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This Will Work For Now

by KRISTOFF KRANE

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1.
Escape 01:13
TWW4N: Escape In the beginning I could have been loved But instead I was judged For then man I've become Ran and I run. Laugh and I hug Live under pressure, but never give up Huff and I puff, but never enough To enter the center of that what I know Is holding me down, so open me now Dig me a whole and follow me down One for the angle, one for the slide Two for the window, one for the lie Three for the overwhelming and deforming as morning awakes and I open my eyes I hope I survive and I know that I will 'Cause I grow everytime that I focus on dying As long as I make it right over this hill There'll be more time for me to start climbing Planet flat, living in the edge Guess it's not the end of the world but I dig that hole Like a miserable criminal stuck in a prison cell It'll be difficult finding a window if I keep believing that I am so little special, full of potential every peddle that I pluck, she loves me not, Escape!
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TWW4N: Drousy Dreamer [[hook]] I am happy right now Not afraid of dying Drousy Dreamer on the pathway to what is trying to find me. Smiling You cannot hurt. Kick me in the teeth I love you—that’s all. I am happy right now- Im not afraid of dying Drousy Dreamer on the pathway to what is trying to find me. Smiling You cannot harm me Kick me in the teeth I love you—that’s all. Now I'm not exactly sure what name to give The mechanism that governs the sensitivity chain reactors of anger, But I do know that they can be shut off And if I was lying to you, I would of told you something different And claimed to have never made another human being feel like less of a person By trying to define their god Never judge the degree to which another creature suffers Understand that most if not all conflict has to do with the peace of mind Of your mother. Hate isn’t an option, it’s a choice I find myself hating something And I don’t even know why But I am a void I have avoided the moment of silence by fighting noise And tried to hold a candle to a light that breathes life into me each time I relive the cloudy eyed Sighs I cried as a boy My mind is a toy I found that out the hard way I let something play with it They took it apart And didn’t put it back together My way. [[hook]] I am happy right now Not afraid of dying Drousy Dreamer on the pathway to what is trying to find me. Smiling You cannot hurt. Kick me in the teeth I love you—that’s all. I am happy right now- Im not afraid of dying Drousy Dreamer on the pathway to what is trying to find me. Smiling You cannot harm me kick me in the teeth I love you—that’s all. I believe in you But I do not believe you. Every attempt to communicate lies is a story teller Trying to be truth But whats the use in crying over spilt milk The results the same each time Me saying Im sorry after trying to kill guilt through breaking walls instead of building shelter Chasing him, instead of helping her That night under the streetlight He decided to try and take it from her Now you can try to tell me I'm too fond of missing Joy But I refuse to overlook the beauty that has been beyond what fixing can destroy. She was five She told me everything's alright She looked me directly in the eyes and proclaimed nothing ever dies. She's been here three times The indigo child's smile glows in a way that keeps me open As she reads between like she knows it's time. [[hook]] I am happy right now Not afraid of dying Drousy Dreamer on the pathway to what is trying to find me. Smiling You cannot hurt. Kick me in the teeth I love you—that’s all. I am happy right now- Im not afraid of dying Drousy Dreamer on the pathway to what is trying to find me. Smiling You cannot harm me Kick me in the teeth I love you—that’s all. I say I don’t want have- to reinvent-the wheel She says it's okay Just put your own spin on it, they’ll never know Its just as real I say what about the ones who call me a biter and show teeth She says always feed a hungry mouth Make them chew harder, please Train yourself to know the difference between what the tounge wants And what the heart needs And if its blood they want to see, Convince them there is a better way for you both to bleed But either way, you are what you eat So even if they eat you Just know that you can never be freer than you already are me And I see through particles of stars in galaxies You’ve yet to dream of But you're closer than you’ve ever been To completing your journey—into out-of-body freedom Where searching is unheard of And you no longer are trying to find love Because you just be love You are just being love floating around With other parts of the whole Who are just being love-never feeling sheltered or deserted Abandoned or lost In the past You’ve felt like a person But you’ve become the seed of god And at last fear is what humanity I fear has been grounded to You must continue to trust in yourself And see the beauty in everything that you’ve ever amounted to Now be love. Be love. Now be love. Now be love. I am happy right now Not afraid of dying Drousy Dreamer on the pathway to what is trying to find me.
