Gods And Monsters / Midnight

"It's like what..Like that.."

[Raze]

Ayo the galaxy is happily watching me flip
These fallacies attacking me, get me on to some shit
Another level, my mental elevates through the clip
It's a central meditate save what sanity's left
But get this I'm trapped in this pit, keep slashing they wrist
Cuz the pain rides so high til they drown in abyss
That's why I'm found with these spliffs, inhale deep down with the hit
I'm surrounded by trip, politician ??
Crack open my dome, think you found a gold mine
Secret agents in the matrix tap your home phone line
I got my own mind to finish the journey where I begin to know why
Must release of the burdens within
While we burning in sin they want their fangs in my jugular
I'm turning in my bed, they sleep well while they fuck ya
It sucks the ghetto kids turn hustlers, take the same route
Mothers praying that they babies get to live they days out
Took the wrong path, street wrath how to blow they brains out
Rain down, let the pain out
I feel some bombarded, black clouds with they game on point
I'm the target, what they started is a war they can't finish
Stuck in a world of monsters, gods, facades and sinners
But the charm is within us to wipe that grimace claim
Stocking weapons up for armor, getting man vs machine
They want my hand scanned over screens, implanted I.D.'s
I'll be snatched before the rapture, it's God's plan that I leave
Beyond ?? emcees, the high can understand what I see
In this damned planet I bleed
Watching jumps is dry tears from what the cameras feed
Casualty after casualty
They're tryna make a ?? of me
No bashing degree but these bastards will never meet my status
Divine monster tryna increase the malice on the atlas
Bad Karma's tactics, use your eyes, try to walk sinless
Assassins to make Mason advents outlined in chalk

"It's like what..Like that.."

[Coal Cash]

When the complex made it simple, nimble tells it to swindle
Rekindle the flames, dwindle felt the pain, held the symbol
Maybe the lies spin a weave, the web of wicked wonder
Will some just touch the surface? I grab feet and pull you under
Village pillage asunder, come and ponder with the rebels
Lumber encumbered mounds but then slip among the pebbles
Just the devil's humor, rumor has it she's a trick
Still sold apple juice logic but then poisoned the elixir
Good give me a pitcher of that wicked wisdom mixture
Better than them shots of that triple six liquor
I see the snake bit ya, told ya not to hold it so close
I know you wanted gold, you would've probably sold your own ghost
I'm almost close enough to stretch and touch the sun's flames
Sin remains to reign, drag me back amongst the mundane
While I numb pain with a flask of poison potion
?? looking glass and curse the mass of the corrosion
Laughing at the notion putrid people put in motion
Tied to ignorance, I'll let you glimpse the hell you've chosen
I'm woven the smoking fabric of the lies that you inhabit
This wayward witches practice, elaborate acts of magic
I directed traffic back to where the righteous gathered
Before the savage scourge broke their backs and left them scattered
Fragile faith shattered at the first sign of hazard
Truth forge my sword, wisdom pour from out my scabbard
Avid speaker to reach the seeker lost in his way
No average teacher, defeat the reaper to his dismay
This day could be the one that change the darker future
Keep the dreams alive and that is word to Martin Luther
Cuz I'm used to the rooster crowing more than three times
Never denying Christ, display His light reciting these rhymes
And these lines are just the tip of what's the iceberg
I know love is the price, a sacrifice for what my life serves
I heard the wind reap the songs of better anguish
Anxious to thankless foes, let um know how our life is
I drank this corrupt cup of gut buster
Plus your lady's lust, ?? why I wouldn't trust her
And I must've touched the mirror, made it shatter
Then butt fucked the black cat while walking under ladders
Word son my gathered luck only makes a jinx
But enough of Bad Karma cuz I need another drink
Didn't come to bring peace baby, only a sword
You don't like what we say then you can reap the rewards
Keeping the score but always beating the odds
Just finding my place amongst the monsters and gods

"It's like what..Like that.."

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MIDNIGHT / HIDDEN TRACK / BEGINS AT 5:16

[Intro - Tones]
Midnight comes and goes, just one stop to notice the fullness of the moon on any glowing, cold, dark, understanding moment of your existence, to see the light thinning, know the shadow has cast, closer. Enter the realm of midnight

[sampled from DJ Shadow's Midnight In A Perfect World]
Peep through the door
It seems as though the grass was much greener before
The dead life has been washed upon the sea shore
Money and greed deluded what is truly pure
And yet our flesh keeps reaching out for more
Now you're trapped
A hole in the ozone about to make the world collapse
Pollution fills the air and minds with bullet twisted facts
Midnight is now upon us people righteous laws are coming back
Don't turn your head away cause you can't get away
Your mind is lost because your spirit has been led astray
Don't ever say you gave it all if you ain't gave it all
Just fade it in the hazy purple twilight
No more time I tried to warn you all it's now approaching midnight

