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Lessons For The Unrepentant

from Odd Man Out by Markings

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Covert art by Muxxi

(M. Reyes, U. Maroufi)

Produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Uness for Crime in the City

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I flip that Hypnotic, kick knowledge, get brolic
Quick minded, heightened senses, piff chronic
Never concerned with dickriders, I spit fire
This spic's flyer than a tilted space ship that's rip ridin'
With slick tires, barreling speeds
Click, blam at the D's with the pig fryer that'll split iron
Under the radar so we slip by 'em, incognito
Throw 'em way off, whatever's needed to uplift my peoples
These frail fuckers are gullible mollusks that shake
I'd go to hell so I can punch Allen Dulles' in the face
Pound his mullet into place, tried to erase our culture
MK-ULTRA, overthrew the Ayatollah, rape & torture
Operation PBSUCCESS in Guatemala harnessed
The carnage and you can bet your bottom dollar on it
Not a problem, dissolve a law, revolvers, slums bombarded
Pay us homage regardless tomorrow holds the dawn on us

It's the return of that real life, recession-proof
Timelessness, Iron Man Leviathan, step in the booth
And it's epic, anthemic, start of a pandemic
so call up the paramedics to haul up your ass deaded, and
Nothing is as set as it seems
Bonafide shitstarters bring death to the american dream
blood dripping down the white picket fence
Common sense for the senseless
Lessons for the unrepentant

The years are slowly creeping on me, quarter-century mark
Meant to be smart, but the drama would eventually start
Where did I go wrong? guess that all that glitters ain't a gold coin
Cold, calm, weathering the snow storm
I wasn't forewarned, I was so gone
Cracks formed across the whole bond, latches hold on
My attachment to this broken vessel reeks of desperation
Tried to match it at this hopeless level, weeks'll test your patience
Quiet as they turn to months and years, I turned to blunts and beer
Desperate to forget, that nothing's left once it clears
That's word, self-medicated, paranoid and anxious
Mad annoyed the fake shit's getting on my last nerve
I got a bad case of the jitters, battered lungs & liver
Madness sprung the illness, now the damage done is bigger
Than the personal, what's worst of all I got the nerve, the gall
To curse at God when perfect flaws is that which makes of us a work of art

We used to care before it started its ambivalent growth
And so the game is now dangling at the end of its rope
Clutching on its last fibers as it gasps for breath
Hurled into a shallow grave, she raises after death
And if it never happens I'm still forever rapping
Conjugated slang, merging thoughts in clever fashion
I reminisce on ghetto blasters, the lifestyle portrayed
Before the overdoses, cosa nostra shit, the AIDS
I wish I came of age in that era, it was that realer
Cuz in our day, your innocence just might kill ya
For the perennial underachiever, runners and schemers
The loser and the undefeated, I wonder if either
Meet the standards of the parents that breed 'em
Reach for a handgun, cannons are the patterned procedure
Maybe I'm delusional,
But these right here are just a couple things
I thought that you should know

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from Odd Man Out, released December 29, 2011

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