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TWW4N: BeMeTooConfused (Children in the background) I feel what’s beneath my feet every time I spin around Fast enough to touch my teeth to the clouds and please the sky. Rock bottoms never easy but at least I tried To reach the top of what has beat me into pieces all my life Your conviction in destructive angles makes me paralyzed The airy breathe you burry deep invaded sterile paradise Out inside I shout and yell and scream so loud the silence sleeps with one eye Open feed the doubt until belief can free emotion out. The deepest sea mixed with bleech will bleed all over everything Atleast you had the decency to make believe in making love I am empty It's okay, cuz I know that you’re empty too And life is full of beautiful mistakes that help me see you new I’d like to see you through to the other side But the older form that you possess disguised in flesh deceived my eyes My mind is made of matter. I know its doesn’t matter. There’s no denying that the tears taste like faulty chain reactions. I bow to queen Who believes in service But who has no servants cuz she sees the people when their hurting And what's the use in fighting when you’re already hurt and your forced to hide from What you know you truly don’t deserve. See The sky is never clear When you're born with cloudy eyes and thrown into a world Where fear becomes a motive to survive I really would of liked to enjoy the ride with you But instead I stayed behind with the boy Cause I was tired I never should of played with toys To avoid the issue that grows everytime I cultivate the soil trying to fix you. Why are you still caught in winter, summers here So shut your eyes Butterflies will always dissapear To keep our love alive. For time is only wasted When justified by reasons head Guilt is only useful if it turns into a peaceful death I leave a mess and abandon obligation Like it’s a secret Each breathe is just one step closer toward the absence of completion. Ill tell you a secret If you promise not to keep it Every label you’ve been given Is a shadow drowning in denial Paddle slower swallow anecdote , clozapine, lithium Sorta social gram jammed in opinion Smile quarter hour past due date. Due to the abuse and the overuse of toothache Don’t forget about the root, skip stem Now give me that, Jack... Listen hear sucker Give your pills and slick measuring stick to another Back to the point at hand Yes, I’ve been better so I won’t be back Now chase me out of this institute with a bottle of guilt and your lonely trap Im through Everyone of you has done nothing but manipulate me And make me think that I can not survive In the outside world that I once knew but now that you try to see me You try to make my doubt grow, grew But that is not the way that you’re suppose to handle it So now that you can see the flame Do you understand the candles lit Yes it is, don’t ever try to test your evidence to me Because your measuring stick is not what I am looking at Blame Blame I blame the rest of us for the evidence that messed us up And gave us this whole method of defense mechanism that we never trust So be on your way Be who I wish you’d be so I can be me and be free Where I am When I look in and out its always the same thing Now leave me alone Let me go and leave me Come back, I love you mom and dad But everytime you visit me Company turns back into the point of the perspective that I had The day that the chemicals inside My head went crazy and made me mad. Sometimes It does make me wonder How long humanities been in a state of mutation Waiting for mother nature to nurture her baby And give it the proper you name It, information Wrong information Never had a flotation device Will we ever see shore again Cause I know land underneath these feet Would feel so nice Pangaea, please don’t leave us We have done everything under the sun To forget who we are Or where we are or going Why it is we are here or where we came from. And I’m better Betting on faith Then hiding away And pressing force Quit there’s always a lesson to be learned Plus here no escaping primal Reality reinforcements No matter which direction you turn. She says that she can sense the storm Before it even starts to pour and I believe her Im a sucker for the thunder and its' roar. He says that he can sense the storm Even when its sunny out And she believes him too- So they keep feeding one another’s doubt. But no one believes them And that’s their biggest obstacle They fell in love in a hospital bed Anything’s possible.
