Demon in a Suit

Devil in a new dress, demon in a suit
Monster has his slacks pressed, goblin attire astute
If you think I'm so pomp, check my circumstance
Graduation cap making me feel like a freaking champ
I've been doing this since 2008 or whenever
And steadily, exponentially, I've been getting more clever
In the next degree, about to earn a diploma
Making up for restless nights with weekend comas
What have I earned? A couple of new stripes
A few dozen scars and a bundle package of what's right
A slip of paper with some writing in English old
And I finally got that dream undeterred: sold!
In and out of so many identities
I guess in the end all I can hope is for you to remember me
And my enemies, and my memories
Can all live safely in my heart, is this the end to be?
Jack of all trades, and a master of some
I'm running out of time faster than a bullet leaves a gun
My chest is a barrel, my Sunday best apparel
Tumbling down the rabbit hole, understand me Lewis Carrol?
My rap beats are track meets, yeah I run it back
You can't match me in khakis, please cut some slack
Valedictorian, I've got a four point flow
Magic eight crystal ball: because I'm always in the know
Check my principle, I've been split so much I'm indivisible
Look at me so confident when yesterday I was pitiful
Quite pathetic, would you look at that?
But I always come out on top like a hat
And I can bust a rap, El Gordito
It's always sunny like my name is De Vito
And I'm not just ignorant, I can clearly see the rain
But I'm spitting fire and I'm thinking flames
And what is my freaking name? It's not just Alex Dang
It's not just that feeling when you want so much you start to pang
It isn't Alexander, it's something grander
It's the moment when the crowd is in a bonanza
Even when I talk George Castanza
I'm walking this steady like a German Wanzer
The poetic epic and rhetoric of a goddamn boss
My speech can impeach presidents, oh my gosh!
Are you at a loss? Well here, have some words
I can concur that this nerd can rhyme absurd
Yes he's a hero, yes he's a zero
Yes he's making more money than Robert Deniro
Showin' that Ronin is blowin' and smokin'
Game controller, down right fierce: hadoken!
Sharp collared shirt, tie ammunition clip
I'm obviously dressing to kill, aiming for that gossip
Freshman year trying to figure out what it meant
Sophomore year thinking that I'm at my 100 percent
Junior year taking on the greatest stress load
Senior year is a great occasion, look at the dress code
Second Semester Senior Status Slide is a great dance
Best to be done by hundreds of people if you get the chance!
Enjoy it while you can, revel so incredible
Time is ticking down but at least I got a new bezel

Grizzly Heir

Guess who's on the microphone? Mr. Samurai
Dressing like a gentlemen, mouth never civilized
Never speaking civil lies, only have you satisfied
I'm a big pun the way that I chastised
Running all the way to the top and slip off the backside
When I'm alone call it the King and I
Yes I'm in the house like a bill being ratified
What's next? Gratify. Then what? A Badder lie
But I'm only speaking the truth, hand on the bible
Breakfast is oath-meal, honesty is my style
Yes I walk that walk, and I talk that talk
Yes you stalk that stalk, and I'm dope like a pound of chalk
Wanna get to know me so you leaf through my facebook
I'm not that hard to catch but I am still off the hook
No I won't propose but I can lord over your ring
You can be on my arm, call you my cast and sling
No more shots, retired and recovering cupid
Skinny jeans cuffed up and my Nikes loosened
Asian kid in hipster clothes doing some rap?
I'm the epitome of America, melting pot: that's a fact
Product of my society, mirror to something bigger
Readily equipped with punchlines and some kickers
What am I? Self-aware. What am I? Help and share
What am I? Long black hair. What's this? Rap over Grizzly Bear!

