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Land of Illusions

by X-Ray Poetz

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1.
BATTLE THE EARTH "We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first Revolution." - John F. Kennedy This is your last warning. MC Cyclops: It's time to battle the Earth, That's just my theta, You try to enturbulate me man... I gotta see you later, I'm just so spiritual, I go through walls you tool, You think you're sick of me, Well man, I'm sick of you. Chorus: Call it 22.0 - Games, When I rock a mic, Call it 22.0 - Games, When I rock a mic, Call it 22.0 - Games, When I rock a mic, Call it 22.0 - Games, When I rock a mic. EtherGun: Hip hop will save the world. This is your last warning. MC Cyclops: Pick up my sound waves, I'm spittin' satellites tonight, Broadcast 'em down into the world and give it light, That's just my theta, Feel it now or feel it later, Be a lover or a hater, Luke Skywalker's beatin' Darth Vader, It's a timeless battle, Just ask J-J-J K Rowling, Or Philip Pullman, Even polar bears are armored as they're going, It's a tiny little planet but the ants are spreadin', Sendin' Starship Troopers tryin' to stop the weddin', Robert Heinlein writin' LRH to make it better, Thomas Paine to Thomas Jefferson, You write another letter, It's time to topple a king, Or maybe a dozen men, Mission Earth, Doomed Planet, Volume Ten. Chorus: Call it 22.0 - Games, When I rock a mic, Call it 22.0 - Games, When I rock a mic, Call it 22.0 - Games, When I rock a mic, Call it 22.0 - Games, When I rock a mic. MC Cyclops: It's like the Lord of the Rings, When I walk around New York, Cause when I see a cop, It's like I see an Orc, And I'm out looking for the wizard, Maybe he's up at Wall St., So I get my Doctor Strange on, And let my power creep, And you can find me up at Midtown Comics, With the hobbits, Disagreeing with the world, It's time to split the profits, Cause I'm a greedy bastard, Just call me Scrooge McDuck, Ripping metals out the earth, Just like a 12th Planet truck, 'cause Zechariah Sitchin, David Icke, You get the bitchin', Or turn the TV to Obama, Now you get the fiction. Chorus: Call it 22.0 - Games, When I rock a mic, Call it 22.0 - Games, When I rock a mic, Call it 22.0 - Games, When I rock a mic, Call it 22.0 - Games, When I rock a mic. MC Cyclops: I'm blasting off just like a Tesla Roadster, Off the coaster, Change the world like Elon Musk, And now I'm on a boaster, Got the power of a Mark Twain, Feel my pain, Put the books out myself, And fill the world's brain, Put the icepick like a psych, But I'm killin' 'em tonight, Couldn't stop me with a straight jacket, Cause I'm too tight, Even if they electric shocked me, Like they did to Hemingway, I'm never gonna end it, So get the hell out my way, I'm bout to end the fed like Ron Paul, Give me the ball, And disappear into the trash, You always wanna recall. Chorus: Call it 22.0 - Games, When I rock a mic, Call it 22.0 - Games, When I rock a mic, Call it 22.0 - Games, When I rock a mic, Call it 22.0 - Games, When I rock a mic. REPEAT
2.
Robot 05:03
ROBOT MC Cyclops: Do the robot, Make your arm pop, Get the tar hot, Hit the bedrock, Be a robot, Let your head drop, Get your share crop, You can't stop. MC Cyclops: See you poppin' into line, Seein' everything is fine, All the people in a bind, You just let go mankind, Got your eyes on a girl, The girl's eyes on a guy, Makin' her the whole world, Tell your shoes to fly, Cuttin', shovin' through the crowd, Music bumpin' so loud, Ears bleedin' to the drums, Whole scene just numbs, Total focus on minute, Put the room on mute, You see the girl just boot, Another avenue to shoot. MC Cyclops: Do the robot, Make your arm pop, Get the tar hot, Hit the bedrock, Be a robot, Let your head drop, Get your share crop, You can't stop. EtherGun: Robot, I am not a robot, You will be the robot, I am not a robot, Robot. MC Cyclops: Take the party past home, Something wrong with your dome, So you take another roll, Who hit the remote control?, Where's the signal coming from?, All a sudden went dumb, What the hell is that sound?, Something to make you get down, Got the urge to move left, But something ain't right, Just toss away the day, Gotta stay here all night, Can't think about tomorrow, Gotta escape all the sorrow, What a minute that ain't you, Who the hell is sendin' that through? MC Cyclops: Do the robot, Make your arm pop, Get the tar hot, Hit the bedrock, Be a robot, Let your head drop, Get your share crop, You can't stop. EtherGun: Robot, I am not a robot, You will be the robot, I am not a robot, Robot. EtherGun: People in the streets, Peaceful demonstration, Special trucks pull up, Riots break out, across the nation. Dance like slaves to the microwaves, Dance like slaves to the microwaves, yeah, Dance like slaves to the microwaves, Dance like the slaves you are. MC Cyclops: Do the robot, Make your arm pop, Get the tar hot, Hit the bedrock, Be a robot, Let your head drop, Get your share crop, You can't stop. EtherGun: Robot, I am not a robot, You will be the robot, I am not a robot, You will be the Robot. I am not a robot, You will be the.... Robot. MC Cyclops: Do the robot, Make your arm pop, Get the tar hot, Hit the bedrock, Be a robot, Let your head drop, Get your share crop, You can't stop.