[Coal Cash]

As if our words even matter, shatter the truth to watch it scatter
Gather the shards of God to regard the parts that matter
Matter of fact rather subtract the arts to have a
Moment of reflection that shines through the deception
State of minds were kept to keep fetching and don't ask questions
It's gotta be the truth, we learned it in school as freshman
A fool to turn direction and question authority
Majority rules, the real fools that bother me
Retardedly you ought to be ashamed of your logic
Robotic hypnotic product, a psychotic society
Void of variety, annoyed when sobriety acquire the need
To feed the irony, don't just inspire me
Wire me like a loser to my computer
Aliens who must have visiting back from the future
How's that suit ya, I hope they shoot ya in the backbone
And paralyzed out you use your mouth to crawl back home
I attack clones without the help of George Lucas
Venomous mucas to spit that Oedipus Confucius
Yell stupid mothafuckers no excuses
Nooses ready for you lemmings and the lines are never ending
Bending 'round the planet now parading the Satanic
Satan works mechanics on the makeshift movie magic
Traumatic for the tragic I feel panic in the air

[more from DJ Shadow's Midnight In A Perfect World]
Some jumping out of buildings others on their knees in prayer
Some cry out to the sky and yell they aren't quite prepared
You looked God in the face and said forgive me all he did was stare
Now you can run
But where you gonna hide from all the power of the sun?
The cosmic repercussions of what human kind has done
No understanding of the fullness everything is simply One
Soon to be none again so that new life can come again
Illusions rule the mind your soul is never gonna end
So don't pretend you gave it all if you ain't gave it all
Just fade it in the hazy purple twilight
No more time I tried to warn you all it's now approaching midnight

[Raze]

You tryna spark the brain but realize you ain't got the lights
You walk for fame, I'll cast you lames down with the sodomites
I holler twice down to dark dominion of hollowed life
Answer back, I'm searching for the beast, no plan attack
My hand will grasp the cross that'll force the serpent on knees
The land'll turn black as I roast his corpse burning on trees
Disease intervenes, over 30 million with H.I.V
?? increase, never expect to get peace, but I'm striving
In Revelation the beast is compared with a leopard, a bear and lion
But I swear he's dying
I won't fall for his masquerade as the messiah
Resurrect martyrs to fight with the Father after the Earth's erased and retired
You'll waste in a lake of fire
You just a symbol of the effort in the days of Zachariah
I'll take it higher, shining on lies til I kingdom come home
When man will be a child when he's a hundred years old
His temple that are teapots
The final curtain call for the devil as my spirit grows
I'm divine and certain all will tremble
You idolize all but they qualify to die for mankind
Sick of this damn mind, the lust for the carnal
When touching just tongue you allure and the flesh smells nice
Bad Karma that soft chew you right like Hell's got ice
Rock mics, that's all I've ever known since creation
And stop likes of you Pagans and Freemasons

[Tabs]

There's no salvation from the verses we send
Til the Lord scorches the land and Earth will be cleansed
Plagues of ravage men, cadavers and shattered plans
That were set in stone, now we left to roam the savage lands
See the truth came to consume the game in blue flame
It's midnight in Gotham, back to the bottom of the food chain
We paint the picture, it's scripted in sacred scripture
The end of the human race when Mother Nature shakes the Richter
Snakes inflict ya with wrath and anger on these dark roads
And plans for concentration camps, gas chambers and bar codes
So while the kiddies sleep, the beast committee creeps
Prepare for Martial Law an war on the city streets
Inconceivable evil depicted on the easel
The ways of man have shifted towards wicked and deceitful
So seek atonement through each of these bleak moments
Avoid the herding of the sheep by a beast in priest clothing
But there's no room to bloom after you're free
Only impending doom as we watch the moon crash to the sea
We'll bleed to make it and speak the sacred til the sun's gone
You'll see the hatred like FEMA agents on your front lawn
So as the world burns and greed and pain feed the flame
I fulfill my purpose and kill serpents in Jesus name
Then we'll touch the sky cuz it sucks to die with dreams
And descend only to watch the end justify the means

[more from DJ Shadow's Midnight In A Perfect World]
So I bid farewell
No more good times or bad times, no more heaven no more hell
Now brace yourself for impact it's a half hour to twelve
Complete in total darkness empty space is where you're left to dwell
And all you had to do was live today for your tomorrow
But now it's over and you're drowning deep inside your sorrow
You could've led but instead you confirmed and chose to follow
So once again I bid farewell
There's only seconds left you'd like to second guess
But through your foolish ways you've literally beckoned death
So just don't say you gave it all if you ain't gave it all
Just fade it in the hazy purple twilight
No more time I tried to warn you all it's now approaching MIDNIGHT