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Stranger EP

by ArtOfficial

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"BIG CITY BRIGHT LIGHTS" Chorus (repeat x 2) Big city bright lights ya the type for a dreamer Every dark avenue has a life full of secrets Get lost in the sequence or found in the reason From the top of the buildings to the edge of the beaches Big city bright lights (repeat x 4) From the top of the buildings to the edge of the beaches Every dark avenue has a life full of secrets Logics (verse 1) I’m from the land of the sun home of a million and one Cultures that drum to different rhythms but we share the same tongue I call it home some call it escape When I roam I always retrace when left alone she misses my face Holds the memories I thought I erased Cause they’re embedded in the clouds they come down when it rains Half way between the city and the country between a shade and a sun beam Part timers and drug kings All trying to hustle trying to put some heavy muscle Behind everything aspiration every hope every dreams Can’t let the city crush you everyone will try to touch you When you flip your situation and nonbelievers believe Ya and non believers believe Ya and non believers believe Can’t let the city crush you everyone will try to touch you When you flip your situation and nonbelievers believe Chorus Newsense (verse 2) And I’m in tune with it the city’s heart beats slow I can feel it cause the streets got a concrete pulse Watch my feet grow roots I stand so solidly Buildings keep growing like time-lapsed photography Scrape the sky scratch Heavens belly Come to the city of God and catch seven deadly Sins its like chaos with electric heat And dead at night the city lights give me restless sleep Pardon me its hard to be Within arms reach of where you really think you ought to be Trying to be at the top part of me wants to stop Curiosity killed the cat ignorance ate him alive So I’m going to keep wondering why till the day that I die But I’m staying alive that’s my echo in these city walls Ringing forever or at least until these buildings fall Chorus Logics (verse 3) Cuban princess Mr. Business Mrs. gets rich quick on lottery tickets Those out kicking those out copping Those living under bridges smoking rocks and Non stopping pop locking Corporate kiss ass on the search for stock options Ravers clubbers hip-hop lovers Forced underground cause we ain’t trendy this summer Runners readers leaders believers Teachers yelling out freedom for seekers City made of secrets walls made of silence Sun comes down traffic starts piling Chorus
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Gone 03:43
"GONE" Chorus (repeat x 2) Sit back drift back yo you with that? I’m with that hits that split your wig back Mix match words down on this ink pad Spit that hit the booth and I’m gone Newsense (verse 1) I wake early morning the death of my dreams Take a breath and it seems That life is more than just that which reflects in the stream I crush the superficial with the crucial issues Sometimes my daily routine feels like a Voodoo ritual The truth will hit you hard enough to rip through your tissue Leave a mark like a bullet wound from a pistol Fist fights and foot races lets keep it simple I live in a glass house a stones throw away from a sad town Of residents who look for the slightest excuse to bad-mouth Lash out blow things out of proportion I look at the glass my image is reflected distorted They tell me I’m a dreamer that I think slightly different I tell them I haven’t slept since ‘97 Stay up all night legs folded arms crossed At all costs I want to know Gods thoughts Chorus (repeat x 2) Logics (verse 2) I’m a visionary by nature so when I close my eyes I wake up I see the world on fire hell storm lighting the blaze up Living the days of apathy so when we raise up We’ll be too late to reverse the tables we ate from We take from like somebody always gonna replace them 'Til we fighting these water wars to keep from dehydration Leaders yelling occupation and catch phrases As a sedation tactical separation You a terrorist or patriot and what’s the difference? Political affiliation? Or your religion? Are you following your instincts or television? Who you think is holding the interest to all those picture That they show on the tube just to keep us amused Got your wallet singing songs of that overtime blues Kids worshipping celebrities we say they confused Get rich or die trying and the body counts huge Chorus (repeat x 2) Logics (verse 3) What’s going on? The more and more I try to understand it Its like I lose myself in the language they take advantage To keep the people in panic I guess It just a form of deception to see how far we can stretch All the rights we posses right down to they tracking your steps And tracking your breath and tracking who you’re holding your debts with Ask the wrong question and end up with a death wish For every ones acceptance like a stolen election Newsense (verse 3) I’m rhythmically riveted you’re living with limited options The beat raped the chorus I’m the illegitimate offspring Spit syllable top spins with minimal consciousness Flip scripts with swiftness and ridicule artists Hypnotists swing pendulums spiting typical nonsense My continuous wisdom is an indispensable offset You’re lyrically impotent bringing your primitive arson Ripping your mandible hit with cataclysmical offense
3.
Clockwork 04:20
