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Metamorphosis

by Strife

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Awakening 01:46
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Metamorphosis- A profound transformation in form, substance, circumstance, or perspective.
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"Can't Stop Me" Bridge: Love me hate me, Knock me or Jock me I can’t stop, You can’t stop me Dump me, praise me, block me or cop me I can’t stop, You can’t stop me Bump me Fade me, clock me or pop me I can’t stop, You can’t stop me Judge me, taze me, lock me or drop me I can’t stop, You can’t stop me Verse 1 Here I am, Here I stand Mind & Body With your heart in my hand, No one can stop me I’m a force a nature, a giant tsunami aligning wavelengths so don’t fuck with me honestly I’ve reached the apex, eclipsed the plateau the eye in the middle of the tropical cyclone calm like a wildfire minutes before it explodes fan the flames spit volcanic flows, Blow the winds of change into a raging inferno Shift the terrain of your brain til you came full circle Life is change the struggles universal Time is eternal though death is impatient, I’m the variable, the x factor in the equations The Balance between destruction and creation With enough talent to bring homeostasis like Prometheus stealing fire from the gods I know the secret to illuminate the dawn, We must evolve towards equilibrium, before the earth is scorched into oblivion
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The Watchers 03:41
“The Watchers” Intro Watch what you write Watch what you read, Watch what you bought Watch what you see Watch what you thought Watch what you speak Hide who you are, Deny your dreams Verse 1: Minds behind bars I got the key They already know who we are So Let’s get free Listen to your heart it’s time to speak Is this the demise of democracy Secret laws secret courts secret prisons illegal wars illegal torture illegal killings The proof is leaking Behind closed doors Truths a beacon, the calm before the storm We’re all suspects now, get informed don’t back down become a force huh... they say this is liberty we can change the course of history The time is ours, Information is power Get louder and louder Information is power Get louder and louder Hook: while the truths held hostage Who watches the watchers? (x 3) while the truths held hostage (x 3) Who watches the watchers? Verse 2: It’s about to pour the clouds are forming Boundless informants, hound us without warrants Meta-data recorded, stored, collected, War is the health of the corporate-state of exception Surveillance the cornerstone of oppression predictive analytics Biometric systems, geo-spatial satellite positions trace us with millimeter precision Cameras on every street corner and building Iris Scans, facial recognition These are the ghosts of eugenics even control has it’s limits, We won’t fall for this the pit is bottomless monopolists want full spectrum dominance politicians went from paranoid to monstrous- - electronic reconnaissance Controls your consciousness Data retentions limitless… Indefinite detention of dissidents It’s villainous the lies they sell us They terrify the rebellious & demonize the truth-tellers
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“You’ve Got A Friend” Verse 1: Liberate your mind Greet each morning with eyes wide to the beauty, by the light of the dawn, think free and fluid, we’re movin’ on in new ways, it’s intuitive, evolve through knowledge, stay true to this Melt the hourglass spill the sands of time Reclaim our role in the grand design we’re strongest combined, shoulder to shoulder side by side, it aint over till it’s over Word is bond, friends We all got problems honest… from my brain to your heart Together we’ll blossom, I’m the flames to your the spark we got the struggle in common, Bring our a-game knock this shit out the park I got ya back… when it’s against the wall An injury to one that’s an injury to all (x 2)
