Higher

[Chorus]
Sit down and listen, I'll take you higher
This music right here will get you wired
Spark your ear drums, set it on fire
This is what you need, not just desire

Sit down and listen, I'll take you higher
This music right here will get you wired
Spark your ear drums, set it on fire
This is what you need, not just desire

[verse 1]
She had her high heels, I had my high tops
They have to fix their sight, get some eye drops
Get off your high horse, or your fast Porsche
This is my course so I use my blast force
I've got a higher education, call it High School
Put you in dire situations, don't try fool
They've got a high pitch, I'm just low key
They're in a wide ditch, I'm riding coach, see?
I'm going sky high, with those higher ups
Past that high life, not a liar, yup!
Switch into high gear, I've got a fly cure
I'm cleaner than my peers, by even lightyears
They've gone high and low, I just rhyme and flow
I make them shy and woe, I'm too prime as a foe
I leave them high and dry, they can't even try
I've got a less then gentle mental: just say oh my.

[Chorus]
Sit down and listen, I'll take you higher
This music right here will get you wired
Spark your ear drums, set it on fire
This is what you need, not just desire

Sit down and listen, I'll take you higher
This music right here will get you wired
Spark your ear drums, set it on fire
This is what you need, not just desire

[verse 2]
Hello, greetings, salutations, plainly it's Hi
The reply is bye-bye, that implies you shouldn't try
I'm on the high rise, meanwhile they're pinned down
They call us wise guys, cause we just grin, no frown
Statistics are filled with my high scores
Taking over, kick in the door and get on the floor
Stuck inside high fidelity with superb melodies
Rocking over mellow beats, where hip hop and cellos meets
Your boy has got high speed ambition, but I take it slow
No need to rush, go with the flow, see my whole body glow
The high point of their career is my origin on the axis
Keep in check, Nikes on deck, take it to the Maxes
Stay on high alert because my inertia lays twice the hurt
But I remain pristine and clean, no stains on my shirt
High and mighty some say, as I lounge on my throne
But put in your headphones, get your mind blown

[Chorus]
Sit down and listen, I'll take you higher
This music right here will get you wired
Spark your ear drums, set it on fire
This is what you need, not just desire

Sit down and listen, I'll take you higher
This music right here will get you wired
Spark your ear drums, set it on fire
This is what you need, not just desire

[verse 3]
The verses are submerged two thirds in high caliber
Smashing you fruits, sir, call them Gallager
Tracks aren't high calorie, they've got what you need
Out of this galaxy, healthy portions fit for his majesty
With a high definition without any repetition
The messages are heard when even the giants listen
Jumping off the high dive is nothing live
With my drive I can survive, matter fact, I thrive
A high frequency is what I produce quite frequently
It reaches all the way to heaven quite secretly
And what it means to me that it requires high maintenance
Because the radiance it creates is perfect like Valences
I'm in high orbit, so you can call this high noon
Strike like a typhoon, and my reign will not end soon
This is high quality, nothing novelty, just mind boggling
Give me a high five for all this high-flying toggling

[Chorus]
Sit down and listen, I'll take you higher
This music right here will get you wired
Spark your ear drums, set it on fire
This is what you need, not just desire

Sit down and listen, I'll take you higher
This music right here will get you wired
Spark your ear drums, set it on fire
This is what you need, not just desire

Clever Fox

All black everything, ninja mode on this abode
So, I blend in with the road with a flow that'll have you towed
No games, no frogger, I just hop around, and so hip
So if I blip on a radar, must be a slip, a glitch
I can't be read, can't be analyzed
I have beats terrified, petrified, paralyzed
Thunder Shock on the drop of the block
So not even Brock could rock this Clever Fox
It's not very effective and these genes are selective
Like exclusive, stone-washed, eclectic respective
But less than or equal to alligator signs, biting my style
I just file and lie down bars like tiles or Dial
And now the measures are cleaned up like soap
Bleached and nope! Mean: opposite of the pope
I mean, I'm vicious, cruel and ferocious
Focused, and notice, I'm cool, not hopeless
But the dopeness is protruding from my whole
Everyone's the concrete underneath, you feel my sole
And the goal is to reacquaint old school with the new
Which would do what Lu has brought to you
Blue dues I've payed and hued to shoo a cue
A view in which I flew to simmer and Stu
Give it time, no brine, no pickles, not baby dill
Still, you know I will fill the quill with lines so ill
Grandpa Flow no one believes but all receives
And none perceive my truth so it falls like leaves
Dear Autumn, I just thought 'em, might be awesome
I'll have a follow up letter when you blossom
Hey Spring, been quite some time, like the rhymes?
Shine through grime and the dimes still crime
Lady Summer, you know that I'm paced on LEGOs
I run these blocks, got good ideas, see my brain glow
Mrs. Winter, I know you know I go out of order
But doesn't matter now, cause we're in the 4th quarter
Winter flow, Splinter Mode, master of the mortar
I petal blazing treble, and it never falls shorter

