Lyrics by - Otep
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T.R.I.C.
To all u weak mcs.... all u hardcore wannabe'z
If u step into the ring be prepared to swing!!
WHUT??
Me be the best to impress with dictation?
Too far fetched? beyond your imagination?
i'll rise to the occasion launching an invasion
-- enter in your mental like a viral infestation
wurdz be abrasive -- joints eye be lacin
sacrificin mics--ignite the celebration
its just amazing, poetically we blazing,
xen & otep, a volatile combination
we DESTROY LIKE REVELATIONS!
styles be liquid and flow like irrigation
so make the preparation,
defeat is bittersweet, its all u'll be tastin
sounding battle stations - my war face in place
total annihilation - your existence been erased
its the renaissance - time to switch up and change
the path the paragraphs infiltrate your brain
T.R.I.C.
risin from the ashes to lead the wretched masses
back to the sufi shack - defyin all the fascists
wurdz burn with passion -- mentally enhancin
i'm david to goliath or delilah to your samson
kickin ass like cassius -- spreadin rhymes like rashes
the satellites in flight - how long before it crashes
falling like avalanches - crumbled and crushed
my wild womyn get to sinning -- know the power of us
i'm callin your bluff -- is it freedom or death?
we're gettin it on in Babylon - chokin on gods breath
the infinite connects true soldiers alive
the tribe will survive when armageddon arrives
the revolution is coming
TAKE NO PRISONERS
the revolution is coming
COWARDS BEWARE FUCK!
my war serpents rattle when its time to battle
(mental midgets)
eye got a fist full of shit for u flies to feast
u lost control of your soul cuz your minds deceased
unfulfilled satisfactions & chemical reactions
my fate there's no escape -- life itself is the assassin
eye'm blastin -- the worlds in ashes -- from the invasion
--- EVERY WORD'S ANNIHILATION!!
COME ON!
your suffering will free u
my confession
because i'm diluted
&
perfectly flawed
i shall
live by passion
&
not by law
and i'm
insecure ...
i need aggression
to
feed the spiders
of perception
and i'm
supposed to be strong
& have
all the answers
a
cannibal
in the
new church of cancer
but i'm
nothing special
i'm not unique
i have
many secrets
& i
eat the weak
and i'm
at an end
i'm at an end .....
and there's ...
NO WAY OUT!!
i need to find my sanctuary
..... someplace safe
gotta get this outta me
..... this is my escape
II.
and i
think about it
all the time
i'm
volatile
&
afraid to cry
but i'm
still not comfortable
in my skin
and the
anesthetics slowly
wearing thin
& i
need to talk to
someone new
i need a different
latitude
& i'm
in this void
all alone!
feeling needy
... hungry to grow
but i'm
suffocating
-- can't come down
and .... no ....
THERE'S NO WAY OUT!!!
i need to find my sanctuary
.... someplace safe
gotta get this outta me!
.... THIS IS MY ESCAPE!!!
--- all i see is sadness
all i see is sadness ....
what's left?
-- this will teach them.
this will teach them,
......you've got to......
push.
Push.
PUSH....
YOUR WAY OUT!!!
FOLLOW ME!
FOLLOW ME!
THIS IS YOUR WAY OUT!!
........you are not alone
- this is where i hide my power
- this is where i become free
- this is where i take control
- and slowly choke your fantasies
- i want to know my day is coming
- see my enemies be punished
- shed my skin again
- this will be my best revenge!!
SHED MY SKIN AGAIN
THIS WILL BE MY BEST REVENGE!
Possession
sing to me my muses,
lost in the hot cyclops anarchy,
possession,
invention,
blood, blood
spirits, spirits...
come,cum...
where will these visions lead?
how far dare eye go?
where will this song take me?
into the deep UNKNOWN!
