Uneven Compromise

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Enter my chamber you never will leave
 Festering bodies will cover the streets
 Satanic prophecies, Christian hypocrisy
 Bury me deep in the filth and disease
 Open my mind and then hammer it closed
 Into the darkness, I'm strangled and choked
 Tracing the patterns and numbers in smoke
 Blood on my dagger from enemies throats
 Crucify ghosts in a frozen abyss
 Ocean of planets in total eclipse
 Nowhere I wander wherever I drift
 Using a razor to open my wrists
 My body is vacant, my soul is enslaved
 To a hatred as ancient as day and night
 Ladder of Jacob, the devil awakened
 In hell I'm created I pray tonight
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Same wolf from that folklore
 Drinking blood right out of that that goat horn
 I'm post-mortem, these boys want war
 I transport 'em, right to Hell
 In a trance when I write the spell
 Leave the blood on my hands 'cause I like the the smell
 In the death business, you the clientele
 Motherfuckers can't win 'cause I'm trying to fail
 Flesh is the fabric that covers my robes
 Blood is the matter that built up my throne
 Nothing but shadows, I'm waiting alone
 Deep in my coffin, I call it my home
 Cowering and broken
 I'm a victim of my evil deeds
 But I don't need your sympathy
 I'm comfortable in misery
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep
 Sure he's a gangsta on the corner (that's exactly what we wanted)
 Does he have some sort of social responsibility?
 Should he change his style?
 "We are just the painting
 We are the canvas
 We are the artwork
 When we look at in the broader scheme of things
 When we realize that we are not our bodies
 The building in front of you is
 Nothing more than energy, just slowed down
 When we also realize that we are not seeing everything
 As it is
 Nothing is what it seems at all
 A lot of the times this is liberating
 Labels, labels
 (Feel no guilt)
 Takin' yah money
 The reason, the reason that my people say they tired of rap
 Labels, labels
 (Feel no guilt)
 Takin' yah money
 The reason, the reason that my people say they tired of rap
 Labels, labels
 (Feel no guilt)
 Takin' yah money
 The reason, the reason that my people say they tired of rap
 Labels, labels
 (Feel no guilt)
 Takin' yah money
 The reason, the reason that my people say they tired of rap
 Labels, labels
 (Feel no guilt)
 Takin' yah money
 The reason, the reason that my people say they tired of rap
 Labels, labels
 (Feel no guilt)
 Takin' yah money
 The reason, the reason that my people say they tired of rap
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 Aye yo, I saw my man the other day he say he need a handout
 Said he had some live and some boy but it ran out
 His partner had a number, but connections didn't pan out
 And every other road he dialed was looking like the same route
 Told him he could blame it on the cocaine drought
 Since the boys got arraigned and all the names came out
 Now I don't know nobody dealing, sitting on the steps
 By the library building, busted him a short
 Then I asked about his children, told me he ain't seen 'em
 Since they momma tried to kill him, laughed and told the homie
 "I forgot about that shit, she caught you in the crib
 Rollin' off in a fat bitch, tried to pull the heater
 But you hid under the mattress and jumped out the window
 Butt naked, it was classic" I paused
 'Cause my homie wasn't laughing with me
 So I tried to switch the topic up causally
 He exhaled smoke and threw his hat in the street
 Said, "Playa, I don't understand what happened to me
 Remember how I used to live extravagantly
 White Jays, scuff free, with immaculate steez
 Stacked Gs, cop keys like they was practically free
 Now I'm scrambling these streets in this raggedy tee"
 I was puzzled by his feelings of inadequacy
 Then I saw the track mark when he pulled back on his sleeve
 Yeah, my homie got a habit it seems
 Sad, 'cause I kinda wanna dap him and leave
 But I been down the same road so I put it on front street
 Then he stepped back like he wanted to punch me
 Told him, sit down, it's been a minute since we hung out
 Apologized for bringing up the fact that he was strung out
 Caught me off guard, and I know that life's hard
 But I really hate to see the homie in the graveyard
 'Cause all I wanna do is see my people live large
 I always try to see my people better than they are
 He told me he would clean up, said it was a promise
 Looked me in my eyes to imply that he was honest
 But I know that I would lie too, back when I was on it
 So even when I nodded I was feeling broken hearted
 He the homie though, regardless, so I know I gotta trust him
 Told him I won't bring it up in any more discussions
 Then I hit him with some ones, probably bout a dozen
 He told me he was staying with his auntie and his cousin
 But I saw the bitch later and she told me that he wasn't
 Told me if she saw him she would snitch him to the government
 Said he on some foul shit, she ain't even love him
 I was bugging, I know he on the needle
 How she talking hopeless
 Told me that he was evil, he didn't have emotions
 Said they found his babies with their throats slit, and he the culprit
 I'm like, oh shit, step back, how she go against blood like that?
 That's the homie from the way back
 Looking at the stars, "what the fuck could make you say that?
 Naw love, I can't even play that
 It's hard to light a smoke when you trying to breathe
 'Cause deep down I know she ain't lying to me
 'Cause deep down I know she ain't lying to me
 'Cause deep down I know she ain't lying to me
 Ayo your homeboys change sometimes
 Ayo the thoughts rearrange in their brains sometimes
 It's too hard dealing with the pain sometimes
 But you gotta let go, you can't save their lives
 Your homeboys change sometimes
 The thoughts rearrange in their brains sometimes
 It's too hard dealing with the pain sometimes
 But you gotta let go, you can't save their lives
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 (What are you doing?)
 (I don't know)