I used to sit and wonder why “Illmatic” didn’t go platinum ‘til years after it hit the record store/I understand what happens when you release a classic so epic instead of its recognition reaction gets slept on more/I’m laughing ‘cause all I’m hearing are people yapping about the fact that music left right out the exit door/yet you present them with something fresh and they shun it don’t want it expression is just a relic of what it was before/let’s take it back, to the place where it started in Africa before the population departed/in every civilization no matter the population or size of tribe, music’s inside their lives/this helps to draw the conclusion that no matter how far back you trace it, music has its placement/not to mention the fact that your heart beats so hardly’s there any room for debatin’ but/anyway as we take it back in the day where on tablets of clay find the Hurrian Song/the oldest surviving notated work of music including the song with instructions on how to sing along/not where it starts there’ve been conclusions formed that music was spawned from rhythm and sounds of everyday livin’/early instruments crafted out of bone to assist them with their voices which were the first in existence/which is why as it travels through different forms and ages, it’s the method in which I use to explain it/but not the only you see to me the scape is what makes it so you vibe and know you truly relate it’s/literally engrained in my history visually seen me through all of life’s misery/vividly I remember, summer nights with the windows down music blazin’ through these city streets/all the multiple styles make up the playlist in a daze at really it’s just another day in/the life of a music nerd concurring this way all the thoughts are escaping/the reason I’m giving this quick history lesson is hopes that you take it while you are listening/to this synopsis and know this is truly thee culmination of all the different things that influence me/Blues/Psychedelic Rock/Hip-Hop/Classical/Electronic/Rock and Roll/R&B/Metal/EVERYTHING

Imperfectly perfect world envisioned you in my dreams/escape the place that I’m from/embrace a place to be free/this zone that I call home a place that creates defeat/an infinite sea of faces no places just to be me/Imperfectly perfect world I heard that you exist so/traveling in my spaceship observing you through my windows/though I have yet to see you believing in you is simple/the sooner that I can find/sooner I can call this home Chorus - Ask me no secrets/tell you no lies/and what does the deepest/I keep disguised/your arms are reachin’/I open mine/surface what lies beneath it/dare not try to find Imperfectly perfect world when will I get to see you?/been traveling for forever never will I reach you/excuse my impatience can’t wait until I greet you/awaiting you like a savior what will I say when I meet you/Imperfectly perfect world I’ve traveled from afar/stranger battered and beaten just please can you heal my scars/no matter of time and space could make me stay at a distance/glancing out I see you can’t be you wait no what is this/Perfect world, no wait this can’t be/this is not how I pictured you in my damn dreams/you’re supposed to be a fantasy but/hold on wait I can’t speak/Imperfectly perfect world I just don’t understand/hold on hold on I got it/this must just be your plan/this outside deals a gimmick/to conceal your image/I’ll just come on closer so to paradise I’m livin’ Chorus Imperfectly perfect world this must be some mistake/‘cause this place looks just like the one, which from I escaped/why has fate/turned her back on her children?/am I really a demon just for breathin’?/I mean it’s/still fear that makes you turn on your access controlling everyone’s words, thoughts, and actions/hope is just an acro-nym for hurting our people every day/bastards in power want absolute and in every way/Imperfectly perfect world why is it that you lie?/ constant intention reinventin’ disguises by/making some say only things that you want us to know/turning the brightest inspired kind into mindless drones/Imperfectly perfect world I think I’m wrong to blame you/it’s not you that make them/it’s them that make you/I’m tired of running scared I sit and hide/if I’m gonna save you/I’ll change you from inside

