It's high voltage you can't shake the shock Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out It's high voltage you can't shake the shock Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out It's high voltage you can't shake the shock Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out It's high voltage you can't shake the shock Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out
I've been taking into crates ever since I was living in space Before the rat race, before monkeys had human traits Mastered numerology and big bang theology Preformed lobotomies with telekinetic psychology Invented the mic so I could start blessing it And chin checkin' kids to make my point like an impressionist Many men have tried to shake us But I twist mic cords to double helixes and show them what I'm made of I buckle knees like leg braces Cast the spell of instrumental-ness and all of the emcees that hate us So try on, leave you without a shoulder to cry on From now to infinity let icons be bygones I fire bomb ghostly notes haunt this I've tried threats but moved on to a promise I stomp shit with or without an accomplish (Mixed media) The stamp of approval is on this
It's high voltage you can't shake the shock Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out It's high voltage you can't shake the shock Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out
Akira, put a kink in the backbones of clones with microphones Never satisfy my rhyme jones Spraying bright day over what you might say Blood type craillon Technicolor type A On highways with road rage I'm patient to win The cage and the tin to bounce all around In surround sound devouring the scene Subliminal gangrene paintings Overall the same things sing songs karaoke copy madness Break bones verbally with sticks and stone tactics Fourth dimension, combat convention Write rhymes at ease while the tracks stand at attention (Attention) Meant to put you away with the pencil Pistol, official, 16 line rhyme missile While you risk it all, I pick out of your flaws Spin, blah blah blah blah You can say you saw
It's high voltage you can't shake the shock Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out It's high voltage you can't shake the shock Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out It's high voltage you can't shake the shock Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out It's high voltage you can't shake the shock Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out
It's high voltage you can't shake the shock Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out It's high voltage you can't shake the shock Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out It's high voltage you can't shake the shock Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out It's high voltage you can't shake the shock Because nobody wants it to stop, check it out
There are just too many times that people have tried to look inside of me Wondering what I think of you and I protect you out of courtesy Too many times that I've held on what I needed to push away Afraid to say what was on my mind afraid to say what I need to say Too many things that you said about me when I'm not around You think having the upper hand means you gotta keep putting me down But I've had too many standoffs with you it's about as much as I can stand So I'm waiting until the upper hand is mine
[Chorus] (One minute you're on top) Next you're not watch you drop (Making your heart stop) Just before you hit the floor (One minute you're on top) Next you're not missed a shot (Making you're heart stop) You think you've won (And then its all gone)
So many people like me put so much trust in all your lies So concerned with what you think to just say what we feel inside So many people like me walk on eggshells all day long All I know is that all I want is to feel like I'm not stepped on There are so many things you say that make me feel you crossed the line What goes up will surely fall and I'm counting down the time Cause I've had so many standoffs with you it's about as much as I can stand So I'm waiting until the upper hand is mine
[Chorus] (One minute you're on top) Next you're not watch you drop (Making your heart stop) Just before you hit the floor (One minute you're on top) Next you're not missed a shot (Making you're heart stop) You think you've won (And then its all gone) (And then he's all gone) (And then its all gone) (And then he's all gone) (Now it's all gone)
I know I'll never trust a single thing you say You knew your lies would divide us but you lied anyway And all the lies have got you floating up above us all But what goes up has got to fall
