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Featuring Ronald Reagan and Ayatollah Khomeini
lyrics
a parachute and a pair of shoes, we're goners
we gotta go? I'ma do the honors. where to start?
shit's a knifethrow, blindfold, shakey like I’m 80
crazy with the maybes but I'm done with cautious
once a wise old man told me only time told
now my time's a little closer to over, and I'm sold
the wisdom of the wizened
he said kid, you gon be the victim and the villain, that's living, it's a rhythm
just a blink in infinity then all is forgiven
an immense landscape of events
intense, random and happen in tandem
a little too on cue, like somebody planned em
meanwhile we all dash into the chasm
looming, unassuming, dragging our ass in
they say the game don't change, only the players
it don't change but it change us.. the storm chaser
Khomeini tried to pop me, Kadafi tried to off me
now they both RIP, all apologies
quake tried to break me, Katrina tried to put me in the lake
she's in the past, three cheers for the escapee
LA put a gun to my head, it touched me, Aldous Huxley in a brave new world
suddenly the luxury of peace of mind evaporated in front of me
peace left years before, the gun put it bluntly
like getting ran out your homeland, rushed me, got Salman Rushdied
to our adopted country, sole custody
break it, you buy it
like nine million black and latin middle eastern and koreans in LA, it's a riot
head to the curb and bite it, yeah that's all sport
eses shaving their heads in the handball court
drugs is their bloodline and oil is mine
we're just boats in the ocean, floating with the tide
left NY a week before the towers came down
Turkey just before them bombs blew, heard it was the same sound
the world's a crime scene, we're living in the evidence
blame that god of vengeance the reverends keep mentioning
human beings stay forgetting and it’s a blessing
all we gotta do is get through the next two seconds
running hard as time gnaws at our facades
the storm chaser, the pouring rain is my applause.
credits
from GREAT EXPECTATIONS,
released January 1, 2013
Written in Congo Square, New Orleans, while a fat guy barfed liquor on a bench
Beat by @thelavenderroom
Recorded in @KnowOne's closet in New Orleans with Natasha Black on the couch. Engineered by @quickiemart
Mixed by @yaminallday