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TWW4N: Crystal Clear Now it's crystal clear You never really understood the reason I was coming was to bounce and disappear, but I did it And I’m proud that I found it in the clouds But what about princess pure Oh princess pure she’s a mixed up gear In a clogged up engine God’s addicted to calm withdrawal And this I fear, this I fear You wanna talk about fear I can tell you bout fear A little itty bitty something like what’s in here I get excited and open up think I might have found something that’s never been touched Then of course hmm I get too close Get burned trying to shut it But it just won’t close So I suppose it's time for me to learn another lesson That I wouldn’t have known if I didn’t adhere To the voice that I hear In the back of my head When I’m all on my own on a road that twists and turns Now this concern is already old and frozen stiff All is know it’s a gift to serve and the distance within What I Hope and observe is a moment Away from going a way and poking a hole I hope that that it works I hope that it bursts everything apart Until we finally understands the reason that it hurts And hold it in the dark Cuz the minute that we understand the reason that we’re hear Is to focus on the spark that ignited the light that we chase every single second of the day The reflection we make will make us One with the stars. And it wont seem so far away- Almost so close Distance is an enemy With no heart cope with the image of a mess to clean This is not fair Share this with almost everything Picture, Now Float And who are you to tell me I should go with the flow of life When I know there’s a little boy Who would die for a little bowl of rice No one loves him And those he love Show him how to fight. So he grows up,lonely and frightened All he knows is destruction right, Roll with the punches Nothings rights Its all sideways croaked and cracked, Tangled twisted Around angles and made to collapse Hating my past is a mistake I'd hate to regret Maybe death is just the way that we behave when we’re dead But I’m not So I got a lot of shock and I’m not ready to give up No sir, not yet Not until I figure out the reason that we sit and watch It all blow up in our face Instead making it end Stop this conflict Constant process over and over and over again Till no one is friends And no one believes we can open our flesh Hop over the fence Blow in the wind Control our own fate Nothing's gonna change When we show no pain Hold it all in So it wont go away Must dream bigger Must stay awake Trust me please You’re not ugly disbelief Someone loves me Convince me what it is I’m running from Cuz you’re the only one I know who knows I know I’m not okay. I'm not okay.
5.
Miracle? 03:18
TWW4N: Miracle? She sits down on the sofa Opens up an old photo album filled with pictures and post cards. Sent from Fred in world war two The tears rush down her head with no where to run to. Her grandson tugs her arm and asks her "Grandma what’s wrong what happened to grandpa?" The thump in her throat still wont move And the river between her eyes starts to flow faster. Fifteen when they met in a small town On the outskirts of a city that was worn down. She recalls climbing up that hill To catch a glimpse of the world from an outside perspective. Fred always said that he would love to teach her how to fly But he was scared to death of what her dad would do if she died So he held her and never let go And they fell deep in love with each other. [[hook]] Life is but a miracle All you know is fading slow You never know just what you have Until it's gone over the rainbow. He'll get better, yes he will. He'll get better if he's loved. She remembers the first time He forgot who she was. Ten hours a day at the nursing home Fred laid in bed stayed Fed through tubes while she would read him poems He always told her courage is to face your fears Even though he hadn’t recognized her aging face for years She didn’t give in though She knew that even though he had a hole in his brain It wasn’t safe for him to stay alone And every day she noticed all the roses in the vase withering away And hoped and prayed that they would maybe grow. [[hook]] Life is but a miracle All you know is fading slow You never know just what you have Until it's gone over the rainbow. He'll get better, yes he will. He'll get better if he's loved. She remembers the first time He forgot who she was. And as her grandson looked up at her she couldn’t help to ignore her daughter and son in law In the other room arguing about Something that didn’t matter She told him both not to move and picked up her husbands glasses "Try them on." She said. She said "Why?" "Because Id like to share with you how your father liked to look at life." Her daughter stubborn and sad held the glasses in her hand So she sat them all down on the couch and this is what she said: "Your father probably would have liked for me to tell you that the night that you were born Was the night that he put down the bottle If you ever get in a fight with someone you love Know that if they died before apology you wouldn’t live to see tomorrow Never know whats gonna come So when it goes it goes it's hard to cope Never run from what you know controls emotional reactions When you take your anger out on someone else It’s only an escape from looking inside of yourself and taking them for granted. [[hook]] Life is but a miracle All you know is fading slow You never know just what you have Until it's gone over the rainbow. He'll get better, yes he will. He'll get better if he's loved. She remembers the first time He forgot who she was.