Wake-up in the mornin’ fully charged ready to go/unplugs himself from the wall ‘nother set into mo-/tions he’s going through all are set into stone/in his closet all the same set full of clothes/comfortably numb in routine dresses and goes/briefcase in hand while he stands all set in a row/ all waiting for the train collection of clones/no one speaks, thinks, or blinks unless they are told/arrive on time at the office gets to his hole/look over the same formation of desk in a row/takes his seat clocks in not a second too slow/with none to spare nods his head prepares and then goes/paperwork, process checks and next is the phone/break for recharge then back into the flow/limited amount of time to get to his quo-/ta, then he finally gets to go home Chorus – Going through the motions not knowing truly what lies in wait/comfortably living monotony death disguised as fate/what does he know to him is what the world’s about/living just to exist, in a world without… Wake-up in the mornin’ fully charged ready to go-/es to each for the plug but instead he feels mo-/tion that’s going in rhythm his chest could explode/what is this? wait he’s late can’t question it so/opens his closet despises his set full of clothes/wonders why these thoughts he’s having he dresses then goes/briefcase in hand he can’t stand to step into rows/train approaches and he notices just what is go-/ing on his song’s beginning to play/not knowing what to call it pauses but what can he say/so in awe that he almost misses the train/falls behind of his line to office just made/it in time on his screen not a second to waste/wrong paperwork, missed a check, one extra it rang/these mistakes no recharge he’s skipping his break/hits his quota get home especially late Chorus No need to wake-up he stayed-up all night/ trying to make-up thee wave off thoughts/why, am I having these? I don’t even understand/but I’ll try and explain as best I can first/a composition collection of sounds I hear day-out day-in arranged in a rhythm/heartbeats, claps, machinery/phone rings, lunch bells create the scenery/low end pulse reminds me of the bottom/how it use to be and that I’ll always have problems/harsh mids depict a story of tragedy/eerie, yet at the same time is so sad to me/the melody is so heavenly and offsets the other 2’s negative energy/mix in the whistle and chord keys/all together are telling you my story Chorus - Going through the motions not knowing truly what lies in wait/comfortably living monotony death disguised as fate/what did I know to me was what the world’s about/no longer live to exist, would have no world without… Going through the motions not knowing truly what lies in wait/comfortably living monotony death disguised as fate/what did I know to me was what the world’s about/living just to exist/in a world without… Going through the motions not knowing truly what lies in wait/comfortably living monotony death disguised as fate/what did I know to me was what the world’s about/no longer live to exist, would have no world without…

Welcome to life/you make your entrance first thing you’re met with/limitations, fear and doubt surrounded by skepti-/cism and cyni repeat themselves this is the system/by design the height I climb and reach is dependent/on what you do with yours and the way that you spend it/do you invest it, save it, blow it or lend it/and I’m not just talking green/I’m talking thoughts and dreams/hopes and triumphs most importantly time ‘cause/you only get one go and it’s never what you need/only one of us can grow so for me to make it you can’t succeed/what I need to do is beat you and do it fueling those 3/with the other 2 on my end you don’t try I do achieve Chorus – Beauty seems to lie in you are whoever you chose to be/so I ask who you’ll see?/are you gonna be the hero?/or gonna be the villain?/the choice is yours Villains surround you they’re all around you and always down to/infiltrate thoughts and heart when you’re lost they know all about you/they found you down and out in/that space where they wanna keep you/having doubt in yourself means you are already to weak to/recognize when they appear/exercise their wordplay to weaponize your worst fear/specialize in hurt pain objectify your worth here/staring back at you, check inside of your mirr-/or see the hero that you’re meant to be/first step is confidence that is elementary/schools in session the lesson is just believe/and the second embrace and accept defeat/have strength and humility/always read between the lines find out what it really means/look up information and places it’ll lead/find your inspiration, never let ‘em kill your dreams/BANG Chorus It’s an honor to have yah ride with me/can you please just vibe with me and say/HEROES & VILLAINS yeah/thanks to you who inspire me/in you I find the strength to higher reach/I need to hear you say HEROES & VILLAINS yeah/don’t let them tell us that we can’t believe/or tell us that we can’t achieve/keep honest with your dreams and heart/I promise you you’ll reach the stars/ don’t let them tell us that we can’t believe/or tell us that we can’t achieve/keep honest with your dreams and heart/and I promise you you’ll reach the stars Chorus

