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I close my eyes to shut out the sun
Every morning I awake face to face with a gun
Temporarily relieved with sweet solace of sleep
It's hard to find courage within constant retreat
Do I have the ability, the capacity, allow me to flee?
Permitting me to seize the key you dangled in front of me
Your goals dropped on me only hold me back
I found my path just to get knocked off track
My life, my future. My right to chose
It's my best interests in mind – it's not what's best for you
Tried to shield me from mistakes, taking refuge from the truth
I'm forced in a different direction to conform to your view
I'm stuck in a rut. Held back and for what?
Just because you decided I didn't make the cut?
I don't need this. The light has been sighted
No matter how hard you hide it, in time I'll still find it
The life I seek is not based on a world that's mean
So I conceive a another reality which I've only seen in my dreams
I want to live a life filled with things that bring joy
Not nine to five being played like a toy
And I try so hard to cut the strings
But fate steps in to remind me who's running things
If no one other than me believes,
What am I supposed to think?
And if no one other than me can see,
How am I supposed to succeed?
If no one other than me believes,
What am I supposed to think?
And if no one other than me can see,
How am I supposed to succeed?
You preach your beliefs like the only choice to make
Just how many of your lies did you think I would take?
You use your life to inspire. You forgot I seen all you got
You sold out to sloth, but I will not be bought
No, dreams aren't meant to built tolerance for stress
To settle for less, content enough to forget
With all the possibilities, which path will you take?
The one where I make my own mistakes!
My journey has started, I hold the power now
There is no to which I answer, cower, or bow
I've earned this freedom so it won't be compromised
Won't be the least bit surprised when you criticize
Proudly I lead my future, no longer will I be led
I leave you behind tangled in your web of distress
I since gained sight. I just opened my eyes
I can now succeed having broke free from your lies
The road has split. Now you get sentimental?
Decision instrumental. Result monumental
I can rise new heights with feet planted I fly
My roots are in place and I branch towards the light
The smoke has ceased. The gun's steel grown cold
Now free of it's hold, I seize control
And it's hard to resist permanent peace eternal sleep
With a new lease on life, my future's your history
Life's constantly adding fuel to the fire
Searing desires as it grows wider and higher
It's the wounds in dire need that take the longest to treat
Like night brings cold, dawn's light brings heat
And with each day passed, you wish it had last
But you took it for granted and abandoned your plants
Did you bail cause your passions grew stale?
It's the fact that you failed that led your train to derail
If someone says they don't believe in me
Who are you saying I can't reach my dreams?
So if someone says you can't do that and succeed
Look at you. Think I'd let that happen to me?
If someone says they don't believe in me
Who are you saying I can't reach my dreams?
So if someone says you can't do that and succeed
Look at you. Think I'd let that happen to me?
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2. |
Manifest: Destiny
02:51
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H.C.M.P.
The population inflates at exponential rates
Which makes more space in the House for red states
For the Earth's sake, can't you see what's at stake?
Avoid the mistakes and choose to procreate
Your eyes are kept averted by the way they got you herded
By the loopholes they inserted into the ways our laws are worded
Which get more contorted as the rich get more rewarded
But do you read what's recorded? No! It's easier to ignore it
The time has come for the resurgence of a new insurgence
The reemergence of what's really important and urgent
We've got to strive to break away from the hive
Society thrives: yet you don't feel alive
Mankind has the resolve to solve how the world revolves
Yet some won't get involved to find from where we've evolved
It's hard to conceive with the mixed signals we receive
It's no wonder you concede when we all should secede
Too ignorant to vote, too distracted to revolt
How can we have hope when they can't reach for the remote?
Feeding lies to the masses in an attempt to keep them passive
If we just got off our asses we'd get the power back from the fascists
Is life what it's supposed to be?
Manifest your destiny
Make life what is in your dreams
Manifest that destiny
Is life what it's supposed to be?
Manifest: Destiny
Make life what is in your dreams
Manifest your destiny
With so much wow in the constant now
It's no wonder how new souls can't bow
After the pow from works like the Tao
Which brings out doubt of what our vows are about
In the beginning, natural disaster was blamed on the sky
When now we have entire sciences devoted to why
So rely on the fiction, if that's what gets you by
But we can't buy that it's the work of one guy
It's a debauchery how you flock to these mockeries
A spiritual lobotomy from all the dichotomies
Break free of the monotony of the untaxed monopolies
Cause your philosophy ought to be a result of autonomy
Is your inability to discern behind your lack of concern?
