If you're discontent to know you world's a pile of shit
Listen to a riddle that'll tickle every bit of it
HA HA HA
Ape shall not murder – ape wasn't so sure
Bad ape you made a mistake
Annihilation in a cannibal – war
Well cultivation might have served you
Might have raised you up unscathed
If you had called that fucker by its name
Did you listen to the arbiter's beck and call?
Did you find what you were looking for or not at all?
NOT AL ALL
Ape shall not murder – ape take the cure
Bad ape you made a mistake
Annihilation in a cannibal – war
Culture might have cured you
And raised you up unscathed
If you had called that fucker by its name
Say the name
Say the name
Say the name
when you're sitting alone, frown and groan
over your bad day
when you're laughing with peers
forget your years, then be on your way
but don't forget, all the while
that you've crossed the social mile
and a million days is worth one good laugh
but don't forget, all the while
that you've crossed the social mile
and a million days is worth one good laugh.
So proud of history, replete with sanctity
Orbs in their harmony, they sing their code to me
Have you ever heard yourself, the orbit that you are in?
The terse, oppressive blanket that's instilled here by our spin
It's misery and famine, it's a force we cannot see
Misery and famine, it compels us naturally
Misery and famine, great ellipse, we bend to thee
Misery and famine, just accept your vagrancy
Others who bear no name, who feel that life's a game
My verse they will defame, we suffer all the same
They pay no regard to their position or their speed
But the firmament still covers them with its malevolent seed
It's misery and famine, it's a force we cannot see
Misery and famine, it compels us naturally
Misery and famine, great ellipse, we bend to thee
Misery and famine, just accept your vagrancy
You look for meaning in things no one comprehends
You feel no affinity to the rabble we're in
Sources of inquiry have nothing to portend
They will perplex us all until the coming end, until the coming end
A feeling of despair, hungry and full of care
We resent everywhere the fortune that we share
This earth could be a better place is a concept I condone
Given our pathetic course, our destiny is known
It's misery and famine, it's a force we cannot see
Misery and famine, it compels us naturally
Misery and famine, great ellipse, we bend to thee
Misery and famine, just accept your vagrancy
Misery and famine
Misery and famine
Misery and famine
Misery and famine
You're obsessed and distressed 'cause you can't make any sense
of the ludicrous nonsense and incipient senescence
that will deem your common sense useless
This ain't no recess!
I want to believe in you but my plan keeps falling through
I know I have to face the harshness, grin and bare the truth
And I have to walk this mile in my own shoes (and I'm no fool!)
I'm materialist
A full-blown realist
And I guess I'm full of doubt
So I'm prone to have it out with you
I'm materialist
There ain't no fear in this
It's there for all to see
So don't talk of hidden mystery with me
Mind over matter it really don't matter
if the street's idle chatter turns your heart-strings to tatters
Flatter hopes don't flatter and soul batter won't congeal
to mend a life that is shattered into shards
Was it in the cards?
The process of belief is an elixir when you're weak
I must confess, at times I indulge it on the sneak
But generally my outlook? not so bleak (and I'm not meek!)
I'm materialist, call me a humanist
I guess I'm full of doubt
So I'll gladly have it out with you
I'm materialist
I ain't no deist
It's there for all to see so don't talk of hidden mystery with me
Like Rome under Nero, our future's one big zero
Recycling the past to meet immediate needs
And through it all we amble forth to persevere and climb
Our mountains of regret to sow our seeds
I'm materialist!
I'm materialist!
I'm materialist!
I'm materialist!
Look around the country, an abundance you'll find of
Mediocre minds
Sift trough the fodder as the sane justice declines because of
Mediocre minds
Shrouded under cover, the most flamboyant guise hides a
Mediocre mind
You got yours but you can never bend mine with your
Mediocre minds
When the cry foul you had better watch out becaus you never know which
aptitude they'r griping about
Don't act too smart for their stenoscopic ways
You'll be discarded away
Reason's not to be what the privileged define with their
Mediocre minds
So many sighted people act so helplessly
Blind from their
Mediocre minds
If you want attention then you will be asked to bend but the surest
insurrection is enlightenment
Then you can live outside inharmoniously
An enemy
rescue me when I get too deep,
talk to me there's nothing to tell,
Everyone, is a hypocrite,
look to me,
I'll save your soul
Now somebody out there must be
reading my mail
Cuz' everybody knows
I'm a man with a mission,
coming to your town today,
I can damm you to fiery perdition,
Cuz' I'm a man with a mission
Follow me, when you give up,
Work for me, it'll serve you well
Everyone is a hypocrite, come to me,
I'll save your soul
Now somebody out there must be
tapping my phone,
Cuz everybody knows
I'm a man with a mission,
I'm gonna fly you away,
high above the noise and competition,
yeah I'm a man with a mission,
Passing through your town today
I condemn you
to fiery perdition,
yeah I'm a man with a mission
if I'm a monster,
I am a willing one,
this roller coaster ride is an enticing one,
on the tip of a continuum flowing wavelike
through disorder carry me like a vessel to water
everything you see leaves a mark on your soul,
everything you feel leaves a mark on your soul,
everything you touch leaves a mark on your soul,
everything you make leaves a mark on your soul
if I can touch it,
I can destroy it,
if it's imaginable to some degree,
I can become it,
like a hungry turning vortex that just flickers to existence,
consuming bits and pieces until I'm finally extinguished
everyone you see leaves a mark on your soul,
everyone you bare leaves a mark on your soul,
everyone you touch leaves a mark on your soul,
the systems of life hum accordingly
every day, every year, every century
but, everywhere humans go things get worse and worse
can you tell through the smoke of the dirty city?
the jungle was once a tranquil hideaway
for the king of trees and the mountains themselves
but man those things sell a million dollars a pound
cut them up, dry them out, good display for the shelves
why can't we just leave them alone?
who is the animal?
who is that dangerous beast?
why were the other ones made?
i know it wasn't just for our feast
and now they're down to 250 lone souls
they're a breed of a losing generation it seems
the killers are ourselves so you know who to blame
it was man with his plan and his frightening greed
i don't think we'll ever leave them alone.
Pilgrim, those are dry and bitter tears,
And lonely eyes look way beyond your years.
Pilgrim, did you drink the mercury?
Your lips turn blue and you’re strugglin’ just to see.
You were too far gone to carry on,
Now your life has stalled,
As you march ahead yet go no place at all.
Pilgrim, when you left them all behind,
The loneliness destroyed your able mind.
Pilgrim, see the writing on the door?
It’s takin’ you back to a place you were before.
And the next in line, paces his stride, waiting for your fall,
With a hope that lies in a hidden master’s call.
Pious eyes, ignoring passersby,
And go to their grave.
Don’t despair, this world of toil and care,
This pilgrim lost his way.
Pilgrim, will you ever find your call?
Is truth so pure that you’re willing to risk it all?
Pious eyes, ignoring passersby,
And go to their grave.
Don’t despair, this world of toil and care,
This pilgrim lost his way.
uddenly, it came to me
a potent dosage of reality
i saw myself in the broad daylight
and it made me think
about life
im not the kinda guy
who nods his head
with closed eyes
i scoff at labels
i defy censuses
and despise group mentality
all along i through
that this was only human
but i know now that
i'm in the minority
i'm lookin' in
now i think in relation to
my fellow man
and what strives to do we fail to see
theres no compromise
our evolution
