Monday, June 18, 2012

Polaroids

[Verse 1]
Summer time shine demands the proper attire
Cool threads cannot extinguish my burning desire
Withholding the fire, call me Prometheus
I'm just living my rebellion. No worries for consequence
Style like Guile. Sonic boom into your ears
So I'm the mos def and most dope out of my peers
This isn't clever for the sake of clever, none of that nonsense
This is straight streamlined direct from the conscious
More gold than Jeremy Piven's boasts
I'm a given toast on a driven boat rocking a Gatsby Linen Coat
Miss Daisy, it's the way you make me feel
Too thrilling as I'm spilling my emotions on this reel
A girl named Billie wanted into my jeans
I told her to beat it, but I felt too bad, it was a bit mean
Still, I'm living so delinquent: so smooth criminal
I'm the King and the Jester: goes without subliminal

[CHORUS]
no time for cameras
we’ll use our eyes instead
no time for cameras
we’ll be gone when we’re dead
no time for cameras
we’ll use our eyes instead
I see flashes of gold

[Verse 2]
Feet hit the pavement just like a prizefighter
So on top of the words: call me the highlighter
Who you know that's politer? I'm betting no one
Chasing me like track athletes: go run
But I'm just a wanderer with no particular direction
And who is way too fond of the word perfection
With a disposition more sunny than Liston's
I'm just hoping that you all listen when I glisten
Fired up like pistons, the keys is in the ignition
Ring on my belt loop, they jingle like holiday traditions
Every step sounds a lot like success I guess
Addressed like I'm blessed to impress and yes
I look better in real life, but not too bad in pictures
Crack open my head and let's break out the mixtures
Do it yourself chemistry, ready, set, go bubble
Constantly in my element, there's no need for rebuttal 

[CHORUS]
no time for cameras
we’ll use our eyes instead
no time for cameras
we’ll be gone when we’re dead
no time for cameras
we’ll use our eyes instead
I see flashes of gold

[Verse 3]
Memories are moving too quickly to simply just capture
Write it down in the history books in our chapter
The last thing we'll do is try to remember the times
No pennies for my thought. No change for dimes
Soundtrack pumping loud in the background
Lense-flare as we run across the tracks, sunset, to look profound
A shimmering ocean filled with diamonds on the surf
One last golden drop until it's swallowed by the Earth

[CHORUS] X2
no time for cameras
we’ll use our eyes instead
no time for cameras
we’ll be gone when we’re dead
no time for cameras
we’ll use our eyes instead
I see flashes of gold


Thursday, June 14, 2012

The Jester

Even if my parents try to stop me
Even if times get too Rocky
Sylvester Stallone ain't got nothing on me
Felines on a machine just try to copy
But I make them floppy, throw them a disc
I'm slinging rhymes and lines, no throwing fists
Unless I represent power to the ceiling
I'm my biggest fan and I love this feeling
Doing it for me, stopping for no one
Even if I'm not allowed, doing it until it's done
Do it on the sly, call me Cooper
All geared up, yes I'm a trooper
Very super, edging out awesome
I do to rhymes like spring to blossoms
What the hell am I? Ball of culture
Roll me up, roll me down, pick at me you vultures
But I've molded to something of my design
My own architect, construction is mine
Pop the tags, I have no label
Standing on my own, two legged table
A fable that's currently being written
Protagonist with love interests smitten
Villain in my story, well doesn't matter
Don't really like listening to their chatter
Pulling down pants, writing up jokes
This is for my jesters, jokers, clowns and dopes
Never taken very seriously
Voted to be basement dwellers curiously
But watch in the end we come out on top
Like the foam of our champagne when we pop
In our campaign we like the humor
We might indulge into some rumors
But we are gentlemen when it comes down to it
Gossip and trash talk we try not to pursue it
Pull out chairs for all our women friends
Even if we don't like you, we'll try to pretend
No hasty gestures, no rash enterprise
Chivalry out the ass, what, you seemed surprised
Dressed to impress, wit never suppressed
Improv Comedian so what do you suggest?

