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–Apogee–
It's got me sweatin and I'm feelin like I'm overdone
It left me slanted, heavy handed,
My whole body’s numb
And now the thoughts are creepin in
While my chest is heavin
I tell myself that it's not real but I'm just not believin
This is it? Is this it? Am I really leavin?
To tell the truth I'm not sure,
But in my head I'm screamin
Gotta find a way to relax, cuz this’ll pass
I close my eyes, take a breath,
Why's my heart so fast?
Inhale, exhale, what's about to happen?
My whole life before my eyes but without a caption
I wanna know just what this world has in store for me
But I've been feelin this way since 2000 and 3
Bring me back to the present, when my life was fine
I'm all alone in this cold world with too much time
I've been blessed with many things minus how I feel
I just gotta tell myself, it's not real, it's not real (echo)
–Hook–
Hey, Hey, I don’t really think it’s me, but
The things that I’ve seen got me question-ing, [2: sometimes what I see has me question-ing]
What I do and what I don’t,
What I will and what I won’t,
Try to find the answers,
Take em with a grain of salt,
But it’s just too hard (echo)
Not to blame, not to fault,
Put it all on the line,
Just to see if it’s taut,
We’re taught nothin’ ‘bout our spirit,
Til it’s battered and bruised,
And sent back to the present,
To deliver the news…
–Ak–
It all started when we parted,
Disconnected from source,
And learned life is more than livin’,
When you’re dyin’ by force,
Can’t hardly breathe,
Yet to achieve,
Misguided and tossed,
Into a world where the system,
Isn’t guided by laws,
Or by-laws,
Just cause,
Doesn’t mean just because,
And violence,
Ain’t the answer,
But sometimes we wish it was,
It’s easy,
Feelin’ queasy that it’s choices like these,
That keep us hangin’ in the gallows,
Shadows shakin’ in the breeze,
Oh please,
Our pleas are only coming with fees,
And only tend to keep them honest,
When the topic is greed,
The hunger we need,
We feed,
And bleed to keep the promise,
We’re free,
Not really,
But we still believe regardless,
What we see and who we’ll be,
Depends on what we honor,
And tarnish with our proclivity,
Livin’ without humility,
It’s silly we,
Can’t return with some civility,
Head back to the present,
Looking forward to a future we...save….
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--Apogee--
So, spark the match, now the time has come
To burn the world all around us with a flaming tongue
Dark skies in your eyes with no chance to run
And as it stands, no advance in the land of fun
We’re not safe in our homes no more
As the enemy of plenty’s brought straight to ya door
Not fiction but conditioned for sure
While the media is feedin us, we’re left standin,
Beggin for more
And I don't act like you want me to act
It's gotten harder bein smarter in the final attack
With no peace in the streets and the absence
Of tact
We’ve been abandoned from beginnin and I
Pity the fact, that
Something’s gotta give, how we live, how we give
And how we’re raisin our kids
It's all wants and no needs in the land of the free
And you can follow like sheep but I'm about to do me
--Hook--
Black and blue, through and through, it's why we do what we do,
Past dues,
Bad news,
Got us singing the blues,
But it, doesn't matter what stands in our way,
These are the songs of a sinner on revival day...
--Ak--
I know it’s true, that the blues,
Tend to come in different hues,
It’s not all black and white, like we see on the news,
We’re past due,
For our last few,
Seconds of sane,
Where the end is the beginning,
Of us startin’ to change,
To wider angles and views,
But bias remains,
In the shadows of the battles,
We all fought in exchange,
You got the right to keep silent,
About the violence and chains,
We claim were abolished,
Really polished with blame,
We abstain, from reparations,
Cuz we’re scared of the pain,
And the road we’d have to pave,
To go out of our way,
To make amends for our kin,
And the sins of our strain,
Work harder to find a cure,
For the privilege we obtained,
Skin-deep idols,
And the system they engraved,
On the minds of our kind,
The blind will find their way,
If they, see with their heart,
And acknowledge the shades,
We degrade when we changed,
From human to inhumane,
It’s a shame…
--Hook--
--Ak--
It’s a shame how we’re livin’ is,
Really quite ridiculous,
All about the cash,
But the past is meticulous,
Pointing out the folly and the err in our psyches,
IQ’s lower than the price of our Nikes,
Taking stock quotas for iotas of the pricing,
Piece of the pie,
Only get a lick of icing...it’s frightening…
What we do in the dark,
Bring the news to the light,
So we can see a different part,
And depart...
