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This is the edge
Traveling, space fabric unraveling
There is a gathering out past Saturn's rings
Beyond your fathoming, beyond your imagining
Amongst the star dust, there's no Starbucks, it's just us
And you're beautiful. Gorgeous.
Oh, I'm so into you.
Captivated by your majesty like gravity
Actually, have you ever been outside your own galaxy?
This is the edge
of the Universe
We could go all the way
This is the edge
of the Universe
We could go all the way
Hedging no bets, in our essence we are legends, so let's
Put that unleaded in our jets, heavens to betsy I'm blest
And you're the bestest, out of sight like vestiges of
Light, that's right - we ping like satellite messages
Broadcasting live. 3 2 1 Contact, provide
A monostatic transmission, Alright man, listen, this
Monastic life is long lasting, we take bombastic strides, we
Freely bond, we're some extremely fond astronauts
Casting off the shackles of atmosphere, we have no fear
Imagine me just lamping on your lap in your captain's chair?
Past the furthest margin of the map, whatever happens, we're
Happy campers, mere passengers, no need to have the answers
We are men of action, lies do not become us, Westley
Calling "As you wish!" to me, you tumble down that grassy hill
I cast myself thereafter and we roll like we will never come to
Rest at our perimeter, until at last, we will
This is the edge
of the Universe
We could go all the way
This is the edge
of the Universe
We could go all the way
This is the edge
of the Universe
We could go all the way
This is the edge
of the Universe
We could go all the way
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Bedtime, boys
I'm copasetic
I'm awe-inspired
I'm soaking wet and I'm on fire
I'm open ended
I'm broke and blessed,
I'm old and edgy
I'm Vaughn Squire on twenty-four inch bike tires
Nicole Byers meets Mike Myers
Parole violation, I'm life sized
I'm Nole, by the way, and I like guys
Bad man, attitude badder than Van Damme too
Badder than bad news, get battered like bad food
In a permanent state of a tentative bad mood
You're beach wedding soft
A pair of delicate dad shoes
Your "Heart of Darkness" has the melanin of J. Crew
Banana banana banana bread batter
Rapper slash anime voice actor manager
Slap my face slathered with hand sanitizer
And go ask your old man for pants the right size
There's squirrels on your porch
Go review records by girls for the source
I'm sick of your internet comedy course
I'll see you in court, I want a divorce
How many Che Guevara shirts does Zach de la Rocha have
How many holes in the crotch that Lil Kim poster 'pose to have
Riddle me this, I fiddle my thumbs, my thumbs are my dick
Don't answer this shit
Look at this quick
This lesbian fit,
Drown in the wave
This Degeneres drip
Yeah, nobody àsked
Go eat dry toast with your no-money ass
Whoa buddy, that's a big truck for a teenager
What do you mean let me talk to your manager
No, you can talk to the hand
The hand talks back, you do not understand
I'm shopping, clock what i got for a grand
A watch from Japan and these hot rubber pants
I'm Helen Hunt for no reason
If you Mel Gibson, I'm leaving,
What Women What? That's a slam dunk
It's downloaded and seeding
I hope you try to get the same thing
Instead download a whole bunch of bee stings
Your dad told you to be safe online
Not install a whole bunch of bee stings
I'm allergic to bees
Me too
They're huge and they're sting crazy
No, you're a Funko Pop
In the discount bin at this one closed shop
I don't run when the gun go pop
I just cry at the top of my lungs for the cops
Til my mom's like stop! People are staring
Yeah, I just want them to see what I'm wearing
She says, i told you to stay in the car and I'm like
Yeah but you wouldn't leave the keys for the radio, would ya?
Bedtime, boys
Aw mom
Aw mom
Aw mom
Aw mom
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DRUMBS
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We got
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
drums drums drums
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
drums drums drums
Pounding rhythms, down to give em sounds to listen
to, make the space my syllables fit in
to. subdivisions any substance split in
two, from patterns down to the atom I am living
proof. Since I been a kid in my living room
Banging on chicken buckets, adults were sickened of it
DRUMS i frickin love it. the devil made me do it to em
let the rhythm hit em. let the fluid sluice
Weas the juice, please squeeze the truth out with a
Pair of sticks to embarrass generic heretics
WHOOMP there it is, spare me your careless whispers
No shoes in the house, I'm wearing slippers
Serendipitous, you could call it kismet
Supersonic, I'm the future of the business
I'm a shoot you with a witness, no fear
of the repercussions; love to each percussionist
Who your cousin is? Come receive your punishment!
Uneventful, unintentional consequences
Fundamental consciousness in a nonsense sentence
I put a strain on friendships
I go on and on and on endless
All comers, challengers and contenders
I didn't know I would be so contentious!