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“Blast Off” Intro Do what you gone do But I’m Stomp through With a head full of shrooms in combat boots Don’t make me drop you fools Like the endless cycle of death and rebirth We’re born from the stars we return to the earth 1st Verse Sublime misfits, we shine different Paradigm shiftin’ to redefine brilliance on a quest for vision, even if it kills us it takes risk to see accomplishments dive in the abyss and then rise to the summit Hook: Blast off, I’m strapped in Light years ahead of the rest, Time bends then I transcend Ideas are infinite Blast off (x 3) Light years ahead of the rest Verse 2: Crashing through the looking glass, Shot through a cannon Smashing windowpanes to catch the white rabbit Keep it surreal, Salvador Dali bizarre Illusions melt, like clocks on the wall, Cops nearly killed me, I did my time Like Jimi, excuse me while I kiss the sky break on through to the other side Step in the room behind my eyes, Go deep inside, I won’t close the blinds, I’ll let my light shines through the solitude Holla at me, If you wanna follow through I hold a mirror to your truth, that’s all I can do Don’t be scared of me, for I’m also you Recycled atoms and molecules Hook: Blast off (x 3) Light years ahead of the rest, Time bends then I transcend Ideas are infinite
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“Power to the People” Hook: Blowing Sour Diesel Power to the people Dissolve ego Now I’m in beast mode Evolve as equals Do it like it’s legal Bump it out your whip Bang it out your speakers Verse 1: Sparks fly, lightning strikes unpredictably Flash of Blazing insight, ignite minds with epiphanies Absorb energy brains courses with electricity Explore Ancestral memories endless possibilities Travel collectively on the search for simplicity The universe is complexity, nature is divinity Our Fates the synchronicity of infinities, biologically, atomically, chemically, We’re all connected, same astral trajectories eclipse the past with action, write your own history Authority's obsolete we’re authors of our destinies we are not machines, follow your dreams restlessly communicate ambitiously… Till we think and act differently Unite the human race to escape this captivity, We evolved past the twisted laws of fascists No longer captive to systems, gods, or masters Blowing sour diesel Power to the people Dissolve ego Now I’m in beast mode Evolve as equals Do it like it’s legal Bump it out your whip Bang it our your speakers Power to the people Bang it out your speakers (x 2)
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“Afraid of Us” Intro: Dangerous, We so dangerous My whole entire unit is dangerous Filthy as fuck So Dangerous (x2) Hated us, thrown shade at us We want everything for everyone That’s why we’re dangerous Verse 1: Ethereal outcasts travelin’ through gravitational collapse rockin' bandanas with black holes through the face of our masks wrote normality's epitaph bury your views parallax, Planes of reality hijacked, clandestine rebels strike back holographic vendettas attackin' your senses til perception breaks down to fractal dimensions living on the edge of the knife, we got off the fence paid the price said fuck it then, cut the tight-rope when it slipped around our necks Hook: So much to fathom Between the light and the shadow Ashes to atoms, dust to stardust We are constant change In a state of flux No wonder they’re afraid of us (x 4) Verse 2: We’re righteous hell-raisers, game changers rule-breakers, trail-blazers, with barbwire halos, risk-takers provoking innovation Your badges, tasers, cuffs and cages Can’t contain us Our weapons imagination Cosmic revolutionaries, celestial pirates, Smuggling hope, Nomadic insurrectionists, soldiers that have gone rogue runaway slaves & minimum wage proles psychedelic renegades vanish in a purple haze of smoke Social criminals trapped in survival mode Eco saboteurs, who’d die defending the earth Boosters, hustlers, urban squatters Fugitives, buskers, guerrilla gardeners
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“Strife & Harmony” You got presence and mesmerizing methods you're like Tesla with your magnetizing essence Talented & Beautiful Passionate & Musical It’s indisputable Your fires unusual, you shine exuberantly bright we met that afternoon I had to roll the dice, skinny dipped under the moon, that very night kissed under cloudless skies, dove deep in the sublime swam the oceans, we shared the unspoken emboldened we danced, you got me open the sun hit your eyes… in that exact moment I could have died… time was frozen, Our bodies entwined and interwoven like tangled roses, blooming horizontally you and me, under a blanket of stars, that’s all i need to balance the strife and the harmony
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“Why Wait?” Hook: Why wait for tomorrow, when you’ve got today Why not make a move, you can do it your way (x 2) Verse 1: Slip on your helmets, let’s take flight engage warp drive at the speed of life pull down the view-finder, see the world trail behind us Here, let me take off them blinders Control is an illusion that’s beneath you Hold on, let’s climb over the walls of ego, Beyond our roles as followers and leaders Subjective ethos of of good and evil Disappear in the plume of smoke The earths a blue dot in the universal whole, dying over borders, that’s a cruel joke, Wasting time, chasing fools gold These vessels got a finite set of days, hours and minutes, that quickly slip through our fingers, still we steal from hungry lips, empty clips into brothers & sisters even though we’re kindred Seek forgiveness We aint promised to find Til we parallel each other’s orbits eclipse the horizon Hook: Why wait for tomorrow, when you’ve got today Why not make a move, you can do it your way (x 2)
