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6. Thirty-Four
- (background with chorus and interlude a females voice)
- What is time? ..What is time?
- I'm starting to lose my mind
- (Intro)
- Must have all started in late '85/ starting to come alive/ that following August/
- A novice/ that has been sometimes lawless/ but had a cause to the hits/
- Breaking glass with my fists/ acting like a Colossus/
- But if I make a promise/ I deliver with due process/
- Back to the beginning/ where does it begin/
- My memory forming/ a blur overtakes,
- A sudden change one morning/ my past life came to an end/
- A plane I was boarding/ a new life became reality passing the gates,/
- No idea to what awaits/ a new name was given changing old fates/
- (Chorus)
- What is time? ..What is time?
- Caught in a cycle by my mind
- (Verse 1)
- A life vanquished/ to a life with internal anguish/
- The bar set to eliminate and vanish the thankless/
- To much fakeness/ from smiles to a pretend greatness/
- Because the color of my skin/ created uneasiness/
- My genetics different from them/ was met with skepticism/ instead of bliss/
- Their dream was just a wish/ no nepotism/ because the genetic line was a swing and a miss/
- Couldn't even get a resemblance/ of their genetics in appearance/
- Lost and forsaken to handle being a misfit in this disillusioned existence/
- (Interlude)
- What is time? ..What is time?
- No friend of mine ..No friend of mine
- ..I'm stuck inside my mind ..
- ..Peace is hard to find ..
- ..With every passing line ..
- ..No faking this time ..
- ..Caught in cycle of time ..
- (Chorus)
- What is time? ..What is time?
- Caught in a cycle by my mind
- (Verse 2, full verse)
- So the background has been laid out/
- Played out/ overused and abused/
- But put to use, in this world we chose/
- A precipe/ of reality/ that has taken a hold of me/ but still unable to see/
- Because I can't percieve/ what is expected of me/
- Like a battle of things which no one can see/
- My mind ripping/ me/
- As time is gripping/ me/
- I rhyme within this beat/
- But I still feel incomplete/
- A feeling instilled on me/ but this isn't self pity/
- It's a recipe/ of how to overcome defeat/
- I kept my feet to the streets, like butter on bread I wasn't accepting another repeat/
- Loss count of deafeats/ but they weren't overcoming me/
- I set a bar above my ability/
- A purposeful accountability/ to keep me in reality/
- I don't seek a punisher, I'll punish me/
- But it's time to set me free/
- Enough rambling metaphorically/ I have been awoken spiritually/
- But I'm not alone in this quest of seeking eternity/
- Not by means of Christianity/ Judaism, Hindu, Buddhism, Catholic, or another deism/
- No theism/ not dissing just not promoting/
- Only show I'm showing/ is the one I'm provoking/
- The beast hidden has constantly been poking/ his head out and hoping/
- So as I compete/ with a curse beneath my feet/ in which way I'm going/
- With no generation to create aberration/ I'll dictate my situation/
- Like a narration/ of how my future ancestry will reverb in subligation/ without obligation/
- (Chorus)
- What is time? ..What is time?
- Caught in a cycle by my mind
- Blood runs deep/ but if your line isn't blood then is it complete/
- With metaphors and similes stacked in this epithet/
- I come to disrespect the curse I brought up with it/
- Name changed to promote a fake surname that doesn't fit/
- Genetic ancestors lost to me physically/
- With zero ability/ to seek out any clarity/
- But what is the purpose of knowing your ancestry/
- I'd rather be lost as sea with a hurricane closing in on me/
- Than care about what seed that couldn't be/
- So my line is a creation of different generations/ one fake and one seeming to be reality/
- Hard to find the line separating the history/
- Stuck on repeat but I'm breaking free of this curse for eternity/
- This hits home personally/ but I'm free to speak my thought externally/
- What eats me inside in no longer going to dictate me directionally/
- The power within is no longer an ability/ it's more like a disability/
- But I find myself opening up spiritually/
- Literally separating fact from fiction/
- Using complecated diction/ to process my internal infliction/
- Only to come to a decision/ that I'm not following another person's intention/
- I was feeling stuck in eternal detention/
- But I'm still alive in this indecision/
- Like nuclear fission/ I'm unraveling any attempts to control a dictated mission/
- Freedom only comes from within/ and again, I'm free to decide where I begin/
- Not from where I began/ time to put to rest expectations by the sandman/
- I'm a free man/ able to withstand/ anything that attempts to make me sway/
- It's a new day/ but I'm still stuck in my own way/
- (Chorus)
- What is time? ..What is time?
- Caught in a cycle by my mind
- No friend of mine ..No friend of mine
- ..I'm stuck inside my mind ..
- ..Peace is hard to find ..
- ..With every passing line ..
- ..No faking this time ..
- ..Caught in cycle of time ..
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