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I had this dream Where I woke up To a grand commotion. And uhm I just jumped From the blankets And whipped the door From its lock And rush blindly Into the blackness Of the hallway But there, on all sides Lying next to each other Were rows and rows Of executio...

There is a weight Within me (And I burn) A kiss Heavier than the sun (And I burn) A slow invasion Strange beauty (And I burn) Rejected in the flesh And odd nourishment (And I burn) For my soul Thickening Far away atoms Like fat happy Buddahs This intim...

She's Pounding on the door She's crawling on the floor Oh, she's so coy She's scratching on the walls She's clawing at the gauze She's so coy She's gnawing on the ropes She's pulling at the hooks She's so coy Oh you know she wants it In the way th...

Godless Lawless Stifled Bondage The grubs are fastened In sackcloth and ashes We are the children Of amnesia of heaven Their cries go unrequited Lost in the deathly air Mute sky and the godless black Soft secrets of despair Grim brea...

Open wide, look inside {x2} At my autopsy I feel like A woman I feel like I care I feel like I shouldn't I feel like a child Of despair I feel like It's over I feel like it's coming After me I feel like It's closer I feel like this is all...

The soft sound of snow crunching underfoot gives me comfort. Her building is at the end of the block. She lives on the north side. Bottom floor. Middle apartment. I see her. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 steps. Wrong key. Lock clicks. She drops her coat and scarf in the entry...

KUAN!! simple souls overload as i explode data banks cuz the earth & space gave birth to this paleface supreme -- linguistic -- mental machine your brain cells swell - the intellects extreme fire fills my veins as eye proclaim my resistance to the...

There are nights, so vacant and hushed, I can feel the texture of my tattered soul moving within me. Black tar, dripping, sticky and thick. A soft, slow secretion of indifference slopping through the hollow suit I use as a body. They say these are the words o...

I'm sorry I'm ugly all that I am and I can never live up I'm failing I'm angry afraid of the ways they pretend to be us it's fucked up I'm different words remain my only escape art saves all of me evolving and now you're walking away!!! I'...

I've slept in the depths of the Devil's bed I've risen from the prison in my head To find you To find you Waiting to be fed... To find you To find you The one who made me sick!! I've slept in the depths of the Devil's bed! I've risen from the prison in my hea...

From nothing I came erupting Now I'm the girl who became king I'm not a boss bitch I'm just a boss, bitch I'm not a boss bitch I'm just a boss, bitch I'm not a boss bitch I'm just a boss, bitch I don't need testicles or Benjamins To be the best, thi...

I don’t care (x5) Care if I’m old I don’t mind (x4) Mind, don’t have a mind Get away (x4) Away, away from your home I’m afraid (x4) Afraid, afraid of a ghost Even if you have Even if you need I don’t mean to stare We don’t have to breed We could p...

Where do I begin never will never see u again I’m trapped within this empty sphere so much darker without u here [mikeee] brother [mikeee..] brother why did u have to die? never even said good-bye last laugh last drink [oh but that smile] co...

[intro] I speak in verses prophecies & curses ....i hate my life. [verse] no miracle is coming ....[hate you] it's just a hole nothing's wrong with you must maintain control everyone's asking questions no place is safe i'll forfeit resurrection to esca...

I sold my soul So long ago Never alone Palace of madness And sadness She said To the gates overhead And I will find me In Force my fingers in I will sin From this I will help You to I will help You Rape again Kill the saints There's no...

Don't be silent Fight Here's your introduction to destruction And the hate sustaining me Are we safer or in danger? Drowning in atrocities? Riot gear, the slaves are here Piling corpses high Its the rich man's war But it's the poor that fight M...

Take me down Where the baptized drown So they say (Surface Dweller, Shallow Swimmer) Let's lick my wounds... So they say I killed a man So they say I took his head So they say he was a scourge And all the world are his children The best thing The...

(Real talk) If Mary was only 14 when she had Jesus What does that make god? The bible should begin Once upon a time Too many hungry kids Too many mothers cry Venomous snakes And friendly handshakes Doctrines of violence Beg for silence Mentally e...