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TWW4N: Paul Still Loves His Daughter He said that when he dies He wants me to flip him over Pull the gravel from his eyes And tell the family he was sober. I said I couldn’t lie But I pretend I didn’t know about the fact that it was planned At my home the night before He jumped off the Smith bridge or at least that was his threat So I told him that if he wanted to fly Why not off a big mountain? It distracted him for long enough That he doubted his plan of offing off himself And so he asked me for a beer instead. We cheered to that control Of how he escaped his own death Of how no one can tell him whether or not he is bi-polar, Or an alcoholic, drug addict, or maybe just a man Who is sad because he had a daughter who died in a crash one summer. He was scared to tell his parents because they were Catholic. He thought that they would judge him for the wrong that he had did. He was scared to tell his parents cuz he thought they wouldn’t understand Colorado 1992, loves sick ! So in search of meaning and a grand purpose to live he joined the American army Where they train you how to kill He learned of how they failed to mention that there may also be means To getting hooked on shooting things Like methanphetamines at will He returned with money and some bad habits he couldn’t break He fell in love and shoved the past so far under Overwhelmed with things that placed him in a trap And when he got home he found out that the one he loved had stole all the cash So he had to wire money That he borrowed from his mother To take her off life support Paul still loves his daughter (2x) Oh paul still loves his daughter Cuz just the other day He began to cry And tried to look the other way And say that it must be the weather Or the mental illness that he has I listened the best that I could Paul still loves his daughter. He said that when he dies He wants me to flip him over Pull the gravel from the eyes And tell the family he’s in heaven . I asked him if he’s sure that heavens real He said he didn't know So I asked him if he thought his plan was a bit risky He said he didn’t care Because there wasn’t a chance in the world For him to remain happy for longer than 30 seconds I said I can’t imagine how it feels to feel so hopeless How I hoped that he could sense that someone he loved cared for him. Oh Paul still loves his daughter (4x) I pulled the gravel from his eyes and told the family he's okay.
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The Trap 03:26
TWW4N: The Trap This trap has saved my life before What I swept under the rug Face up lying on the floor. That feeling like you want to die will always go away As long you decide to stay here with me. Please don’t slip Don’t listen to that voice Its isn’t yours It's an addiction and it lives To kill your choice. This system is a lonely beast with gears that grind at will But who is to say if you choose to stay that we won’t find a new way through. And I am one of them This I can’t deny But I refuse to lose control Before I look you in the eyes And remind you That we will never be destroyed. And behind you is a memory is in time That defines you and everything that you divide By the fears multiplied by every year you’ve been alive See, the mind is playing tricks on us most of the time We just forget how to fix what was broken and lied to The mind has a gun of its own And to defy it would be like fighting for my life Just to die on the throne You're never right, I’m never wrong, Two wrongs will never make it right, And two hearts are always better than one, That’s gone. Once burned Twice shy your right I’ll never know why You weren’t loved right Or why they never told you you are beautiful the way you are And on the brighter side of every scar Is a future for the younger you to survive through. This trap has saved my life before What I swept under the rug face up lying on the floor... Please don’t slip (3x) Don’t listen to that voice It isn’t yours It's an addiction and it lives To kill your joys. Is that your daughter? I hope it is Throw her out with the bathwater and watch her try to swim It will have effects that now may seem impossible to consider But I kid you not that she will be less likely to want to live Knowing that her idea of a man is someone who's a quitter Who'd rather give in and give up Then give her something to look forward to in this life she lives Because he couldn’t find the courage to fight for his I know it's difficult to picture But if you decide to leave you wont die in peace You wont find the piece of the puzzle you're searching for You will miss her to death And we can find a new way through if you stay And this may be the only choice you make You ’ll never regret. S Now mister mister (4x) Its okay We’re going to get you help Its okay It's okay Come here.