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X-Ray Poetz 03:51
X-RAY POETZ EtherGun: Girls, you got enough clothes to be going naked all the time, You gotta get yourself some clothes, You gotta get 'em lead lined, It doesn't matter if you show it, 'cause we already know it, We're the X-Ray Poetz, Rockin' out your soul, Like a black hole outta control. X-Ray Poetz, X-Ray Poetz, We are the X-Ray Poetz. X-Ray Poetz, X-Ray Poetz, We are the X-Ray Poetz. MC Cyclops: I can read your mind, You're like an open book, A really simple plot, But you think you're off the hook, I got the real scoop, I see it with my eyes, You think you're safe but, I blast through all your lies, Hide behind a fence, Tint your car window, Rock a hot outfit, But that won't get you in though, Where you really wantin', Instead of all the flauntin', Walkin' like a robot, But I can see what's hauntin', You got the ghost in you, Your head's all on fire, Your memories are burnin', I call you Ghost Rider, I got the real cycle, I'm headed towards survival, Don't need to preach at you, I didn't bring a Bible, I'm down for real control, Don't need no implant, Where's the president at?, Just stepped on an ant, I'm publishing the truth, I got my presses loose, And if you wanna dance, Just take off the noose. EtherGun: Girls, you got enough clothes to be going naked all the time, You gotta get yourself some clothes, You gotta get 'em lead lined, It doesn't matter if you show it, 'cause we already know it, We're the X-Ray Poetz. MC Cyclops: I got the optic blast, See people runnin' fast, I paid attention man, And now I'm speeding past, I got the banks in sight, So many psychs in fright, Just put the hose down, No more tear gas tonight, Because you can't kill, What you can't kill, Go erase my mind, I'll still come back ill, I'm a live forever, In fact I already am, And so are you my man, You got your spirit damned, You're the lady in the lake, But I just keep on taking cake, Wavin' my sword around, While you're nailed to the stake, I got the people found, You're set to set 'em down, So I stop you in your tracks, You hear that sound?, It's your conscious callin', You thought you're really ballin', I see the jewelry swingin', So heavy that you're fallin', And now I'm pickin' up, A global sizin' truck, I'm haulin' off Man, Cause I just picked him up. EtherGun: X-Ray Poetz, X-Ray Poetz, We are the X-Ray Poetz. X-Ray Poetz, X-Ray Poetz, We are the X-Ray Poetz. MC Cyclops: You get mechanical, You think you're animal, I see you're really not, I kill a cannibal, Smash a television, You know it as religion, Let's make a movie baby, I'm on another mission, You think impossible, I leave my fossil fueled, You want to hit me dude?, Let's have another duel, I'm hittin' in the heart, You never leave a mark, I'm laughing all the way, I shoot my arrow dart, It's Robin Hood again, I brought my merry men, Now we're in the club, Shake, Maid Marian, Free from everything, There ain't no ruler king, Except for you that is, You pretty little thing, Let's build a newer world, Reverse the downward swirl, I know you see me now, I'm eatin' every squirrel, I'm spreading like a God, Super-powered hard, Read the comic book, And collect my playing card. EtherGun: Rockin' out your soul like a black hole outta control. MC Cyclops: Because you can't kill what you can't kill EtherGun: X-Ray Poetz, X-Ray Poetz, We are the X-Ray Poetz. X-Ray Poetz, X-Ray Poetz, We are the X-Ray Poetz.
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ARTISTS RUN THIS PLANET EtherGun: Manga Manga Hentai Gundam Anime Anima MC Cyclops: Artists Run This Planet, You better get it Jack, We step into the wind, And make another track. Artists Run This Planet, Cause we're on the attack, We spit volcanoes, Better run to your shack. EtherGun: Manga Manga Hentai Gundam Anime Anima Viscus Profundum MC Cyclops: We taught you how to talk, You listened to our lingo, We're like the Beatles blowing up, And you're not even Ringo, We do our Michael Jackson moonwalk, And now you wanna trip, The only thing that's making your life better, Sit. I got the quill dipped, I'm ready rip paper, I'm like Superman jumpin' over a skyscraper, Two kids from Cleveland, Billion dollar idea, Influenced the world in ways that you'll never see ah, Japanese people, Got a giant panda, They know what I'm sayin', The whole country on manga, This is for Tezuka, We got the big bazooka, You wanna challenge art?, Well, I'm a have to shoot ya, I got oils and pastels, Runnin' through my cells, Splash you with my water colors, I'll let you power my sails. MC Cyclops: Artists Run This Planet, You better get it Jack, We step into the wind, And make another track. Artists Run This Planet, Cause we're on the attack, We spit volcanoes, Better run to your shack. MC Cyclops: Artists run this planet, I hope you got a map, I see you standing still, I think it's kinda wack, I take apart the scene, And paint another dream, Paint a new machine, And make it all cream, I got the bottom up, You see me fly high, With my revolutionary type of sound guy, I say we have some fun, Let's get our body numb, Lets travel to the sun, I got an EtherGun!, Classically compose, We got the rock n' rolls, Throw us in the jungle, And man we're just like Rambos, Throwin' down a battle, Artists grab your saddles, Man, we're fast, Just like Forrest Gump with two paddles, You're just a shrimp, Pulp Fiction gimp, You're not an artist?, Zombie, go and limp, The Walking Dead are led, By what I dream in bed, You wanna get ahead?, Then make something instead. EtherGun: Manga Manga Hentai Gundam Anime Anima Viscus Profundum MC Cyclops: Artists Run This Planet, You better get it Jack, We step into the wind, And make another track. Artists Run This Planet, For goodness sake, We spit volcanoes, Better run to your shack. I gotta create I gotta create I gotta create I gotta create EtherGun: Manga Manga Hentai Gundam Anime Anima Viscus Profundum
