Never before have I felt this dope
and it shows if I go shoulder to toe
that I've grown in my flows
and I'm blowing the soles
out of the shoes and into the mold
I brew my tea, steep it creeping out the peep
and bleeping
wonder how I can't sleep

I sleep in the
fetal position
feed him and listen
bleed till he's dripping
weed out the victims
and pick a magician
magic trick made the man
he's half the shit he gives out in plastic bits
inflict ow's if I sharpen my wits
and dish out a carpet of kicks
I click now, but it's all I can get
the prick pounds the wall and I fit
my hand into his mouth
he's landed two hundred pounds of attitude
latitude added to, the fact that its too bad he's mad at you
had a proof and put in the pudding
couldn't be glad just to use you as a cushion
he was a pushing, and he took a stance that said he was
gushing rage
he took a page from some book and looked ired my way
took him a minute to finish
and finish he did soon as I got within his limits

then he came with venom in fang
and wrang the clothes out
ketamine shame
I told him to slow down
but veteran's age
the hold-out's sticking to the flesh of the paste
the blemish is timid for the fetish that fades
that fled in place
I remember the name
tell him I did and I tell him I came
this close to the finish of the game
but I misspoke
ended my reign

the same goes
for the name yo
I'm plainspoke but it ain't showing up
with the wind that never blows enough
I came and went before I showed how tough
I change and think
I shuffle cards and blink before you pick apart
my heart, it's ink, it never scars
you think I'm hard?
I'm soft as lard, as butter cut by a knife
no other does it like I flutter by the trite
mid-flight I bite into an apple,
poison for your map I'll
toy with the spatula, no plans for coming back
I'll stir till time looks back at 'ya
matter of fact, I'm clashing with the class of never happened
since I'm backward, looking captain
ship of sad words, took a cap in
the flat verse, it never collapses
no hurt feelings when you're clapping
snapping back from bastard rapping
hats and scabs of past tense slaps in
the faces that squint when you say things
just face it, you're fading and wading into
way too fast
I'm mating my past with my made to order cast
of iron-clad attacks
and I am lying as I lie flat
no pulse, its all quiet
twenty times that
dying as I climb back
from the pit of lions
I pity the lines that never see a typeset
page
all in the mind, trapped until they exit stage
or never come alive
I'm safe from the other guys
I climb the corporate ladder from the outside
and yeah, I move that fast

Behind the shadows we hide

Vie on the battlefield
never time out
just time to guess how the saddle feels
I fly now, wings of shackled steel
to pine about
I pound my fists on ground to ground myself
and drown my tells
my bluffs are felt by the inmates
earthquake intake
no quick shave
I think it breaks
and so I link with fate
and so of Lincoln take
failure, drink it straight
sail you're raft into the breaks
and swallow shit because you like the taste
I think you might have a face
but I don't see it
out in this barren fucking place

buck the trend
I walk with friends
I walk across the desert
just to find its end
I try hard but I don't find hards
I try hard but I don't find hards

I buck the trend
I walk with friends
I walk across the desert
just to try to find its end
I try hard but I don't find hards
I try hard but I don't find hards
I find heart