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TWW4N: Head Tripping [[hook]] I wont let you in my head (4x) I can't get you out my head (4x) I cant kiss you you’re to dead. (4x) You’re so messy I forgive you. (4x) * Kristoff If it is true that you are me Than how can I be you And If I am you Then who are we And how can we feel new. *Eyedea I knew from the start that we were pushing to the end I never felt so alive as when I realized that I was dead. *K Was it selfish not to leave Or would It have been selfish If I had left. *E Each healed wound is just a moon to help the sun undress Make a mess miss a month martyr old silhouettes. *K Take a test Fail or flunk Pass or fail It's still a guess. *E Naahh, I don't want to leave If I don't want to stay I don't want to have this conversation If I had to be awake. *K Its always been a struggle Every puddles been a flood (flood) Trying to build muscle Cuddle with someone you love. *E Well, cuddle with the curdled milk scab left unpicked. *K You can ruin a perfect piece of fruit by putting sugar on it Why not enjoy the way it comes without a buzz. *E I Got so lost in lust the picture Didn’t even look like us. [[hook]] I wont let you in my head (4x) I can't get you out my head (4x) I cant kiss you you’re to dead. (4x) You’re so messy I forgive you. (4x) *E The way you frown Always makes me smile I'm big enough to admit I'm still a little sadistic child. *K Yeah I know what its like to feel like no one likes you And the only person that you like likes to bite you. *E Fight truth with your lies Dead wrong, living right. *K Like who did you blind Just to prove you're sick of sight I think it might be time to take some time and think it through If you are me and I am you then how can we feel new? I judge you I make you do things I need to see In order for me to learn the lesson I've been trying to teach. *E My tongue wont break your scabs If they don’t touch your teeth Im not ashamed of being deep in love with your ugly. *K Simply put, I wonder if they understand? *E When the thunder hit All the live stock went dead Pan slept and slept till awake felt second hand. First things first I wont let you in my head [[hook]] I wont let you in my head (4x) I can't get you out my head (4x) I cant kiss you you’re to dead. (4x) You’re so messy I forgive you. (4x)
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TWWF4: Written + Freestyle= Spontane "Down with nothing to listen to Umm I'm kissing the room and the bliss you've chosen Ohh. Tryna' get the point across. I just wanna know like why, what's wrong?" Let me get this straight. You feel guilty for the happiness that you possess, And assume the rest of the world is massively depressed So you give in and forfeit your freedom? All because you feel that something tragic May soon happen to you and If it did when you were happy, You'd be that much more sadder. You wouldn't be able to frame it as an accident You would blame it on the traffic and the static, The bad habits all the attachments, the latch and the trap us In action potential; it's half of the battle like crash and detected. Cup full of passion. Half empty I'm sad but I'm yes Yes, that's what makes me happy. Unless I'm trying the best that I can But it's a distraction like I'm not ready To make the next step - I'm sweating again. I'm never man enough to accept what I can Or cannot change probably because It's difficult to make sense Of what cannot be explained. I envy the enemy's pain and If I ever have the chance to Take a stab and enter the center of his brain, And make a couple loose connections I know I wouldn't lose sleep or empathy's frame. When I close my eyes I do not do so to fall asleep Pseudo only to face the lonely faces that I hate to make believe. You know it makes me think of how Every single twist in time That I've permitted through the eyes Are printed in the middle of my timid mind Has had an influence on the way I feel Or even worse or better yet The way I see it holds me still accountable. Always in a hurry to make wonderful use Out of wasting time. Fall in love and howl at the moon I'm afraid I cannot tell you what it is that you want to hear. I can only tell you what I'd want to hear If I were you. It's funny how in the month of June I wouldn't think of waking up at noon. I'm a bumble bee Honey's what I must consume. And when it's sunny and the memories of spring are still Lingering, the sting of last winter shivers sing their way away. Forgetting me and all the simple things Are good enough to entertain My, obsession with what I've neglected was poked and pinched adapted, adopted held felt abandoned told it continued To tell it it's heaven, why? Melted perspectives together Now the weather is a reflection, Re-reflection tinted that is never as good as I want it to be, since the ending and finish Beginning it's better, get better It's better, it's better; yes. Because I know, then I switch the levels Of gray matter and with that assumption Then the gift is nothing and potential is the question. Devil is so special enough to keep