I took a walk in the city I wore a pair of gold sunglasses and gazed at the silver moon I watched the world as it left me via train and underground back to a place I don’t belong Night arrived with a vengeance it took whatever it wanted it took a piece of me Wolf packs formed and circled anything off the beaten trail starved and Winter’s coming soon In every journey passengers change and waves that carried now may crash everything is connected everything carries weight the future never speaks it meets us in dreams the past talks but softly I saw a cloud shaped like a black heart it stared me in the eye having known me for so long I read My Treasure, and Invictus flowery, smart and unrealistic, for me but it’s good that they exist Like a voiceless little bird alone without knowing moving forward without a care Decisions made provide cover it’s a warm nest of fate it makes us stronger than we know In every journey passengers change and waves that carried now may crash everything is connected everything carries weight but there are times you can’t follow other places you must go we are all connected but you can do more elsewhere the future never speaks it meets us in dreams the past talks but softly

OK! There is some things, everybody knows They are in a book, so you can buy it! I went to a school, but did not get wiser I got a job, and I’m still getting over it Another wasted day, Salana They can’t all be gray, Salana The work is never done, Salana Still need to have some fun, Salana Lets go! I flew over the midwest, I think I saw some cows? Then I got a dog, and she’s got a squishy face We went in a room, and it had no end And it had no ceiling, maybe it wasn’t a room after all? Another wasted day, Salana They can’t all be gray, Salana The work is never done, Salana Still need to have some fun, Salana

another night in this prison another day to be the madvillian another hope to be the real queen another way to fix this damn thing and to see you for who you really are got to learn to take the mundane with the bizarre Another cause and it’s because of me with no effect that I can clearly see This life that I’m living in I got regrets and my patience is thin trying to do the right thing but it’s damn hard for a person in a world that is so scarred you’ve been tossed like a rag doll in the lost and found where you are gonna fall your getting hit by the bad guys from all around and there’s no allies and I see it every day yea, every day there doesn’t seem any other way how and why do we not get a redo why it is safer to be anyone but you? safer stuck inside a shell and keep sinking we didn’t create this, what were you all thinking? we’re in a constant threat of being expelled much safer to live your life in this hell than be free why can’t we be free? free to be who we want to be not have to live life as a casualty but instead, we gonna run away or fall in line and live a lie until there’s nothing left inside until there’s nowhere left to hide until there’s nowhere left to go where they can’t find you someone thought for a second I’d fall in line but I’m too deafened this sort of thing happens all the time but being yourself ain’t committing no crimes I see you above it all, yea talking loud and standing tall I hope you can I hope you can people gonna give advice who don’t know their saying can’t imagine a world that treats you so low get real help, not praying you can’t imagine what it’s like when they come for you you don’t know what’s it’s like to be so subdued and after everything is said and done you know that people gonna do what’s best to save their own damn skins and they gonna say to hell with the rest but that ain’t us, that’s not the way we play it’s you and me together, and that’s the way it’s gonna stay yea, that’s the way it’s gonna be for you and me

Its Saturday night and I know what to do Its Saturday night and I want to be with you Let’s go out on the town, love Let’s go out tonight The rest of the week was so hard I thought I would die and it was never gonna end Tonight we’ll put all that behind us Let’s go out tonight You look beautiful, as always With your lovely eyes and a pretty smile Go get your coat and platform shoes Lets go out tonight All our worries seem so small Under the city light tonight And in the morning we’ll go back to bed Wake up later and do it all again It’s Saturday night and I know what to do It’s Saturday night and I want to be with you Let’s go out on the town love Let’s go out tonight The rest of the week was so hard I thought I would die and it was never gonna end Tonight we’ll put all that behind us Let’s go out tonight You look beautiful, as always With you Lovely eyes and a pretty smile Go get your coat and platform shoes Let’s go out tonight Let’s go out tonight love Let’s go out tonight I know it’s been a long week Let’s go out tonight

We’re gonna to keep this light tonight it’s a summer time vibe so no need to be uptight or fight I’m sitting back, feeling that summer time love for you all Let’s do this! Summer Love Sit on the stoop, drink in your hand Watching the sun go down, listening to your favorite band Talking with your homies everything is all right It’s a summer time vibe kinda night tonight Feeling summer love Yea, feeling the summer love for you all Let’s take care of each other And go have ourselves a ball Kids outside playing, the beat’s entertaining People walking by and saying hi, mister softee driving by Weathers warm, drinks cold, days long, life is good It’s summertime in the hood I’m Feeling summer love Feeling the summer love for you all Let’s take care of each other And go have ourselves a ball Bless the summer fests: Creamfields, Glastonbury, Exit, Tomorrowland, Pitchfork, AfrikaBurn, Bonnaroo, Rainforest, Let It Roll, Boomtown, Lollapalooza and Fuji Rock And all the rest Ah yea Summertime music We can all get behind a summer time vibe Brings us all together one planetary tribe Best time of year, am i right? Gonna keep this light, keep it up all night Cause i’m Feeling summer love Yea, feeling the summer love for you all Let’s take care of each other now And go have ourselves a ball Boss on vacation so work is more chill Just staying there requires sheer power of will Everyone wants to play, that ain’t no crime This is just normal in the summertime So go out and do a few things before summer ends Unplug a bit and chill with your friends Have a bbq, walk, go for a swim Read a book, play some ball, maybe hit the gym Feeling summer love Yea, feeling the summer love for you all Let’s take care of each other And go have ourselves a ball Let’s do it ya’ll!