Shhhh, Its ok... I'm right here.. I promise... I won't leave you.. Everything will be ok... I wont.. Leave you... Ever... Don't be afraid!! Sweet, little stray!! Don't be afraid... I see you In your Sunday best I see you Feathering your nest... And oh, how...

All my life I was told that I was evil All my life I've been living illegal I'm the one That they love to hate Cause I'm half Mark twain And I'm half Jesse James Words are my weapons To blow them away More disciples with rifles Than the nra They...

Lock and load Kill 'em all Let the lord Sort 'em out Fortifying lies for the Triggerman A honey-tongued devil do as she commands Psychotic! So patriotic! The passive mammals can sleep Cuz we worship Guns and god Half-witted crones Going rogue, don't Retreat,...

Hush little baby Don’t make a sound Hush little baby Don’t make a move This is gonna hurt Me more than you (blood) If I’m a danger to myself Just think what I would do to you… [V1.] Twisting & turning My insides are burning Like larva fee...

I remember suffering I remember ... feeling the sting of childhood & injections holy bruises sweet infections soaked in a stew like drowning cockroaches whose only .. crime was the greed of inherent hunger u know where eye'm fragile u know how t...

Equal rights Equal lefts Fight for your right to exist [x3] Fight for your right to exist He called me a dyke, I called him an ambulance I can make you famous too, but you tremble at the thought of that I've seen more spine in jellyfish That's an in...

Godless Walking up Don't give a fuck I feel your eyes on me I'm standing strong You came unarmed But still you wanna fuck with me You're fighting for some holy war Don't fucking pray for me Cos all your hate just makes me stronger I fear no man, so...

What is common? What is normal? What is wrong with me? In the end, how will I be judged? A skull to hold the worms? A body to cradle dust? If it means becoming like these Wrinkled people with Shriveled lives I'll forfeit this shadow Game of compromise... To...

Lying naked alone on the bathroom floor i keep waiting? pain, fear no more and i can't get his sins off me She wants to be a messiah without the crucifixion she wants to fuck delilah without samson's intervention she wants to be a deity and rule us everyday...

No more tears. Stand up to your fears. KEEP YOUR VOICES RAISED KEEP YOUR KNUCKLES BLOODY KEEP YOUR VOICES RAISED KEEP YOUR KNUCKLES BLOODY NO MORE TEARS. I was born to be broken crawling, gagging, spitting, falling, bleeding, begging vermin. I was exist w...

I can take it, I can take it, I can take it Everyone fucking hates me Everyone fucking blames me Everyone fucking betrays me Everyone fucking hates me I don't care what you fucking say just say it to my face Sick of being used by you so sick of being be...

The enemy of the world our greatest defeat slave warfare Our wings are almost dry and free absorbing violence [pain] Punishing pain Poetry is the perfume of the soul [no fear, no god, alternate stasis takes me places, the world, enemy] Nightmare babies,...

(she’s a killer, she’s a keeper) Am I blurry in your vision? Was I just a poor decision? Cut me open with precision and finger the incision. Tell me what have I done (quid pro quo) To watch you lose CONTROL? I will give you sanctuary In these hymns of T...

A wounded world, an absent creator Empty prayers fly through the air like burning papers There's a monster in the garden you call him god There's a monster in the garden eating you alive The only religion I know is dripping from my pen The only religion...

I once Dreamed of a world Without consequences and Without reminders Of this Brutal Gutter I am collapsed in... Once I dreamed But then I Woke Up 

Hag!! She wants me to be just like her!! Toxic! Rotten! Necrotic! Despotic! Deceiver!! Hag!! Hag!! She's falling apart She's suffering She's lost in the dark Choking on jealousy! She's falling apart She's suffering She's lost in the dark Mental leprosy!!!...

Put up your fists and Put up your fists and Fight, fight, fight, fight Fuck the alt-right Fight, fight, fight, fight Put up your fists Confederate flags flown at half-mast cause you called me a fag and I snapped his neck back With a fist, right-hook, t...