me connected to Dead ends and resurrected perfection. The day I was born, behaved like a storm I strayed from the norm. Stagger, stale anger eats it's way through the form Of me that never set sail And let the anger hit rock bottom slip another slit wrist. The myth of option is what I miss When I forget the smell of autumn. The spell is caught em Between what I have labelled as a secret tangled The web that has no weaver. Angel. Lonely. Frequent. Feeble, holy infant Conducting miracles through wires Transparent exposed to diabolical sequences That keep the geniuses in all of us locked away. In hollow Judgement Day that we gave to God the day that he showed us all his flaws and opened up the door of opportunity That I opened up my boots and kicked in this and the intentions Go, go, go, go, go bye-bye in the sky, sky, sky As far as you can see, pretend you're me Essentially the best method of communication is Stained as a memory and it's hard to come by. As hard as it seems; the star is just a small part of me Destiny the art of letting go outside Influence, manipulate and modify Is partially the numb result of Strep throat screaming "lullaby" I felt this sky the second I believed in first impressions What I have to offer is enough to lug the ugly parts of me That yell out loud for doctor, I'm not the seed I'm only awkward Sigh but I cannot perceive, doctor. On the layer that makes me want to say another prayer When I think the thief inside of me, the family tree has been diseased. Since Adam and Eve created this sick, fantasy inside of a society I see where all the fingers tied together, why the weather Has to be the target that I place the blame on. Makes me think, what I've pointed at for most my life's been pointing back at me, What I've pointed out for most my life's been pointed back at me, me, me. Now this search for worth and, what I trick myself into thinking I find is nothing but to further my belief in worthlessness. Compromise; at least the little eyes have found a place to sleep at night. Without bothering me and following me around(round). The dream I call alright the reach is only mine and What I teach still borrows lines from wise men Who never dreamed that we could live this hollow life inside the clouds. Now, I'm all aroused and I'm all in the disguise Everything you know is fake, torn in little thorn Go smell the roses, bathe yourself wait in every deep escape. Save the moment ache, don't make what you know you shouldn't control Is lonely when I leave and only, cause I shouldn't. Phony, hold me bones and cushion - slowly, holy, throne position Make the simple own confusion Bliss is mainly no position The big picture that I miss his plane Before my eyes, paralyze. Scared to speak, scared of heights Prepared to die but Paradise awaits it and so it sits Patiently in vacant corners of the most apparent basic form Of life to taste. What chase is what we have adapted to Ask me what I'm asking you And maybe both you and I can see through The suicide and laugh at truth. And then I'm half of you. And when I take a bath I remove my mask, Scrape the past That's bruised and no, and no In no way do I create a splash to save the sad. And you, now I'm made of glass Only windows see into it I wish you could see the beauty Meets the ego at the center of what's you and me. So now who are way too sick to our opinions in what's thick as mud This disgusting method loves to sting like little picnic buds. We pack materials necessary for survival Now the simple regret that we carry Will marry the tribal part of me that buried Blood, streaming arteries I carried love across the deepest cut, and nearly swallowed peace. You follow me? I'm more than happy that you did, yeah I'm happy as a kid I'm happy that you're happy And that we both laughing In this wind again My past attraction to the habits have committed to. Rinsing you of your sin and Convincing the tissue within you To rid you of the path I choose In each blank dimension that we blindlessly swim thru. Reminds me of dissapearing acts That I have ran back into when I was sick To lose, too quick to pin, pluck stuck to impulse glued To the window - eyes closed atlast with my chin tucked. No conductors, no remorse. Empty head, friends and then divorce wars. Now the end is coming near But I'm undergoing so much Pressure that trying to overcome The weather is friends with my fear I call for mirrors once in a while When I'm all numb, in denial, And dumb as a child Sucking my thumb In the aisle of a church pew. Feeling worthless in a mistake Surface, after curfew The inertia of a snail I search for hail Solidified thru sunbeams That magnify the prism that affirms Like I'm swell enough to pull The water up And service the well. Each person that I serve is like a servant from hell. Given the oppurtunity to feel alert and in tune with The potential that they possess, but yes Certain that they will learn how to fail. Concerned with who acts best In flesh is nothing but will make us Die, now well How should we try to solve this Little problem that we have? How?