I am so different, new breath of fresh air
The reason why I'm doing this is because that I really care
This is just a hobby, maybe something more
I'm so cold because of all these open windows and doors
Opportunity is in, asleep on my couch
He's staying until he can feel he can step out
So assume it's for a while, I don't even mind
Might as well brush up on trigonometry: cosine
Not being cute, and I'm not staring obtuse
Coming at this from all angles, protractor use
This is imaginary? I will make it real
I've got FDR bars: yes I'm a new deal
Oh you think it's silly? Loosen up you pickle jar
Wish upon me for some change. Call me a nickel star
Rap about my real life and about some real jokes
You think you can flow? I'll show you real strokes
Trying to do something authentic and original
Rocking out like geologists, healthier than minerals
Check out my chemistry, I'm in my element
Rule number 34, I'm always relevant
How old am I? Enough to make a decision
Only speaking accurately with expert precision
Style on credit union: yes I am so On-Point
I am still dope and blunt kind of like a joint

You're only as good as your attitude
Transmogrifier set to a bragging dude
But I can still show my gratitude
I've got such a confident magnitude
Yes my latitude is flier than a rocket grill
Shakespeare and I pen rhymes with pens and quills
Make Asian jokes until you get your fill
Call me Kim Jong: I've got a license to ill

Poetry in Motion

I'm the tyger and the lamb, both sides of the issue
The misuse will kiss you and hit you in the soft tissue
Frost on my heart, I take the road less traveled
Or maybe the high one, it really depends on the battle
The way I handle things is like Parkinson's and partisans
So I will shake spears until you recognize my artisan
This partner ship of spoken word I've got so locked
And I act bolder, want the truth? I've got the proof rock
Cockiness is a crime? Well then I'm a dick in sin
Boxer without a glass jaw: there is no liquor chin
Or does it explode? I'm the renaissance man
Better floss? Damn you're missing the inner cause stand
I excel, well, in due time you will have to tell
But my hard exterior is just a lyrical shell
Living where the sidewalk ends, the lights in the attic
The tactics aren't drastic but rather automatic
Measuring my life in afternoons and in coffee spoons
My head is concocting curvy tunes
Sounds good like a bell? For whom it tolls?
I'm kicking it like in front of me is all of my goals
But check the control and just remember the things
Re visit the facts, why does the caged bird sing?
Ask yourself these questions, I'll be arriving soon
And I'm coming. You'll know when you hear that mellow croon
Yes I just swoon when I can hear your heart Pound
I'll do to you like spring does to the blossoms now
Woman so phenomenal, spirit so unconquerable
Dignity incomparable, this loneliness intolerable
So what is the mean value, what are my words worth?
Is it a curse from death to birth, from stanza to verse?
Or is it something more, something out of a hearse
For we dare to disturb the elegance of the universe
The neat little order, we won't be deferred
Our dreams will let us imagine wildly absurd
So as I lay in my messy room, thinking of many things
Of shoes and ships, of cabbages and kings
I start to write songs of myself, songs for no one else
Songs for the little vagabond, hoping it will help
Why you ask? Well, I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I can fall asleep
I'm walking across on this solo bridge
Making diamonds as I perch upon this coal ridge
Even under all this pressure, this ruler you can't measure
I'm the captain of my soul, liberated so much better
13 ways to look at a blackbird
Infinite ways to look at words so go ahead and call me a nerd
But this doctor is quicker than a fox in socks
And in thought, I'm blocked from ever being stopped
So we so cool, we so hot, fire and ice
The words I write are a fine invention: very nice
Glazed with rain water, I'm trying to remain proper
Because even matters of the heart belonging to a scholar
Will confuse the brain. So we write and we start
And we love our crooked neighbors with crooked hearts
And our crooked heads and our inflated noggins
Hounded by heaven so we feel like Francis Thompson
We fancy ourselves to be just as thorough
But words do not uplift the dead, they truly burrow
So whether for immortality or the pursuit of fun
The firmness makes my circle just; and makes me end where I just begun

