Oh hard as hell black stone as he stood Intellect like statue with face in the sun Don't toy with the heavens, sing to the satellites Cold steel slicing up the ruins Live by words, die by spite My mind is no more mine The world is a tomb, killed by critics Pride with no shame, aim with no guide A spear in the author Another puppet dies, the audience sighs More blood please for the turbines Those lost in the dark shall find new shadows to chase But never even wonder where the light comes from My momma told me I was cold steel in my darkest hour Then said "friend, how does it feel?" This dirt, this dream run dry This idea to sell, what success feels like The world is turning under your feet, will you be swept away or hit the whirlwind? Concrete holds the memory, but cracks refuse to slip through Waiting for an earthquake to swallow my work
What came first, the bullet or factory? What came last, the ad or the article?
I want to be normal, not mediocre I want to be principle, but not a martyr Want to be a planet, not a super nova Live my life like a novel, not a cheap poster Don't want to be every man, cause every man ain't me Happily married in a cabin, but not lost at sea So many sycophants get more props than me, that's what we call democracy But it's corrosive nonsense, we got hopeless posture This corpse will sing underwater Six years in the millennium, I'm loosing my defense against the pendulum Cynicism at my center, a thousand bloody pens marching my medulla Plague after plague, the crows want to kill me but the feast remain staged Painstakingly I push my pen to say all the things that don't make sense to me
Terror in the water and the drowning hope Bullet proof career in a rifle scope
The world is a sham, the salt in my wounds And the voices say I blast fiend, cause they kiss no crosses My father was a fisherman and I'm a fisher man's son Now the fish are gone Who needs a ocean, we got farms Bloody in the bathroom with The Will to Power Fumbling I rumble wicked notes, these solitary jeers just devoured Rent is paid, took a few years off and my mind is gray When I'm lonesome, wrote some lonesome shit Not late for the train, it was hijacked Whoever mocks me makes me stock up ammo No more manifestos, the world ain't hollow It's full of pillows, full of people like to make fossils, hostiles But you said you had no apostles, fall of your cross they want to talk In the electric chair, nervously they watch you Wanted Hollywood, but I was mostly stone Made of stars, so I have no home It's a wasteland, a place where you face for months at a time People changes sides like the drop of a penny When I was full, the friends are many When the sky turns dry, hell's a short trip It'll hail you taxi