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TWW4N: Empathy Makes Machine I craft inch round windows Now my soul's on the wall Time for the age of the powerful Maybe in and out Till a little bit of anger is as pitiful as doubt And so I'm out Till I'm dizzy in a way Then Im bouncing and Im singing and Im happy as a child Never anti Just a another living in the moment Every way that I know how Without losing everything I’ve ever loved Sit down this way Animals show no signs of a what? Sit down this way Animals show no sign of a soul. Yesterday morning came so briefly It can’t hold me Ive been leaving I flow freely But not now Im a blood clot stuck in the muck some how Ive been running in circles lately Trying to get to the point that Im trying to make I've known for a while that Im not trying to win or finish a race and Im sick of escaping. Humpty dumpy sat on the wall with no fear of heights and no plans to fall So now I keep the secret in close reach to me I never knew the door of opportunity would lead To such a lead pipe infested long live history Pure breed fog induced disease See each time there’s a fork in the road I cut all the corners And spoon-feed myself excuses that lead to mistakes And I keep failing to remember That everyone else feels the same Empathy makes machine beat on his chest and feel so powerful. (2x) Eeny meany miny moe Catch the liar by his throat If he hollers don’t you ever let him go You never knew just who he hurt Hold him down and make him Say I'm sorry for taking all your happy thoughts And acting like prince charming Make him apologize (2x) Sing him a lullabye Anything to help him understand That he was justifying the wrong that he did Cuz He thinks Ugly is all that he Is. Pucker up you sucker duck You should loved your other sun You corrupted some of us and covered up what saved us from torture Hold him down and tell him he's important Show him how to smile And make him say outloud, "Im gorgeous" Take me for who I am not for who you wish I was Don’t take me for granted Take Care Take advantage Take Off Get me out of here Don't ever collapse Leave me be Help me grow Don’t ever come back. Empathy Makes machine beat on his chest and so feel powerful Everything is so easy Successful Accountable Responsible Accomplishments Everything's so easy Accountable Responsible Successful Accomplishments Everything is so easy Everything is so easy, now Everything is so easy. I don’t have to play your game To know you’ve broke the rules You want me go to insane And be me to confused Keep your explanation Why you make things like they aren’t Give me red Ill make it yellow We can call it orange You told me that wouldn’t rhyme You’re a liar to a myth I don’t know why you try to wire storm Environments pucker up you suckered up you should have loved your other son You corrupted some of us and covered up what saved us from torture. Scratch don’t hesitate none Cuz when the egg hatches Meta-states run into a city Where nothings ever pretty Just little itty bitty specs of imagery to Pitty Pictures stacked on top of one another I never thought I'd pass through history before I was discovered But I did, so I cant complain Yesterday morning Came so briefly.
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Little Willy 02:03
TWW4N: Little Willy Little Willy liked to ride his bike He rode his bike Like every day And every single night. One day he rode his bike down to the park so he could write He wound up staying there till dark He knew his mother wouldn’t mind. Three hazy shadows came a walking Willy's way He took a sip of water Put his journal in his bag. Nervous, He stood up to leave But before he had the chance There were strangers there to meet, So Willy made the first advance. "Hello" He said "My name is Willy What are yours?" The one in the middle held a bottle The other two looked warn Like they were somehow angry at tomorrow's storm "Well I guess I'll be on my way then." Willy turned away and prayed As if he knew deep down that there would be no safe escape. Before he knew it His freedom was being raped Three drunk boys were steady beating on his face. "You’re Gay" They screamed "You're gay, You’re a faggot, You’re a bitch, You think your happy, Fuck you, Heres one for your family to look at went you get home." Willy woke up Bleeding from his gums With one eye swollen shut And his journal laying next to him. He didn’t understand He just wanted to know why But he was way too young to comprehend What had happened to him.
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Easy Way Out 03:13
TWW4N: Easy Way Out Did someone call for me Cause I really need to know (4x) I went and got a letter from the judge The other day, it said that I was guilty For a crime I committed I didn’t know why there was time I should pay But I’d be lying to deny that I did it I shoulda held her But instead I killed him And I’m not violent But I swear That If I had to do it again I wouldn’t think twice of what life I'd spare. Here we go now time for the prison As my momma cries her eyes out I watched my momma At least for a minute As she cried her little eyes out It's alright I said to her Everything has to work out I know what I did was right Take Care of Jake and Cythnia I'm a million miles from home Aint got nowhere to go. Did someone call for me? Cause I really need to know... (2x) I went and wrote a letter To the judge the other day I asked her if she ever had any children Told her it was my baby sister who was raped And had a suspicion that she still wouldn’t listen The jury was quick to decide Witnesses did testify. I refuse to loose my life While my momma cries suicide Isn’t what’s right to appeal Who will go out on a limb No money, And no real meals. This prison is filled with sin Prosecution fed more lies Over my dead body Under oath I’ll take nothing less for its my right To be free I'm sorry But its my right to be free (4x) I'm sorry I took the easy way out I'm a coward and I bruise easy now you know It must have been something that I couldn’t help I'm sorry I toke the easy way Easy way out. I’m a million miles from home. (I'm a million miles from home aint got nowhere to go. Did someone call for me? Cause I really need to know)
