1. |
king tut
02:14
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Humbled by the hand-me-down used car mileage
If we get caught, exercise the silence
Since an adolescence...
Been groomed for independence
Product of a third world
Cultural Impressions
Dreamed of Cleopatra
Just a boy they called King
Buried with my treasures
Like its only one thing
Got the spirit of a pharaoh in me
Heart pumps alcoholic
Carcinogenic
Blood to flood kidney
I believe in the holy water
Baptized in Orthodox
Kissed Nefertiti's daughter
She taught me in renaissance
Fingertips, run trips
Along trails
Hieroglyphics, it's...
Been engraved in Egyptian Rosetta
Walking through the Pyramids
That's been built by hand
My fate written on papyrus
Draws back to Osiris
Hook:
I'm made up of a King Tut
(King TUT)
24 karat gold
Makes up my mold
CAiroglyphics, specifics
That's been engraved in limestones
It's King Tutankhamun
When he enters the room
(Pharoah)
(Souvenirs, Novelties, Party tricks)
(repeat)
Verse 2:
The prince of the air sends death with a kiss
Biggest lie to man is that he doesn't exist (devil's a lie)
Cold part about it, hell will never freeze over
The scars of a soldier, funerals getting closer
If money is the root, I plant my seeds among the poor
When the rain comes, the yields more
Most rich men, have no religion
Free from all the guilt when
Committing the sin, (uh)
Living in poverty not too many options
Only necessities coming from the bottom
It's difficult to keep the straightened arrow
Then I remember I'm the descendent of a Pharaoh
Hook:
(repeat)
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2. |
hello hello
02:34
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Greetings Earthling
(Hello, Hello, Hello, ooo, Hello)
I would like to probe...
(hello, hello, ooo)
One of your orifices
(hello)
My mission?
(Hello, Hello, Hello,ooo, Hello)
...to see if you're compatible
With the geometric progressions...
(Hello, Hello. Hello, Hello)
Of my organisms
Verse 1:
"Hello"...
A word we both don't understand
Why it's used
To introduce
Me to you
Your cousins too...
...if we only get that far
Life is what you make it, can't forget that part
To probe your mind and your soul for a bit
Make sure you're someone that I could grow with (old with)
Run analysis on software
If I fell on hard times would you be there?
I'm not supposed to talk to earth girls
Momma...
Says they're worthless just like earth pearls
Drama
But I don't care, just wanna see ya..
Naked
And we can take it to my spaceship
Hook:
"Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello"
(repeat)
Verse 2:
Hey baby girl it's been awhile
I haven't seen ya, I missed your smile
Protect your heart at any cost
Don't take a loss
Ya I heard...
That the square life is a life with kids.. for the birds
Then I met you
Drop the drop top down
Summer 92'
Like we're lakeshore bound
Hook (repeat)
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3. |
CrystAlized dreAms
03:10
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Hook:
If my dreams were to become Crystallized
Would half my life pass by
Right before my eyes ?
(repeat)
Verse:
Wake up in the morning, when I see you:
All she ever wants is something new
Maybe I could tell you all I know
As easy as the wind blows
Nothing stays the same
Vision into destiny, seems to fade away
Timing of our fantasy will happen one day
Listening to the sweet lies knowing that I know:
Maybe I should let it go
Let down my pride
Begin to show
That you need me and we can grow
But nothing stays the same
Life is but a dream
Love is always true
(all the places I know, all the places you go)
I want to be with you
So we can Rock-N-Roll
Let our beats take control
And we can fly to place today
Bye to Mumbai, Bombay..
Helloooo
Let's go back to the old
Spaces that we've known
Don't leave it alone...
Hook:
If my dreams were to become Crystallized
Would half my life pass by right before my eyes?
(repeat)
Written by Mark Samir Adam ©2019
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4. |
Chill
03:18
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Hook:
(repeat)
Bridge:
Baby girl you need to chiiiiiiiill...
(nagging in foreign languages)
Starting to become a buzz kiiiiiiiiill..
(nagging in foreign languages)
(repeat)
You wanna make problems...
(nagging in foreign language)
I'll give you some options
(nagging in foreign language)
(repeat)
"where are you going?" (arabic)
Hook:
(repeat)
(Nagging in multiple languages: French, Arabic, English, Mandarin and Hindi)
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5. |
weird
04:23
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Weird Lyrics
Verse 1:
Popular crowd
Never did fit
Under equipped
Considered misfit
More under pressure the harder it gets
The flower, the water, the unleavened mix...
