(The Apollo Theory)
/They got me stuck on the front lines/ Between enemies and gunfire/ My life flash before my eyes, I (re)member one time/ I was chillin' at the house playing X-Box/ 360/ Metal Gear/ Black Ops/ Hold a second...let me think/ The characters that I create, now I portray/ Damn life sucks/ All I wanna do is fight for my country/ Have no idea I had to die for the money/ Tried to feed my family so we can live comfy/ Seems like something precious is taken from me/ And I don't know what to do, tears roll down my face/ How can I stay calm when death is underway?/ The only trick card I can pull is just "faith"/ Now the boy's ready for war...press play/
(Genius)
/Addicted to women and mixing liquor with mixers/ Living wicked, wanting death, but never get me a ticket/ Missing signs of an ending, different times I was spending/All the dimes for a snippet of her thighs while extended/ Got my mind on my business but I dabble in the casual/ Extracted and it has a toll on actions, I adapted those/ Hazards like magic shows, have me on a path or road/ But caught up in a traffic hold, my focus on Adderall/ Waitin’ for a ladder throne, Madder than a battered home/ Gotta make it on my own, a throne lonely for a lone ranger/ How mystical is the danger? Strangers/ Try to lock me down in the chambers/ Aim for the sky, in this pie called life/ All I want is a slice, but I’m fried like rice/ And I paid my price, I’m just tryna do right/ Lord, please help me, destiny is my right/ Right?
(Kronkite)
/We’re living in a mess, stressed out about currency/ Unless you make it to the top, then it’s whose gonna murder me/ Every time I tell a lie, I get burned with the third degree/ So I keep my mouth shut, forget everything you’ve heard from me/ Damn, times done got hard/ So I borrow my buddy’s Glock and put it in my sock draw/ I take it to the show to show the crew I act hard/ Guy picks a fight, grabs a knife, so I dis-charge/ Now it’s sleeping on couches, see police, and I’m bouncing/ Never trusting no one, slinging whatever by the ounces/ My crew thinks I’m crazy, and I know I’m out my mind/ Just give me my medication and I promise I’ll be fine/ I can get whatever you need, but got to be home by nine/ If you can’t tell me now, then that’s a pretty good sign/ That this isn’t gonna work, try to find some other glass/ Blade in the rib cage as he laid me under trash, over some cash/
(Crocker)
/Zoroaster spoke of the Promised One/ Paul spoke of the Christ/ Christ means anointed one/ Let's bring it into light/ Rome at that time practiced Mithraic mysteries/ Mithra, sun demi-god of Zoroaster's litany/ Paul dates before the Gospels.....Zoroastrianism four thousand B.C./ Christianity first a mystery religion/ Earn degrees for your knowledge, under secret conditions/ Why you think the Catholic church didn't hand out bibles/ Cause the average Roman would think the stories recycled/ Paul was first Saul, a Jewish priest/ It was a time of war, and he embraced truancy/ So there he was, a raised Jew, seeing Zarathustra teachings/ There, now it's framed, so what are you seeing?/
credits
from High Almighty,
released April 20, 2014
Production By Walter Kronkite & Q-Tilla
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