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REBEL FORCE (JOHN ROCKET #2) Chorus: I'm a rebel force Going off of course Ride another horse Find another source Hook it for real Make another meal Never have to deal Keep my spinning wheel (repeated) John Rocket: I take it down another time stream, hop a black hole, With the energy I got to make a planet go, With the wonderful umbrella of a spaceship, Get together 'nother history book to rip. I write my own life stories, pretty allegories, And my actions speaking louder authorities, Set my own path, do my own math, to blast, Check the numbers if you ever doubt I'm gonna last. Friend 1: Take another chill, Rocket, man for real, When the hell you heal, Take another pill. It's another time, It's another place, Ain't nobody chase, Why you gotta pace? Friend 2: I think the dude's right, There ain't no one to fight, Just look at all the light, And let's enjoy the flight. I mean the tank's full, Unlimited supplies, No one to play the fool, No big surprise. Rebel Leader: Put your hands up if you're gonna wanna live, Let me introduce you to my little friend, you kid, I got about twenty rebels and we're gunned to the hip, They're all hidden and we're coming out to take the ship, Government is out to kill and rape and hurt a man, Socially and economically destroy a fan, If you're with 'em then we'll hurt you, and we'll hurt you bad, Or if you got a little courage, then just give us a hand. Chorus: I'm a rebel force Going off of course Ride another horse Find another source Hook it for real Make another meal Never have to deal Keep my spinning wheel (repeated) John Rocket: This is what I'm waiting for, kick another door, tour, Take another trip around the universe's core, Got a hot line, electric fingertips, I drips, Shock the world with the power of a hundred ships, I'll help you take 'em all, I mean I'll have a ball, It's just another body like they trapped us in a doll, Take apart the cities, hell, we'll blow a planet, The whole physical universe won't stand it! Rebel Leader: What the hell is this, the king's son undone?, Craving fun, you're crazier than any gun if you think we won, Trillions of people on billions of systems and we only number a few, What the hell you gonna do? John Rocket: I'll talk you mountains of talk but give you oceans of action, Your faction's in need of additions, I know my fractions, I got that infinity blast of class, smash any idea or mass, My philosophy's dynamic, all influential, catch, here's a pencil. Chorus: I'm a rebel force Going off of course Ride another horse Find another source Hook it for real Make another meal Never have to deal Keep my spinning wheel (repeated)
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Kal-El 04:46
KAL-EL Ether Gun: Will you sell out Superman? Three times before the sun comes up. MC Cyclops: Kal-el, planet fell, for whom the bell, climb well, Give 'em hell, ride the whale, battle yell, story tell. (ugh) MC Cyclops: Hark, knock 'em out the park, no more shadow dark, Lark, loosen up the tie Clark, it's time to leave a mark, Where's Lex?, make him vex, treasure like I found an x, Oval office counterfeitin' checks, presidential sex, Brainiac, i bring the city back, map it like it's Atlas back, Track it like a quarterback time to spring the trap, We're gettin' out of it, I'm proud of it, the power hit, Never doubted it, even when they had the kryptonite kit, Broke the chains, ignored the pains, always focused on the gains, Small time criminal names, I got the bigger games, Winning everything, sing, box 'em in the ring, ding, Reading in the daily planet that I can do anything. Ether Gun: Will you sell out Superman? Three times before the sun comes up. MC Cyclops: Justice like the Justice League, dish it til' the Joker bleed, Beatin' Batman to the punch and now he see the tumbleweed, Got the bullets bouncin' off, never gettin' soft, loft, Airplanes in the sky lost, catch 'em like a molotov, Never gettin' burned, never a concern, cause I learned, Hop into a booth and a take a turn, watch my interest earn, I don't need a bank, profit in the world I thank, Crank another boat that sank, while I steer my flying tank, Now it's time to go to war, soar, find 'em like an open door, Hit him where it hurts, dive into the earth's core, Hell, fly around, reverse time, freeze a lake, make it mine, Going after crime, check me out I'm doing fine. MC Cyclops: Kal-el, planet fell, for whom the bell, climb well, Give 'em hell, ride the whale, battle yell, story tell. (ugh) MC Cyclops: Coming back from death, blowin' out a fire with my breath, Rest, no I'm on a never ending quest, peep the letter S, Take it all around the world, swirl, beatin' every squirrel, Hurl another pearl, wisdom, take it for whirl, I got unlimited knowledge, polished from Kryptonian College, Never understood the words that the people abolish, I find a meaning in the dreaming to demeaning, feinding, Listen to their mouths, needing nothing but a proper cleaning, Infection's spreading deeper, see 'em calling out to Grim Reaper, Chips are stacked steeper, time to see the building leaper, In a single bound, power stretch to every town, Gain ground, get into the air and make the world go 'round. Ether Gun: Will you sell out Superman? Three times before the sun comes up. Ether Gun: Will you sell out Superman? Three times before the sun comes up. Three times before the sun comes up.