What a day, what a day Feel hungover, but haven’t had a drink in weeks My stomach’s in knots My confidence is shot Not capable of a single confident thought And I know, it’s going to be one of those days What a month, what a month Took 5 steps backwards Not a single step ahead I look alive but inside I feel dead And I know, this feeling ain’t getting any better I’m reaching out As best as I can I tell my story in little ways I don’t expect anyone or anything to help Just hoping to somehow get dead to this in time What a night, what a night All I feel is conflict, Feels like I’m in a fight With myself, and I’m getting beat And I haven’t been able to sleep a fucking night all week And I know, I’m not getting any better I’m reaching out As best as I can I tell my story in little ways I don’t expect anyone or anything to help Just hoping to somehow kill this beast in time I tell myself You don’t have to worry about it Just take care of yourself tonight Yea, I say You don’t have to worry about it Just take care of yourself tonight You can make it You can make it You can make it tonight You’ve got to make it You’ve got to make it You’ve got to make it tonight

We love to see who wins and falls Taking bets on who can rise up and who’s gonna beg and crawl We love to create winners and losers Human lives as blood sport and we are the apex predator A self help guru once said Your big opportunity may be right where you are now Yea, ok, does this sound right to you? Take a look around, does that sound a little too easy, a little too breezy, a little too cheesy Make you feel queasy a little uneasy Like you're being lied to, or, even worse, that maybe this could actually be true for someone other than you? How does it feel to hear the solution to your struggles summed up into 1 little phrase Your life, your plight fixed by 10 little words, nouns and verbs that don’t relate to the anger and hate or lack of opportunity. Not born to the right family or maybe your sexuality or skin color isn’t accepted, your mental state disaffected, your gender unprotected. Feels like your realities being bended So where do you go, what do you do, if any of this relates to you? Do you even realize it until it’s too late? And if you can, what choice do you have other than just accept your fate? What choice do you have, take a look around, chances are everyone around you has similar issues too They are moving thru it as best they can, why shouldn’t you just do that too? Don’t get me wrong, they’re probably not moving up, not moving ahead, but moving sideways Afraid to stargaze, heads down moving thru the vast maze The same one that weighs on you, delays you, crazes and blinds you to the possibility of a better life that you have never been shown how to achieve You’ve been deceived, we’ve been naive We love to see who wins and falls Taking bets on who can rise up and who’s gonna beg and crawl We love to create winners and losers Human lives as blood sport and we are the apex predator I remember when I was younger when you could feel life getting real All of a sudden, out of nowhere, boom, congrats, now your an adult So who’s going off to college, who’s gonna stay in the hood, who starts smoking, drinking, doing drugs, getting into crime, hanging with thugs Who is going places and who is just staying in stasis or gonna be disgracing themselves and their family That seemed so final, so definite People who I knew had big dreams, they used to talk about it Instead of working toward those dreams, they started climbing into little boxes Locking themselves into a life that’s noxious for them, or at least not what they wanted, not what they dreamed of, not what they aspired to So why would we choose that, why do we do that? We make these critical choices when we are young without ever hearing alternative voices If all we know is what we’ve learned from our peers If all you see is fear and anxiety and lack of opportunity and no one can show you another way, a brighter day then how can you say you can do anything else? Of course you can’t, so you’re stuck. We love to see who wins and falls Taking bets on who can rise up and who will beg and crawl We love to create winners and losers Life as blood sport and we are the apex predator So you know all this is true, but there’s something else too There’s a concept in business called Opportunity cost That’s the potential loss a person can have from a missed opportunity What this means to minorities is that if those in power educate you, or not discriminate based on skin, gender, sexuality or mental condition, it may be the right thing to do ethically but it creates competition, and can impact them economically Or impact their family if all of a sudden you can compete for the same jobs without discrimination and have the same education Basically if you always have one hand tied behind your back then those who don’t always have an advantage - for them and their families And that’s a damn good place to be for those lucky enough to be on top If we are all created equally Then any group in control would act like this, so it’s not about blame Same shit happens all over the world, if it ain’t about race, it’s gender or class or any excuse to keep one group down so the other can prosper without competition And studies show that 1 in 5 CEOs are narcissistic psychopaths - 20 times higher than the normal population So don’t expect help from the top It’s a game to them They love to see who wins and falls Taking bets on who can rise up, and who’s gonna beg and crawl They love to create winners and losers Your life as blood sport, and they are the apex predator

