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Ready Player One
02:34
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Ready player one hit the start button
Jump up in game building my own lane no one left the car running Blood that's in my veins numb me to the pain
As long as my heart's pumping I just keep the bars coming
All my evenings star studded I feel out of place
But am I really far from it up in outer space
I’m just tryna start something want more than a taste
Took my foot up off the brakes
Try & keep up with my pace in this race
Look up in the the skies close your eyes go inside
I was 18 when I died woke up on the otherside
Say goodbye to my family & friends til the day we meet again I won't stop until these losses turn to wins
Good ain't good enough I can't go out I'm cooking up
Been so down no looking up told the plug to hook it up Disappeared watched these minutes turn to years persevered
I thank god for all the fears we made these diamonds out of tears
Ready player one hit the start button
Jump up in game building my own lane no one left the car running Blood that's in my veins numb me to the pain
As long as my heart's pumping I just keep the bars coming
All my evenings star studded I feel out of place
But am I really far from it up in outer space
I ain't tryna start nothing I just want a taste
Let me learn from my mistakes
Lord its hard to keep the faith say your grace
Looking in the mirror see a stranger staring back
I found myself so lost didn't even care where I was at Couldn't see no future never would I think I'd make it black
I took another hit of jack and watched the faces fade to black
Rose up from that lower level heard the devil call my name Super soldier with a shovel taught to shoot before I aim
today I'm digging through the rubble for survivors of the struggle It’s an awful lot to juggle trying to make it out the jungle
Good ain't good enough can't go out I'm cooking up i been so down I'm looking up told the plug to hook it up i disappeared watched these minutes turn to years persevered i thank god for all the fears we made these diamonds out of tears
Ready player one hit the start button
Jump up in game building my own lane no one left the car running Blood that's in my veins numb me to the pain
As long as my heart's pumping I just keep the bars coming
All my evenings star studded I feel out of place
But am I really far from it up in outer space
I’m just tryna start something want more than a taste
Took my foot up off the brakes
Try & keep up with my pace in this race
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2. |
New Day Dawns
04:00
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As a new day dawns yesterday is gone and the wait is long but today it’s on As a new day dawns gonna sing our song can’t do no wrong cus our love is strong
We been thru anything & everything and on our way to peace & love the present day was once only a vision we were dreaming of when people used to see the world as black & white and cut & dry they tried to justify and pacify the war with lullabies so many die while others hide under the covers blind their eyes behind the slumber while our mother earth is plundered turning people into numbers then they wonder why we’re number now I think you’ll find we lost our minds because they dumb us down And every summer while the temperatures get hotter and the ocean level rises several inches up with water no one bothers much to see it cus the truth is inconvenient and the youth knows what to do except the fools all took our freedom And they say we’re make believing when we pray we live in eden cus they put us all in prison then they threw away the key and we don’t even see solutions in the midst of this confusion & illusion sits the seeds of revolution
As a new day dawns yesterday is gone and the wait is long but today it’s on As a new day dawns gonna sing our song can’t do no wrong cus our love is strong
As a new day dawns yesterday is gone and the wait is long but today it’s on As a new day dawns gonna sing our song can’t do no wrong cus our love is strong
All the peoples of the planet this is not the time to panic but imagine what could happen if the present day were absent for a millisec chill & take a little breath genuinely reconnect with everything you ever did and didn’t yet What if every step you’d ever taken was erased and what if everyone you knew and loved was gone without a trace and that included the entire human race collectively what if all of history was missing from the recipe What if no one ever saw the beauty of a waterfall and what if none of us had learned to fly to walk or even crawl or even draw the hieroglyphics on the walls of caves what if earth was just a ball of clay What if life was nothing special something to be simply thrown away if you had a voice what would you say if you had a choice to make a difference would you choose and would you play the game to win or merely play it not to lose
As a new day dawns yesterday is gone and the wait is long but today it’s on As a new day dawns gonna sing our song can’t do no wrong cus our love is strong
As a new day dawns yesterday is gone and the wait is long but today it’s on As a new day dawns gonna sing our song can’t do no wrong cus our love is strong
Another day another dawn another reason to be the one that somebody believes in as the players in the game they keep on changing like the seasons the guiding and undying light inside us keeps on shining like a beacon for every ship at sea the mystery remains a siren the rhythm that we ride on is the vision we rely on listen to your intuition whispering its wisdom and reveal the realness written there and fill in what was missing When we’re willing to be healed within a stillness meditation’s how to build a better nation on our inner elevation but it takes the integration of our greatness and mistakes to break us out our chains and balance out the sacred and profane now make it rain And there ain’t no doubt about it no it’s true ain’t no way around it only through Ain’t nobody else out there no it’s only me & you when we know enough to know ourselves we’ll know just what to do