[Chorus] (One minute you're on top) Next you're not watch you drop (Making your heart stop) Just before you hit the floor (One minute you're on top) Next you're not missed a shot (Making you're heart stop) You think you've won (And then its all gone) (And then he's all gone) (And then its all gone) (And then he's all gone) (Now it's all gone)
It starts with [one] One thing, I don't know why It doesn't even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind i designed this rhyme to explain in due time All I know Time is a valuable thing Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings Watch it count down to the end of the day The clock ticks life away It's so unreal Didn't look out below Watch the time go right out the window Trying to hold on, didn't even know I wasted it all just to watch you go I kept everythin inside And even though I tried It all fell apart What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when i [tried so hard]
Tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn't even matter I had to fall to lose it all But in the end it doesn't even matter
One thing, I don't know why It doesn't even matter how hard you try Keep that in mind i designed this rhyme to remind myself how (I tried so hard) I tried so hard In spite of the way you were mocking me Acting like I was part of your property Remembering all the times you fought with me I'm surprised it got so [far] Things aren't the way they were before You wouldn't even recognize me anymore Not that you knew me back then But it all comes back to me in the end I kept everything inside And even though I tried It all fell apart What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I [tried so hard]
Tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn't even matter I had to fall to lose it all But in the end it doesn't even matter
I put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go For all this There's only one thing you should know
I put my trust in you Pushed as far as I can go For all this There's only one thing you should know
I tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn't even matter I had to fall to lost it all But in the end it doesn't even matter
[Woman] [Intro] I knew I was being threatened Do you think it was worth holding out? I mean I've heard some pretty ugly things about those guys Ugly stories
[X-ecutioners] Watch them flee...watch them flee Rap rap rap up Watch them flee Hip-Hop hits And you do it like this
[Mike Shinoba] [Verse 1] It's going down The rhythm projects 'round the next sound Reflects the complex hybrid dialect now Detects the mesh of many elements compressed down The melting pot of a super-futureesque style The combination of vocal caress With lungs the gasp for breath From emotional stress With special effects And a distorted collage Carefully lodged between beats of rhythmic barrage It's going down The logical progression on the timeline The seperation narrowed down to a fine line To blur the edges so they blend together properly Take you on an audible odyssey Now it's going down A logical progression on the timeline The seperation narrowed down to a fine line To blur the edges so they blend together properly Take you on an audible odyssey Now it's going down
[X-ecutioners with Mike Shinoba] [Chorus] Put put...put it up I said it goes like this And you do it like this It's going down Put put...put it up I said it goes goes like this And you do it like this It's going down
[Mike Shinoba] [Verse 3] Once again it is Composed sentences All together venomous The four elements of natural force Projected daily through the sound of the source Everybody on board as we blend The sword with the pen The mightiest the weapons Swinging right from the chin To elevate of mental states Long gone with the wind To defend men from shoddy imitation pretends It's going down Stalence emulation readily Trekking through the weaponry Of the pure pedigree Cleverly seeing through whatever is ahead of me Whatever the weather be We invent the steadily It's going down sub-terrestrial high I rhyme regiment that's calling the shots Exectution of colloborative plots Ready to bring the seperation of style to a stop
A logical progression on the timeline The seperation narrowed down to a fine line To blur the edges so they blend together properly Take you on an audible odyssey Now it's going down
[X-ecutioners with Mike Shinoba] [Chorus] Put put...put it up I said it goes like this And you do it like this It's going down Put put...put it up I said it goes like this And you do it like this It's going down
[X-ecutioners] X-men 'bout to blast off world wide Yo it's a request only X-men 'bout to blast off world wide It's built from scratch Album in stores soon 'Bout to blast off world wide And you do it like this Just like this
[X-ecutioners] Put put...put it up I said it goes like this And you do it like this It's going down Put put...put it up I said it goes like this And you do it like this It's going down
