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Harvester
01:30
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Verse:
Feel like a hippopotamus under hypnosis
Laid out, overweight, ate too much, pure grossness
Lazy in the past, so I had to bust my ass
Walking past the underpass, and bases like Thundercat
Tryna squash beef, like I smash a pumpkin patch
Mix into stew for the harvest, grounded in the garden
Infinite sadness, felt like sakuna with low yield
Then the thunder clapped, torrents like a show stealer
Later sun is glowing, photosynthesis successful
Growing so the reaper coming back with a vengeance
Plants get death sentences, I'm dancing like a disco
Glad I'm eating healthy with the help of rubisco
Rutilant skin, like a farmer out all day
Stupidly forgot the sunscreen and UV rays
Frying my epidermis, hope the scars aint permanent
Progeny with peas, got my degree, already learned the shit
Might as well apply it, like a therapeutic virus
Phages used for DNA changes, in my science
The movement of the info could be used on plants and animals
Better used for cancer treatments than on GMOs
Might eliminate the ailments within my lineage
Guess I learned a lot from the tortoises and finches
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2. |
With The Sun
02:16
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Hook:
Not part of the cycle like a moron in a prophage
Riding on the beat, with such grace, think I'm Ghostface
Tony starks, not a killa bee but a bug
Smoking up a blunt, at dawn, with the sun
Verse 1:
Waiting for the moment that it rises from the mountains
Like a Goron, bathing in a lava hot fountain
Power down the shower, and then my days begun
Morons are extra, thinking they can race with the sun
Scorpion stings, a fiery face, when I blaze
Walking by the restaurants, music getting played
Every morning, torch on me looks like a gun
Stay around the cherry, orbit like a planet with the sun
Tarot cards the same, had a reading and it said
Sun is situational, next the heart bled
Action followed by the outcome tower causing dread
Hope I figure out what it meant with the sun
Shining light of knowledge on me
Hoping it cures this constant ennui
Haven't learned much since I'm stuck in tedium
Living in a cycle, guess I'm akin with the sun
Hook:
Not part of the cycle like a moron in a prophage
Riding on the beat, with such grace, think I'm ghostface
Tony starks, not a killa bee but a bug
Smoking up a blunt, at dusk, with the sun
Bridge x2:
I might cry with the moon, but I thrive in the sun
Might sleep with the moon, but I rise with the sun
Approaching judgement, coming close to that 21
So most likely imma die with the sun
Hook 2:
Not part of the cycle like a moron in a prophage
Riding on the beat, with such grace, think I'm ghostface
Tony starks, not a killa bee but a bug
Smoking up a blunt, at dusk, with the sun
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Cubensis feat. Lync Lone
02:23
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Hook:
Cubensis, hit my brain relentless
Felt like surgery, thought that God was purging me
I guess that I deserved it, lived to tell the tale
Learned a lesson from those teachers, so I didn't fail
Verse 1:
Guardian angels, in my city appear absent
Never clear paths or role models, they all twisted
Tryna find beauty in the soul, no pageants
Each story unique, never facsimiles
Quickly turned to tripping, shrooms and LSD
Settled for the high, now those golden teachers rarely seen
Grungy like Seattle, focused with no addy
No permanent address, I'm a nomad paddling down a stream
Knowing one day waterfalls like TLC preached
My left eye like sharingan, might contain a beast
Take your peace, like chickenfoot, and snap it
Wrathfulness passed down, gained this genetic madness
Hook 2:
Cubensis, had me down defenseless/
Thought it helped with penmanship, learned so can't regret it/
Cubensis, shocked I lived to tell the tale/
Mixed it with the bud, sent me to a hellish realm/
Verse 2(Lync Lone):
No backpack I keep the pack strapped on me at all times
Whack raps can get you clapped back all the way to old times
Won’t sit back, yelling fuck yo chit chat, I’m here to mold rhymes
Eat shroom caps till life get moved backwards, zooming thru time
You only get bad trips if you got some demons within yoself
So heal ya mental wounds, its crucial to replenishing health
Dream away your strife and you’ll realize you should’ve reached for help
The meaning of this life is to write the best book up on the shelf
Yeah, Cubensis