--Apogee--
Throw the book at the wall to see what sticks
More fixed politics that reads like a script
In the eyes of evil men we amend what was then
And now see what laws they can bend
All opposed will have life cut short
Another trial by fire, lost alone in the court
Seems to me what was only a dream
Is now a definite reality for all human beings, so it seems...
--Hook out--
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--Ak--
We’re ‘pose to be the light to the world,
But our torch went dim,
Now the chances we can pass this,
Aren’t much wider than slim,
Shady groves and the limbs,
Of our family trees,
That tend to bow in the breaks,
But break down in a breeze,
It’s elementary,
You don’t need a degree,
Unless you missin’ your third,
I got my eyes on the prize,
And my vision ain’t blurred,
That’s word,
To this sentence,
My repentance is served,
Ice cold,
Here’s a platter,
We’ll be skippin’ hors d'oeuvres,
Main course of sorts,
Spittin’ 5-star bars,
Buffets of fallen stars,
Afar from what we call,
And justice for us all,
We’re just left standin’,
Where they handed us the ball,
And said run,
Duckin’ the guns,
And redrums,
Loved ones,
Undone,
Victims of what we done,
The sickness we have become,
Wicked as they can come,
Division of number one,
Just a fraction of our sum….
--Hook--
This that HeartCore,
Do you want more?
Scream it from the bottom,
So the top can hear you roar.
That HeartCore,
Put your feet to the floor,
Stay standing,
And demandin’,
Keep it heart to the core.
This that HeartCore,
Do you want more?
Scream it from the bottom,
So the top can hear you roar.
That HeartCore,
Now put ya feet to the floor,
This is action with a passion
Tell me what you waitin for?
--Apogee--
And I remember what he said, she said,
And everything in between makin’ me beet red
We only live for ourselves and keep our hands tight
Walkin round all alone, we give a damn right?
Money, death and taxes, it's an axis
Of an artificial world who stand tall for the factless
But, I give it all I got
I'm givin amateurs a plan to just, take my spot
So give it up for the real, I'm talkin UP
To have our day in the sun, I'm talkin UV
And no respect for the weak, until week's end
I'll laugh it off like a joke and say we can
We may struggle just to make it to front lines
And all that oppose won't reign on our sunshine
We'll never know what this world will hold
But opportunities unfold just to bless our soul, you know
--Hook--
This is that HeartCore,
Do you want more?
Scream it from the bottom,
So the top can hear you roar.
That HeartCore,
Put your feet to the floor,
Stay standing,
And demandin’,
Keep it heart to the core.
This is that HeartCore,
Do you want more?
Scream it from the bottom,
So the top can hear you roar.
That HeartCore,
Now put ya feet to the floor,
This is action with a passion
Tell me what you waitin for?
--Ak--
We tried to give it to you,
But what’d you go and do with it,
You couldn’t hear it,
So the spirit never grew with it,
Frustrated,
We were almost through with it,
U.P. put it down,
Until we found somthin new in it…
--Apogee--
Cuz it ain't over, no, not by a long shot
And we about to go off now like an alarm clock
Shake the cobwebs off and let the dome rock
A picture for 1,000 words ain't worth a whole lot
--Ak--
We keep it heart to the core,
And uprise to the sky,
I could never fight the feeling,
Cuz I always wondered why,
We found zen in a pen,
And heaven in every line,
Find peace in these beats,
Connect mics to your mind...
One more time for your mind.
--Apogee--
Now let it sink in,
We always say in the least, what we been thinkin
Always stay true to yourself and remember
To love like we did on 11 of September
--Hook--
This is that HeartCore,
Do you want more?
Scream it from the bottom,
So the top can hear you roar.
That HeartCore,
Put your feet to the floor,
Stay standing,
And demandin’,
Keep it heart to the core.
This is that HeartCore,
Do you want more?
Scream it from the bottom,
So the top can hear you roar.
That HeartCore,
Now put ya feet to the floor,
This is action with a passion
Tell me what you waitin for?
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