Time and Water

[Verse 1]
My thoughts are stars but I can't make constellations
Often I find myself imagining the conversations
I want to have but then is never the time or place
Hazel eyes piercing into my soul, I'm falling out of grace
The prince of mayhem, the duke of destruction
Just a grenade waiting to explode: my only instruction
Let the water run its course, it will swallow it all
Rising up and rising up but it will follow and fall
Listen close old man, we all want to leave a mark
Some bite, some might, and some believe in sparks
Stomping heavily on this earth or step lightly
Liked by all or loved deeply be few. Justify me
Rationalize my actions, give meaning to this
Heart on my sleeves means I've got bloody wrists
My affliction with this is that it's more than fiction
This benediction is written with so much conviction

[Chorus]
What do time and water have in common?
They swallow the entire world, no way to stop it
She looked in my eyes and asked if I was okay
And I replied "Okay," it's really the only way

What do time and water have in common?
They swallow the entire world, no way to stop it
She looked in my eyes and asked if I was okay
And I replied "Okay," it's really the only way

Okay? Okay
I replied "Okay" it's really the only way
Okay? Okay
Yeah I promise, I really am Okay

[Verse 2]
Even within a defined set of time
You let my reality expand, an endless line in my mind
Because some infinities are greater than others
And the degree I have for you is completely another
With a metaphor in my mouth, dangling
I'm making sure I'm not mangling but keep the words from angling
Sensing tragedy beyond, foreshadows on my forearms
Before harm I store charms without alarm
I'm scattered, I'm tattered, I'm torn, scared
But being battered will adorn me better for trials and tears
Or do I mean tears? Let the proverbial ten hit me
Bend over in pain, knocked down to my feeble knees
Losing my breath, without a leg to stand on
I'm blind to the facts, will I even make it to the dawn?
Standing out in my mind when I have to sit down
Make my days last longer, you make me feel so profound

[Chorus]
What do time and water have in common?
They swallow the entire world, no way to stop it
She looked in my eyes and asked if I was okay
And I replied "Okay," it's really the only way

What do time and water have in common?
They swallow the entire world, no way to stop it
She looked in my eyes and asked if I was okay
And I replied "Okay," it's really the only way

Okay? Okay
I replied "Okay" it's really the only way
Okay? Okay
Yeah I promise, I really am Okay

[Verse 3]
The earl of eternity, feel the imperial presence
This adolescent is feeling something so elegant
This world we live is not a wish granting factory
But realize it's bigger viewing from this balcony
We're not looking down, we're looking around
The universe unfolding onto us, feel its heart pound
Because that's yours as well, please take notice
Never are we too broken to be too hopeless
We cannot control the amount of pain we are dealt
But we can decide who hurts us if that helps
Inside of each of our heads is a hectic glow
And if it wrecks you go until the best you know
I've been taught so much from the lessons you've been giving
14 dead for every 1 person living
You're so unprecedented because of how you are
Do we blame ourselves or the fault in our stars?

[Chorus]
What do time and water have in common?
They swallow the entire world, no way to stop it
She looked in my eyes and asked if I was okay
And I replied "Okay," it's really the only way

What do time and water have in common?
They swallow the entire world, no way to stop it
She looked in my eyes and asked if I was okay
And I replied "Okay," it's really the only way

Okay? Okay
I replied "Okay" it's really the only way
Okay? Okay
Yeah I promise, I really am Okay

Sam Parker

[Chorus]
Ooh boy, open your eyes
A girl like me ain't waitin' all night
Ooh boy, better think twice
I got that honey, that sugar, that spice
x2

[Verse 1]
And I'm feeling pretty good, like a ship's cargo
No more coolness embargo. You can't hate me: swag on Margo
Any kind of style, you know I can pull it off
Like a soggy band-aid. I'm blowing up like Molotov
This shouldn't be treated so damn serious
I'm trying to have some fun, don't be so delirious!
I'll drop a lot of gems like a forgetful jeweler
But today's my day off! Repeat Bueller
Leopard print vest, skinny pants check
I'm a lanky dude, so the tight jeans makes sense
Flash you a grin, I don't have the sapphires
And I'd sing to you, but I didn't take Choir!
So I rap instead like a Grandma at Christmas time
Got wraps like girls just got off of a fitness line
Yes I can be funny, yes I can do a couple jokes
No I'm not Bugs Bunny because that's not all folks!