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TRACTOR BEAMS MC Cyclops: Tractor Beams Pull in dreams Walk on trampolines Higher than the world seems Fast, like my speed of thought. Steady reads Capture deeds Work like centipedes Action like a game needs I get whatever I want. MC Cyclops: Never settle, creatin' heat just like a tea kettle, Drop the bag into the cup, I pour and let the beat meddle, Second fiddle to my postulates, I let 'em middle, The world is just my wood, I sit and whittle my next riddle, Gettin' lost in the confusion of a confident human? The doom and gloomin' never stopping what is always movin', Take a trip inside of the shoes of a giant, so pliant, Never reliant on all of the things that make the people so cryin', Quit trying to figure out the puffin' of chests and crests, I don't invest in vests, I just digest the bests, Suck the sap out of the tree called life and drink again, Take a win and spin the world around my finger and then, Lay my paint and brushes out and spread my special canvas, Spring to madness when it comes to makin' life my mattress, I never sleep, I just peep the human factory to beat, Until i drop this meat and let the real me just leap. MC Cyclops: Tractor Beams Pull in dreams Walk on trampolines Higher than the world seems Fast, like my speed of thought. Steady reads Capture deeds Work like centipedes Action like a game needs I get whatever I want. MC Cyclops: State of my imagination, economic demonstration, Taxation? Went over that at my inauguration, It's a steady upward climb, got the power of my mind, Take it to the top of the mountains, feel my comm line, Hold my position in space, you feel the towering bass, Steady gaze of my face, whenever I feel to chase, You gotta reinvent the wheel, I just steal fire, Prometheus you got a problem? Cause I'm a God wired, Hook me up into the Internet, and I bet I get, Television set, I'm coming for you, glad we met, I'm the latest technology, you follow me? History you've disappeared just like psychiatry, Cause your crazy if you think you'll ever sink me lazy, I'm out-producing every one, from baby to old lady, So let the books stack, and let the poets write, And feel the fight of a light of might of dynamite. MC Cyclops: Tractor Beams Pull in dreams Walk on trampolines Higher than the world seems Fast, like my speed of thought. Steady reads Capture deeds Work like centipedes Action like a game needs I get whatever I want. MC Cyclops: Stormin' beaches, takin' cities, nothing's out my reaches, Sending out my peaches, plantin' em, and pickin' up the pieces, Leave a world of a wonder and wake, take another stake, Walk into the wilderness and bake another cake, I'm a eat everything that look good, product of wood, I should, shovel everything and shoot it out like Robin Hood, But I'm a keep it sharper than an arrow, fly my sparrow, Take it to the tips of the ledges that I walk so narrow, Just to keep it a game, my legend's insane, but what in a name? The competition's coming from somewhere behind my brain, But that's a body part, my mind, don't make me start, I got control over you, just like it's Noah's ark, The art I impart is a lot of like the rest of me, Destiny, keeps on popping her head trying to mess with me, And I'm a keep it to the truest form, point my unicorn, Stick my horn and blow into the ears of every morn'. MC Cyclops: Tractor Beams Pull in dreams Walk on trampolines Higher than the world seems Fast, like my speed of thought. Steady reads Capture deeds Work like centipedes Action like a game needs I get whatever I want.
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I Fly 03:19
I FLY "There can now be no longer any question." - Richard Nixon MC Cyclops: In a galaxy, far, far away, I'm all over the place, I got a whole bunch of space, So I.....fly. MC Cyclops: Forget the spaceship landin' on earth, I'm the sender of 'em, Makin' supermen, I'm on a bender with 'em, Philosophizin' scientific thought, I got that universe cred, Tryin' to revitalize planets, Before they end up dead, I got the power at my fingertips, Makin' rings like Saturn, You wanna talk freewill?, Call me Green Lantern, I got galaxies to fly, Right now I'm on patrol, Don't get in my way, Cause I'm in total control, Start, change and stop, Any particle or villain, Go and get Galactus, Cause Silver Surfer's on a killin', I got my fantastic four, Kal-El's at your door, Dismantlin' the world's weapons, Like in Superman 4, Where's my planet at? It's time to come back to earth, Just for a quick dip, And then I'm back on course, The wonders of a world, It's just so heavenly, I got Lex Luther, Beat boxin' my melody. "What the critics say now won't matter. This is not a threat. This is a statement of policy." - Richard Nixon MC Cyclops: Stranger in a strange land, You're not used to this, Wanna share some water?, Cause I'm just all up in bliss, It's like I'm Paul Atreides, And I just hit the Dune planet, Feel my power rise, As people follow me, god damn it, I'm like a young Slan, Feel the tendrils coming out, Hide up in the mountains, Workin' on my rocketship to blast out, You might just find me at the Foundation, Fightin' psycho-history, Until they're rewritin' it, As a mystery, Cause you can get an Alfred Hitchcock, In any time you cop, Astounding Science Fiction, That stuff'll still pop, I'm cool cause I got the stars, In fact I'm creatin' 'em, And all that black that you see, It's hittin' your cranium, While I'm just way out of my body, What I am, a spirit, Are you afraid to die?, I never come near it, I just keep on living eternal, I got plans to fly forever, Back to the Future 2, I'm on my hoverboard so clever. MC Cyclops: In a galaxy, far, far away, I'm all over the place, I got a whole bunch of space, So I.....fly. "But the American people are entitled to know the truth. And we have taken other significant initiatives which must remain secret." - Richard Nixon
