Dedicated/Points of Authority/A Place for My Head (Live in Taipei 2009)
Scene between the green hills, Clouds pull away and the sunlight's revealed, People don't talk about keeping it real, It's understood that they actually will And intoxicated and stimulated emcees Staring into trees, paranoid, are gone in the breeze, Watch them flee, hip-hop hits Take a walk with me and what you'll see Is a land where the sand's made of crushed up wax And the sky beyond you is Krylon Blue And everybody speaks in a dialect of rhyme, Emcees have left materialism behind them, Meanwhile I just grip my mic And hope me and my team make it through all right Because say what you will and say what you might But don't ignore who it's for at the end of the night
Forfeit the game / Before somebody else Takes you out of the frame / Puts your name to shame Cover up your face / You can’t run the race The pace is too fast / You just won't last
You love the way I look at you While taking pleasure in the awful things you put me through You take away if I give in My life My pride is broken
You like to think you’re never wrong (You live what you’ve learned) You have to act like you’re someone (You live what you’ve learned) You want someone to hurt like you (You live what you’ve learned) You want to share what you’ve been through (You live what you’ve learned)
You love the things I say I’ll do The way I’ll hurt myself again just to get back at you You take away when I give in / my life My pride is broken
You like to think you’re never wrong (You live what you’ve learned) You want to act like you’re someone (You live what you’ve learned) You want someone to hurt like you (You live what you’ve learned) You want to share what you’ve been through (You live what you’ve learned)
Forfeit the game / Before somebody else Takes you out of the frame / Puts your name to shame Cover up your face / You can’t run the race The pace is too fast / You just won't last
You like to think you’re never wrong (You live what you’ve learned) You want to act like you’re someone (You live what you’ve learned) You want someone to hurt like you (You live what you’ve learned) You want to share what you’ve been through (You live what you’ve learned)
You like to think you’re never wrong / forfeit the game (You live what you’ve learned) You want to act like you’re someone / forfeit the game (You live what you’ve learned) You want someone to hurt like you / forfeit the game (You live what you’ve learned) You want to share what you’ve been through / forfeit the game (You live what you’ve learned)
I watch how the moon sits in the sky On a dark night shining with the light from the sun The sun doesn't give light to the moon Assuming the moon's going to owe it one It makes me think of how you act to me You do favors and then rapidly You just turn around and start asking me about Things you want back from me
I'm sick of the tension, sick of the hunger Sick of you acting like I owe you this Find another place to feed your greed While I find a place to rest