I see/a plethora of different people gathered in this place/and after 40 hours at least they’re just happy to escape/you see ‘cause life is always madness and reality is lame/they are working for the weekend and so gladly they embrace/the atmosphere that surrounds them in this place/they leave reality outside now it is time to grab a plate/appetite for destruction so they ravage it and wait/for another round and so on ‘til it smashes and it breaks HEY/liquors pourin’ and the lights are blindin’/flashin’ music blastin’ sound feels like it’s inside ‘em/so high they’re riding and flying glide on the same wind/bass hit thumps make ‘em feel like a spaceship/take sips to the face watch ‘em hit the escape pods every time bass knocks/destination they don’t really care/it can take them anywhere as long as it isn’t here Chorus – DAZE if you want to/PLAY if you want to/FADE if you want to/that’s what you’re gon’ do/make sure you’re always thinking ‘bout the future/remembering all you have is one future/ZONE if you want to/FLOW if you want to/GO if you want to/that’s what you’re gon’ do/make sure you’re always thinking ‘bout the future/remembering all you have is one future I’ve seen/a plethora of different people gathered in this place/and with resentment in their heart they turned to savagery and hate/’cause see those 40 hours clockin’ up and magically erased/while the CEOs and stockholders padded their estates/after a while see the gravity and weight/of their situation hit them like 2000 pounds of clay/so they stormed all the castles and attacked them for a plate/then the powers took complete controls and that is how it changed/first they eliminated inspiration/and anything they felt instigated things creative/then they did away with different nations/it became same world, with this system set in place it/changed society and over different generations it became accepted no one questioned it ‘til it ingrained it-/self completely see the history rewrote itself/until it was awoken a new hope within which we could change it Chorus I see/the people who were here before it was too late to save it/but they focused all their energy on trying to escape it/basically they didn’t see the things they needed so they wasted/what they had and when they noticed hopelessly they couldn’t change it/I’ve seen the way the story ends so I made it a/priority to travel back and hopefully awaken/all the minds of humankind that had it back before it changed/and help them see what it means to have your habitat erased, and true/it’s ok to get away sometimes I know we need it/but see it gets to be a problem if we try to leave it/behind, treat it like it’s out of sight out of mind/from what I come to understand that’s how you run out of time/and if you had the one that I did/if I could take you to the future to see what my eyes did/than you would see there’s not a bit to waste/I’m hoping that this reaches you so we can have a different fate Chorus

Moonlight Sonata(nada)/thing can stop her/when she transforms from the girl next door into the mon-ster/you’ve probably seen her out and about tryna shop or spot her around not knowing what lies inside her/like you and I she leads a normal life/but she changes to fright mind whenever that light shines/why try to escape? when she’s feeding the strength/is superhuman behind her bite, cries/or better yet she howls at the moon it’s/due to the fact she’s cursed and must do the worst if she wants to survive these thirsts/see her body and the power that she holds to devour no man will make it alive/yet with all this strength it is hard to take one gaze see the pain in her eyes/but if you get close enough to see this/means it’s feasting time and your screams and cries in this moonlit night don’t mean shit/it’s a tragic life I know but I guess that’s how her story goes/being a Werewolf’s all she knows Chorus – Feeding off of you just does what she must to survive/for her to be the one to live means you’re the one to die/really though can you blame her/we’re all dying to live/such is the story of Monsters & Heroines Been around for centuries un-quenching her lust for life/she sees the neck that she wants and lunges, a couple bites/feeds off your energy/she knows when she sees/the one she hunts sucks him ‘til she’s done sometimes one a night/is not enough for her hunger stronger sometimes it seems/tied directly to the type of lifestyle she leads/addicted to more each day that passes she has to feel the void/addiction passes then she relapses/her actions reflect the fact she’s not born but made this way/now she has to survive, living for the night time and can’t face the day/almost hides her face in shame/behind her faceless shades/but when the twilight sun goes down/she arrives in amazing ways/you can try to escape her gaze you’ll have no luck stuck love-struck in her spell/you might think eternal life is nice she’s done but numb-stuck in her hell/but I guess that’s how her story goes/being a Vampire’s all she know Chorus Lady of the night/she’s here but she’s not here/if you catch her silhouette, how could you not stare/but to gaze into her eyes/see fear that’s inside they’re/cold dark and lonely mostly pain is right there/this place where she resides/the way that she got here was brought to life by, the way she lived her life/this place is where she died/attached and with no hope, she never would know home/this place is where she’s tied, FOREVER/accepted her fate/with reckless abandon/she entered this state/was destined for grandest scale was meant for the stage/‘til the day she was cursed and/from then’s when it changed/a shame/that ‘cause her past in life/the actions she experienced she reacted that’s when it happened life/as she knew it was through and she has to fight to feed/she’s the queen of the afterlife/but I guess that’s how her story goes/being a Ghost is all she knows Chorus