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SLAVE SHIP REVOLUTION MC Cyclops: The first thing that you say is this is un-American, Forgot this country was founded fighting a revolution. EtherGun: Slave Ship Revolution! MC Cyclops: Obama... Here I come to get you sucker, Government'll kill a Tucker, A banker's ass, go bend and pucker. Brown nosin' with the best 'em, Brown people, still arrestin' 'em, Education? Guess you're testin' 'em, I got a lesson for you Harvard, How you leave a country starvin'?, Not for food but for the jobs you're never ever carvin', A country's gotta produce, But we don't make shit, Especially since you sold out, You steer a slave ship! MC Cyclops: While you're plugged into the Matrix, You got the gaul to go and hate this, But I'm saying what you won't, See, you're scared.....that's the basis, Now I know what's going on, Government degree, Taught in public schools, Confusion factory, So I'm clearing up the mess, With the knowledge I been blessed, Put me on the record, I'll show you how I'm really stressed, They take a third of my money, And give it to some bums, And make it hard to come up, But I'm a show em suns, Planets damn it, universes, Got the galaxies, just slammed it, I'm way bigger than this body, Go and try to jam it, My frequency is out the top, You couldn't match it with rays, So go and get a bunch of lawyers, Man, I break a maze, Amazing what I spider with my web, I catch you with my swingin', Man, you think you're Charlie Sheen, But you're never winnin', I'm the champion of politics, I spit my own policy, Landslide victory, I abolish thee. EtherGun: Slave Ship Revolution! MC Cyclops: From this moment, I'm the president of the united of states, I took that seal from off the gates, Feel my flow as it administrates, Over all this B.S., With the U.S., I took the oval office desk, Now it's time to make a test, What happens if the people cast blank ballots?, No one supports the government, Now it's challenged, I'll put the Marvel Editor in Chief to run the army, We'll get a real Captain America, you'll never harm me, I'll lay down Study Tech in all the schools, Kick out psychiatric fools, Flow some power to all the artists, Those my power tools, I'll build the country with the luxury of living life, Plan it like I'm Disney, Epcot Center, Mickey mice, I'll put more use to my dollars, than cops and helicopters, No wonder how we got the kids looking up to mobsters, And I'm not Scarface, but damn the world is mine, And I don't need Air Force One 'cause here comes my mind. EtherGun: Slave Ship Revolution! MC Cyclops: You think I'm dramatizin'? I'll show you analyzin', I got the heroes picked, You see my hammer risin', I'm Thoring every Loki, You think it's okey dokey, I'm Batman fighting crime at night, You make the Joker jokey, Every bill you sign, a curse, I'm the DC Universe, Lookin' sharp like Jim Lee drew me to burst, Got the energy in hand, Ready to let loose like a dam, Feel the waves that's spilling out of me, Like Aquaman, Wonder why I got the superhero complex?, I disagree with this world, Here comes the contest, I'm steepin' deep in illusions, To knock, down your yours, Create a peaceful world, And bring down your wars, With the pills and tv that you're slanging, You deserve a hanging, No one brings it up though, because they're busy banging, You got this place in chains, You really locked us up, Except I'm free now, So bitch, what? EtherGun: Slave Ship Revolution! Slave Ship Revolution! Slave Ship Revolution!
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OSAMA SONG (72 6-PACKS) Ether Gun: I'd think twice, About showing up in paradise, Without 72 6packs, One for each virgin yeah, But you should figure out, What if they're disappointed, And throw you back! MC Cyclops: There ain't no Boogeyman, It's your fellow man, The man you never, ever, ever, ever, Offered hand, Mirror everything you can, And now your stuck with man. Mirror everything you can, And now your stuck with man. MC Cyclops: What if you only live once, but that once is forever? Would it really be so clever to murder Osama? Well guess what, thats what happened him, He didn't die in 2011, didn't find a hell or heaven, He's probably in America right now, sittin' in school, So confused from news, the flag waving's so cool, About eight years old, he's practicing on playstation, 'Til he grows up and does the same to the nation, He can be next door but go ahead and kill him, He'll just come back one more time the villain, Never solvin' anything because a spirit don't die, And I don't mean his ideology, I mean the guy, Could be kickin' it with any one they ever fried, Including Adolf Hitler and anyone that ever died, But you don't believe it 'cause your just a total blank, Rather forget all the bad stuff you used to have, Too many crimes and hurtful actions, now you're gettin' mad, Go ahead and celebrate Osama, cause it's sad. Ether Gun: I'd think twice, About showing up in paradise, Without 72 6packs, One for each virgin yeah, But you should figure out, What if they're disappointed, And throw you back! MC Cyclops: It's kind of like the gang members killin' each other, Would they really do it if they came back their brother, I mean the terrorists can plant bombs with their new moms, Rich or poor, we all got unlimited funds, It's hard to drop a person once he drops a body, Find him at the office telling you about his hobby, Never soundin' so unusual, the world is all crazy, So you hurry up and get home to your lady, Never realizin' that he's comin' over the weekend, With a whole bunch of others that are really creepin', So you let down your guard, you got the white picket fence, Like Homeland Security guarding the president, He's not even safe, 'cause man there ain't no borders, Go out to eat, Saddam Hussein's taking your order, So whatchu think is gonna happen to the prisoners?, Depends on how many people we got listeners. MC Cyclops: There's a light at the tunnel, but it ain't after death, Hell, you don't even have to muster a breath, Just change the way you're livin' and your thoughts, Look around at all the world and all the robots, There's a battle going on, but man it's inside, Take a look at the man in the mirror, you hide, It's been going on forever, hittin' you on all fronts, No one ever had proof that you only live once, It's a silly concept if you stop and really think, You're a giant tied by your own hands with lint, But even with the confusion of being human, So many heroes stood up to doom and gloomin', I mean who's to say that Jesus wasn't John Lennon, The Buddha, Mahatma Ghandi spinnin' linen, Louis Armstrong could of came back as Biggie, And I'm sure Tupac's already rappin' in some city, Shakespeare's probably doing film in high-definition, Capturing humanity in all of its fiction. Ether Gun: I'd think twice, About showing up in paradise, Without 72 6packs, One for each virgin yeah, But you should figure out, What if they're disappointed, And throw you back! MC Cyclops: There ain't no Boogeyman, It's your fellow man, The man you never, ever, ever, ever, Offered hand, Mirror everything you can, And now your stuck with man. Mirror everything you can, And now your stuck with man.