Friday, June 8, 2012

Feathers

Let's just fly, you and I, against the sky, real high
Past the horizon, just look me in the eyes
Go through the sunrise, out like a sunset
This is best shared without any forget
Without regret we take flight like ambitious college kids
Calling without answering. Spread like barrages
No mirages or fun house mirror illusions and false bits
French fry classic with a milkshake malted
Salt on the brim of the glass of this thing we call fate
Drink it slowly and refills often. Seconds for this plate
Less vulgar and more class. Graduate like a cylinder
No beginner or winner sir, straight up like a marble pillar
No bologna, no lunch meat, none of that filler, grr
Like a beast, like a monster, like a demented killer brr
Too cold in these clouds as my breath is frigid
Vivid images of livid mystics within my lyrics
If you missed it, I kissed it. Every piece is intimate
Secrets whispered from a lovers distance
Longing to reveal to you my scars and my vices
What's the price I have to pay for sharing a crisis?
Mutual pain versus mutual hatred. What bonds better?
Fleeting connection like the mulching of a pigeon's feather
Make this stronger, make it more permanent
This tournament has turned events and they haven't heard a bit
Deaf ears are met with my blind rage
No one is able to see it or even read it on the page
So when I'm on the stage, I'm the most convincing
Even if you don't understand me, you get my feeling
I slow it down,
I roll the sound
Even at my loudest you can still hear my heart pound
I feel my lowest
regain my focus
Then I speed it up like wings of a locust
Kneel at the power of human emotion
Rocked back and forth from these loco motions
Train of thoughts pull into station
I'll wait for you, I've got enough patience
How am I today? I say I'm fine
That's just my pathological lie
Here's the truth, I'm attracted to hardship
Fruits of your labor, a real great harvest
Questions left and right, collecting words
Laying in the grass as we fly like birds
Look into your eyes, stomach churning
Talking is my only way of learning
Is it kind of sad? Well who knows
It's just a sadness that I chose
So trade me words, only if you want to
Help me believe, help me be true
I want to know you, tell me please
Hearing your voice only creates relief
Seeing your text pop in this bubble
Makes every thing worth the harshest struggle
This is what we do: staying together
Touch down gently: descending feather
We can make this better, let's make it good
No more shoulds and no more woulds
Never in the shadow of what if
You make sparks and I've got flint
Let's make a fire, let's break through
Let's paint something pretty, let's paint you
We can do so much, keep this alive
Give me more than just a reply
How was your day? How is your heart?
Aren't you glad we got to this part?

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Undefined

Let me hear you all shout for the end of an era
Despite what you thought, good or bad, it's all the same area
It's all the same school, it's all the same air we breathed
We've all deceived, received, and we all did read, indeed
So let's Speak about our Part-Time selves and well
At least we didn't star cross, but only the clocks will tell
If we will excel like we did here in our halls
Trained to be better than all but we never did fall
300 odd strong and memories into a song
I might do this entire thing wrong
I hope in the end, you'll still enjoy it
The beats been deployed without a decoy, this
Is the legendary tale from 08 to 2012
Everyone around us so proud, can't you tell?
Started in academy, hormones we started battling
Oh god is she mad at me? Sarcasm was used against this beast
Roam from class to class like a pack of nomads
We weren't all rotten eggs waiting to go bad
But know that we dove into thorns and survived the cuts
This stuff in turn have made our walks into struts
We stride and glide and we moonwalked across
Diplomas in old English, it's time to feel like a goddamn boss
Cooked up something delicious inside of our brains
These thoughts cannot be stopped, watch out for our train
Rode freely like Tri-Met passes
All of us spectacles like a pair of glasses
We outlasted an entire chemistry dynasty
We voted this Asian Kid to be Cleveland's majesty
Raised enough funds to change our world
Convinced everyone the wisdom of our pearls
When pigs fly we would be the best in the blue
Well who knew, we do, in 09 Swine Flu
Assembled in the gym, got into that spirit
Green and gold, warriors, let me hear it!
Snagged a few 1st places along the way
When we first started you couldn't pay them to stay
They used to think that these teens were irrelevant
Now let's prove to them the truest intelligence
Out of the 22nd and 24th president
Let's give them something to mull over decadent
A dozen years in the making, this is our moment
Taking everything from teachers for components
Our opponents have lost in the face of our confidence
Saying how great we are is a truth and a compliment!
And on top of this, we won't ever be stopping this
It's time to roll out, in our prime: Optimus
We used to be the future, now we are the present
Time to make the world better for our descendents
And listen to this message, I feel blessed I could tell it
We sincerely have grown and developed
Each and one of you have made my time here phenomenal
Through the tragedies, the travesties and everything comical
The best time of our lives? Perhaps for some
But each one of you is in charge of your freedom
We never realize, but the moment you are born
Is the moment you've entered the real world, so these real eyes
Analyze through the real lies and we've been alive
For at least 17 years, so let's get wise
Take one step further into our Hero's Journey
Because we can all be macs like Bernie
Started from nothing and we wrote this manual
And now look at us: the hungriest Cannibals
More decorated than our halls during the autumn
How amazing how we rose from the very bottom
This is the end of something very incredible
We're diving into something so intangible
But I know one fact, this here graduation cap
Is something too awesome. Now THAT'S a rap.