My mind will run in tangents
I grew up in a Coptic home
Where we lived by commandments:
Thou shall not lie, Thou shall not steal
Came from an era considered as real
They do not make them like us anymore
"Time is of the essence", we heard it before
My mind will run in tangents
Living in paranoia, questioning man's advancements
Bridge:
There was a time
When I lost my mind
And I gave it all to you
There was a time
When I lost my mind
But I gave it all to you
Hook:
I'm weird
Dress different, I think too much...
I can't trust, take drugs, won't keep in-touch
I'm imperfect in my ways
But I promise if you love me
Then I'll give you all of my days, I'm imperfect
I'm weird
Dress different, I think too much
I can't trust, take drugs, won't keep in-touch
Verse 2:
These inner city blues
Got me crying out red sea tears
What do you know about PTSD?
With a little bit of pill dependency?
I'm talking about no cares for no trends
No fears with no friends
Most of the time I spend time on my own
When I'm in public, I'm feeling alone...
I suffered multiple fractures
'Kurie `ele`ycon"
May HE lead me to greener pastures
... and if I'm scrutinized for my particular view
Take time to think about it
I'm no different than you
Hook:
I'm weird
Dress different, I think too much
I can't trust, take drugs, won't keep in-touch
(repeat)
(guitar solo)
I'm weird
Dress different, I think too much
I can't trust, take drugs, won't keep in-touch
(repeat)
-written by Mark Samir Adam
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6. |
purify
02:40
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Purifier to be higher
From the words let it elevate
Religious to the beat
With the words just to consummate
Never left scraps on a fine dine china plate
Always wrote raps with some time
Let it resonate
... wait...
Take a look at the stars
And view the sun illuminate the moon
Behind these bars
Do you remember?
Penny loafers, Michael Jackson Bad
Wish we could go back to the times that we had
When the sun and the moon
Both rest in the sky
I reminisce to a bliss memory of you and I
Never say goodbye
If this world were mine
Your inspiration to my rhyme
My Sade, if loving you is a crime..
It feels good like the 90’s
Rewind time please
To water-balloon fights in air max 90s
When time was irrelevant....
Bridge:
Rewinding the high notes
When riding the sky coach
Was living in high hopes
Surviving the tight ropes
Your family and my folks
We laugh at the same jokes
Prayers with cloud smokes
Purify my soul...
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7. |
heAvy
04:04
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Verse 1:
Closer to my dreams I can picture myself
With visions of palm trees, calm seas for my health
Tangible as concrete, I defeat those
Antagonistic thoughts that tend to oppose
And those...
That pose as foes
For all my dreams
For all my goals
Indubitable lifestyle is what I chose
Where my life goes...
Only GOD knows
Where the ink flows...
Only the pen knows
Matures and grows
On paper that the notebook holds...
I tend to drift, with the gift
Pray throughout my day
I may resist, to shift
My position, take intermission, from program
Away from the turf servin'
Swervin' in a Brougham
Common faces that paces
Up and down boulevards
Livin' this Cali life is considered as "hella" hard
When you're living amidst the struggle
Where common folks juggle
And lost souls hustle
I remain the same
Stay true to virtue
Maintain my mind frame
Cause the game will hurt you
Unless you treat it with the same respect
Expect no changes unless you change your aspect
(huh)
So now I listen when speak to you
My words flew, what they knew
Though few
Soul grew
Hook:
Heavy is the head that wears gold crown
Heavy is the neck-lace that it goes around
Heavy is the head that wears gold crown
Heavy is the neck-lace that it goes around
Verse 2:
My thought pro-cess considered as vintage
In digital times with traditional pillage
I'm amazed I made it out of my village
Where the po-po's and the po-pimps
Play in scrimmage
Pops told me:
"Idle hands are a workshop...
...for the devil, be careful, never let work stop"
So I practice, training on a campus
Young Rembrandt painting on a canvas
Dreams of success, I must confess
Somehow forget how I'm already blessed
Somehow suggests how Im already stressed
Ripped from the breast
My whole life has been depressed
Pops surpassed the triple bypass
We couldn't see Leukemia coming with eyeglass
Learned that life is just a cloud of smoke
I put my faith into my prayers
Easy comes the yolk
Heavy is the head that wears gold crown
Heavy is the neck-lace that it goes around
Heavy is the head that wears gold crown
Heavy is the neck-lace that it goes around
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8. |
souvenirs
03:43
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Living in a world of a constant struggle
Swimming around sharks it's hard to be humble
Blood is in the water
Get your bread they said
Money perpetuates the greed with death
And if I could touch the sky...