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“Why I Love Hip Hop” Intro: Gimme Your Love Get on the dance floor ya’ll Raise your cups If you got some, blaze it up Hook: Diggin,’ Evolvin’, Creatin’, Adaptin’ Spittin’, Bombin’ Breakin’, Scratchin’ (x 3) Verse 1: Needle drops, the record spins, dope beats, tight rhymes, a fluid blend, You and a room of your friends, take the old make it new again Funk, Rock, Soul, Blues and Jazz transforms to the newest raps hit the breaks reinvent the rules and then raise the decibels til the roof caves in pay homage to the legends, keep it real no question go hard, and represent love that new-new but respects the architect, For Kool Herc, I drop a smooth verse truth hurts, music hits you feel no pain, a universe of possibility in ya brain same elements combined flipped and rearranged timeless eclipse like the seasons change from producers chopping wax in the lab emcees dropping knowledge bringing it back b-boys poppin and lockin’ blow-up the ave. energy never destroyed nor created endless cycle building on the past, projected into the future, to make it last it don’t, it can’t and it won’t stop that’s why I love hip hop (x 3) Hook: Diggin,’ Evolvin’, Creatin’, Adaptin’ Spittin’, Bombin’ Breakin’, Scratchin’ Toast to the classics The elements that awaken your passion Pass the dro and raise your glasses Move your mind and shake your asses (x 2)
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“Big Bang” Intro: Close your eyes Open your mind (x 2) We we’re chosen to shine Like the universe From its first moments The big bang The cosmic birth pangs Trace the trajectory Find your place Carve your legacy In the star’s celestial memories Verse 1: Metamorphosis, Cosmic synthesis Boundless existence Like stardust within us Break it down like particle physics Ordered yet probabilistic No ending, no beginning Similar, yet so different We draw lines arbitrarily Check the multiplicity of singularities Exploring psyches at light speeds Uncover the mysteries of dark energy Imagine how endlessly far we’ve traveled Our cells, molecules, and atoms From nebulas, galaxies and planets Envision what we might become If we find our passion And shine brighter than the sun Mind over matter We are the chosen ones Living beings with autonomous processes Listen to your heart beating Feel the quantum consciousness Timeless yet fleeting Before we return to the aether Learn evolution’s true meaning
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“All I Need” Verse 1: I got the Wildest Style Mind flyin’ a mile a minute Above the clouds I defy the limits the beat drops, Dreams flicker off the top of my dome Words Hit the tip of my tongue I cock and reload get Caught in my mode Lost in the zone Shouting whispers inside tornadoes Thought criminals, you know the flow is fatal The Heat pops and sizzles, Before your brain blows open a window Little by little we’re lost in the riddles, Wise I keep it real simple, ancient memories escape to the forest creative remedies Retrace the origins, Pangea to Diaspora Return to the roots Hunters foragers, beating the drums Hypnotized by truth hearts beating as one the melody unspools rhythm ties it up harmonies cut us loose tragedies overcome Hook: All I need is truth and beauty Music that moves me Trees shooting into the sky All I need is music and beauty Truth that moves me The sun beaming on high Verse 2 A fierce green fire in my eyes I see no compromise When systems leave nothing alive consume air, earth, water, pollute land, sea, and sky Chainsaws fly as old growth dies Rainfall acidified Mountains strip-mined Smokestacks blacken skies pipelines spill carbon dioxide, ice caps melt seas levels rise No place to run, no place to hide Earth is not a means to an end Natures no machine, we’re not the machinists We are just one species Connected to other beings In a complex web, We didn’t weave it, We’re just one thread, Take more than we need We deplete it In the end, That’s self-defeatist Stay two steps ahead of the grim reaper I dig deeper Pierce the primordial aether Witness the universe unified within A symphony of strings Resonating a