I don't go on benders, I just bend
Over backwards for those that know the passwords
Yup, I kick styles in encrypted files
Wild like the drama of the gifted child
I sort MCs into handy piles
Then my smile fades as I feed them to Danny Miles
I can scarcely bear to watch
It's better this way, swear to god
He loves birds back to mesozoic theropods
I'm a prairie fossil, very Triceratops
With more props than Carrot Top and fewer freckles
If you stood before me on stage, you were heckled
Like, what did you expect? I'll
Be back, but for now just seckle!
We got
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
drums drums drums
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
drums drums drums
Stretch a skin over a hoop and add a resonating shell
Ready for detonating
Ba dum psh, every one's a comedian
Spreading devastating waves through every medium
Break the tedium. Act and seize the daylight
Create tragedies like the great Athenian
playwrights... Sophocles, Euripides
Everybody tells me Jesse D, you rip at these
It's a breeze, the rhythms just come to me
As long as there's a beat to accompany underneath
I am nothing sans batterie
I keep people to flatter me on salary
The benefits are decent
So begin echoing my sentiments this evening
Everybody knows you're a liar, little child
Putting "my opinions are my own" in your twitter bio
Yeah right. Sounds like someone's in denial
And for once it isn't me... it's been a while
We got
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
drums drums drums
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
Drums (DRUMS) here it comes
drums drums drums drums drums drums drums drums drums drums drums drums
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Squad car hijacked by two little kids with cap pistols
A blast from the cop's whistle failed to call 'em back. Little
Did they know that little did they know road ahead of them
Would be the death of them, it's called life, and it's a dead end
They split up and met again in Cuba some years later
Comparing anecdotes with a note of panic and fear. They were
Both aged more than the time's passage accounted for
Both bore regrets and a massive amount of sorrow
Not for petty crimes, but for walks in the park not taken
And for licking off a shot in the dark
Godforsaken and tired, aching inside, faking a smile
That's vacant and awakening hatred and pride
That they can't deny making their lives feel fleeting and brief
Trace arteries to the heart to see it's still beating at least
Conceding defeat, they swore to become rivals
Just for fun but that proved unreliable
Reading from the Bible and bleeding from the nose
The meeting undergoes a switch to a glummer tone
Building a summer home away from the wastes of time
And space, designing a place to find the peace of mind to leave behind
The grease and grime but that's not life, don't believe the fantasy
That sees the prisoners receiving amnesty, I mean please
Blast off for a moon of green cheese and bring your
Crackers and dip, dip, dive to miss the crack of the whip
Snap attack front to back, it's getting kinda hectic
Needles wear grooves out and chew the vinyl record
One kid moves like a leopard and the other rides a panther
They saw the final jeopardy and didn't like the answer
at all
Drastic measures
That what? That life is hectic.
Drastic measures
That what? That life is hectic.
Drastic measures
That what? That life is hectic.
Drastic measures
That what?
It gets drastic
See, they carry luchini but fritter and gamble it away
Very routinely, escapists like Harry Houdini
They're married to genies but they never have recurring dreams
Their lives are twin shafts of gold; they're urine streams
Distraction is a currency. Action is pure and simple
Who likes seeing feelings hurt? They keep their dealings curt and sinful
Stay alert and nimble enough to blur the edges of banality
Staving off the grave by technicality
Struck a sort of a deal in the court of appeals
Getting bored is their real fear, not the sword or the steel
Because with reflection comes certain disturbing certainties
That every person needs but no-one wants to know they'll hurt and heed
The curtain call. Averting all burdens' the work of reason
Furtively diverting all the urgency to birds and bees
Emergencies serve to deceive the wits
From believing it exists when they see the abyss
They're teetering on, seizing upon the creed of the bombed like media pawns
It's leading them on, they're greeting the dawn in the evening the feeling
is fleeting and gone
Beating a gong and banging a drum to drown the sounds of nature out
Bound to take the route that takes them straight to what I just spake about
Figuring out the ignorant bliss is bigger than this, I'm making a guess
When I declare that kids are scared of choking to death from taking a breath
But I can attest that I detest mortality and avoid its gaze
To stare into the blaze that might destroy the place. Now,
Who's afraid of the dharma incurred by birth and its trauma?
Who's ready to scrap, haul off and slap the Earth and Its mama?
Who's a worthless, anonymous automaton that's losing consciousness?
Who wanted this? Who's on this trip to see the sights and monuments?
To read and write the documents by light that seems innocuous
'Til you discern it's pages burning that provides the phosphorescence?
Lost direction, stress and depression lessen perspective's load
But when you pause to reckon, reflect and rest, in a second you know
The eventual long term goal of the sensual palm frond road
Is descent into knock on wood when it's all gone cold
And the your defense is the pretense
That what? That life is hectic!
