Colluding and conniving, brutalized and despised then
crucially divided, in my noodle vibrance confounding
lounging in the get grasp, habitat, munching grass
when they bric-a-brac divide, scatter back guide’s past
is today a night mare, and you sugar coat it ask
is it one more turn for the worse, or a more productive path?
And the life and lust entrapped
with a fluxing math, has me saying “Fuck if I’m not doing that”.
Unscrewing caps of lucid cats til truth’s in grasp, but some bruised in path
Hook
It’s that life you live,
you hafta watch your bid
to put it out, you gotta take it in
batton the hatches, button your lip
this ship is nothing but set to sink, write, right.
Verse 2
You shoveling sensory input by the spoonful, well is ya?
Still keep the barriers up to protect the purity, well is ya?
You see past their judgement, you hear that it’s the buzzings of nothing and insecurities
You down to give those chances?
Break those hearts, live through those glasses?
Cross those moats, toss elope, forgot my coat
Now I’m lost from home, on an awkward road
But I snear, “It makes an awesome poem”
Chart the doings, the goings on, of life, the business of
Today, everyday, rush ahead scholar of the self knowing
Still gonna be in need of hand help holding
It’s always in the order, land jet, phone rings
Groaning, I’ve grown some things, emboldening the cold hinge
To squeak, to write, to empower the people to speak
the flock of sheep and to own his each
If there is utopia to build then there’s an equal to keep
Hook
It’s that life you live,
you hafta watch your bid
to put it out, you gotta take it in
batton the hatches, button your lip
this ship is nothing but set to sink, write, right.
Verse 3
Wash my hands like a pilot
I’m only here to give you your will, try it
Life seems wait, emerge, try, apply, sit
wait, reject, reject, reject and finally fit
So what philosophy and style you on?
Mine’s post apocolypitc meets Walden Pond
Head to head, better dead, feather bed, meant to be slept on
So when you wake, I’m ahead of my time, preaching at the next dawn
Could you be less far gone? So far, so good
So grandiose, so hood, so speak to me your subtle lies
it let’s me rep the meek in lines, our speech is in time
but I’m not the only one on the showboat who is up to no good
This is why I know you could not, do it even if you think you should
rot the spots, plot escape, a great poet most men do not make
Scotts great, locked frame, spock change, from a lot of pain now your
time’s clocked on the range
credits
from A Shapely Sign of Things to Come,
released July 3, 2012
Produced by LC Slack
Recorded and Mixed by Justin Urness
Mastered by Matt Olson at Ghost in My House Studio
Hyphon is more Henry David Thoreau than Gucci Mane. More likely to aspire to fill the shoes of Eugene V. Debs than Warren
Buffet. Using music to deliver an urgent cry for people to wake to the life that is possible for us all. Hyphon’s music thus takes on a uniqueness not found in both mainstream and independent hip hop. Genuine emotion and passionate delivery make him impossible to ignore....more
The crew I founded in 2006 ever expanding, ever producing. If you like me, by extension, I think you like them. A bit more crass side of myself for the harsher parts of the world. Great friends. Hyphon
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