Candles at 3AM

[Verse 1]
Paradoxical and oxymoronical, adjust my monocle
Stop and go through vestibules of my chronicle
Honest though I'm writing my entire heart down
Combining and mashing syllables and words to new compounds
It'll start now and wow as I lay down my verbs and nouns
Astound as the crowd crowds the stage as I talk around
The truth and make the ugly into something suitable
This is going past just some beautiful musical
Omnipresent author that writes the decisions
Precision with the pen like the scalpel's incision
Leave haikus for you at your grave and tombstone
Inscribe the groans against the air with a melancholy tone
And instead of a rose, I'll leave you a prose
Letters and words make up my being from top to toes
Trapped in a cage but I can deal with my curse
Come here and I'll show you how to compose a hearse

[CHORUS]
Sit down here and pick up the pen
Write me out until I meet the bloodiest end
Sit down here and build me a verse
Shed every cell and let the poems just burst

Sit down here and let the quill dance
Create for me the most tragic of romance
Sit down here and read the many stories
I'll never ever fit in just one category

[Verse 2]
Trials and tribulations, different tasks every day
Whatever happened to work hard to play?
They did say that things would get easier and harder
Difficult to make a difference unless you're a martyr
Work smarter or do it with more blood, sweat and tears?
Ghosts leave on my window of consciousness too many smears
So I wipe them off with my notepad and blade
Remember to forget and I look back on what's made
Make it uncomfortable for the listeners to read
Make it confusing for the watchers to hear, indeed
I've written my epitaph in the lines of these songs
Etched my bones with all of what's left and wrong
They tell me bloody write, so I jot with all my strength
Crimson in the horizon of my pages in red paint
With this weapon, I'm anything I can imagine to be
At the end of the day, I'm thinking "Who, me?"

[CHORUS]

Sit down here and pick up the pen
Write me out until I meet the bloodiest end
Sit down here and build me a verse
Shed every cell and let the poems just burst

Sit down here and let the quill dance
Create for me the most tragic of romance
Sit down here and read the many stories
I'll never ever fit in just one category

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Cashlete

[CHORUS] x2
E-C-O-N-O-M-Y
I'm on your screens, I'm televised
R-E-S-O-U-R-C-E
Always in style, never scarcity

[Verse 1]
I lay it all bear so I'm more than stern
Step on the scene and wreck the aggregate supply curve
Cause there ain't no buying me, supplying me
With so many rhymes, there ain't no trying me
Kind of like bartering, you're so outdated
Just like the consumers of this world: you're overrated!
My balance sheet is so condensed in assets
Collecting more green than cabbages
I'm savage and mean, but don't call me average
Make a few withdrawals because it's all cash, kid
Hot commodity, please don't bother me
If I fall off I land on a pile of capital honestly
People look at me and show interest obviously
Probably in control like monetary policy
Obsolete, I spit cease and desist orders
Stop before you step on my lyrical mortar
I'm demand, I'm the man: Amanda Bynes
Please abide to me like the law of supply
Running circles around this life cycle hypothesis
No I'm not a prophet, but yes I do profit