In that final look Does the deer forgive the wolf ? You've stolen my fascination You've smothered my holy addiction And now I'm soaked in you Like fat white worms and sad haikus I woke up and the world was on fire I woke up and the swine had conspired...

I don't recognize my life Who is this soul so weak and paralyzed Cold claws raking up & down my spine I'm never alone, but I'm lonely all the time This is where it ends, within the empty dark I'll set myself aflame, resurrected By the spark... I may be br...

He hurts me 'cause he cares He hurts me and it's all my fault! Roaches and cigarettes, A sink of hungry dishes. Flies in the afterbirth, I miss you when you're timid. Loving you is nothing new, It's self mutilation. I crave the pain, I'm so ashamed But I lo...

You fucking parasite!! i'll beat you till you die!!! It hides inside me, it hides inside me! Sic semper tyrannus! everyday you decay in chains, dismayed broken soul, splintered bones ghost-children In their graves, sold as slaves unstable, greedy...

[intro] oh no. NO. LET ME GO. [hah hehe] NO. GOD NO! SHUT UP! [song] shhhhhh. it's okay, it's okay. this is our, dirty, little, secret. WE'RE ALL ALONE IN THE CITY MY HANDS ARE STONED WITH PITY I COULD GET BY OR GET HIGH WITH FIFTY [yeah] AND I DON'T FEEL...

Who's there? Who's there? And I remember Flashes of laughter And lunatics Lost in the asylum Seductive propaganda Scrolling across my mind Like guerilla cinema. Belts and wooden spoons Flies in the afterbirth Like shadows across my brain And cra...

Loud and proud Loud and proud Alone, in the crowd Sometimes I feel more dead than alive Sometimes I feel I can do it this time Sometimes I feel so empty inside Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind Sometimes I feel like trash cast aside Sometimes I feel s...

From my perch these mountains rise like razors Against the slow weight of the night These little lights burn like riot fires Along the jagged walls Somewhere out there she just sacrificed her life Somethings wrong with me For thinking somethings right w...

Dress like we do Speak like we do Think like we do Obey Beneath the cold sun Watching you walk away Where my terror runs In rivers of decay I am invisible I'm in this room for days Teeth on every wall They never go away I'm made of b...

And it sounds like...Armageddon Sounds like...Armageddon Sounds like...come and drink with me.... Come and drink with me And I remember him fucking me, And I remember liking it, I didn't know any better... And I remember the smell, and the pain, and t...

I wish I could have you here in my clutches to remove the excuses from your mind to part that haze and slice your soul to pieces to sing a lullaby as I tied you to the slab to shave your head with a dulling razor as you watch in the splattered mir...

You'll think of me when the rain comes down You'll think of me when the thunder rumbles the ground You'll think of me When you try to dream You'll think of me When all of your lies collide I hurt so easy but I'll never show it You lie lie lie to my f...

It began With a pen In my hand Stabbed In the center of chaos To write out the light That lives within me That sought to break The darkness Eating me alive... For hours I would sit Dreaming, drawing Writing, believing My arm in a sling One eye...

"With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph. So help us God" More wars on foreign shores More names for us to mourn To misguide the misinformed To ignore the sick and poor Thu...

(Suffer. suffer. suffer.) You will know I will suffer So you won't You will know I will suffer So you don't (like a human sacrifice, We pay the price) & it begins Like this Every time [verse 1] My heart starts reacting My soul starts collapsing I'm d...

Killing me He's killing me We killing me Me killing me Killing me... Forefather Infectious human waste Cancer Hunter Prostate gods Killer KILLER A testosterone feeding drone multiplying, multiplying hungry clones time to DEFY The HIVE KI...

Was I just your surrogate? Was I your revenge? I... have... no regrets... yet I... have... no regrets... You'll wish we never took this ride... You made me do this, you made me do this, you made me I wish I was afraid of suicide, Long ago before I died...