Chorus (repeat x 3) My time is running out the clock wont stop (repeat x 2) My time is running out (repeat x 2) Logics (verse 1) Uh running on the edge of a razor where Nature will take us it’s all in unchanging race Say grace before rhythm escapes us Got a feeling in my heart ain’t nothing now that could save us Still I hold hope like the breath in my lungs And let it out with a roll of the tongue When it’s said and it’s done Did you brave it or you stayed on the run? Trying to outrun your shadow by ignoring the sun huh? But it still there in the morning waiting for a rainy day Well the storm is approaching Four horse men got the world in a corner Call corporate headquarters tell them all that it’s over No more blood in the pipes depleted the lines of life When times get tight ain't an order that can stop the fight And we can stop the flight or let it go down burning in a burst of light ayo Chorus (repeat x 2) Newsense (verse 2) Sit back and listen impact the system Don’t let the system kidnap your children It’s a blackout but I got my candles See the city lights go dim in the background I cant tell if the sky is falling or the ground is rising But I’m tired of walking so I found a hiding Spot in the distance lit me some incense And it feels so good when the rhythm kicks back in My passion dictates my actions Last man standing still take my chances Blast at random escape from handcuffs Feels so good when the rhythm kicks back in My passion dictates my actions Last man standing still take my chances Blast at random escape from handcuffs Chorus (repeat x 2)
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"EYES OF A STRANGER" Chorus (repeat x 2) And I bet that I would make a lot of changes If I could see myself through the eyes of a stranger Time slows down moves slower than a glacier With every imperfection that’s embedded in my nature Logics (verse 1) Well the more that things change well the more they stay they same Got a thousand ways to talk and a million things to say While I formulate the phrase let it travel in wave Only one thought that keeps circling the brain Are you listening while I work my words into positioning Of all predicaments I’m still working on my conditioning The stress rests on my shoulders makes me feel older Accomplishing everything that you hope for Walking the path between cash always hustling over Moving fast makes your heart grow colder Wintertime in the mind but I keep the summer shine in appearance Grew wings from the spine got denied for the clearance Stay down to earth sharing time with the spirits I could pick a host and then mirror the image But I’m into making a difference into making it different Self appointed the mission 'til I’m lit for ignition Chorus (repeat x 2) Newsense (verse 2) I find the essences I climb the fences To backyards like track stars through exits But Lord it’s been getting so hard I’ll be waiting for the day when it breaks through the dark And so far I’ve been getting so far I’ll be waiting for the train when it breaks through the smog Fire burns strong Embers turn to fireflies to shooting stars I close my eyes and watch it all transcending Swallow Hell take a breath and spit Heaven Past the atmosphere in deep concentration Swallow stars by the mouth full spit constellations Sit in the dark with mischievous thoughts Then I put them on paper till I pick them apart Put them back together feel a sting in my heart Then I relax get better so I can finish the song Chorus (repeat x 2)
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"REMEMBER THE DAYS" Logics (verse 1) Aw man how we complicated our living Used to love the school skipping now I’m out of town on business Skipping lunch on missions high school misfit Running that lip shit will catch a battle in an instant Now they clutch a piston shift your disposition Fam in a funeral home listing your wishes Life can get all in your ass when unassisted Peace to the enlisted that held me down when I’m lifted Helped me up when I’m sinking Fuck those who faked the funk your battleships sunk and drifting Thinking that freeze frame of life when those feeling where right Used to sneak through the streets like a thief in the night Fucking with them beats and them mics Living life with a dream and dime Now the time fades away stuck between the work and the play Today I live twice in a day five light years away and say Chorus (repeat x 2) Remember the days Ain't no work we spent it all on the play Now it all fades away Now it all fades away Newsense (verse 2) I’m never really threatened when MCs stand and deliver Cause my worthiest opponent is the man in the mirror Throw a punch line end up with the broken fist The vocalist who’s only focus is to teach them how to coexist I’ll bust your veteran cause it’s evident Your hesitance gets crushed with a rush of adrenaline Announce the victor and afterwards count the victims Newsense the Demigod cast off from Mount Olympus Conspiring a mutiny trying to knock off the rulers Spitting more lighting than Zeus does and getting stoned with Medusa After banishment and making my way out the Labyrinth I caused a verbal avalanche just to watch the rappers scattering You cant run even all of the masses gathering still don’t have the advantage In getting past this establishment save the embarrassment Don’t consider this arrogance Just the unravelment of all the questions I hadn’t answered yet Chorus (repeat x 2) Logics (verse 3) A yo just kick a beat I’m a rip it right here ArtOfficial is official taking over this year Work the crowd into a frenzy get them outta there chairs Drowning in the mainstream? Here’s a breath of fresh air That’s how we handle our business We emerged out of the mist now we’re shifting positions Put that shift into your disk when you listen to this shit Put the vibe in the air like a spiritual mystic Fuck a living statistic we broke the restrictions Made it out the school system just to sharpen our instincts Now we hold a mic up try to make a life of Beats rhymes and rhythms all living within my cipher Idolizing the writers ‘til I became one Actualizing the flow to let you all know where I came from Small world big dreams living on a pay stub Running ‘round this world all at the pace of a bass drum Chorus (repeat x 2)

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ArtOfficial's debut EP, "Stranger"..released in May 2007.

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released May 24, 2007

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