I used to wake-up, open my eyes, take some steps ahead just thinkin’ ‘bout the day that I was facin’/but now I’m older so thankful I wake-up/first think about those steps I said, now I understand their proper placement/could this be patience?/walking that fine line tight-rope between ideas and action just happens to be how I define time/obtaining better/chasing my dreams with those same brain and feet basically means I’m racing forever/behind because I’m finite/wondering why I/waste and occupy my time with things hindering my grind/now I hear destiny calling me see through my lines/living forever I’ll win this race before I die Chorus – What is it you want?/What is it you need? and/What is it you want?/What is it you need? and/What is it you want?/What is it you need? and/What is it you want?/What is it you need?/ FOREVER/FOREVER NOW/FOREVER/FOREVER NOW By definition forever is an/endless period of time, eternally, or without ever ending/my definition forever is in/legacies you leave behind and messages every waking moment you’re sendin’/8 billion stories all interwoven, sected, and twined/connections molded together forming letter I rhyme with/or bristles on brushes that one stroke at a time/paint pictures that frame up images lens open in time/it takes creating the latest fashion clothing design/sits on us perfectly as our movements flowing combined/into ensembles we sing or say them opening night-/falls we type away or in our notebook we write/so as I show you the motives behind/different forms that we use to open your mind/take the string and tie it back to my opening line/to see why we live forever like hope is ALIVE Chorus Forever

Sixty - Small fish big pond/whirlwind shit-storms/chaos/only things waiting outside of this pond/trying but reside at the bottom so I get shit on/not just by environment, by fish trying to live on/womb to the tomb expiring while it ticks/Rolling Stones must be lying which side really is it on?/yet still I’m trying I’m climbing flowing to get out/all the while the others despising hope I give out/looking up sky is bright guiding light how I make it out/confidence, believing, and strength how I make my route/striving so I’m rising surprising the way they hate and doubt/but uncompromising I’m gliding too high to take me out/taking risk/broke the surface and the ground I landed on/observed for a second reflecting as I’m standing strong/water to the ground/ground to the clouds/still climbing/from a sad beat to a Planet’s song Chorus – We’re striving for new heights/our eye is on new heights/our grind is on new heights/so we’re climbing to new heights/we’re soaring at new heights/absorbing these new heights/believing in new heights/so we’re reaching these new heights (don’t be afraid) Godchild – Product of the struggle I’m shinin’ ‘cause I’m forever grindin’/who would’ve thought eatin’ from clever rhymin’ would ever find him/long wait/couldn’t be better timin’ however I am/solid living proof that the more the pressure the better diamond/from a rough to a ring on the king’s hand/niggas couldn’t measure to a feather of my wing span/there ain’t much I haven’t seen/I’ve been persecuted like the Nazarene/all ‘cause I was Martin and I had a dream/we don’t hear these doubtin’ dudes talkin’ ‘bout how we ‘bout to lose/’cause our ears pop at this altitude/I’m out to prove/anything is possible when losing’s not optional/you looking down or looking back I’m swoopin’ over top of you/elevate through hella hate/in the sky I celebrate/toast to my dream a champagne and vanilla cake/crash the party there’s a after-party/tryna reach God tell your pastor call me/GONE Chorus Sixty – Yo G/remember how we struggled through pain and hardships as youngins?/while people are looking at us we couldn’t add up to nothin’/place mountains into our path now we’re climbin’ up to the summit/aspiring to the peak while ground-level feet they are stuck in Godchild – Stagnant they haven’t been/movin’ so they losin’/all the hate up in the atmosphere is causin’ the pollution/but you either part of the problem or part of the solution/we on that fly or die we done started a revolution Sixty – To evolution my dude and we’re on the front line/making it happen salute the captains at crunch time/armed with our dreams and a vision for the future/we presently battle history victory means enough time Godchild – Left tickin’ the best spitin’ perfect writtens/we believe when the rest didn’t/now it’s on to the next mission/and the next flight/for that currency it’s jet life/yah heard Chorus