Yeah, I'm preaching on this one If they become violent, don't expect us to remain silent This goes out to all the tainted racists and nazi believers: Why don't you go find a bunker And follow your fucking leader! Throw a molotov and let us play catch wi...

When the sun met the moon And they kissed on the lips The world stood in awe At the very first eclipse the Lords of lights, fearing the sight of a love so pure it could steal their shine They blinded your eyes, torched with lies in the cold black hole o...

... my confession because i'm diluted & perfectly flawed i shall live by passion & not by law and i'm insecure ... i need aggression to feed the spiders of perception and i'm supposed to be strong & have all the answers a cannibal in the new...

Everyday was the same routine Slave labor was her expertise Silent, obedient, built to please Never complain never disagree Just carry the load TOOK CARE OF THE HOME The perfect servant do as your told So she made the bed FED THE CAT WROTE A NOTE TO HER SON...

The evil that's between us... The evil that's between us... The evil that's between us... Greedy Needy The evil that's between us... Greedy Needy Self-deceiving So demeaning The evil that's between us... The evil that's between us... Greedy Needy...

My pain, my pride, these scars are mine [x3] I will tell you a story That's never been told I wll tell you a secret Five lifetimes old My life has been a prison A labyrinth built beneath the mountain of tragedy I'm a stain on the cloth I'm just an after-though...

I remember black mascara painting your face I remember dark sunglasses when clouds were grey Remember silence Remember tears Remember still I remember black cars pulling up to take you away The smell of the fall and the endless rain Remember shivers Re...

Your god is a fossil, demand and the appossals stand in join hands to behold. Your godless disciples, abandon your idols, and stand in join hands to behold. Champagne, Cocaine, Vicodin, Adderall, Nicotine, Caffiene, Percoset, Tyladol Jesus needs his pres...

Not to touch the earth Not to see the sun Nothing left to do, but Run, run, run Let's run Let's run House upon the hill Moon is lying still Shadows of the trees Witnessing the wild breeze C'mon baby run with me Let's run Run with me Run with me Run with me Le...

I'm tired of being tired Sick of being sick I'm tired of being tired Sick of being sick Erase & escape The meathooks of reality Erase & escape The meathooks of reality Lock the door Load your guns And pray for nothing! (I don't care, i don't care...

I wish I didn't know What I know I wish I could pretend Like they do If I could I would Smile & Forget & there's a child Out on the battlefield A pistol in each hand He trades a kill for a meal & it's oh, so surreal & it's oh, so surreal...

I’m getting out and leaving you behind I’m so tired of forging a life On the run a loaded gun There’s a name on the bullet I’m afraid its mine (I had to let you go, let you go, let you go) [x2] I’m on the first boat leaving this war I never got what we...

if you do this if you do this you'll never have a chance to try again. if you do this you'll never have a chance to try. It's the same sound same sting. The same collapse of every thing. It's the same slice, same blade, the same lie, same old vein....

Sing to me my muses Lost in the hot cyclops anarchy Possession Invention Blood, blood Spirits, spirits Spirits, spirits Calling, calling Where will these visions lead? How far dare I go? Where will this song take me? Into the deep unknown Yeah Spi...

Alone In a world Of terrible softness Vague shadows Lazy faces & empty bodies Caste in the murk Impose their will From the haze Strangers disguised as friends Enemies as lovers The Over-enormous Over-dramatized Over-acted Poorly directed Sitcom of life Ava...

Hush now, close your eyes Open your mouth, swallow lies Hush now, close your eyes Open your mouth, swallow, swallow lies Moth breath fluttering He whispered to me The violence of silence We have a terrible secret that we must never repeat And if I do, he'll...

O great fanged mother I call upon thee Arise... with vengeance And a voiceof blasphemy (Bring out your dead) Touch, taste, feel... NO DON'T DO IT. STOP (I'm sorry, no, I cant, please can u hear me? Help me.) That's impossible THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE STOP LISTENING!...

perfect little spouses in perfect little houses it's family fun time let's commit a hate crime ....if i can't be loved, then I'll be hated. I'm disconnected I'm uninspired I'm burning in water I'm drowning in fire I'm trapped inside my mind beneath these pi...