u can’t hide you know you can’t hide I know you are in there I’m gonna reach in right now and grab you out of thin air you know you can’t hide I know this place better than john glenn knows outer space can you rap over anything? how about a funeral dirge create an adrenaline surge of the introspective urge that’s about to emerge is it possible to retaliate but elevate and at the same time also relate and try to escalate the good and alienate the bad remove the sad and the mad I’m trying to add not subtract and to pack in more impact when attacked not just react or retract or crack when smacked none of this is easy, just trying to be me never been too greedy, too needy, but nothing or nobody has ever freed me, or needed me, or even read to me when I was a baby you know you can’t hide I know you’re in there I’m gonna reach in some time and grab you out of thin air but I’m still trying to get someone to see the real me (doctor, mama, preacher), whatever but I don’t think I even see myself right still a constant fight and I’ve been up all night just thinking, doing a little drinking trying to keep my head from shrinking and my mood from sinking too far deep, too far gone, too steep cause that’s not right, you got to fight it, you got to think of bright lights despite of the dark night I guess you always got to have your shit together like the people I see on TV, or social media and streaming. it’s multimedia, not schizophrenia, or academia, it’s money, it’s beauty it’s cruelty just shoot me you know you can’t hide, I know you are in there day by day, hour by, hour feels like the wrong people get the power, this is their hour and they trying to devour instead of empower they are sociopaths want you to cower to their supposed might your plight, your fight, your struggle just to do anything right. It’s twice as hard to do anything, I ain’t lying. get pulled over for just driving. On your way to work. And 10 times more likely to get into trouble for no reason and be beaten by a cretin who’s protected by their chieftain for no good reason other than to defeat and weaken keep the balance uneven It’s a lesion on society, adds to our anxiety, hurts our sobriety It takes us all down, everyone is effected when people are neglected, unfairly rejected and arrested instead of invested in and protected we are all connected, you can’t target a group and not impact the whole it don’t work like that. the world’s too small, we are all together that won’t change forever you know this you know I’m not playing and you know you can’t hide, I know you’re in there I’m gonna reach in right now and grab you out of thin air you know you can’t hide

u can’t hide you know you can’t hide I know you are in there I’m gonna reach in right now and grab you out of thin air you know you can’t hide I know this place better than john glenn knows outer space can you rap over anything? how about a funeral dirge create an adrenaline surge of the introspective urge that’s about to emerge is it possible to retaliate but elevate and at the same time also relate and try to escalate the good and alienate the bad remove the sad and the mad I’m trying to add not subtract and to pack in more impact when attacked not just react or retract or crack when smacked none of this is easy, just trying to be me never been too greedy, too needy, but nothing or nobody has ever freed me, or needed me, or even read to me when I was a baby you know you can’t hide I know you’re in there I’m gonna reach in some time and grab you out of thin air but I’m still trying to get someone to see the real me (doctor, mama, preacher), whatever but I don’t think I even see myself right still a constant fight and I’ve been up all night just thinking, doing a little drinking trying to keep my head from shrinking and my mood from sinking too far deep, too far gone, too steep cause that’s not right, you got to fight it, you got to think of bright lights despite of the dark night I guess you always got to have your shit together like the people I see on TV, or social media and streaming. it’s multimedia, not schizophrenia, or academia, it’s money, it’s beauty it’s cruelty just shoot me you know you can’t hide, I know you are in there day by day, hour by, hour feels like the wrong people get the power, this is their hour and they trying to devour instead of empower they are sociopaths want you to cower to their supposed might your plight, your fight, your struggle just to do anything right. It’s twice as hard to do anything, I ain’t lying. get pulled over for just driving. On your way to work. And 10 times more likely to get into trouble for no reason and be beaten by a cretin who’s protected by their chieftain for no good reason other than to defeat and weaken keep the balance uneven It’s a lesion on society, adds to our anxiety, hurts our sobriety It takes us all down, everyone is effected when people are neglected, unfairly rejected and arrested instead of invested in and protected we are all connected, you can’t target a group and not impact the whole it don’t work like that. the world’s too small, we are all together that won’t change forever you know this you know I’m not playing and you know you can’t hide, I know you’re in there I’m gonna reach in right now and grab you out of thin air you know you can’t hide

Can anyone hear me? I see the smoke of my own breath, and the thoughts inside my head They’re both rising together and slowly moving around Don’t look in my eyes! Don’t take things from me! You can listen to what I’m saying, then filter it, however you please This is the beginning, same as it’s always been There are no young, there are no old Same as it’s always been I hear the smallest voice I see just mist and trees I’m not afraid of you All things end, again and again and again My soul feels lightened Do others feel the same? These thoughts flow thru me, and leave from me again Am I confused? Am I angry? no, I feel all alone I ask, what is this place? I’m told, this was your home. I hear the smallest voice I see just mist and trees I’m not afraid of you All things end, again and again and again

Time is a bridge That your body crosses Your mind stays back Just electric pulses Of trying, of doubt, of care, of hurt, of without Thoughts keep rolling down Like dreams of you I never knew you Did you know yourself? Did you know me, or anyone else? Why do some things happen, and others don’t Why will some suffer, and others won’t Do they try, do they doubt, do they care, do they hurt, do they do without? Thoughts keep rolling down Like dreams of you I never knew you Did you know yourself? Did you know me, or anyone else?