[Verse 2]
1 for the money and 2 for the money
I used to write jokes, ain't this thing funny?
Economic theory, economic models
Buy the things I want that's an economic throttle
Stared at by a green face, give a discount rate
I'm not making it rain, I'm making people hydrate
I don't inflate, I just deflate egos
The people knows my worth is worth in euros
Entrepreneur with a firm understanding
Too fly in this thing so in 2020 I'll be landing
Excess reserves are for you to conserve
But I'll make real sure that my expert reverb
Will repeat my money. I'm implemented
Way too stocky, I'm a real good investment
My ability of efficiency has credibility
Gold standard, yes I'm the epitome
Employed now and forever in the long run
Cash rules everything around me: M1

[CHORUS]
E-C-O-N-O-M-Y
I'm on your screens, I'm televised
R-E-S-O-U-R-C-E
Always in style, never scarcity

C-U-R-R-E-N-C-Y
Money talks so I've got a good reply
M-A-R-K-E-T
Put me in your team without any liability

C-A-P-I-T-A-L
Call me spreadsheet, I just excel
O-P-T-I-M-U-M
Double my weight in precious gems

S-U-R-P-L-U-S
Past, future, present, so in tense
A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E
Advantage is handed right to me
Handed right to me!


Saturday, April 14, 2012

Lifted

[Verse 1]
Cheat codes and power ups, living without a handicap
Watch me push my advantage with this dandy rap
Offensive pretenses as I remain intensive
Cracking a few jokes while I look over some Harvey Dents. It's
A little complicated with an inquisitive tone
Keep my head swimming with music: I'm in a spirited zone
C'mon, throw a bone. I've had enough of groans
Decimating and annihilating these unmanned drones
Nothing else out there can match intuition
Nothing is impossible, please cast me for missions
My goal is to be flyer than the posters in the hall
One day I'll be able to pull of a shout and call
Sign a slip of paper that increases in value
Let me stay humble and mean it when I ask "How are you?"
These are never what ifs, merely options
Flying out of this apartment

[Chorus] x2
So I stay rising and lifted.
They ask me how I do that? I'm just gifted
Angel wings over here
Paper plane over there
Ascension is second nature when you're the heir

[Verse 2]
Literally longing like laborious linguistics
If I invented inglorious illness, in instance
Forgetting for forgiving frees forlorn forces
Terrifically tracing these things that torched this
Endings eternal effervescent escapes ensigns
Dormant disasters doom denizens
Lord, leave lush listening lulls: ludicrous
Icarus incandescent in intense interests
Filling fast for firing fiscal finesses
Tying to torpedoes, try topping Tourette's
Endothermic entrances enter elaborate
Destroying dull distractions doing dragoness
Love If Feeling Terrible Ends Distances
Leveling Is Forever To Eon Dividends
Little Is Falling That Entertain Drips
Liberating Icicles For Tears Erodes Dips

[Chorus] x2
So I stay rising and lifted.
They ask me how I do that? I'm just gifted
Angel wings over here
Paper plane over there
Ascension is second nature when you're the heir

[Verse 3]
Steadily in the clouds, they want to bring me down
I'm above the influence but they just think I clown
I want to do this, and they want to do that
I'm talking logic, and they don't know the fact
Writing with a quill and I'm letting all my ink spill
But they just reject the request. My heart be still
They don't want to hear it, they don't want to analyze
They want to hear about my swag and what girls are fly
Composing compositions using devices and alliterations
They're telling me to give my truth too many alterations
Slant rhymes and dank vibes is what I do good
But they say that I'm killing the entire main mood
They keep yapping without any good banter
Kid Scapino on this with the heart of Leander
They're baring their teeth and they tell me to quit
I laugh and fly away thinking "is this it?"

[Chorus] x2
So I stay rising and lifted.
They ask me how I do that? I'm just gifted
Angel wings over here
Paper plane over there
Ascension is second nature when you're the heir