Behind these eyes.. Beneath this crown of fire.. Hides a mind... Etched in violence.. Stained & Rotten.. Breast fed from devils.. And now.. I eat my own kind.... Tonight.. The sermons I write.. Will save my life.. And yours... Your defeat will...

I've never seen a diamond in the flesh I cut my teeth on wedding rings - in the movies And I'm not proud of my address In the torn up town No post code envy But every song's like Gold teeth Grey goose Trippin' in the bathroom Blood stains Ball gowns...

You have 7 more seconds to decipher your life Before my tongue becomes a blade & your brain gets sliced I warned you before I'm addicted to war I was preying for armageddon on the day I was born Incite & ignite Cried my muse Elevating IQ's as I enter...

Resurrection is for those .. Who didn't get it right - the first time ... [eternal salvation suffers from inflation!!] sinner! VERSE I. Say what you need to save your soul But don't fuck with me - I'm losing control I'm so tired of this - so sick of...

The dead have names like biblical verses Matthew 19 Mark 21 John 33 Sent to war to fight for... I don't think anyone knows anymore The last breath before death Before the invisible amputees of PTSD And then slithering from its den Came the snake Let...

(Open wide) And when the medicine ran out And when we didn't speak for days I could hide inside your smile Fade... And curl up around the fang... Drained.. Wasted away... I'll be your toy To seduce & destroy... I'll be your toy To seduce & destroy......

No [x3] Into the defect The reason The source Of all this Mysery And extract it Forever What heals me kills me I'm a natural assasin A massacre in action I've never known remorse Or felt any compassion This is my drug of choice The reason demons rejoice My r...

Sha Nagba Imurru [x2] All names, all forms Obsessed about Money and power Obsessed about Sexual encounters Obsessed about Passion and pain Possessed like a martyr Getting high off the flames I have a bulimic mind I have a soul that's one of a kind...

To exterminate the plague Coiling my brain I put the pen to the pad Until the madness drains Cuz words are colossal Aggressive not docile Infectious like a brothel No need to get hostile Calling all apostles United we stand They bleeding out the...

And this is how the world died [x2] I can hear you judging me I'll hear your confession I found the best piece of me Kneel down Alone Shivering in the dark Three centimeters tall And talk to god Eating it's heart But you will not feast on me today This is how...

Shelter in place No one escapes Shelter in place If they gave AKs to the gays Then the NRA would pay to dismantle them If everyone in Compton had an AR-15 The LAPD would be attacking them Well guns don't kill people, people kill people So why you worr...

It's just there deliberately out of reach The device to send a message of peace But to whom shall it be addressed? A fiction I created A figment of my imagination About a love that was a lie To a stranger who pretended to be mine I'd rather write a note...

(A soft procession of endless hymns Swallowing bullets like sleeping pills) Across the floor of an ancient room It was not God, it was not the moon The knives come out to protect the nest Crying out in the wilderness They are not men They are a flock Mindles...

With the perfect hair And the perfect wife And the perfect kids And the perfect life I will finally be somebody Let's play born-again American Resistance is the game! Two pigs wearing suits brought the news That I'm wanted by the bank They say the rent is d...

When you scream it sounds like a lullaby When you beg I get all gooey inside Tonight I take your eyes, mind, and tongue To spread the word, and watch your kingdom come Another night with you Another wound You keep me In stitches You tear me To pieces I need...

These days of rage have left their stain on me I've pummeled this world to dust I've broken these men of blood Now I wake naked, in the debris But I'm sick of fighting, sick of crying Everything mounting up sky high and I must thus Trust no one Stay f...

I spent my whole life In love with despair Kept my lungs full With the breath of thier Mute atmosphere I became What I hate And thus Shall I remain To give birth to a Mighty assasin Armed with a weapon of words To defy the lies To never compromise No Today My...