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ROCKET RIDE (JOHN ROCKET #1) John Rocket: My pops he got me workin', I'm trapped beneath the screen, I boss the robot factory, It's time to let off steam, Pass the fuel, toss the vapors, Let's scrape the skyscrapers, I want the air on my back, On some super capers. Friend 1: John Rocket, You're out your socket, Stop it, you got it, Everything you ever wanted, You always flaunt it, You ain't no slave but damn you bonded, You wear those chains so godded, My man why the hell are you so haunted? John Rocket: I'm no man, I'm a spirit, you fear it, Love you never hear it, but try come near it, Your visions blurry with no taste, what a waste, Feel me as I gotta pace, the past I always erase, So lace up those boots, I got a plan to stand, Or better yet out statue the statutes, Grab your parachutes, we land! Friend 2: God damn! Bro, no!, Slow it down, let's head to town, You're awfully shook up, But I got the hook up, Ten minutes by teleport, Ten girls in it for the sport, And man these girls are all that, Life is cool, just enjoy cat! John Rocket: I ain't no animal I got more than 9 lives, I watch people dull theirs up all the times, Like knives, I'm sharper than sticks, I'm smarter than pricks, A billion stars to picks, Feel my science fiction flicks, Time is in my hands like a watch, Space is in my feet like a moon walk, Dock, never, My ship flies forever, so clever, However, I endeavor To escape like you do the weather, Whatever happens, I'll be better. Friend 2: What the hell you mean? You aint got no ship!, There ain't gonna be no trip. John Rocket: Aw man, don't even trip. Friend 2: Explain to me the how, You know your dad got the pow, Er, to break you like a comet, Shower, he calls the shots, Sittin' in his tower. John Rocket: Coward, that's what you call him, Half the world starvin' but he be ballin', The hypocrit, I might as well take his ship for a trip, Fly to another planet and sit, Be my own boss, benevolent ruler, Rip the heart out of any tyrant, Try to find a hero cooler. You'll be bluer, in the face, Why you waste?, in a second we're going to chase, Beat the competition, win the human race. Friend 1: John Rocket, You're out your socket, Stop it, you got it, Everything you ever wanted, You always flaunt it, You ain't no slave but damn you bonded, You wear those chains so godded, My man why the hell are you so haunted? John Rocket: Out of one, here comes many, I see security, let's flip 'em like a penny, Got the keys, I know the code, Hurry dump the load, it's time to explode!
