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Hold me, don't take me away
We on the edge, only one step away
Hold me, don't take me away
We on the edge, only one step away
Death of the innocence, looking into the abyss
Leave me alone, I must exist
Life is a pleasure and it's not to miss
Touched by your fingerprints
Living in fear? Who does it benefit?
Can I be immortal?
No avoiding this void it's a portal
Bleak fate can't beat fate
But you might end up with a clean slate
Only my heart beat could defeat me
But here you are, waiting to greet me
Calling but who's really hearin' ya?
Displaced, like refugees fleeing from Syria
No one's inferior only delusion could turn us imperial
Evil is killing you, catch it on video
Physical material, disappearing into the ethereal
As time pass and it's beautiful
Earth quakes and the earth shakes
Didn't have control in the first place
Drive me away from my birthplace
Feed me your potion, it's the worst taste
Show up in the shadow's with a cursed face
Please spare my from despair
But you tell me to beware but it's got to be fair cuz I ought to be here
But death is a brutal cry, the drought when the well runs dry
The answers we don't find, when we choose to ask why
Take my hand, your not my enemy
Be brave cuz you better be
I'm your friend you see
On the other side rest eternally
And I wake up feeling faithful
Surrounded by people, I'm grateful
Always thought that you were so hateful
But those thoughts became so painful
You can have me today
We can do this dance all the way
As I disappear into the sunset and become another ray
And I'm living on your edge
And I balance on the fray
And you chase me with your karma
So I vanish after the drama
Hold me, don't take me away
We on the edge, only one step away
Hold me, don't take me away
We on the edge, only one step away
Hold me, don't take me away
We on the edge, only one step away
Hold me, don't take me away
We on the edge, only one step away
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Started to pay attention then I found a mound of riches
Started making love to life in some profound positions
Linguistic magician for those who down to listen
The rest is all periphery like outervision
These are more than just words, we're moving energy
Leave you in an ecstasy of heavenly reverie (lifted)
'Till the end of the century (gifted)
All this rhyming is making me better than the better me (flipped it)
Started to shape and mold my destiny
Take hold or let it be, just flow incredibly (sift it)
Trimming from the been steady wondering
When I'm gonna make a song again and I'm summoning
The source and I feel it every moment that I spend
Is a moment I'm evolving and in sight theres no end
To this masterpiece of rap and beats just laugh and feast
And at the least
I give myself forgiveness, have myself some fun!
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All we got is internet and protest no press
#SoBlessed, cleaning up no mess woke but we
Hope less, rhyming and I'm riffing
While you spying through my vision
Mining what I'm buying, yo it's kinda grotesque
Expose the brokenness, we gotta talk about it
Seeing homelessness? You just wanna walk around it
How many people died for the chip in your cell phone?
Better hop on the gram and get well known
Feeling lost about it, too many thoughts about it, often doubt it
Lost my identity in a costly outfit (Millennial)
I've seen a lot of things, in this twisted reality
Of plots and schemes, but what's the cost of dreams?
I sit back, watch the banks run the government
From the inner covenant, that's how we got Trump and them
But we think it's all a joke and so we're sitting back and coping
I just wann smoke, take a trazodone, forget a soap box and megaphone
Making sure no child's left alone
Without a home while we still got an ozone
You know my thoughts and feelings
Everything about me, everything about me, ohhh
You know what I watch, what I'm hearing
But you can't do without me
But can't do with out me, ohhh no
First generation born with PTSD
Raised in a cage, never meant to be set free (wait)
Less like a cage, more like net, caught in the web
Invisible prison so you sort of forget
Hide your battle scars, these avatars will put it on your Mastercard
Keep your brand strong, as you join the cattle march
Tinder got you doing karma sutra with contraceptives
But lack of true connection's toxic like comment sections
Next thing you know, you don't know yourself
That's when the cyber-sucubus hits you below the belt
24 hour news give you crisis fatigue
They say America is free, but the price is so steep
Human rights are so weak, cuz the global elite
Knows the mirror on the walls will keep you going to sleep
Narcissism fog your vision 'till you just a hostage livin'
In a self-conscious prism, robbed of optimism
Why you think Facebook asks how you feeling?