As a new day dawns yesterday is gone and the wait is long but today it’s on As a new day dawns gonna sing our song can’t do no wrong cus our love is strong
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3. |
Pick Me Up
03:26
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Load the truck up baby roll a blunt up
Throw your shells on the floor yeah go nuts
Call the boys up bring the girls out
We gon show em how it goes down down south
I got 5 on what’s in your cup
Take a drive with me out in the cut
Past the line where the road turns to dust
I come alive when you pick me up
Now pick me up babe, pick me up
Now pick me up babe, pick me up
Pick me up babe, pick me up
Pick me up, pick me up, pick me up
Now when I first laid eyes on the prize no lie
Swear to God I coulda almost cried oh my
She was so fine gotta make you mine
I said baby let me cuddle on that big behind
She smiled & said I gotta be in church by nine
I replied lead the way & I'll be right behind
By tomorrow I'll be drinking from your Holy Cup
But tonight lets get right baby pick me up
Load the truck up baby roll a blunt up
Throw your shells on the floor yeah go nuts
Call the boys up bring the girls out
We gon show em how it goes down down south
I got 5 on what’s in your cup
Take a drive with me out in the cut
Past the line where the road turns to dust
I come alive when you pick me up
Yo, pick me up I'm on my way to town girl I’m coming through
Break me outta the county blues counting on someone like you
To pull up in a pickup Ford or Chevrolet this don't happen everyday Give em what they want we came to celebrate
So crack a bottle open if you smoking roll a j
Let it out ain't no doubt about it ain't no other way
Now we gon bring that country flavor to your powwow
Show em how it's going down down south
Load the truck up baby roll a blunt up
Throw your shells on the floor yeah go nuts
Call the boys up bring the girls out
We gon show em how it goes down down south
I got 5 on what’s in your cup
Take a drive with me out in the cut
Past the line where the road turns to dust
I come alive when you pick me up
Now pick me up babe, pick me up
Now pick me up babe, pick me up
Pick me up babe, pick me up
Pick me up, pick me up, pick me up
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4. |
Still Alive
03:15
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I want my flowers while I’m still alive Wanna wear the crown while I’m still alive Never keep me down while I’m still alive I’m still alive
Overdrive Category 5 supernatural hit the 405 and arrive on the avenue I was born to thrive not survive like an animal I been on the rise got my eyes on Immanuel When my pen is in its limb patterns begin to form and then the storming winds jump in and blend and spin until the earth is warm a life is born then the lights come on inside a dying star strike a chord what you fighting for unless your mind is pure nothing to lose nothing gain so many stuck in this pain nothing but pawns in the ugliest game on an infinite chase for the money and fame searching the heavens for answers the only reaction they catching is thunder and rain predators hunting they prey law of the jungle fuck what you say numbers don’t play eh
I will not wait until I die to celebrate my life accelerate and take the elevator to the heights I made a promise to my maker I be goddamned if I break it and I started out in the basement now my greatness taking flight
I want my flowers while I’m still alive Wanna wear the crown while I’m still alive Never keep me down while I’m still alive I’m still alive
On the day that Kobe died the homies cried without a tissue so much pain and no one there to blame and that’s an issue stomach churning burning like flame do when it hits you I don’t wanna wait until the day you gone to say I miss you Everything we been through you thought I would be prepared for the day that I went to call you and found out you wasn’t there it isn’t fair that just your memory can send me to despair I thought I was in the clear but our history interferes and it’s been years since you ain’t been here man I miss my friend here all I got is tears up in this pen here I am in this game to get win here so every single line I’m on the climb just like a 10 gear in here
I will not wait until I die to celebrate my life accelerate and take the elevator to the heights I made a promise to my maker I be goddamned if I break it and I started out in the basement now my greatness taking flight
I want my flowers while I’m still alive Wanna wear the crown while I’m still alive Never keep me down while I’m still alive I’m still alive
The world is dark and I don’t see it getting any brighter spark your lighters close your eyes and you know where the light is where to find us where the night is behind your eyelids shining let you know where I live
The world is cold and I don’t feel it getting any warmer mamma warn ya sitting in the church amongst the mourners on the corners houses haunted you know winters coming pray you getting all you wanted
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All I ever wanted was reach you All I never wanted was to need you Nothing else above you or beneath you
When you tell me that you love me all I want is to believe you
You don’t gotta die to go to heaven
You can get it right now I can show you how we can go together
I was just fine I wasn’t paying no mind I was just taking my time
Waiting in line waiting for someday to shine
Thinking of making you mine
I wasn’t thinking today was the time
I wasn’t thinking of dying
I wasn’t thinking my angels were crying
Seeing the way I was wasting my wasting my wasting my...