Powers

Tear off my shirt, reveal what's the real worth
Been gifted at birth, fly away from this Earth
This curse, this ability, available in mutants such as me
I've got super strength to carry the 47th century
Laser vision and can listen on a scale with ladybugs pivot
Shatter rivets and destroy divots, lifted million number digits
Mental proficiency, telepathy, and there's still the rest of me
No rest for me, none for the wicked, and they attack messily
I breath fires and summon lightning spires, never tire
They take pliers to my eyes, but I just fly higher
Gone in a flash, psionic blast, toss villains in the trash
Twice as fast, twice as daft, I finish them all in a dash
Ultra to the infinity, incredible to the next level
The only winner is me, destroy any alloys to pebbles
Rearrange the molecular structure without puncture
I could have the whole universe in my hand ruptured!

No one man deserves so much power
This entire world is not owned, it's ours
Lock away corruption inside a tower
No rest for the weak, so don't even cower

Tick tock, tick tock, in the 23rd hour
Tick tock, tick tock, in the 23rd hour
Tick tock, tick tock, in the 23rd hour
Tick tock, tick tock, ding, the World is ours.

Mathematically I reach infinity without any errors
Compared to me, graphing calculators are ring bearers
I'm the real spectacle, no receptacle, just respectable
My genius is celebrated in world-wide festivals
I do the impossible, I divide by zero, no sweat
No regrets and no bets made against me, turns into their debt
No syntax, the tracks I make stack like factorials
Never had tutorial, learned on my own, flew like an oriel
And that's how the story goes, I've got no domain
And I remain in my brain's flame that renders me insane
But I'm not crazy or lazy, just flat out in the next degree
I see shapes not in 3D, geometry is just elementary
The calculus of this realm is child's play in my process
Bless the stress that causes my mind to work it's best
Graph me and I'm off the charts, none equal to my start
Check the art, the power limitless comes from my heart!

No one man deserves so much power
This entire world is not owned, it's ours
Lock away corruption inside a tower
No rest for the weak, so don't even cower

Tick tock, tick tock, in the 23rd hour
Tick tock, tick tock, in the 23rd hour
Tick tock, tick tock, in the 23rd hour
Tick tock, tick tock, ding, the World is ours.

1st rate, and my competition is 3rd world countries
No flow, nothing shocking in the world BUT me
Poverty stricken and the bickerin of the sicken
Is unrelated to me, it's a big game of chicken
I've got weapons on my arms, I can destroy and harm
I wage a mental war, my citadel versus their farm
The foundations my core was built on is gold
So bold, untold, I put the entire nation on hold
Never mold, bury me in the ground, don't wait till it's old
Because I'm so ahead in ways I'll be oil, so just fold
Fire deadly weaponry, this is past rock paper scissors
A wizard with bombs, break the calm of the blizzard
Nuclear winter is what I foresee in this prophecy
None will profit but me, there is just no stopping me
Fire missiles, spit out bullets, all sorts of ammunition
Verses repetition of a world superpower's definition

The shield and the hammer, bad guys stammer
A master of numbers, phonetic, arithmetic grammar
An envy of the world, I hold it inside my hands
I am the grandmaster of this whole band stand

The shield and the hammer, bad guys stammer
A master of numbers, phonetic, arithmetic grammar
An envy of the world, I hold it inside my hands
I am the grandmaster of this whole band stand

No one man deserves so much power
This entire world is not owned, it's ours
Lock away corruption inside a tower
No rest for the weak, so don't even cower

Tick tock, tick tock, in the 23rd hour
Tick tock, tick tock, in the 23rd hour
Tick tock, tick tock, in the 23rd hour
Tick tock, tick tock, ding, the World is ours.