It helped me form my friendships
Control my destiny so everything I do I meant it
No repentance for my sins I just take em and learn
This life fly past untill ya ashes up in the urn
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Verse:
Cauldrons and golden dreams,mixing up a scheme
Bold enough, told the teachers not not to touch his things
Alchemy rhapsody, crass with the cookbook
Anarchist with the letter scarlet, and the room shook
Explosive chemistry, DMT or TNT
Ayahuasca with the white sage, might make me believe
More in a God, and his cosmic ways
More in a God, and the games he plays
Ultraviolet rays as I'm here with fear and loathing
Couldnt make his way to the sand in sheeps clothing
So the wolf exposed, as the hunter, the gonzo
Accosted by the doctor since my memory is gone
Growing up I never thought I'd be this way and so hated
Faded desert raider, see my pupils dilated
People I hated, I keep trying to forgive
Difficult because they treat me like a piece of shit
Even after years without real communication
Thought you'd maybe say hello or try to say you hate me
Instead I'm getting pressed by your friends and called creepy
Never gave the benefit of doubt, hated completely
Never gave a fuck about a schizoid hurt deeply
Even if the wounds were from you, and how you treat me
Told you I heard voices, you decided to erase me
You were irreplaceable, I'm easily disgraced, we
Lived a whole lifetime in my head, you never cared
Hurting me and ripped my heart to shreds, never cared
Even when I overdosed on meds, you never cared
Just say that you're scared and go on without a care
Staring at the crevice between past and the present
I literally hear you saying not to leave, your desperate
Only reason that I even try to stick around
Just tell me that its not the truth and let me fuck around
You can do the same, Ill act like you never came
Living this is lame, criminalistics insane
Dexter in the lab, like if we ever know fame
Then you drilled a hole in my heart so big I'll never say
A single word to you, even if you start the convo
Just another guy on your list of John Does
Your out of my frame of mind forever, like a camera
So imma treat you like a waste of time and mental stamina
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5. |
Moments Pass By
02:27
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Verse 1:
When you realize the way seconds flow by
And all the wasted time you spent getting high
Hanging with your friends, pressing send on a message
Never should have left your fingers, let alone your mind
Internal scrutiny never sugary or kind
Leave the saccharine for the sad sacks who need it
You pleaded them to leave but they couldnt seem to read it
Assassins creed it, honor among thieves
the brotherhood theyre leading
Freaks n geeks beyond the ink and screen
Real human breathing, bleeding
Now we're at en empasse
Trespassers preventing our empath ways
Golden state, South Central fates
Howd I end the day? Dressed in grey
Hook x2:
Moments pass by, can't live in them forever
I'm just trying to reach the memory that's even better
Verse 2:
Most momentous occassions lack momentum like honeymoons
Die out after weeks then the papers are coming through
Sign for separation or annullment unneeded
Better for the victor, but hurts those who feel cheated, defeated
Geniuses who free the genie breaking rules like the great
Cut gordian knots and decided their own fate
Served their own plates, never taking handouts
Understood God's image still had man doubt
The fiend shouts loudly about magic beansprouts
Led into the clouds where the giant feet pound
Made his way out clean escape, survivalist
Thats the trial which cant be assigned to nihilists
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6. |
Sin Of The Calf
02:37
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Hook x2:
Glass was half empty even when he's in need
Sin Of The Calf, dont know what to believe
Easily swayed by a shiny new faith
Verse:
Worshipping the bull, false prophets, fat pockets
Bacchus, intoxication, off my rocker
Maracas, got the twin sticks shaking like chihuahuas
I got the twin blades like Im baraka
I got the iron on me, i'm a problem
I keep the knives on me like a chopper
So quit talkin'
Cloud walking like Anakin, leave you featureless as a mannequin
The amperage of the dark side with molten rocks
Hampered down by thoughts cold as Hoth
Mustafar my heart, must've burned away the frost
Mustard gas, my DNA mutated on the spot
Rearranged my consciousness, now my mind is lost