Journey to eternity a man with a dream/who was born to a planet that demands you to reach/to the stars to go far, if you plan to succeed/place your hand around the neck of any man that competes/for most of us it was planned since a fet-/us our destiny is in the land of defeat/knew that I could make it with the hand that I see has been dealt/with a plethora of plans and a scheme/demanding the free-/dom to make my own choic-es (is)/what it means to be unique with your own voice/and using it to speak about the stuff you believe, your opinions on the issues, and injustices you see/most importantly the reason that you have a tone/speak up for the lot of us who’ve lost and don’t have their own/create awareness to their troubles and their choi-/ces that they have to discovering their voices Chorus – Each day leads to another they say’s beautiful struggle/times are hard I try on my revolving grind/I toast/to this life we lead/it’s a toast/to this life we lead/that’s why I keep a list of those who’re resting on/if forever they inspire forever they will live on/so I toast/to this life we lead/it’s a toast/to this life we lead yeah Journey to eternity the struggle of us human kind/sometimes to much to overcome so you lose with time/optimism that you had back when you arrived/got positioned at the bottom rung but you chose to climb/took a lot of climbing finally for you to find out/that it’s gonna take a lot more for you to rise/at that moments when you know it’s time to decide/are you gonna give into the system or to do what’s right?/will you be selfish and do what you wanna do/say to hell with others focus on only one is you?/play the victim whippin’ up one excuse/after another stuck that’s just what they want from you or/learn from history who’s paved the way/you’re not defined by your past look forward towards greater days/and though the road is tough in this crazy lane/nothing is given to you it’s for you to make your way Chorus Journey to eternity a man with a final plea/hoping you open your eyes and see that/honestly you can be whoever you’re tryna be/not a thing can stop you from rising to heights you’re tryna reach/and when you get there keep striving to go beyond to see realities you’ve crafted from scenes envisioned inside your dreams/if I’m lying I’m dying a million times at least/trust me just keep going no slow or stopping like Meineke/on your journey 2 heavy things that you’ve got to keep in mind/always grind and express ideas with pride believe/and be confident constantly keep inside you see/it all starts with you so if not really no shot to reach/when you’re reaching those obstacles/it’s not coming fast enough and you’re fighting with time believe/my entire message designed as a guide to keep you/ motivated THANK YOU I’M GRATEFUL YOU ALL INSPIRE ME! Chorus

D-E-S-I-R-E/swap out the first 3 replace with an F rep-/resents the fire that you feel deep inside burning brightest from the chest/but the first word of the bar is part of all you feel for the person you see get-/ting in the way of what you burn for/next you yearn for hoping they will succeed less/P-A-S-S-I-ON/take the a-s replace with an o then you re-/arrange i-s what you have is coursing through your veins as it flows/you ima-gine things as they are in the moment so it happens then you go so/tra-gic what happens when you see that the moment’s just a fragment of the whole/you are Chorus – Moving too fast/moving too fast/moving too fast/moving too fast/but you can’t slow down/can’t slow down/can’t slow down no you can’t slow down L-U-S-T/then an e-r and you need CPR when you/add o-v before the last 2 take away the first 4 then you crash to/try and grab it snatch it or catch it but you can not recapture once it’s passed you/try to replace it but familiar faces don’t make it the same shit/P-R-I-D-E/add an s drop the r turn the d to a t/your belief in yourself and what you mean unchecked/makes you a slave to your e-/go through life others you attack/compensation for all the things that you lack/and unlike the first half of this verse everything that you pass is due back/you are G-R-E-E-D/n for the first 2 and truly you believe/that’s what they are called/really you just want to have it all/avarice is just a path that leads to obtaining everything you have have to see/fall under your grasp but what do you do once you have these things/P-O-W-E-R/first 3 are exactly what they mean/become trapped in your own mind/can you capture the amount that you’re after?/do anything to get it and even more to keep it so see it slippin’ can send you over the deep-end/when you add the e-r/further than you can control see we are Chorus - Moving too fast/moving too fast/moving too fast/moving too fast/but we can’t slow down/can’t slow down/can’t slow down no we can’t slow down