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CYCLOPS VISION MC Cyclops: I got the skills, don't make me kills, Product over bills, Makin' anything I want and send it over hills, People want this shit, They gotta take a hit, I make my fires tip, You're gonna find 'em lit, Because I can see, Got the Cyclops vision, Feel my lightning strike thee. MC Cyclops: Choppin' my way outta things, since conception, Droppin' in and out of dreams, call it inception, I know what I gotta do, because I learned some, Library of Alexandria, is my step son, I got the whole planet locked just ask Neil Armstrong, Sent the mother to the moon and then he stepped son, Stabbed him with the flag pole and now he sees stars, Hangin' out with Lil' Wayne and now he's on Mars, Talkin' like the little kid, from the Shining, ET with his fingers glowing, keep on rewinding, Take it back to Blockbuster, but it closed down, Try to find a ghostbuster, bio-electrical round, Trap you in my laser beam, cause you're ignorant, Move my puppet around, just like a president, Drive around town in your limo, or hummer, I be superman in the air, and you're dumber. MC Cyclops: Because I can see, Got the Cyclops vision, Feel my lightning strike thee. I got the skills, don't make me kills, Product over bills, Makin' anything I want and send it over hills, People want this shit, They gotta take a hit, I make my fires tip, You're gonna find 'em lit. MC Cyclops: Strap the locks and chains, and call me Harry Houdini, Toss me off a building and watch me escape like a genie, A thousand nights, I take a thousand flights, fly some kites, Watch the frequent flyer miles, Ben Frank you're outta sight, Shocked him with the power I got, Nicola Tesla, Speed around the world and grip it, just like a wrestler, Mickey Rourke, I'm Robert Downey, got the Iron Man suit, Out produce 'em like you never seen so much pollute, Rip the Nobel Prize award, off a Al Gore's neck, Melt it down to butter, better yet I need a clarinet, Peter and the Wolf, blow it out like three piggies, Straw or brick house, make him homeless like our cities, Where I rest at, I always kick my feet up, That's how I know where to go, fill my gobletly cup, I gobble land like a turkey, I'll put you straight to sleep, Wake up in the future, leave your message at the beep. MC Cyclops: Because I can see, Got the Cyclops vision, Feel my lightning strike thee. MC Cyclops: Tearin' into people like their own damn crowded thoughts, Like I'm Isaac Asimov I'm lecturin' about the robots, Walking around the little zombies that they are, Carrying around their little television sets to see a star, All the time I'm up in my ship, playing Ender's game, Looking out for aliens, like Sigourney Weaver came, Have her showing up in my next flick, like in avatar, Working undercover like I'm google with my search bar, Get the CIA and JFK to have some dinner, Picking up the peace like a Noble prize winner, I'll be in the middle like Jesus straight chillin', Tired from my water walkin' lookin' for my villain, Lex Luther, Doctor Doom, psychiatric room, Uncle Sam, Adolf Hitler, everybody's silver spoon, Ricky Schroeder with the arcade game inside my house, Never ending story like Atreyu when I open my mouth. MC Cyclops: Because I can see, Got the Cyclops vision, Feel my lightning strike thee. Because I can see, Got the Cyclops vision, Feel my lightning strike thee.
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DOLLAR A YEAR MAN EtherGun: What the hell is a dollar-a-year man? Why does he do it? What's the scam? It used to be called an honorarium But there's no honor any more, Because you don't know where his money's Coming from. Conspiracy theories ring true. Illuminati eye on the pyramid Is watching you. But if you had a dollar, You could look at it too. It's the New World Order, fool. He's a dollar-a-year man Working on his One World, One World, One World Plan to take your pennies from your eyes MC Cyclops: He ain't the eye at the top of the pyramid, lookin', He's just one of the bricks, holdin' those that are cookin', Making up the agenda that everybody follows, The dollar a year man, takes everything and just swallows, He's got the stocks and companies to manipulate, He sweeps the dirt under the rug just like a Watergate, He dresses like his masters giving orders to his slaves, Ivy League graduates, not knowing how he spends his days, On the phone with untraceable links, sees it blinks, Takes an order that he's got to go line up some shrinks, Testifying against some people that were doing good, Gets 'em locked up, his friends just raised the price of food, Already owning transportation and the cost of gas, Now it's time for world government to come at last, He's flying in for a global summit, a total secret, Just so they can talk about the world and how they keep it. EtherGun: He's a dollar-a-year man Working on his One World, One World, One World Ministry of Love lies MC Cyclops: History repeats, it's just another vicious cycle, Dollar a year men burned people for reading the bible, And now in the 21st century, it's drug 'em all, Hook 'em up to tv, Internet and shopping malls, People buyin' what he's sellin', like a watermelon, But genetically altered, so it's just silent killin', Fill the hospital beds with fattened newly weds, Milk 'em for life or just until their insurance is dead, He's got his hands in everything from the US to China, Including a woman, not his wife, how he loves to dine her, He knows there's agents in the room, watching every move, Gaining blackmail on him so he'll never switch up his groove, It's just all part of being a puppet in a master game, He doesn't even know Geppetto holds his platinum chain, Drives his Bentley to his multi-million dollar pad, Opens the door to his son and now it's time to play dad. EtherGun: He's a dollar-a-year man Working on his One World, One World, One World Plan to take your pennies from your eyes He's a dollar-a-year man Working on his One World, One World, One World Ministry of Love lies MC Cyclops: Alien agenda, who shot JFK today? Tracking down the bloggers shut 'em up or give 'em more pay, Make it all confusing, send the world into an apathy, Now he takes his time plotting how he gets to mastery, 33rd degrees, slay another Socrates with ease, Leave 'em out to bleed so they never plant another seed, Feed 'em at the local fast food drive thru, 'scribe 'em pills until they all turn the color blue, He's the man that keeps 'em all suppressed, see the stress, He ain't a happy dude, but he thinks he's passing the test, He just paid off the Congress, now he gives the prez a call, Makes his money never thinks another thought at all, Doesn't see the future when the planet's dead, His gold and dollars, totally worthless to his little kid, And the past is something bad that reminds him of what he did, But give him a present and you can buy him for a dollar bid. EtherGun: If you won't put your kid On Psych-ordered drugs, You get a home visit From Blackwater thugs. Alternative 3, rich living on Mars, while you hide in your basement, counting your Mason jars. He's a dollar-a-year man He's a dollar-a-year man President Eisenhower: "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military-Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. Public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific, technological elite."