You're addicted to yourself and they just drug dealing
But live can be so beautiful, that's why we hit the studio
To keep you waking up and breaking out like it's the Truman Show
You know my thoughts and feelings
Everything about me, everything about me, ohhh
You know what I watch, what I'm hearing
But you can't do without me
But can't do with out me, ohhh no
Keep it lit, woke, never giving up hope
Ain't no throwing shade, don't play into the joke
Keep it lit, woke, lit, woke
Keep it lit, woke, never giving up hope
Ain't no throwing shade, don't play into the joke
Keep it lit, woke, lit, woke
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These are the times when the free are made choice-less
The days when hip-hop is the politics of the voiceless
But voices do not speak simply to say whatever it wants
And that makes you puzzled
Cuz someone told you freedom is in a place
And in your rights, which you'd prefer
Instead of buried in the bottom of perpetual struggles
No one told you
The voice speaks in the struggle to make suffering heard
These are the times when the free are made choice-less
But hip-hop in life and in word
Is the real fuckin serious politics of the voiceless
Sometimes only my submission makes me understand my resistance
And we are here today
To understand both the choicelessness and the creativity
Of our existence
So when we speak truth about power to each other we must ask
Is the right choice available to us?
Or is its creation from scratch our very task?
Do I let em scare me or do I let em blind me?
Do I let em break me or let em lie to me?
Do I make em hate me or allow them to hide me?
If this is the agency my world provides to me then we are primed to see
The dirtiest prettiest grass-rooted construction of a new society within the old society
Our new young power felt the key revelation
About the new faces in the war between the rich and poor
You selfish racist motherfuckers created the “Me Generation”
And now you’ll watch it rise like the water on your shore
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We are all simply insane
What will it take us to change?
Buckets of rain
Flooded and fuckin' afraid
Why are we stuck in our ways?
Counting the days
No one to blame but yourself
But you still blame someone else
Heat up and melt
All of these motherfuckers can't be justified
They will be left to defend for themselves
We are all simply insane
What will it take us to change?
Buckets of rain
Flooded and fuckin' afraid
Why are we stuck in our ways?
Counting the days
No one to blame but yourself
But you still blame someone else
Heat up and melt
All of these motherfuckers can't be justified
They will be left to defend for themselves
Cut the trees, we just can't receive blessings
Few degrees, I know it ain't me directly
Killed the bees, that's not what we were expected
On your knees, I think that you need correcting
Feel the breeze, windows open while you're texting
Shopping sprees, hashtag at sign while you're spending
Eulogies, morning paper sour coffee
Life's a tease, that's just what the system taught me
We are all simply insane
What will it take us to change?
Buckets of rain
Flooded and fuckin' afraid
Why are we stuck in our ways?
Counting the days
No one to blame but yourself
But you still blame someone else
Heat up and melt
All of these motherfuckers can't be justified
They will be left to defend for themselves
We are all simply insane
What will it take us to change?
Buckets of rain
Flooded and fuckin' afraid
Why are we stuck in our ways?
Counting the days
No one to blame but yourself
But you still blame someone else
Heat up and melt
All of these motherfuckers can't be justified
They will be left to defend for themselves
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Flip scripts with misfits not to be dismissed
From the wish list like this is christmas
Drink sips of this thick mist, puffin' a big spliff
Get lit quick as I tickle your interest
With sickness to kick spits that must be expresssed
Cuz this text is what we exist to witness
But sometimes we need a little bit of babylon
That's why we puff puff pass it on
They must of did this math all wrong son
Too much plastic in the pond stranglin' the black swan
Bad acid hits and glass bongs
From Glastonbury to Haight Ashbury, renegade bagavond
Intuition acting on
When you feel the wrath of the path that Saturn's on
You need a fix? I'll kick you down my catalogue
See you in the dream spell, me and you can battle god
Just a little bit of Babylon
Need a little gas so I can travel on
Even when the cash is gone
Make a beat and smash the fattest song
And party 'til the crack of dawn
Just a little bit of Babylon
Need a little gas so I can travel on
Even when the cash is gone
Make a beat and smash the fattest song
And party 'til the crack of dawn
Gave us the smart phone, Pentagon could track us on
What these mumble-rappers on acting as if Caz is gone?
I hold the staff made from the bones of mastodon
They're popping zanny bars in a state of sabotage
Scattering your memories from planet Mars to Avalon
Fake news, so confused, all the facts are wrong
Sex, candy, cigarettes, a little bit of Babylon
Please subscribe on Patreon so I can get my passion on
Prophet like Kalil Gibran, lyrical phenomenon
Dove Mose, Jackson Wan, keep the songs blastin' on
No wi-fi GPS stressed because your map is gone
DAPL ain't a problem until they come and frack your lawn
Satellites crash, didn't leave you with a magic wand
Livin' on the same land genocides have happened on
So let your soul speak, honoring the path it's on
That's why we puff puff pass it on
Just a little bit of Babylon
Need a little gas so I can travel on
Even when the cash is gone
Make a beat and smash the fattest song
And party 'til the crack of dawn
Just a little bit of Babylon
Need a little gas so I can travel on
Even when the cash is gone
Make a beat and smash the fattest song
And party 'til the crack of dawn
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Girl I know that I been going so long
On the road playing shows and writing songs
And still you know you are the one
And we shooting for the moon the stars the sun
And we’ve come a long way from them pretty lights
I know that you sick of that city life
Look at all this love of sacrificed
Just to take the stage and grab the mic
I’m sure this is what I was born to do
But it’s true just want to come home to you
I’m on that airplane mode do not disturb
You’re in the booth with me while I drop this verse
This love concert is not rehearsed
When I walked away I felt all the hurt
Hard to acknowledge the loss of you, but…
Every day, I'm torn in two
But there's one thing, I know is true...