[Bridge]
I got hipster threads on, fresh cut like a lawn
Yeah I sound good like bacon at the crack of dawn
I'm feeling good, I-I'm feeling good
I'm feeling good, I-I'm feeling good
All my homework's gone, jammin' to my song
Kicks so clean you can call me Fei Long
I'm feeling good, I-I'm feeling good
I'm feeling good, I-I'm feeling good

[Chorus]
Ooh boy, open your eyes
A girl like me ain't waitin' all night
Ooh boy, better think twice
I got that honey, that sugar, that spice
x2

[Verse 2]
How am I feeling? Like Mr. Goodbar
In more ways than one. I got wordplay like Jafar
I'm so sharp, touch me and you get sliced
My style is so neat, it's Ryan Gosling Nice
Writing in my notebook, the march of my ideas
You didn't misunderstand, I'm kicking like Adidas
Who else you know rocks bow ties every Tuesday?
I put in work so much I ain't trippin' on the due dates
I'm at where the impossible and possible meet
I'm a centipede podiatrist: look at all my feats!
Damn, dude, I crack myself up sometimes
Like a suicidal egg who ain't very wise
Too hot too handle: cast iron skillet
The Fresh Prince doing whatever, I did will it!
I am legend, hitch me with happiness, NICE!
Listening to Jazz like Will needs advice

[Bridge]
I got hipster threads on, fresh cut like a lawn
Yeah I sound good like bacon at the crack of dawn
I'm feeling good, I-I'm feeling good
I'm feeling good, I-I'm feeling good
All my homework's gone, jammin' to my song
Kicks so clean you can call me Fei Long
I'm feeling good, I-I'm feeling good
I'm feeling good, I-I'm feeling good

[Chorus]
Ooh boy, open your eyes
A girl like me ain't waitin' all night
Ooh boy, better think twice
I got that honey, that sugar, that spice
x2

Made in Awesome

[Chorus]
Oh sweet Tumblr. I drink from your water
Read from the Facebook: become a scholar
Where did I read it? I'm forever indebted
This world is an Amazon? I've already said it

[Verse 1]
It's Revenge of the Nerds every time I speak hater
Sometimes, my rhymes you won't get until 28 Weeks Later
Check me in The Room, in my zone, always gonna pwn
Vicious like Warriors, call me a Gladiator, I only roam
Even on my day off, I'm always putting work in
You hate me for certain? I don't give an eff: swag on virgins
You Gremlins and goblins can't mess with this real monster
I'm the real ruler and inches away from total conquer
Catch Me If You Can, I'm on a totally other level
I'm way too hot right now, playing WarGames with the Devil
Slicker than Grease, I say peace like a Priest
I increase my steeze because I've got more Gs
You couldn't hold a candle to me, let alone 16
My requiems for dreams are way too supreme
Way more than a citizen, equipped with a pimp cane
Call me the Sandlot crew because I've got game!

[Chorus]
Oh sweet Tumblr. I drink from your water
Read from the Facebook: become a scholar
Where did I read it? I'm forever indebted
This world is an Amazon? I've already said it

[Verse 2]
I'm running all around while you jacks stay stuck in a box
Napkin bibs, our crew mobs deep. We run this block
I bury MCs like dead Happy Meals, you want fries with that?
Well if I'm deeper than rap than I'm deeper than snack wraps
Yes I'm a big mac, you think that's a whopper?
I'm a deep fried baconaitor: heart stopper
I double down on the odds and come up with more cheese
Demeanor is like hamburger buns: I'm spreading out hella seeds!
Infamous, I've got more comebacks than the McRib
Like my slang? Like my words? You like the cut of my jib
In and Out, pop pop, like a drive by drive thru
I sound good like Taco Bell or iTunes
Breakfast talk all the time, talking about my bread
Well how about I make a toast to the haters instead
You want beef? Well I'll grill it up and what do you expect?
Trying to bite my style? Well dude, eat fresh!