SPIRITS SPIRITS COME COME!
all the prophets and the gods came prepared for theirs,
so we dined on the vine of the mind impaired
preaching werewolf prayers on a nightly flight
gestating all we ate in the pale moonlight
feel the urge of the power surge ignite the soul,
bringing kingdoms under siege with the words that eye control
got an arsenal, ganja blunts and such
only love can set me free from this patriarchal clutch,
speaking testaments in our secret dialogue,
while the drones begin to feast on the feces of the hog
take a walk in the wilderness of your mind
before your soul decides to die and leaves infinity behind
possession, invention
invite discovery
surrender to pleasure
lost in ecstasy
survive
alive
you are my enemy
you died for lies, slave to misery
bring in the battleground
laying waste to competition
eye'm collecting intellects and exhaling solar systems
eye decree mutiny...
it's revolution us against the patriarchy
the assembler of souls, full of knowledge untold
while eye'm, spinning webs of wisdom prophecies unfold
into attack mode to decipher the code
of babylon's terror spwan-tyranny reloads
into the mental stasis-apathy erases
urgency of rage and it's frightening little places
prepare for warfare
the afterbirth of knowledge is America's nightmare
possession, invention
invite discovery
surrender to pleasure
lost in ecstasy
survive, alive
you are my enemy
you died for lies, slave to misery
sometimes eye sit and ask myself... WHAT HAVE I BECOME!!!???
something's taking over me... POSSESSION,
FREE ME NOW, ASHURA, ISHTAR, KALI, AVENGE ME... AVENGE ME
paint your face with the blood of weak
self sacrifice everyone u meet
screaming demons in my veins,
voices of the dead nurturing my pain,
eye survived, eye'm alive
i spread the fever to watch you burn
killed your leaders to help u learn
eye survived, eye'm alive
(lie)
Blood Pig
I'm sorry
I'm ugly
All that I am
And I can never live up
I'm failing
I'm angry
Afraid of the ways
They pretend to be us
It's fucked up
I'm different
Words remain
My only escape
Art saves
All of me
Evolving
And now you're walking away
I'm not afraid
And now you're walking away
I'm not ashamed
And now you're walking away
(voodoo spell)
[II.]
My mistake
Was trusting you
Blood pigs
Were creating my fate
With poetry
And suffering
I cannibalized
Every ounce of my pain
I'm still afraid
Everyday
These greedy worms
They devour my plagues
I'm not your slave
I'm conquering
You see me rise
And now you're walking away
I'm not ashamed
And now you're walking away
I'm not afraid
And now you're walking away
You can't hurt me anymore
You can't hurt me anymore
Fed from the wound from
Which we were bled
Vomiting filth in
Our soft cave heads
Chewing on tissue
Tendon and fat
Destroying the things
They do not understand
Tyrant
Betrayer
Parasite
Traitor
And still you feed them
And still you need them
I'm sorry
I'm ugly
Dangerous
Can't describe it enough
I'm failing
I'm angry
I use my fear
To empower my hate
I'm fucked up
I'm different
Words remain
My only escape
Art saves
All of me
Evolving
And now you're walking away
I'm not ashamed
And now you're walking away
I'm not afraid
And now you're walking away
And now you're walking away
And now you're walking away
And now you're walking away
(voodoo spell)
My mistake
Was trusting you
Blood pigs
Were creating my fate
With poetry
And suffering
I cannibalized
Every ounce of my pain
I'm still afraid everyday
You still suckle my pain
I'm not your fucking slave
So why you walking away?
Blood pig
Why you walking away?
Battle Ready
KUAN!!
simple souls overload as i explode data banks
cuz the earth & space gave birth to this paleface
supreme -- linguistic -- mental machine
your brain cells swell - the intellects extreme
fire fills my veins as eye proclaim my resistance
to the mind-swapping parasites that feed off my existence
as eye -- skin the burn to relearn the royal plan
somewhere out beyond the edges in the depths of spirit land
its authentic, apocalyptic destroyer
damaging challengers -- resurrection, disorder
a monument of crisis - eye strikes this - your dead
line my nest with your soul -- cleansed in bloodshed
BATTLE READY!