No Pass

On my report card it reports my grades in ways
That I didn't think mattered but to them it's grave
So I remade the page into different levels and a new stage
For the mage and sage to reiterate the gauge
But the fact of the situation is that I get no make up time
They're trying to break up rhymes and shake up lines
So I push back and try to prison them behind my bars
Hindering one's progress won't get you very far
And the car pulled up with their reinforcements
Ready to fire and leave me chopped and screwed in different portions
So I fled to Portland where the thoughts roam free
Where Takumi the fox can stop fleeing and be
Even though the fox can never be caught, here is a breather
To take a rest and find some believers and find some "me neithers"
The people who would quote the last passage less passive
Become massive hip hop fiends listening to classics

They say Silence is Defeat so I repeat the greets
Intertwining science and feats to create heat
People agreeing with this beat is sure to meet
Expectations past and present, pay attention to this treat

Neurons at the speed of light, tonight's an exception
Breaking the laws before us, doubt is no longer inflection
The reception of reviews rave that this is pure undiluted
Undisputed, not booted, well-suited, a shoo-in
Quintessential tracks. How to MC 101s are laid out
Nothing played out, or stale, it fades out and takes clout
Gaining momentum uphill, still a difficult battle
The gavel of judgment is shallow, no mistakes or tattles
Our playing field shelled out and hollowed with barriers
Endowed goes on backs of carriers, looks scarier
My microphone shatters the walls that been erected
So stand directed and be affected by my method
No directive, going up like a one-way elevator
Elevated and restated to made it to levels even greater
The sky's the limit, 15 minutes for an impression
Rap profession, jam sessions, and mental confessions

They say Silence is Defeat so I repeat the greets
Intertwining science and feats to create heat
People agreeing with this beat is sure to meet
Expectations past and present, pay attention to this treat

Elementary

A is for atrocious because this flow is halitosis
It goes near your nose and everyone would notice
B is for broken which is the reason why I'm smokin'
Machinery scenery fierce like a Hadoken
C is for confidence which is just competence
Compliments of the radiance that I brought to this
D is for defiance because I've got no alliance
Just a reliance on my craft that's basically a science
E is for excellence because that is my preference
The essence of my being is as fresh as a breath mint
F for figuration because my infinite duration
Forms many apparitions, this is my occupation
G is for gamma with this radiation candor
The standards of my grammar is met with absolute manners
H is for harmonics because my sound tonic
Is similar to verbal chronic that goes supersonic

[Chorus] x2
Alpha Beta Gamma, ABC
Yi Er San, 1 2 3
Back to the basics, just let it be
This is nothing new: elementary

[Verse 2]
I is for Illmatic that's less than static, automatic
The tactics that I still practice less than sporadic
J for jabberwock which they believe what I talk
But knock on the block and know the tic tok is stocked
K for killuminati, represents my different theories
Purely, merely a shield yield, call it Nick Fury
L is the luminescent descendant before your eyes
The resident of precedence with sound that multiplies
M is melisma mastering microphone melodies
But the charisma is plastering monochrome MCs
N is for notorious with this glorious story kid
I end up victorious, back to M for meritorious
O is for ovations even octaves partake in
Clefs in amazement, notes in wrong placements
P is for poetic because I write an Iliad Epic
The tales and legends are all awesomely aesthetic

[Chorus] x2
Alpha Beta Gamma, ABC
Yi Er San, 1 2 3
Back to the basics, just let it be
This is nothing new: elementary

Q means quartic because I'm past the next degree
Past three, Takumi, even if you square root me
R is the rationalism of my radial lyricism
360 degrees of literary symbolism
S is for soliloquy because I unusually speak to me
Indefinitely I'm irritably reciting wonderfully
T is the transcendent tracks I create apparent
That's not transparent nor is it very arrogant
U is urbicide I decide is for my mics to try
I annihilate cities that makes an Apocalypse cry
V is the verses versus voltage that are so vibrant
That the tyrants and pirates would be equally silent
W is the way I make songs wirble in circles
This verbal purple I make is universal with more brain than Erkle
X is for a xenolith that lifts and shifts the rifts
Into different levels of gifts that don't actually exist

[Chorus] x2
Alpha Beta Gamma, ABC
Yi Er San, 1 2 3
Back to the basics, just let it be
This is nothing new: elementary

[Outro]
Y is the yare because it's unfair how I pair
The flares together so I dare you to stare
Z is for the zephyr that ensures a good finisher
Cause sir, I've most certainly put in 100% effort

Continually Reign Supreme

[Verse 1]
Lifestyles of the broke and the ambitious
Raise up suspicions and the superstitious
Why is he so confident and such an optimist?
Soy sauce heritage but he wasabis this
No photoshop, he doesn't even crop this
He remains with flame like H E double hockey sticks
His pocket is in a perpetual state of emptiness
But his instrumentals are a rate of exemplariness
Not temporary, it seems quite permanent
But his apartment still has yet to be furnished
Top of his dome is improvisation less common
And the bottom of his stomach chillin is top ramen
Chanting like shamans, this dude recites all night
He rewrites and rewrites and no end in sight
He doesn't know if he'll make it and get signed
But all in his mind, his rhymes are just fine