[Chorus]
Oh sweet Tumblr. I drink from your water
Read from the Facebook: become a scholar
Where did I read it? I'm forever indebted
This world is an Amazon? I've already said it

[Verse 3]
I'm more dope and more crack than 30 Rocks
I can out verbal you any day. Sass level on Dr. Cox
I'm at home with the disses, what are you talking about?
Everywhere I go I see jokes about you, that's a Full House
Want to battle me? I make this to an American Horror Story
I got the Friday Night Lights to shine on my glory
Yes I'm the boss. I floss and chill so gangsta in my office
Fly without Wings, I'm too polished and flawless
I've got a gang of Friends, an entire Community
Did I do that? Doesn't matter like diplomatic immunity
I'm the Fresh Prince, Princess, Queen and King
Always taking first at reigionals and I don't gotta sing
Style on Freaks and Geeks, but it's way too unique
My technique is Gossip Girl sheik, everyday of the week
I revitalize entire neighborhoods: Orange County
I met all your mothers, you know it's true: don't even doubt me


[Chorus]
Oh sweet Tumblr. I drink from your water
Read from the Facebook: become a scholar
Where did I read it? I'm forever indebted
This world is an Amazon? I've already said it

Pacifist

[Verse 1]
And honestly, my honesty being questioned at every turn
Will make me reevaluate myself with every spurn
My stomach churns, my heart breaks and my head aches
My soul and the soles of my feet have made mistakes
More than any person should make, besides the fact
The point is I'm still intact but still under attack
Perfectly justified combat, don't pity me today
Don't feel bad for me tomorrow, I don't want the cliches
I want the peace of mind, not at war
I don't want the metaphors, I want to hear its core
Forgive, forget, regret, relive.
Let me die, let me live, let me grab a pan and sieve
Filter out all the ugliness and what is even left?
Half a human? Even less? That's not daft or deft
Theft of intellectual property, space in my mind
Blankness being taken over by steps that over wind
And everything falls apart, and everything crumbles
And the walls shudder and humbly I will continue to huddle
Crawl space, bold face, yes I am misplaced
This race, this pace, giving meaning to human waste
Stress builds up better than pre-school blocks now
And there's still a mess even if you knock it down
My fingers grip with the power of a vice
But my vices will remind me that I am not that nice
So I lose it and I fall. I leave without my all
Bleach my sins and let my voice echo off the wall
The heart grows 5 sizes bigger that day
But what if you start off with no heart to play?
Zero times anything is zero
Basically my life summed up, bad luck at a casino
Spin the wheel, roll the dice, flip the cards
The odds against you are stacked. This is way too hard
And that's what I told her, I want you to rub my head
I want you to tell me things will be alright instead
Hold me tighter, the cracks are getting bigger
Squeeze me too tight and I'll go off like a trigger
Walk that fine balance, I'm on the cool team
But without any friends is what it seems
So loneliness is my closest acquaintance
I don't want to say friends, because I'm afraid it's
Going to come true. Going to be reality
If I revisit and revise all my different strategies
Will you be mad at me? Will you rattle me?
Will you shake me until I go numb? Is this how it will be?!
I'm a mess. Even though I look clean
You think I'm nice. Even though I am mean
You think this, but I'll say it's that.
You want to chit but I won't want to chat
I want to talk. I want to see you face to face
I want to hear your voice. Please don't make haste
The fire is so warm, the sky is so clear
The stars look down on us only because they fear
They're a captive audience looking on stage
Let's perform for them, give them something for the age
So what do you say? Do we say good night?
Will we say good morning? Well, we might.
And if that's the case, let's be brief
I've got things on my chest locked up, be my thief
I'm afraid you'll pawn away those pieces of me
For everybody to have, but I'm willing to see


And if I need to return, I've got my receipt.