rhythm Bend insights Through a kaleidoscopic prism Unleash a vortex Of metamorphosis in your cerebral cortexes a force that shifts meaning inside the abyss I dig deep within, Stare into the icy chasm Glimpse the psyche’s patterns Plato’s cave Hard not to be pulled under But your game is up Your days of plenty are numbered If time is money We’re all broke as fuck If time is money As a species We’re all broke as fuck (x 2) Hook: All I need is truth and beauty Music that moves me Trees shooting into the sky All I need is music and beauty Truth that moves me The sun beaming on high Verse 3: What affects you affects me indirectly We’re woven into a single garment of destiny We’re golden, we’re stardust, recycled energy, Billions of years of carbon complexity In a garden of celestial memories We’re equals not enemies No sequels of supremacy Carpe Noctum, Carpe diem Break the lock Set me Free Things are not what they seem… All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream
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“Do What you Gotta Do” Intro This is my life, only you decide yours 1st verse Why are you here? you got love, you lost fear All these years the smiles cost tears But we’ve gone through it now we want more than music A cause, A blueprint, Something that eludes us Bridge This is my life, only you decide yours Verse 2: Small minds going to judge Regardless of view Live your life the way you want to Nothings absolute Everything changes Everything moves Verse 3: As long as blood pumps through my arteries I’ll manifest what's a part of me I swear to fulfill my unstoppable will to create, til the ground shakes the earth cracks the sky breaks, brace yourself here’s the key to escape your cell dive into the collective spirit Flip scripts with confidence Rise and be fearless No dissonance, just consonance I told them every actions has a consequence They tried to bury us Didn’t know we we’re seeds Now the winds carry us to sew our dreams
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“Ride the Chaos” Verse 1: Around bonfires, time is distorted We color outside the lines of the borders Puff vapors till our minds are transported Then Dance in the place between chaos and order The sun rises and the days get shorter Throw caution to the winds of change we cast our fortunes Changing constantly to remain free no ultimate truth, so we endlessly seek The rarity of eternal things like a butterfly flapping its wings that bring hurricanes the patterns change but the elements stay the same although endlessly rearranged the yin and yang lies in the balance of all things ebb and flow like the moon waxes and wanes In the land of the gun We live fast and die young, The flame that burns twice as bright lasts half as long Hook: Get so high we’re going to take off We’re so fly, you’ll never break us Get so high we’re going to take off Free your mind, ride the chaos Verse 2: Soaring through the euphoria to another dimension melting, morphing, swirling, elevating the senses beyond logic past the realm of reason I’m an arcane dreamer with thoughts from the aether kiss the sky, roll it up, smoke that bud, bold as love in the blink of an eye potent bud got me opened up, bridge the divide now something taken over us Dabs hit your lungs with a cataclysmic explosion Let it go internal supernova embrace the chaos, explore the unknown travel off the radar tour the cosmos see how far, it all goes unfolding to a a vision of the infinite, intangible, inexpressible a little of that, a little of this different yet identical everything and it’s opposite, all that is and will ever exist every speck of dust and piece of dirt every stone, tree, and all humans on earth every drop in the ocean and every star in the universe every moment every connection, from the insignificant, to the most impressive from a profane lesson to the holiest confession it’s her, it’s him, it’s us, it’s me, it’s you, it’s we, Our actions produce the rhythms of eternity Hook: Get so high we’re going to take off We’re so fly, you’ll never break us Get so high we’re going to take off Free your mind, ride the chaos
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Time for a change... metamorphosis!

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released September 8, 2018

Strife- Vocals
Rey Holliday- Beats

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1. Heated dissension; conflict or clash.
2. A struggle, fight, or battle.
3. Contention or competition between rivals.
4. Contest, controversy, combat, warfare.
4. An omnipresent force that punctuates the evolutionary process.
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