[Chorus]
Ever tried, ever failed, c'mon
(The more you try to erase me)
It's no matter, it's no matter, it's no matter, c'mon
(The more that I appear, oh)
Try again, fail again, try again, c'mon
(The more you try to erase me)
Just fail better, just fail better, just fail better, c'mon
(The more that I appear, oh)

[Verse 2]
Lifestyles of the blessed and the gifted
Everything in his thought process has been shifted
So much ahead of his environment
Everything he touches turns into diamonds
His watch turns at his own pace of intelligence
With no negligence he makes obscure relevant
Bury him in the ground and he's so ahead in ways
The next day you strike oil where he lay
His head is concocting crystallic fusion
And they deal with installment improvements
4.7 and his world is in 0.9
So in the grind, it might not be his time
Some may perceive he's quite peculiar
Or raving mad. But still somewhat familiar
Somewhat behind and yet somewhat ahead
And instead he turns gold into lead

[Chorus]
Ever tried, ever failed, c'mon
(The more you try to erase me)
It's no matter, it's no matter, it's no matter, c'mon
(The more that I appear, oh)
Try again, fail again, try again, c'mon
(The more you try to erase me)
Just fail better, just fail better, just fail better, c'mon
(The more that I appear, oh)

[Verse 3]
T-A-K-U-M-I the fox
Everything I do will never ever stop
The previous verses were detergents
And the insurgents cut things up like surgeons
Generally warned and professionally formed
I'm definitely sworn with a chill state of warm
Honestly, my honesty is put onto every beat
It might seem obsolete but it fits perfectly
I speak serpents. Just the master and the servant
Watch this at work, the surface has lasting purpose
Less than worthless, the deep end equivalent
Like an ambulance it has first lane privileges
Reminisce and provide grander gifts
I create like a chemist that is blemish-less
So I render this with no clear paradigm
Wrong place, right time with this original design

[Chorus]
Ever tried, ever failed, c'mon
(The more you try to erase me)
It's no matter, it's no matter, it's no matter, c'mon
(The more that I appear, oh)
Try again, fail again, try again, c'mon
(The more you try to erase me)
Just fail better, just fail better, just fail better, c'mon
(The more that I appear, oh)

Make Believe

[Verse 1]
Let's pretend that all of the success really happens
Let's pretend and say that I make a career out of rappin
And not even just spitting words through the radio
Not even watching the videos and disregarding my flow
Let's pretend my music leaves a real lasting impression
And the musical depression turns back into jam sessions
Let's pretend that the lyrical content was deeper than that
Deeper than quote on quote rap, deeper than the sale stats
Let's pretend my album generates worldwide buzz
Have generations pondering and wishing they could do what I does
Let's pretend I start a movement, more than improvement
In the mental home front, now everyone is less prudent
Seeking knowledge like students, we constantly are aware
And right there, from my music that I handled with care
Let's pretend that I actually make it and I do it till the end
How wonderful it would be, c'mon, let's pretend

[Verse 2]
Let's pretend that the ink in my pen ran dry already
That I never even attempted to make rhymes steady
Let's pretend I had no ambition to continue this dream
And we can pretend that I already had that self-esteem
Let's pretend that I already had all the girls I asked
And I never had to keep my emotions bottle and masked
We can pretend that I didn't write to release deep secrets
Nor did I have problems rooted in myself deep seeded
Let's keep pretending that I never liked music all too much
That I never once heard a chord that had my heart touched
We can say that I always had my way and never had problems
That I was entrapped with what were goon to goblins
Let's pretend I had no desire to recite my writtens
And failing twice bitten left me more than frost bitten
We can pretend that I just didn't ever have that passion
Let's pretend that I never even dreamed of it to happen

[Verse 3]
Now let's pretend that a kid from Portland tried to MC
And we can pretend that his stage name was Takumi
We can pretend he got it from one of his favorite books
We can pretend that he worries his moniker gets mistook
And then let's pretend he instills in his raps his upbringing
Which does not include good singing or crack flinging
Let's pretend he tries to do real good at school
And we can pretend that he hopes he comes of real cool
And that around his friends, he is maybe well-liked
But he never knows because pretend he's worried bout spite
Because let's say his confidence was never very high
And he was wondering if his competence was just a lie
Pretend he wanted to make music so he could be heard
Pretend he embraced his brain and his aura of nerd
Pretend his words over tracks had people head bobbin
Pretend his first mixtape was pow like Batman and Robin
And we can keep on weaving this fictional tale
But I bet you're getting bored listening to this kid wail
But if we can pretend one more time, if you will
That you wanted to hear the quill and if this kid's ill
Or if you wanted to listen to his hustle and struggle
And maybe see this boy rise and see him start as a bubble
Then maybe for once you're in for a surprise
You don't have to pretend, just open your eyes.