I was just fine I wasn’t hardly inclined
I guess it’s hard to define
I was just thinking your body’s a shrine
I came here to worship your curves and your lines
Pay me no mind God doesn’t pay me whine
God turn this water to wine
God isn’t just somewhere way up in the sky see
Close your eyes God is inside
You don’t gotta die to go to heaven
You can get it right now I can show you how we can go together
All of a sudden you came flooded my brain
The feeling is healing no numbing the pain
Gave me the love & showed me the game
You taught me to play now nothing’s the same
I am reborn I am now fully transformed
I am the eye of the storm I am the source the force
I am the captain that chooses the course of course (yes)
I am the cause sun and the moon and the stars
Me & my beautiful flaws
I am the compass the points to the north
I am the fire that carries the torch
I am the truth I am forever the voice of the youth
The old & the new I am the glue that holds us together
And better yet I’m a reflection of you
You don’t gotta die to go to heaven
You can get it right now I can show you how we can go together
You are the one
You are as bright as light of the sun second to none
Step in the circle get ready to run in a race for the glory
The story has only begun
You are the heart and the beat of the drum
You make your mark when you speak from your soul
More than a star in the region your from
When you speak what you know you can lead us back home
Home is a secret to some
Home isn’t home til the kingdom is come
Home on the range or the streets of the slums
And if home is a feast we just reaching for crumbs (ugh)
Repeat after me I am the key
If I was ever locked up I am free
If I was ever docked I am the sea
I am the one I was destined to be
You don’t gotta die to go to heaven
You can get it right now I can show you how we can go together
All I ever wanted was reach you All I never wanted was to need you Nothing else above you or beneath you
When you tell me that you love me all I want is to believe you
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Life is hard but I don’t mind
The way things are is a state of mind
Made of stars all made to shine
Can't fall behind gotta cross the line
When I was younger I was haunted by the hunger pains
The one I wanted wasn't coming all my love’s in vain
Momma warned me don't get caught up in the numbers game
But I was stubborn now I know that I’m the only one to blame
Ain't a damn thing changed it's a damn shame
I never learned my lesson til I got burned by the flame
So many questions had me flooded by the summer rain
I tried to run away but I was naked when thunder came
Roots in the blues & my boots in the mud since a youth
Yes I knew felt it move through my blood like hundred proof
Put me in the booth told the truth to the judge
If you looking for my dues
Life is hard but I don’t mind
The way things are is a state of mind
Made of stars all made to shine
Can't fall behind gotta cross the line
When I got older hit the road on my own
My brother he’s a soldier but I’m more a rolling stone
Got my angel on my shoulder so I’m never alone
Keep my motor going baby it's a long way home
Got my Bible in my right hand rifle in the other
Striving for the righteous path but I’m a bad mother
Got my crown in the clouds ten toes to on the ground
Ain't no doubt you know exactly what I’m talking about
Roots in the blues & my boots in the mud since a youth
Yes I knew felt it move through my blood like hundred proof
Put me in the booth told the truth to the judge
If you looking for my dues
Life is hard but I don’t mind
The way things are is a state of mind
Made of stars all made to shine
Can't fall behind gotta cross the line
Came a long way came a long way
Came a long way came a long way
Came a long way came a long way
Just to cross the line
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T.E.A.M.