poets gonna take control
BATTLE READY
souls violate parole
BATTLE READY
violently invade your home
-- breaking the bones
OF THOSE WHO POSE
commanding the mic -- striking up a verb-fest
mass destruction is my function - time to put it to the test
in combat --- attacking since way back
in the days eye drew praise for the way that eye slayed facts
formulating flows in revolutionary science
its the catastrophic prophet from the anarchist alliance
freaking techniques -- this creature of speech
ewe feel the fury of devastation cuz ewe ewe tasted defeat
eye'm alone on my throne in this universe of fear
royalty divides my soul -- in this role eye'm revered
as the pinnacle -- lyrical master -- queen of disaster
eye ruin brain fluid -- the UNKNOWN IS WHUT EYE'M AFTER
shaking up the world -- just like the 2nd coming of christ
-- when eye write -- thrice divine with this goddess sight
wurdz will flow -- wounds will grow
ewe know -- bones will be exposed from the force that eye unload
its THE SOUL EATER!! -- mic bleeder with the voice of chaos
eye got the nectar of the gods flowing from my mental pod
gather the flock -- alarm your block
tell them the shepherds have come & got the keys to unlock
a holy war -- thru your veins it courses
more lyrical artillery than the armed forces
supernatural -- styles be volatile
its the mind manipulator -- the WAR CHILD
COME!
SHADOW SOLDIERS!
we came to defy - ewe living life as a lie
we embryonic satellites need our freedom to fly
TO WATCH EWE DIE! -- agonizing cries are heard in stereo
eye'm visualizing battlefield scenarios
in the line of fire -- watching empires fall
into attack position -- ELIMINATE ALL!!!
MY SPECIES!!!
MY SPECIES!
NO SURRENDER!
Jonestown Tea
And it sounds like...armageddon
Sounds like...armageddon
Sounds like...cum and drink with me....
Cum and drink with me
And I remember him fucking me,
And I remember liking it,
I didn't know any better...
And I remember the smell, and the pain, and the shame...
And I remember being afraid and thinking everyday,
Every single day.. that it was my fault...
Oh, but what happened to that little girl?
Who used to dream of one day ruling the world,
Who used to draw pretty pictures in my room---beneath the moon
Destroying to create
Softly praying to "God"
What do I do now?
What do I do now?
As I secretely masturbate...
But then I'd hear his hooves coming down the floor
With a Bible in his hand...
Softly opening my door and he'd say...
DAUGHTER! The day of your attonement is due!
Well there's 3 million sinners out there...
and that includes you!
No daddy, don't... no daddy, don't...
LEAVE ME ALONE! LEAVE ME ALONE! LEAVE ME ALONE!
NO, I DON'T WANT TO BE FREE! NO, I DON'T WANT TO BE FREE!
SO TAKE YOUR DICK OUT OF ME!
PLEASE TAKE YOUR DICK OUT OF ME! PLEASE TAKE YOUR DICK OUT OF ME! PLEASE TAKE
YOUR DICK OUT OF ME!
I'm bleeding, it's not fair...
You see, there's this little place I like to go...
I like to run and hide--deep inside,
Where all the nightmares are real, and all the monsters come alive,
Oh, but the things I've seen in soft, soft visions and terrifying prophecies,
Like serpents on the take and gods coming in all sizes and shapes
Nothing seems fulfilling anymore..
Well your temples are swollen in deceit and the body of your missionary,
He's rotting... rotting in defeat mama?
MAMA!
Are the aliens coming to take us away? (mama?)
Is armageddon gonna happen again today?
LOOK WHAT HE DID TO ME! WHY DID YOU DO IT TO ME?!
HOW COULD YOU DO IT TO ME! WHY DID YOU DO IT TO ME?!
I will not cry... I will not cry...
I--PREFER--TO--DIE! than live--this life--of LIES!
KILL WHAT YOU CAN ---- CHALLENGE EVERYTHING
Vengeance is mine...
Hey, I'm sorry baby...
please come back inside...we can laugh a little... and live and die,
no wait. see, eye got this hot pot of jonestown tea
And it's been brewing for you and me,
Oh, it only takes one sip,
Come one baby,
Surrender your lips,
I can take you someplace nice...
I can take you...someplace NICE!
Breed my disease, be my disease...
Breed my disease, be my disease...
and vengeance will be mine
It's closer than u think...
So I entered his room at 32 past noon
With my little ritual knife...
I cut out his tounge
Liberated his wife
She loved me for it other world woman,
Well, thats what she called me (Destroyer),
the one who sets you free, (cum and drink with me)
We all die like cartoons, surrender your children,
kids who like to kill, lies...