When others desperately yearn for something new to learn
No U-turn from the fear that you'll burn
Respect can't be given if it hasn't been earned
Teens growing up without a privilege got a low self-image
Would rather watch Sunday's scrimmage than hear a tale of pilgrimage
With your kids held captive, attending church by habit
Who would've known so much damage could come from an old adage
be illuminated.
Is life what it's supposed to be?
Manifest your destiny
Make life what is in your dreams
Manifest that destiny
Is life what it's supposed to be?
Manifest: Destiny
Make life what is in your dreams
Manifest your destiny
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3. |
Q.U.A.N.T.U.M.
03:56
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Society, friends, family, TV, or money?
What's important to you isn't necessarily for me
Back up from the screen and the drama it brings
To see there's more to life than just the material things
Drop the negativity and treat all others proper
Live positively and your life will prosper
Meditate for the answers that many have sought for
And you'll ascend to the full potential of what life has to offer
Respect individuality: politically or religiously
Diversity is the key to achieve community
You might not agree with race or sexuality
Yet treat others equally: just like how you'd like to be
The propaganda you create only propagates hate
Claiming heaven's gate only opens for your faith?
Don't feed me your lines cause I'm doing just fine
Knowing your grand design is billions of years behind mine
Some have to be right - others want to get along
Some have to fight - others want to belong
I won’t judge what right or decide what’s wrong
I’d rather pass this light so you can *** my ****
Life's there one second and the next it's gone
Without a warning, ya never know, ya might pass on
So live every minute like it's the last one
Cause when the time comes, what's done is done
So that’s what you’re after: a little piece of rapture?
An attempt to recapture your life before it’s fracture
Now desensitized in an unrealized real life
So sanitized that you've sacrificed your own rights
You pack their pews when you got points to accrue
To try to excuse what you would normally do
And when a challenge ensues: you got no new views
You assume to continue to follow their cues
Physically catatonic from a mind that's embryonic
Practically autonomic by your blind system of logic
Living life myopic in world you feel’s chaotic
But to dwell is psychotic- so let’s skip to the next topic:
You regurgitate everything the media spews
Can’t differentiate anything be it lies or truth
After each program you got a new point of view
Cause it came from the trusted anchor of live action news
Just like your pastor preaching about another disaster
The president’s more like an actor, whose party isn’t a factor
So go wait in line with the other slaves to time
Or cross the line to see for yourself what aligns
Life's there one second and the next it's gone
Without a warning, ya never know, ya might pass on
So live every minute like it's the last one
Cause when the time comes, what's done is done
Life's there one second and the next it's gone
Without a warning, ya never know, ya might pass on
So live every minute like it's the last one
Cause when the time comes, what's done is done
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4. |
incomplete
02:00
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I feel incomplete from all our time apart
the wound penetrated a hole in my heart
did it really have to go and get this far-
to know what I'd do if we had a fresh start?
My friends and logic say it's for the best
but my emotional limits have been put to the test
and out of all the problems I've had to ingest
this is one truth that I just can't digest
You're too young to not to be free
it's important to me that you are happy
you deserve someone so much better than me
but did it have come so suddenly
Now isolated, and pushed to the side
I look up to find no more sparks in your eyes
I long for the days when we were fine
where I'm not a monster that you despise
But I understand...I truly do
I'll eventually face the fact that we are through
so go and enjoy life with someone new
I just wrote to let you know that I love you
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5. |
SinKing
02:38
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Sinking cause I swim in sin
Like quicksand: this liquid life sucks you in
The more I struggle: the deeper I go
The further below, the pressure grows
I can’t enjoy what’s mine with no time to unwind
Confined, in a bind, trying to find piece of mind
I need redemption from this collection of misconceptions
Yet despite my best intentions – I still feel rejection
Wrists in pain from the weight of the chains
A shame I remain on my descent to the dark domain
Being restricted I found it hard to resist it
My mind became conflicted from the sickness it inflicted
I hold on tight and keep all things in sight
If I fight things just might turn out alright
I’m out of my league in desperate need to break free
My body begins to seize: shocked from the need to breathe
Left to depths with deepest regrets
A constant threat from the help I don’t get
With how I am bound: how can I not drown?
While sinking down, looked up and found a frown
Sinking cause I swim in sin
Like quicksand: this liquid life sucks you in
The more I struggle: the deeper I go
The further below, the pressure grows
Stirred from the blur with a sudden surge
The water begins to purge as I reemerge reassured
Then a new light at night ignites the dark
The sparks flare and arc as I start to take charge
The storm breaks with the wake of the wave
Thinning the haze, setting the stage for change
The flood subsides as I turn the tide
At sunrise, surprised, to see clear skies
Engage: the constant in life is change
Step to the plate and embrace the next stage
Blaze in the rays of a bright new day
Unafraid to face what gets in my way
With the weight relieved, I can achieve what’s perceived
And I won’t be at ease till this tease can be seized
Once mired and tired – now inspired and rewired
Upgraded and updated to set the world on fire
Don’t relent once you begin dissent
Reinvent the resent as focused intent
Insist to exist: this life is a gift
When in risk raise and lift clenched fists
Begin ignition without inhibition
And make vital revisions when you re-envision your decisions
Envision a position upon your volition
Initiating intuition bringing life into fruition
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6. |
Alarm!