(I swear By my sin-loving soul I can taste your sins All over me) I see broken angels With splintered halos I'm the serpent Swallowed by the sun My gentle obsession with Corrupt nutrition I can taste the madness Dripping from my tongue Between the spaces...

To all you weak MCs To all you hardcore Wannabe's If you step into the ring be prepared to swing!!WHAT?? Me be the best to impress with dictation? Too far fetched? Beyond your imagination? I'll rise to the occasion, launching an invasion Enterin your m...

Eternal salvation suffers from INFLATION!! [1st verse] Say what you need to, save your soul But don't fuck with me - I'm losing control I'm so tired of this - So sick of you My tongue is battered & bruised from all these attitudes Teach me the magi...

Feed it. Fuck it. Breed it. Eat it. Feed it. Fuck it. Breed it. Eat it. Feed it. Fuck it. Breed it. Eat it. I was rapped by orderlies Gnawed on by rats Given a lobotomy Half-drowned in ice baths... They tried to break me, Erase me, disgrace me... Through...

nothings changed the senates still corrupt & the emperor remains insane and everyday is a new strain of slaughter supply lines are less protected evil on all sides I can smell the death on your flesh -- creeping in trapped within the twisting...

This is a song for the heretics To resist the dictatorship Come on While you're checking your timelines I'm on the front lines Commanding the dissidents Subverting the paradigm They used to shoot fascists Like rabbits in baskets Now the whitehouse is...

and I was like 13 And it was a Sunday morning I think And I think both my parents were still asleep I remember I was gonna play sick so I wouldn't have to go to church that day (Don't stop) (Don't stop) And I turned over And there he was (My b...

Y'all thought you could stop me? You fucking scrubs You fucking bloodsuckers You fucking never was I was fighting giants Before I could speak I was born to raise hell So swells of fire comforts me What y'all know about that? Not a goddamn thing I...

Isis, Ishtar Hecate, Kali Isis, Ishtar Hecate, Kali Isis, Ishtar Hecate,come to me... I'm sharpening my halo into forest horns I'm sanctifying pages in the protocols of war I've abolished your mythology and vanquished all your gods I've liber...

He has a webcam And he likes to video himself... He has a webcam And likes to video himself... With animals... A stray dog.. The neighbor's cat.. Binding them.. Torturing them.. Murdering them.. He has a webcam So I helped him understand How They Felt.. H...

Come on Although you try to discredit You still never edit The needle I'll thread it Radically poetic Standing with the fury that they had in '66 And like E-Double I'm mad Still knee deep in the system's shit Hoover He was a body remover I'll give...

[intro] WHY??! the king of lies is alive, look around, look inside ... INFIDEL. INFIDEL!!! [verse] IT BEGINS HERE IT ENDS NOW THE PRINCE MUST PAY HIS HEAD OR THE CROWN ROB THE POOR SLAUGHTER THE WEAK DISTORT THE LAW PERFECT DECEIT [CHORUS] DO I NEED A GAS...

We dream like lions Warm in the frost Fresh from the kill Tiny teeth and claws We dream like lions Deep beneath the loam The windows of his soul Ash on the watery glass Broken but still whole A halo of barbwire A frozen night of fire Oh, so cold...

Come With me I will let you see with my words I will let you burn & observe But where I go You can only follow So close your eyes Open your mind ...and see Somewhere Out in the dark A car pulls up & parks & the passenger Shifts...

Can you hear them out there? Can you hear them out there? The war drums, the battle cries, calling you to dance, calling you to die. Oh, can you hear them OUT THERE!!!? Securing the new religion with mindless, violent acts. Are you sure you want this? Well do...

Stars litter the sky The moon is shining high This soft, September night Two lovers creep out of sight A maiden dressed in white With copper hair Restless for adventure She don't care That the wolf is in disguise She's been ensnared He got the d...

I don't give a fuck You taught me to fear But all I learned was hate You want me to disappear But I won't go away I won't go away I won't fucking obey You want me to save your world While your lungs get black And the oceans boil And you feed and bre...