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(Release)
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(Release)
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[Gift of Gab]
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Prevalent melanin elephant bailin
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And carrying sedatives that'll give average lettermen callouses
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Wrecking with savageness, catalyst
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battling rappers'll stagger right after the dagger is left in it
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Cherish ? (Release) Attica
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Shatter your algebra with calculus (give it up)
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Damage your pattern I'm pounding you so fabulous (give it up)
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Enough is enough is enough and I'm busting up outta this shell
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In eruption and rupture your structure the fuck with you (Release)
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Up in you and cut you a costumer
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Huffing and puffing, discussing absolutely nothing, disgusting
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Plus I'm feeling me rushing up in your country percussion
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No woman gets struck in the boundaries
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Wake up if your lunging, I'm something, you're nothing (Release)
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Now come see grunting, I'm hunting
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For one emcees running
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I'm stomping my foot through your army
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They couldn't have stopped me with shoties
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Oddity, why did he, why do these entire societies inside of societies
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And survivors still remain alive (Release) emcees
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Thriving to flow, opting to go
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five hundred and fifty-five syllables to go
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Split em' with subliminal intentional dentinal pro
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Unlimited flow unriveted, inhibited, vindited
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Now you can't get rid of it like (Release) business
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Magnificent, intimate, in it with, in a minute, gonna be in a nicks
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In it with a gig, big fat heads like eggs Benedict
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Pigs lick shit, rip with words in a bismol energy
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It's time I society beats release
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[Saul Williams]
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Inner breathlessness, outer restlessness
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By the time I caught up to freedom I was out of breath
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Grandma asked me what I'm running for
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I guess I'm out for the same thing the sun is sunning for
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What mothers birth their youngens for
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And some say Jesus coming for
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For all I know the earth is spinning slow
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Suns at half mast 'cause masses ain't aglow
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On bended knee, prostrate before an altered tree
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I've made the forest suit me
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Tables and chairs
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Papers and prayers
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Matter versus spirit
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A metal ladder
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A wooden cross
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A plastic bottle of water
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A mandala encased in glass
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A spirit encased in flesh
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Sound from shaped hollows
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The thickest of mucus released from heightened passion
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A man that cries in his sleep
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A truth that has gone out of fashion
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A mode of expression
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A paint splattered wall
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A carton of cigarettes
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A bouquet of corpses
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A dying forest
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A nurtured garden
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A privatized prison
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A candle with a broken wick
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A puddle that reflects the sun
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A piece of paper with my name on it
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I'm surrounded
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I surrender
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All
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All that I am I have been
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All I have been has been a long time coming
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I am becoming all that I am
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The spittle that surrounds the mouth-piece of the flute
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Unheard, yet felt
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A gathered wetness
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A quiet moisture
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Sound trapped in a bubble
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Released into wind
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Wind fellows and land merchants
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We are history's detergent
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Water soluble, light particles, articles of cleansing breath
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Articles amending death
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These words are not tools of communication
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They are shards of metal
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Dropped from eight story windows
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They are waterfalls and gas leaks
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Aged thoughts rolled in tobacco leaf
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The tools of a trade
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Barbers barred, barred of barters
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Catch phrases and misunderstandings
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But they are not what I feel when I am alone
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Surrounded by everything and nothing
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And there isn't a word or phrase to be caught
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A verse to be recited
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A mantra to fill my being in those moments
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I am blankness, the contained center of an "O"
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The pyramidic containment of an "A"
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I stand in the middle of all that I have learned
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All that I have memorized
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All that I've known by heart
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Unable to reach any of it
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There is no sadness
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There is no bliss
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It is a forgotten memory
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A memorable escape route that only is found by not looking
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There, in the spine of the dictionary the words are worthless
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They are a mere weight pressing against my thoughtlessness
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But then, who else can speak of thoughtlessness with such confidence
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Who else has learned to sling these ancient ideas
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like dead rats held by their tails
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