04:44
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We need a real leader
We need a real leader
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I feel the need to release, I will no longer suppress
You got to accept I inherent the effects of your neglect
I expect you give if you intend to get respect
But I suspect you'll regret when nothings left
So what is it that your trying to say to me?
You think you know who I'm supposed to be
Don't you know I can see through all that deception
I know it's a mere reflection - just your clouded perceptions
A stray you remain unless you assimilate
I only strayed to retain a name with this face
You may see a gate but all I see is a cage
You wasted you life away and still choose to stay
This institution's left you where you can't even think for yourself
Try to think for me but when did I ask for your help?
I think for myself so I discontinue the tradition
Welcome to my world where your out of jurisdiction
Do what I told you
Don't mind what I do
Alarm!
Don't you know that I learned it from you
Do what I tell you
Don't mind what you do
Wake!
And you know that you learned it once too
Do what I told you
Don't mind what I do
Alarm!
Don't you know that I learned it from you
Do what I tell you
Don't mind what you do
Wake!
And you know I won't teach it like you
Why does it seem like life's always this way
Forced down a path from which we should not stray
You want me to wake up and open my eyes to see
That you haven't changed - the finger's still aimed at me
You think we need a grip on reality?
When you the one that lives a life based on what others think
If the world's black and white, who set's the gauge?
Who dictates my place within all the shades of grey?
I won't fight. I won't myself lower myself like you do
I'm using the potential - not how you want me to
I see why you fight to object to my ways
You're just afraid I'll make the same mistakes you made
But when will you realize that who you see
Couldn’t be any further from who you've unleashed?
While you daydream of the past - I dream of things to be
I've lived your life - now witness my reality
Do what I told you
Don't mind what I do
Alarm!
Don't you know that I learned it from you
Do what I tell you
Don't mind what you do
Wake!
And you know that you learned it once too
Do what I told you
Don't mind what I do
Alarm!
Don't you know that I learned it from you
Do what I tell you
Don't mind what you do
Wake!
And you know I won't teach it like you
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Revolution
Tandem
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Truth’s
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Random
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Revolution
Tandem
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Truth’s
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Random
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Truth’s
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We need a real leader
We need a real leader
We need a real leader
We need a real leader
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third eye
02:47
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The dawn of eternity
Has seen many species able to see
Able to be in a state of being
To abandon the eyes of subjectivity to see clearly
When I view the world, I try to remain subjective
Imprisoned by logic, how can you stand this and accept it
Am I the only one who’s forced this perspective?
From a source we suspect is our foretold objective
Do you think? No.
No one knows how it goes
Let's stop.
There was a time when all was sacrificed to maintain the state
Technologies advanced just to pacify the race
Ambition discarded with mountains of material waste
Numbed to displace seeds from celestial space
The stars effect life like the moon changes tide
All its seeds will bud given food, light, and time
Will power come from this body of mine?
Think maybe it's the energy which resides inside?
Or does it come down the family tree
To be set free as the predisposed genes in me?
Does it really matter how I got the key?
No, not religion: it was spirituality
This clueless boy birthed far from home
Grew into a holy man filled with holes
A spirit or electromagnetic-biochemical soul?
No individual knows what's supposed to unfold
Upon the opening of my third eye: I realized
It came time to sever my ties to the lies
I need some consistency from the chaos in life
Cause sometimes I find it hard to keep a grip on time
There’s so much more than what the eyes may see
It’s all here just tune in to a different frequency
The same ideas and stories repeat throughout history
Arrive in all culture yet taught differently
The psychological mythological symbols inside
Unite us all within a universal mind
I see cryptic things in my dreams - but why?
And what’s it mean if it’s scenes from another life?
There’s got to be more to this thing we call time:
Cause the future can’t be seen if time’s a straight line
So combine the sight of instinct and wisdom's eyes
To roll with the lows and highs of this ride we call life
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A Long Beach music duo formed in 2012 composed of Wayne and Zen whose goal is to open minds through enlightened lyrics over diverse musical approaches. Illuminated is produced by comic book company H.C.M.P. High Concept Media Properties.
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