03:20
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Take a trip with me back to the old days
When it was only me and momma at the home place
Me and poppa had drama kept me stone faced
So you know I had to grow up at my own pace
See me standing right on that porch
Dreaming of the day when I’d be lighting my torch
Got Elijah right beside me he’d be driving that Porsche
Fast forward the winter’s over birds flying north like
Summer coming soon see you at the ball game
Keep it cool meet me after school in the hall way
Better never change stay the same’s what they all say
We’ll be friends forever I’m a keep you with me always
Came from the country moved to the city
Raised in Kentucky I still got it with me
And you can’t take it from me no matter how far I go
I got the Bluegrass right in my soul so
Let’s go let’s ride let’s move
Let it go let it die make room for the new
Every minute we fulfilling our dreams
That’s the true definition of TEAM
Together everyone accomplishes more
That’s the one thing we can’t ignore
We can make peace or we can make war
What are we fighting for
We are all a TEAM
Took a road trip west I was seventeen
Fork in the road I went left had to spread my wings
Stepped in the unknown nothing I had ever seen
Could possibly prepare me for the life of my dreams but
All I knew is that I didn’t really need to know
All I needed was a little faith to feed the soul
All my deeds are sewing seeds and soon my trees will grow
And all my regal peoples keep me reaching for my deeper goals
So we don’t worry we don’t get in a hurry
Tomorrow isn’t promised and our yesterdays are buried
And the present is a gift on god so we pray
That today we win against all odds ok
Came from the country moved to the city
Raised in Kentucky I still got it with me
And you can’t take it from me no matter how far I go
I got the Bluegrass right in my soul so
Let’s go let’s ride let’s move
Let it go let it die make room for the new
Every minute we fulfilling our dreams
That’s the true definition of TEAM
Together everyone accomplishes more
That’s the one thing we can’t ignore
We can make peace or we can make war
What are we fighting for
We are all a TEAM
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8. |
Increase (f. Pause)
04:23
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10 fold hunnit fold thousand fold milly
10 fold hunnit fold thousand fold milly
10 fold hunnit fold thousand fold milly
10 fold hunnit fold thousand fold milly
Lord Knows when it comes to chicken need a ten piece
Lord knows I been waiting patient for my increase
Lord knows someday when they see me make my enemies envy Shining on em but today the haters shall not tempt me
Lord knows ain't never been shy shout the windy city
Lord knows I'm forever fly my origins is more the nitty gritty
Lord knows I ain't asking for no pity
I just want to them racks to stack up so high NASA can't come get me Lord knows me and my disciples loaded up like rifles
We got shots for dropping vitals and ain't stopping for no trifles Copping titles cus your fallen idols jocking my recitals
Throw your lighters in the sky we going higher than the Eiffel
Lord knows everyday we striving for survival
Lord knows my arrival drive my rivals suicidal
Lord knows for the right dough I am liable to go psycho
Just to make my pie grow five fold and I put that on the Bible
Lord knows
10 fold hunnit fold thousand fold milly
10 fold hunnit fold thousand fold milly
10 fold hunnit fold thousand fold milly
10 fold hunnit fold thousand fold milly
This the law fuck the police
Put it on God no justice no peace
Fuckin her raw she loving the D
She want it all I bust in her teeth
Filling her throat while I'm slapping her cheeks
She want the smoke while she wrapped in a sheet
She blew and O after that she blew me
I'm out the door then I'm onto the streets
I'm on the go cus I gotta get mine on behalf of my flesh
Made to be fresh do it to death and I pray
On the day that I go that my soul resurrect
We know it's bigger than checks
We know it's bigger than chains on your neck
We know you watching its our time to flex
Now I'm eating the game like Indominus Rex yes
I make the plan and I write it out
Follow it every day step after step
Rep after rep I went from sitting on steps
To sipping champagne in the back of the jet
Playing my cards and I got a full Deck
I made me a promise I don't gotta threat
You outta be honored I gave you this knowledge
It's worth more than dollars the last time I checked
According to biblical verse
The first shall be last & the last shall be first
Count up your blessings and lift up the curse
Back of the bus throw this bitch in reverse
Take em to to church
Hop in the water we quenching our thirst
From the west to the east greatest to least
From the A to the Z
How we playing the game now we bringing increase
Increase increase
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Everybody wants what they just can’t have
We all want to be good so bad
You know that you can’t go back
And everybody wants what they just can’t have
Walk on the wild side step in my shoes
Wide eyed tie dyed nothing to lose
Nothing to prove any weapon I choose
Punch a black hole in the white boy blues
Playing all night like the sun had stage fright
Can’t see the shadow of the moon in the day light
I’m a playwright & you are my muse
While the black sky raining on these white boy blues
Everybody wants what they just can’t have
We all want to be good so bad
You know that you can’t go back
And everybody wants what they just can’t have
They want the White Boy Blues...