Walking up the path to a peak where tablets sit
Tripped along the pebbles with some acid tabs and lift
After risky journeys,thankful that you got to live
Bridge:
Only to find half the answers you needed
Only to find, that your feet were still bleeding
And you pleaded with God, but the stone cracked, you know that
Hook x2:
Glass was half empty even when he's in need
Sin Of The Calf, dont know what to believe
Easily swayed by a shiny new faith
Bridge:
Only to find half the answers you needed
Only to find, that your feet were still bleeding
And you pleaded with God, but the stone cracked, you know that
Hook:
Glass was half empty even when he's in need
Sin Of The Calf, dont know what to believe
Easily swayed by a shiny new faith
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Horeb
02:15
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Verse:
Thinking of Sinai, freed the homie Sleep
At the mountaintop, praying on my knees
Not a sovereign, not an Ottoman
In the bottom bin at the dollar tree
Scholar of mythology, I proved that
Bought a lot of tree, I moved that
I simplified the rhythms so the lessons listened
Didn't miss the mark, bullseye to your Wilson
Fisk kingpin, risk meeting devils
Dared every day, blinded by whatever
Maybe he can see, even more than I
Adonai know more than those with his pride
He may let 'em fly, but if they get too close
Shoot 'em down like Icarus melting glue hopes
2 dope boyz with the way he's gatekeeping
Snakes sneaking through the cracks, their fates cheated
Pre-Hook:
Serpentine movements and maneuvers
Lucifer, whispers test your trueness
Told never to listen, you already knew this
Better to ignore 'em or a putrid future
Hook:
Finally the peak, you can't fly higher
Finally you see, you're a livewire
Finally it seems, rapture is approaching
Finally it seems, captured in the moment
Bridge x2:
Like a polaroid, past is null and void
Skull was full of noise, like the bullied boys
Like a solar toy, panel-powered play
Broken silicon, during louder days
Pre-Hook:
Serpentine movements and maneuvers
Lucifer, whispers test your trueness
Told never to listen, you already knew this
Better to ignore 'em or a putrid future
Hook x2:
Finally the peak, you can't fly higher
Finally you see, you're a livewire
Finally it seems, rapture is approaching
Finally it seems, captured in the moment
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Verse 1: (Mantis the Miasma)
Event horizon, zero dawn, robotic archaeopteryx
The edge of the universe a fence, so I just hopped it
They fear the other side, saying only death awaits
But unknowns turn to sight once the crew investigates
Rode off on the shuttle but came back forever changed
Acid raindrops, crack your brain like a bullet aimed
Tasked with namedrops, won't pull punches like he is the Game
Literary hitlist, causing friction, skewing picture frames
Hate my rhythm, stain my vision with the thickest paint
Couldn't see reality, casualty of misfit days
Pissed to pay the price of adolescent times I couldn't change
Descent of madness, crescent stage
Approach another episode, start letting go
The waning moon tows my mood back to its homeostasis
Pokerfaced, never shaking
No mistaking the strength of his patience
Hook x2:
The wells of wisdom drained from the pool of experience
A lesson learned, whether the message turned you furious
Or a lovely respite after feeling so desperate
Ugly heads were reared, but knew you were being tested
Verse 2 (Myka 9):
Wells of wisdom
When one can tell the system is not parallel to the vision
Of sisters that prevail over the New World establishment and prisons Within oneself is not sustainable, balances give one the outlook to know that there's no one else
Invisible to the naked eye yet you don't feel invincible, don't lie
You give it up to the most high
And that's your principal more than tossing coins in self realization Fellowship wells you decide
To make an internal creative mission to help someone else from lower to upper pride
Your chakras different colors that foster you extend beyond your skin
Out to anyone who's watching pre-human
Post-humous you maintain your soul
Option no assuming to meet ruin
The wealth of wisdom is replenished from beginning to the end
And if you finish you just start again
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Mantis The Miasma California
A musical artist who explores the many themes of life and death. Mantises are often depicted at the intersection of this transition. UCLA 2021.
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