And every night when the sun goes down
My heart sets into the sound, because...
You slipped through my fingers but the feeling still lingers
The music took over - and everything was finished
And I was scared - Trying to protect my dreams
If I let you under the surface — what would you have seen?
But you give me courage fulfill my purpose
Illest acrobat in this verbal circus
Gotta properly word this verses
Absurdly - Burdened with these gifts and curses
When Times are the darkest In this path as an an artist
I filter out the garbage in these saturated markets yo
Forget it - I remember when we we met
You Fell into my arms — right as the sun set
You were nervous - we weren’t ready yet
You deserve this - every last ounce of my respect
Cuz you are the music I will never neglect and...
Every day, I'm torn in two
But there's one thing, I know is true...
And every night when the sun goes down
My heart sets into the sound, because...
Every day, I'm torn in two
But there's one thing, I know is true...
And every night when the sun goes down
My heart sets into the sound, because...
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Lyrical psycho-analyst
Smoking rappers like a heady strain of cannabis
Rap vandlist, see what the damage is
No need for bandages, cuz I'm creeping on this beat
In every city people sleeping on the street so
Watch your feet as I manifest
As far as my though will reach
Even though they taught me not to speak
These ferocious philosophies
Bougie rappers fakers than a mannequin
They may be starts but I'm sky-walking like Annikan
If in need of shelter damn right we're panhandling
Or get plan like a mandolin, pop a zan again
Now they're vanishing so I can start standing in
Keep it rolling like camera man
Write these rhymes and hand em' in
My style multiplies with ultimate assignments
Create my own climate no matter who criticizes
This open-mindedness, don't mistake it for childishness
Just smoke and vibe with this until you're high as shit
And your eyes are lit don't be panicking
I'm on the docket, blasted off like a rocket
Can barely stop it, depleted all of my oxygen
Insanely competent, blended inside my confidence
Hardly impressed by your tarnished sense of accomplishment
The rest will do too, I'm sharper than jin su
I'm not really a human, I'm a shark inside a skin suite
Inside a prism built by ancient myth and voodoo
So I sit and dab it out cuz hey yo fuck it what what you do
And I'll move you, and shit it moves me
I'm holding loosely on to logic like a movie
I roll with savages and never can they match this
We're moving backwards, creeping up like arachnids
So grab the atlas, you're just a bunch of Mavericks
Smoking spliffs and magic that mixed in with tabs of acid
And so much action since I started fuckin' with Jackson
And we're taking everything, so hey yo, pass me the handgun
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What do you want with me now, love
Me now, love me, now love
What do you want with me now, love
Me now, love me, now love
What's a man to do?
What do you want with me now, love
Me now, love me, now love
What do you want with me now, love
Me now, love me, now love
What's a man to do?
Giving it all that I got tell me what more do want?
How can I please you?
I’m getting caught looking at you
Cuz your looking hot — girl I see you
That’s what I was taught stuck in my thoughts
But I’m keeping it peaceful
Like or not I’m not deceitful like a lot of people
Don’t even know they’re evil
How you wanna be treated
That’s how I wanna treat you
I’m not about that me too
Pause a second from it
Where ever you want i’ll meet you
How bout we puff some diesel
Setting your spirit free like an eagle
You’ll be there when I need you
Feeling for you I’ll never cease to
Wanna house and feed you
In 21st century - how is a man to be?
What do you want with me now, love
Me now, love me, now love
What do you want with me now, love
Me now, love me, now love
What's a man to do?
What do you want with me now, love
Me now, love me, now love
What do you want with me now, love
Me now, love me, now love
What's a man to do?
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They keep telling me to change
Telling me to stay this way
Telling me the same thing every day
Pushing me away
They keep telling me to change
Telling me to stay this way
Telling me the same thing every day
Pushing me away
Consider this existence, is more than just material
Consciousness is limitless, and ethereal
This human experience becomes empirical
Let the spirit-world appear in you
You are beautiful
As I stand still
As I stand still
They keep telling me to change
Telling me to stay this way
Telling me the same thing every day
Pushing me away
They keep telling me to change
Telling me to stay this way
Telling me the same thing every day
Pushing me away
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Jackson Whalan
Recording artist and producer from the woods.
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These Aren't The Words You're Looking For
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A conceptual album by Ian Stewart and I!
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