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STRANGE WEATHER ON THE 7 TRAIN MC Cyclops: I had something on my back, But then I looked down the track, A young couple had a map, I realized that I get out this trap, I could see the conductor from afar, I could see beyond him, bazaar, All the faces had their own scar, I looked closer, I could see their star, It's like I'm one step ahead of the game, The one that nobody knows that they're playin', But deep down I know they want the same, They just got different ways and names, I'm callin' what I see, I'm seein' everything so clearly, I never felt this free, I guess something happened to me. EtherGun: Strange Weather on the 7 train Like lightning hit my brain When something happened Something happened, yeah. Strange cities rolling by Like I never lived my life And then something happened, As if someone evil died, And went away, Gone -- I'll live my own life, You say what you're gonna say. MC Cyclops: I see I'm not the only one that looks, There's a bunch of people reading books, The cops hop on, going after crooks, A parent got his child by the hooks, A mariachi band steps right in, Two guitars, one accordion, Their voices carry like a violin, Drowning out their sorrows like they can, I'm surrounded by royalty, including me, I guess we just forgot who we used to be, There's 6 billion people waiting to be free, It makes sense that I should help it be, I can do whatever I create, Like that artist sketchin', life's so great, There's windows all around me like it's fate, And now the doors are opening, just wait. EtherGun: Strange Weather on the 7 train Like lightning hit my brain When something happened Something happened, yeah. Strange cities rolling by Like I never lived my life And then something happened, As if someone evil died, And went away, Gone -- I'll live my own life, You say what you're gonna say.
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AMERICAN LOSER EtherGun: Somebody said America's dead. Constitution rewritten, into the red. But before you take your meds And let them put you to bed, Remember Kennedy's brain Was stolen from his head. It can be hard to cope with a message of hope Try singing' when you're swingin' at the end of a rope. But if you scope out the Pope When he tries to elope You'll see our tropes are doper Than a Japanese isotope. Scan us back to the front, 'Splain us any way you want, But your brain just explodes, 'Cause our music's so pumpin'. Lock and load, We're nobody's fools, Nobody's tools, We make it look so easy You think you know somethin'. You're playing the slave to the accusers You're all about craving the abusers What have you done that you must now become The American Losers You're livin' down to your reputation You're up for early cremation We're talkin' to you sir, I create you now, The American Loser. You just lay down and die Out of your mind Afraid to refuse the illusion. MC Cyclops: You gave birth to a revolutionary thought, Who knew you'd end up like a slave and get bought, Now you're standing at the gallows looking at your town, Wondering how the hell it all went down, You used to be a happy kid running in the grass, You scraped your knee, fell down, then you'd get up and laugh, Just about the time they put you in a public school, They told you that didn't know nothin', what a fool, So you went along with everybody's chosen path, Listened to the teachers, one day tried to add up the math, They handed you a baseball bat and told you to hit the ball, Made those other kids run until they'd hit the wall, It's what everyone was doing, that's what they say, Skipping class, making noise, trying to be okay, Go back home and lock yourself into a tiny room, And dream about that one day that you can go to the moon. EtherGun: You're playing the slave to the accusers You're all about craving the abusers What have you done that you must now become The American Losers You're livin' down to your reputation You're up for early cremation We're talkin' to you sir, I create you now, The American Loser MC Cyclops: You got suckered into paying for a college loan, But you had the world at your fingertips right at home, I mean you could of went and just read at the library, Instead you put yourself in debt, just like the world you carry, Trying to live life in a little living room, Too comfortable to care if there's another war in bloom, Stock market takes another tumble, but you're cool, You took all the money out, but still you feel the fool, You watch how other countries now are all just takin' off, It used to be you, be you just took your job soft, Just like the bulge around your belly, every night a beer, You watch the game like a pawn, it get's worse every year, They're eating up your culture, like you're eating all their food, You still think you're John Wayne when you're in the mood, Why you gotta watch all those movies, TV shows?, Because if you don't do it, man you'll just blow. EtherGun: You just lay down and die Out of your mind If you refuse the illusion. MC Cyclops: The judge, he bangs his gavel, feel the sweat from under palms, A bunch of lawyers looking greedy, gettin' ready bombs, Now it's time for spoken words and art to beat 'em all, Got too tired of playing weak and now you're standing tall, Lettin' loose like a cannon over the Grand Canyon, Shoot it like a motion picture when the thoughts are jammin', Till the artists wear their brushes like the cops wear guns, And the people buy more works of art than any drugs, It can change in a second, I mean you got the talent, You never have to listen to the people that just say you're violent, Because the peace is all dependent on your state of mind, And if you let some others choose it then you just chose blind, You gotta get a telescopic type of sight tonight, Take it to the mountain tops and let loose all your might, Your story's just beginning, now you got a world to build, And kick the fortune teller out 'cause nobody's future is sealed. EtherGun: When you walk in search of Infinity, Someone knocks off your hat, Because they could never be, Never be, never be. You pick it up and put it right back on, Keep walkin', soon you'll be gone Walkin' beyond this false America, We thought was home. Land of Illusions. Unseen voices hoping now, To make us feel We must atone.

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X-Ray Poetz Queens, New York

Two guys making genre defying music (Rock+Classical+Electronic+Hip Hop+everything else) with a message. Science fiction, political philosophy, comic books, literary storytelling and big ideas are packed into songs that are inspiring, intelligent and fun. X-Ray Poetz music is so dangerous it's a safe bet. Stock up. ... more

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