[X-ecutioners, Mike Shinoba] Like this Like this Like this Like this Like this
When I pretend everything is what I want it to be I look exactly like what you always wanted to see When I pretend, I can't forget about the criminal I am Stealing second after second just cause I know I can but I can't pretend this is the way it'll stay I'm just (Lying to bend the truth) I can't pretend I'm who you want me to be, so I'm
[Chorus] (Lying my way from you) No no turning back now (I wanna be pushed aside so let me go) No no turning back now (Let me take back my life I'd rather be all alone) No turning back now (Anywhere on my own cuz I can see) No no turning back now (The very worst part of you is me)
I remember what they taught to me Remember condescending talk for who I ought to be Remember listening to all of that and this again So I pretended up a person who was fittin' in And now you think this person really is me and I'm (Trying to bend the truth) Cuz the more I push the more I'm pulling away cuz I'm
[Chorus] (Lying my way from you) No no turning back now (I wanna be pushed aside so let me go) No no turning back now (Let me take back my life I'd rather be all alone) No turning back now (Anywhere on my own cuz I can see) No no turning back now (The very worst part of you) (The very worst part of you is ME)
This isn't what I wanted to be, I never thought that what I said would have you running from me Like This This isn't what I wanted to be, I never thought that what I said would have you running from me Like This This isn't what I wanted to be, I never thought that what I said would have you running from me Like This This isn't what I wanted to be, I never thought that what I said would have you running from me Like This
[Chorus] (You) No turning back now (I wanna be pushed aside so let me go) No no turning back now (Let me take back my life I'd rather be all alone) No turning back now (Anywhere on my own cuz I can see) No no turning back now (The very worst part of you) (The very worst part of you is me)
Caught up against the war again Time to chill in the bar again Never seize to amaze in minds So I just sleep sleep sleep please don't Wake me till the morning after [2x]
Cut my peace (?) by the flower again Lick my wounds like a dove again Is that a light at the end of the tunnel That I see I see please let it be but don't Wake me till the morning after [3x]
Oh I'm so tired there has got to be an end to the pain I feel when I'm awake and alive alive alive alive and not dreamin'
Caught up against the war again Time to chill in the bar again Is that a light at the end of the tunnel That I see I see please let it be but don't Wake me till the morning after [3x]
Oh I'm so tired there has got to be an end to the pain I feel when I'm Awake and alive alive alive Alive and not dreamin'
This is my December, this is my time of the year This is my December, this is all so clear This is my December, this is my snow-covered home This is my December, this is me alone
And I Just wish that I didn't feel like there was something I missed And I Take back all the things I said to make you feel like that And I Just wish that I didn't feel like there was something I missed And I Take back all the things that I said to you
And I give it all away, just to have somewhere to go to Give it all away, to have someone to come home to
This is my December, these are my snow-covered trees This is me pretending this is all I need
And I Just wish that I didn't feel like there was something I missed And I Take back all the things I said to make you feel like that And I Just wish that I didn't feel like there was something I missed And I Take back all the things that I said to you
And I give it all away, just to have somewhere to go to Give it all away, to have someone to come home to
This is my December, this is my time of the year This is my December, this is oh so real
Give it all away, just to have somewhere to go to Give it all away, to have someone to come home to Give it all away, just to have somewhere to go to Give it all away, to have someone to come home to
Yo, peep the style and the kids checking for it The number one question is how could you ignore it And drop right back in the cut over basement tracks Rap stack got you back in the sub black Rewind that we just rolling with the rhythm Rise from the ashes of stylist division With these non-stop lyrics of life living Not to be forgotten but still unforgiving But in the meantime there are those who wanna talk this and that So I suppose that it gets to a point where feelings gotta get hurt And get dirty with the people spreading the dirt it goes