Drastic measures
That what? That life is hectic.
Drastic measures
That what?
It gets drastic
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting kinda hectic!
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting kinda hectic!
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting kinda hectic!
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting kinda hectic!
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting kinda hectic!
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting kinda hectic!
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting kinda hectic!
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting kinda hectic!
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting kinda hectic!
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting kinda hectic!
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting kinda hectic!
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting kinda hectic!
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting kinda hectic!
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting kinda hectic!
It's getting
It's getting
It's getting kinda hectic!
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Thousand Horses
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My dude!
My dude.
My dude,
My dude.
My dude!
My dude...
Hey, my dude!
Your boss has the patent on profiting and
When the planet's gone, they might have to cancel Capricorn
Vack before your favourite rapper was born
I whispered that his dad was wack, pass it on. (My dude!)
We used to play a game of broken telephone
Soaked to the skeleton in dopamine and serotonin
Couldn't get diagnosed but they would sell us smokes
Tell a joke to yourself and hope to quell the loneliness
Hey, best of luck with that! Back when a trucker hat was just a hat
Live forever like how long nothing lasts
Before your cousin asks, there is glass in my lenses
The prescription is weak, but nothing gets past my defenses,
I'm guarded like a castle keep even when I'm fast asleep
Half my rap opinions would be regarded as blasphemy
That's how you know my love is sincere
I've kept these judgements from my peers for like, dozens of years
You couldn't drag it out if me
With a thousand horses
You couldn't drag it out if me
With a thousand horses
You couldn't drag it out if me
With a thousand horses
You couldn't drag it out if me
Even if you had a horse
It don't mean a thing a thing if it ain't got that semiotic coding
But it can still be plenty honest or at least
Show aesthetic promise, plus
Anything sounds profound that's said anonymous in quotes
That's not the speaker being modest, they just don't want us to know
How much they think they could have taught us
And by that token, they're more often banal than clever
Ask yourself does this need to be spoken, now or ever?
(My dude) How dare you suggest that i take my own advice?
Just for that, I'm canceling my show and staying home tonight!
Yeah, that's right. And I no longer tour often, so
May the mild disappointment of dozens be on your conscience!
Mm hm. Bet you're sorry you spoke up,
Deafened by the collective chorus of "so what?"
Like infinite Miles Davises on infinite trumpets
And people say I'm sensitive or something, shucks.
You couldnt drag me out there
With a thousand horses
You couldnt drag me out there
Even with a thousand horses
You couldnt drag me out there
With a thousand horses
Honestly, I'm
I don't really even
I'm not sure how the horses would help
Get off your hobby horse, buster, we need the wood
To build a stocks for shaming people whose deeds were good
The worst offenders, who didn't learn the words to censor
Shall be burnt and rendered and turned to embers
Unless they're pert and slender
If you're cute enough, all will be forgiven
Don't look at me, that's just how the policy is written
(My dude!) I can't pretend to think it's solidly positioned
But nothing is in any former colony of Britain
The only good laws is Ronnie and Hubert, please
Remember that like lessons from your mommy at puberty
I hit my creative peak at twenty-two or three
But I'm a better person than i used to be, between you and me
What I've shed in fluency I've gained in patience
Very fortunate, my greatest strength: remaining stationary
Got a lot of inertia to overcome, kinfolk
I shift slowly like the overton window
You couldn't drag me any faster
With a thousand horses
Couldn't drag me any faster
With a thousand horses
Couldn't drag me any faster
With a thousand horses
You and all your horses
Could never drag me.
My dude.
My dude!
My dude!
My dude!
My dude,
My dude.
My dude.
My dude!
My dude!
My dude.
My dude,
Aw, my dude.
My dude,
My dude!
My dude!
My dude.
My d00d!
Ugh, my dude,
My dude!
My dude,
My dude.
My dude
Mah dude!
My duud,
My dude!!
My dude!
My dude!
My dude?
My duuuude!
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I'm Rich Aucoin meets Rich Homie Quan, I'm Obi Wan
Kenobi on the edge of a coin. You owe me one!
I guess I'm annoying, sorry. You're too important for me with your
Buzz. You're just another toy in the Toy Story!
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rap legend Jesse Dangerously Ottawa, Ontario
Genuine Independent Rap Legend (GIRL)
member of Backburner crew
half of Danger
Grove w Lizard Grove
half of The Library Steps w Ambeez & Illgil
one-third of Imaginary Friends w Thesis Sahib & MC Frank Deluxe
one-third of The Sentinels w ginzuintriplicate & Naked J
partially culpable for the nerdcore problem
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