Re: New joint to fill the lyric gap in altrap

Date: 4 Feb 2003 12:39:21 -0800
Newsgroups: alt.rap
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This joint is live. Love it.
Timid <email-address-deleted> wrote in message news:<email-address-deleted>...
> Here's the lyrics for the newest joint i've done. Hate it or Love it. I'll
> post the audio link in a couple days. It's kinda long...ha a bit over 5 min.
>
> You WILL Hear Me
>
> I come to grab your attention with the topics I mention
> and formulations integrated into a time suspension
> of a few minutes and some change, for that duration your mine
> so lend me every ear within range, enlightenment is not wasted time
> and when i'm so inclined to write with my mind
> I say things that make satguru's want to rewind
> i'm impressive, this is basic braggadocious but none the less kid
> these lessons are very much worth the precious time you've invested
> meaning of life type stuff, yet simplistic enough for a cypher
> of street heads to decypher and recognize that i'm not the average writer
> rough, when necessary but i'd like to think we're all brothers
> since we have the same mother, I follow the philosophy of do unto others
> the womb of the earth nourishes the seed physically
> but that's only part of the equation and no where close to the epitome
> I apologize and realize that sometimes that my rhymes don't cater
> to lives that derive from the pursuit of paper, but i guess it's just my
> nature
> that of the conscious man, everyone has depth within but don't choose ta
> go past the shallow and attempt to be adept at the art of scuba
> dig deep, but don't confuse intense meditation with sleep
> a pictures worth a thousand words to describe the imagery, peep
> choose carefully so that what you sewed you may adaquately reap
> because the blurb can say expensive but the underlying meaning is cheap
> and the sound when that reverberates believe me is not bling
> i'm not trying to offend, i'm just trying to do my thing
>
> [chorus 2x]
> i know physically i'm not big enough for you to fear me
> or handsome enough to force your girl to steer clear of me
> or rich enough to worry that she wants to get near me
> but beware me 'cause when i speak you WILL hear me
>
> i guess that's just my gift and my curse, it's true
> but what's even more, in the case of my life it's the blueprint too
> i can be the counselor or cause depending what day it is or the hour
> check the planets, as i strive to shine and reside in the grime as a lotus
> flower
> I speak through potential, that way i'm a step ahead
> hopefully passing off something i said to inspire the walking dead
> a universal truth, it's better to listen and not talk instead
> because you can't tax the income of wisdom, message to the feds
> we're listening, and our numbers our growing to that
> of a force to be reckoned with full and intact, in fact
> questions will arise and at some point along the track
> people will no longer just take what they are given but hand it back
> maybe i'm a dreamer, but i percieve a view of the world that puts this
> horizon in a clear field of vision that's not blocked by the Bushes
> fiften minutes pushed to the limit, i think someone tampered with the clock
> shook the big hand so much caused the little hand to stop (finger snaps
> inthe beat)
> or what not, cultural ambiguity, couldn't find balance in a horse stance
> off brand morality goes to the bidder with the deepest pockets in his pants
> nevermind the other side,the grass still ain't green enough
> bypass nature with astroturf to ensure your lawn is plush
> face it, take anything that is sacred out of the equation
> and you weaken the basis for the foundation of that nation
> darkness can't exist in light but light can be shut off at will
> and the power won't be returned until somebody pays the bill
>
> [chorus 2x]
>
> you can't help it, intrinsically right from wrong is known, the old
> are wise when they advise that the young don't always do what they're told
> irrespective of age in numbers, evolution of humanity, individually
> the hard road of complexity outweighs simplicity, typically
> but what can one do? addition.
> form with one and make two and embark on a mission
> to make three, and so on and so forth
> like the justice league, one hero for every one of the evil cohorts
> games of sport where lives hang in the balance, it's madness
> standing up out of ego to issue a challenge, sadness
> is the scene when the leaders who are to protect the rules
> do little more than try to prove whose the fool with the biggest testicles
> while giving the rest of us the shaft with no lube
> the voice of choice goes unheard when we do choose
> that's why when we march to the drum beat we're walking funny
> prostituted, bought and sold and the pimp is keeping the money
> it's not a good arrangement, legal enslavement
> where's the retribution and the due payment
> be careful, today tea is mass produced, keep pushing the victim
> and we'll have every harbour from boston to pearl tasting like Lipton
> but who am I? a lone voice in an air cluttered with talk
> with an audience of noone on a planet of billions that walk
> by attuned to louder thoughts, so i guess that when
> i spit i must be sure to speak louder and often
>
> because...
>
> [chorus 2x]
>
> Timid - what say altrap?