[Chorus] (Tried to give you warning but everyone ignores me) Told you everything loud and clear (But nobody's listening) (Called to you so clearly but you don't want to hear me) Told you everything loud and clear (But nobody's listening)
I got a heart full of pain, head full of stress Head full of anger, held in my chest And everything left's a waste of time I hate my rhymes, but hate everyone else's more I'm riding on the back of this pressure Guessing that it's better I can't keep myself together Because all of this stress gave me something to write on The pain gave me something I could set my sights on Never forget the blood sweat and tears The uphill struggle over years the fear and Trash talking and the people it was to And the people that started it just like you
[Chorus] (Tried to give you warning but everyone ignores me) Told you everything loud and clear (But nobody's listening) (Called to you so clearly but you don't want to hear me) Told you everything loud and clear (But nobody's listening)
I got a heart full of pain, head full of stress Head full of anger, held in my chest Uphill struggle Blood sweat n tears Nothing to gain Everything to fear
Heart full of pain, head full of stress Head full of anger, held in my chest Uphill struggle Blood sweat n tears Nothing to gain Everything to fear
Heart full of pain
[Chorus] (Tried to give you warning but everyone ignores me) Told you everything loud and clear (But nobody's listening) (Called to you so clearly but you don't want to hear me) Told you everything loud and clear (But nobody's listening)
I got a heart full of pain, head full of stress (Nobody's listening) Head full of anger, held in my chest (Nobody's listening) Uphill struggle Blood sweat n tears (Nobody's listening) Nothing to gain Everything to fear (Nobody's listening)
Scratching Conclusion (Cu-coming at you from every side)
I'm tired of being what you want me to be Feeling so faithless lost under the surface Don't know what you're expecting of me Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes (Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow) Every step I take is another mistake to you (Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow)
[Chorus] I've become so numb I can't feel you there I've become so tired so much more aware I've becoming this all I want to do Is be more like me and be less like you
Can't you see that you're smothering me Holding too tightly afraid to lose control Cause everything that you thought I would be Has fallen apart right in front of you (Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow) Every step that I take is another mistake to you (Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow) And every second I waste is more than I can take
[Chorus] I've become so numb I can't feel you there I've become so tired so much more aware I've becoming this all I want to do Is be more like me and be less like you
And I know I may end up failing too But I know You were just like me with someone disappointed in you
[Chorus] I've become so numb I can't feel you there I've become so tired so much more aware I've becoming this all I want to do Is be more like me and be less like you
[Chorus] I've become so numb I can't feel you there Is everything what you want me to be I've become so numb I can't feel you there Is everything what you want me to be
I cannot take this anymore. Same never thing I said before. All these words they make no sense. I found this in ignorance. Less I hear the less you say. You'll find that out anyway.
Just like before.
Everything you say to me... Takes me one step closer to the edge, and I'm about to break. I need a little room to breath... Cause I'm one step closer to the edge, I'm about to break.
I found the answers are so clear. Wish I could find a way to disappear. All these thoughts they make no sense. I found this in ignorance. Nothing seems to go away. Over and over again.
Just like before.
Everything you say to me... Takes me one step closer to the edge, and I'm about to break. I need a little room to breath... Cause I'm one step closer to the edge, I'm about to break. Everything you say to me... Takes me one step closer to the edge, and I'm about to break. I need a little room to breath... Cause I'm one step closer to the edge, and I'm about to... break.
Shut up when I'm talkin to you. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up when I'm talkin to you. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up, I'm about to break.
Everything you say to me... Takes me one step closer to the edge, and I'm about to break. I need a little room to breath... Cause I'm one step closer to the edge, I'm about to break. Everything you say to me... Takes me one step closer to the edge, and I'm about to break. I need a little room to breath... Cause I'm one step closer to the edge, and I'm about to... break.