You can call me a dreamer but I’m a fire eater
And I can even feed you and this’ll be food
You’re a beast I’m the keeper deep in the zoo
You don’t believe us ask Jesus bout the White Boy Blues
While I run through your spot like butter to a hot knife
Cops can’t stop me full speed through the stop light
I am not right what about you
I got too much food that’s the White Boy Blues
Everybody wants what they just can’t have
We all want to be good so bad
You know that you can’t go back
And everybody wants what they just can’t have
Now if you’ve been hot now you got to get cool
If you’ve been a rock now you get to be a jewel
And if you’re on top then all you gotta do
Is get prepared for the drop that’s the White Boy Blues
Now true I’ve been a snake now I’m fly like an eagle
And this the breakthrough on behalf of our people
Now we’re all equal call it two plus two
That just makes forever that’s the White Boy Blues
Everybody wants what they just can’t have
We all want to be good so bad
You know that you can’t go back
And everybody wants what they just can’t have
They want the White Boy Blues
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Muse
03:18
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She got legs for days and mysterious ways
And i want her to stay but i love to watch her walk away
In her lingerie
She got curves that I don’t deserve
Wet dream she’s the queen I was born to serve
And I aim to please on my knees
She’s my muse in high heeled shoes
She’s the one who makes me wanna sing
Make me wanna give her everything
She’s my muse and there’s nothing I won’t do
To be the only one
To lay you down beside me when the day is done
On the seventh day she makes a sinner pray
Got Ass with a capital A
Sweet sass she’s the head of the class
With her pretty hour glass full of chardonnay
The way she takes a sip with her cherry lips
And lets a little bit drip all the way to her fingertips
She gives me fits
She’s my muse in high heeled shoes
She’s the one who makes me wanna sing
Make me wanna give her everything
She’s my muse and there’s nothing I won’t do
To be the only one to be beside you when the day is done
Just in case you’re waiting for an invitation
Do me the honor of being my inspiration
All I want is love and affection
All I need is one good connection
All I have is a question
Tell me am I headed in the right direction
If so let me make my suggestion
Vote Joe like I’m up for election
If no let me make my correction
I wanna learn love teach me a lesson
Teach me a lesson
Teach me a lesson...
Be my muse in high heeled shoes
You’re the one who makes me wanna sing
Make me wanna give you everything
Be my muse there’s nothing I won’t do
To be the only one
To lay you down beside me when the day is done
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11. |
Remember My Damn Name
02:23
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Alone again home again on my own again
Who wants to be a millionaire
Figuring I should phone a friend but no one’s in
I’m in a different zone again load em in go to work again Give em a killer show Killer Joe and then hit the road again Motor around the globe catapulted over the wall
Hit the throne then in a moment it all started to fall
They say Rome wasn’t built in a day so if you feeling a way
Just pray to god to take your ceiling away
I’m in the open not exactly the pope but I guess I’m coping
Started out shy as Oprah but now I got bread for toasting
From Oakland beside the ocean I'm vibing Poseidon’s culture
Deciding if I should invite him to try my flyest potion
I might as well buy a boat and then sail it straight to Atlantis
Don’t even tell me the damage in Paris they went bananas
Started in Barcelona my heart exploded and vanished
I might have managed to catch it in traffic despite my Spanish
But dammit if I imagined the planet would disappear
The second she dropped the record that magic ran in my ear
That’s when I began to hear the audience start to cheer
They say life begins in earnest when love is louder than fear
O dear that’s when it hit me like bourbon whiskey and beer
The man I saw in the mirror remind him to persevere
Yeah despite the difficulties and serious circumstances
Unhurried toward my mansion unworried by all the action
Lights flashing my fashion is cooler than Michael Jackson
The future is coming fast and I’m moving to it with passion Maneuvering through the madness to Madison Square Garden
Aiming toward my target they rolling that red carpet
I’m walking on it like water like Jesus before the martyrdom
My acapellas rocking you fellas like Sean Carter done em
Now I’m at the waterfront waiting to catch the ferry
To visit a dignitary who lives in a cemetery
My vision is visionary so prison isn’t as scary
Cus limits are temporary and I am forever legendary
As Larry Bird I marry words with the cadences
From LA where the Lakers is demonstrating what greatness is
May the strangers around us turn in to angels
And may the angels surround us even the yes even the rich and famous And may your windows be painless and your all pain champagne
Just promise you one thing you’ll remember my damn name
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Joe Con Los Angeles, California
Joe Con is:
a) an adept MC & soulful bluesman
b) a multi-
genre songwriter & multi-instrumentalist
c) founder of Word Made Fresh Music & The Constellation
d) all of the above
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