But I'm afraid to fall
I got my back against wall
With the bible in my hand
I'd be less of a man if I said, I read
...more than I did
Just a little coptic kid
Running outside of the grid
Walked the slums of "al sharia Abu Qir"
Seen the dogs, but no millionaire
To the E.14th's by my 16th year
Quick as the eye that blinks
Quick as the mind that thinks
All I wanna do is just....
(guitar solo)
Verse 2:
Dance to the sunrise
Floating Red Seas underneath a cloud nine
Painting in the sky with a fine line
Maybe we could fly if we only try...
But I'm afraid fall
Feeling like I got my back against the wall
Adolescent dreams
Seem to recall
Devil is in my ear like: "Give up completely"
Poppas in my head like: "yallah habibi"
Masri is the bloodline
Pita bread, hummus, five days of the lunch time
Before the retros
I had the velcros
Kid with the big nose and the ill flows
Bustin' raps in the hallway
Dreaming in class I could see myself all day
On THE BOX and MTV
Rap City and CMC, (Yee!)
Back when I had the neon green Huffy
Everybody wanted to just mean-mug me
Pops didn't play man... I'd rather go jail
Coming from a third world
Grew up with a sore tail
Coming to America, be damned if he'd fail
I used to inhale
Marijuana smoke
Whoever counted me out, couldn't count
The ESL they spoke was broke
Rapping for dummies
Concerned for monies
Disrespect the culture
You rats and vultures!
I shed blood for craft
Tears through the years
Sweat through the pores
With no souvenirs
Bridge:
That's what my heart keeps telling me
They're hating on my 'Love Jones'
Being on their Bellamy
Mad at my melody
All I wanna do is just spit my specialty
(repeat)
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9. |
mother of peArls
03:07
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I ain't with the gang gang
I’m with GOD/
Pain is too genuine to be living life fraud/
Bound by the flesh
My enemy never rests/
Spirit is growing
Despite the enemies tests/
Suggesting that I walk blindly among sheep/ The Lord is my Shepard He shall never forsake me/ faith is what you make it, the hardest thing about religion/ Man oversees it and judges me for decisions/ fogging up the vision/ spraying toxins in the sky/ playing with the weather, causing poor people to die/ but ya'll don't wanna hear that/ just dummy rap/ so Imma dumb it down just to bring right back! Check it jack:
Hook:
I ain’t with the Gang gang
I'm with God!
Alot of these characters and their stories are just fraud/
Like a material girl in a material world/
I can't help but drop jewels, these mother of pearls/
I ain't with the Gang Gang
I'm with God
A lot of your idols struggle with identity hard/
Like a material girl in a material world/
I can't help but drop jewels, these mother of pearls
2nd v
I ain't with the gang gang
I got God
My pain is too genuine to be living life fraud/
Bound by the flesh
My enemy never rests/
Survival of the fittest/bare witness to success/
The one who has knowledge, uses words with restraint/ even a fool is considered wise when he ain't/ excellent speech, becometh not from a fool/ much less from lying lips of a prince cometh too/the tongue has the power, over life and over death/ I’m propelling success/ amidst the lies and the threats/ we speak of being woke, phrasing in the past tense, allowing some ignorance to reside within the address..
Hook (repeat)
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10. |
red seA
04:18
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Verse:
It's 2:45 and we both can't drive
I know your friends are waiting on ya
And they're parked outside
What if we went to go eat
Find a place that's cool...
Tell me what you do for work?
Oh you're going to school...
Pre-Med? what are you doing in here?
Oh happy birthday on your 24th year
Tell me something... do you like the arts?
Get lost within the music and watch the stars?
Talk to God and still hope for love?
I wouldn't blame you if you've given up
We're all damaged in some form or fashion
And I hope you're not offended in me for asking
I wanna know if your soul can grow
Share in the things that hard to show
You know you're beautiful
No need to stress it
But it's nice to at least suggest it
Look...
I just wanna spend time with you
Most valuable asset, ya can't get
Oh, that's your girl calling...
I'll let ya go
But before I do
I'd like to know:
Hook:
Have you ever floated boats on the Red Sea
Drowned in the fine wine
Grapes grown in Italy
Soaked in the French sun
Moons over Sicily?
(repeat)
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11. |
mind of A fool
04:30
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12. |
AdAm
03:12
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13. |
bleeding thorn
03:08
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