Why does it feel like night today? Something in here's not right today. Why am I so uptight today? Paranoia's all I got left I don't know what stressed me first Or how the pressure was fed But I know just what it feels like To have a voice in the back of my head It's like a face that I hold inside A face that awakes when I close my eyes A face watches every time I lie A face that laughs every time I fall (And watches everything) So I know that when it's time to sink or swim That the face inside is hearing me Right underneath my skin
It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my back It's like a whirlwind inside of my head It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin
I know I've got a face in me Points out all my mistakes to me You've got a face on the inside too and Your paranoia's probably worse I don't know what set me off first but I know what I can't stand Everybody acts like the fact of the matter is I can't add up to what you can but Everybody has a face that they hold inside A face that awakes when I close my eyes A face watches every time they lie A face that laughs every time they fall (And watches everything) So you know that when it's time to sink or swim That the face inside is watching you too Right inside your skin
Chorus
The face inside is right beneath your skin (3x)
The sun goes down I feel the light betray me (Repeat until end)
Part of me won't go away Everyday reminded how much I hate it Weighted against the consequences Can't live without it so it's senseless Wanna cut it out of my soul And just live with a gaping hole Take control of my life And wash out all the burnt taste I made the problems in the first place Hang my head low cause it's part of me You hardly see right next to the heart of me Heard of me the routine scar New cuts cover where the old ones are And now I'm sick of this I can't stand the sandpaper thoughts that grade away on my sanity I rather not even be then the man that's staring in the mirror through me
Cut myself free willingly Stop just what's killing me Cut myself free willingly Stop just what's killing me Cut myself free willingly Stop just what's killing me Cut myself free willingly Stop just what's killing me
I feel it everyday I feel I made my way I feel it swell up inside, swell up inside Swallowing me
It can't be frightening if you've never felt it Once it's been dealt with you feel like you've been touched by something angelic And then melted down into a pool of peace Cease to be the animal you used to be Remove the broken parts you know were wrong And feel the karma when the problem's all gone And then you start to see another piece of yourself that you can't let be And that reason will last fight to free yourself Take it to the depths of the bottom of the well And now you know you can choose to lose the part in your heart Where your insides bruise You can live if you're willing to Put a stop to just what's killing you
Cut myself free willingly Stop just what's killing me Cut myself free willingly Stop just what's killing me Cut myself free willingly Stop just what's killing me Cut myself free willingly Stop just what's killing me
I feel it everyday I feel I made my way I feel it swell up inside, swell up inside Swallowing me
Alive in me, inside of me, a part of me screams away silently This part of me won't go away, part of me won't go away
Everywhere I look around I see how everyone aught to be Every time I see myself I see there's always something wrong with me
I feel it everyday I feel I made my way I feel it swell up inside, swell up inside Swallowing me I feel it everyday I feel I made my way I feel it swell up inside, swell up inside Swallowing me
I feel it swell up inside, swell up inside, swallowing me I feel it swell up inside, swell up inside, swallowing me
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 can'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 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 want to act like you're someone You want someone to hurt like you You want to share what you've been through (You live what you learn)
I’ve lied to you the same way that I always do this is the last smile that I’ll fake for the sake of being with you (everything falls apart, even the people who’ve been around eventually break down)
the sacrifice of hiding in a lie (everything has to end, you’re so fine, we’re out of time left to watch it all unwind)
the sacrifice is never knowing why I never walked away why I blame myself this way now I see that testing me pushes me away why I never walked away why I blame myself this way now I see that testing me pushes me away
I’ve tried like you to do everything you wanted to this is the last time I’ll take the blame for the sake of being with you (everything falls apart, even the people who’ve been around eventually break down)
the sacrifice of hiding in a lie (everything has to end, you’re so fine, we’re out of time left to watch it all unwind)
the sacrifice is never knowing why I never walked away why I blame myself this way now I see that testing me pushes me away why I never walked away why I blame myself this way now I see that testing me pushes me away
(we’re all out of time, it’s so fine how it all unwinds) the sacrifice of hiding in a lie (we’re all out of time, it’s so fine how it all unwinds) the sacrifice is never knowing why I never walked away why I blame myself this way now I see that testing me pushes me away why I never walked away why I blame myself this way now I see that testing me pushes me away pushes me away
Graffiti decorations Underneath a sky of dust A constant wave of tension On top of broken trust The lessons that you taught me I learn were never true
Now I find myself in question They point the finger at me again Guilty by association You point the finger at me again
Paper bags and angry voices Under a sky of dust Another wave of tension Has more than filled me up All my talk of taking action These words were never true
Now I find myself in question They point the finger at me again Guilty by association You point the finger at me again
I wanna run away Never say goodbye I wanna know the truth Instead of wondering why I wanna know the answers No more lies I wanna shut the door And open up my mind
