’s as it seems
Me in this machine with you
Is all I ever needed
Me, and this machine, and you
Love...
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