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Leader 01:28
TWW4N: Leader Alright, alright, alright, yeah My mother told me when I was growing up That I'd be a Leader She showed me with her love and trust I showed her I believed her. My father told me I was brave He said I'd be a leader too He gave me tools to use And showed me how to build a grateful view. On her way from work one day My mother met a (All colors ) man who was first to say "I really need a ride home" She said If that’s all you need, no biggy hop in We'll be on our way But before leaving the gas station The man behind the counter warned her of potential danger That she just may soon encounter. She told me she got sad When that man expressed concern She said he could sense distortion Underneath his breathless slur. Why would I be scared of someone who needs a little help? I’d be selfish, foolish, dumb to not treat others like myself. Without thinking I blurted out Racism perhaps? She said maybe, all I know is I'll be praying for the both of them. My mother told me when I was growing up I'd be a Leader She showed me with her love and trust I showed her I believed her. She said that there'd be times When I would give in to temptation She was right (She was right) After getting home from work one day Father was waved down by the neighbor lady She said, "Steve sorry to be a hassle But I think my sink is broken It's flooding the upstairs bathroom" And without having to think He said, "sure no problem Helen I'll be right over" One hour later, the door propped opened. "Dad" I said "How was your day " He said, "okay I guess got up at six, got dressed, worked until 8 then Helen needed help again" "Man", I said "Dad you ever get sick of fixing things for people" He said, "no fixing things is what keeps me peaceful. " "Yeah but for free you should atleast get paid a little" He said "there is no pricetag you could ever place on being there for people." My father told me I was brave Told me I was leader He gave me tools to use and showed me how to build a grateful view He said there may be times when I’d act like a coward He was right But I still know Im a leader. Yeah.
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TWW4N: Finding Good Friends "Hi, excuse me sir Hi, yeah Hi, I'm with University conducting a survey On what a friend is to someone. Would you mind participating in our survey?" "No, not at all." A friend is someone who's not afraid to tell you That you’ve hurt their feelings When you picked on them in front of all your other friends But then again a friend is someone you can pick on Knowing that its nothing personal But just a way to make you laugh. A friend is that guy or girl Who wont tell you how to live But make you question What your doing with your life Right? Some friends are black Some friends are white All colors are alike to friends Who understand that judging color isn’t right. A friend, will share A friend will care A good friend will even spare The last piece of their pie with the corner of their chair. A friend will cook you soup Rub your temples when you’re sick, under the weather Sweating, puking, poopy down And feeling dirty. I got a friend who even traded me an eye When I was scared of going blind Just so we could see the sky together And one time a friend of mine even sold his bike Knowing that I had no money At the time we walked together. When I think about it Friends are hard to come by. What? It seems that judgement Always gets in the way of sunshine And sunsets seen alone are way too difficult to describe Especially when you assume things about them. Assumptions that you make About someone you think you know But then you figure out That they are nothing but a part of you Projected through a point of view That you assume as separate So you think that you’re alone And then you label it a friendship. See a true friend is someone that you can use As a tool to figure out things about yourself A friend will listen Truly listen To whatever it is you’re trying to express I guess that there is the byproduct of trust The number one feature of a really good friend. And yes of course They’ll be days where you’re both stressed out And you’ll take out anger on each other. But it’s okay, You’ll apologize for the mistakes you made Make up and be there for one another. So here we are, me and you, What is it we're suppose to do? I don’t know, Lets fly a kite, Lets hitch a ride, Lets find some food. What's mine is yours, I know you too, Whats mine is yours, I know me too, Lets fight a war, What? Fight a war? Why not explore? Alright dude, sounds cool. [[hook]] Good friends aren’t too hard to find. (4x) So you wanna figure out If you have real friends Just ask yourself this question. If the world was coming to an end Could you depend on your friends to help you prevent it from ending? [[hook]] Good friends aren’t too hard to find. (9x)
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TWW4N: Sometimes I Wish You Were Blind "Awe no way!" "Yooo!" "What's going on man?" "What is up dawg?!" Yo Whats up bro I haven‘t seen you for quite a long time What's wrong? You look so skinny You look small You look different Why? Shit Let me buy you a drink Dawg Yeah What’s new in your life? Hey, how much money are you making? Kid Are you doing alright? Yeah Actually I'm doing just fine Wasn't the last time we seen each other in Junior high? Cause rumor has it you moved away when accused for breaking crimes And I really gotta say something Cause its on my mind And you just happen to be the one standing in front of me Concerned with the appearance of my body So please have a seat Looks like you're in need of some company. What I'd like to say Is that your comment About my weight Hit me in the wrong way And made me think Why do people go up to people they haven’t seen for a while And act all amazed when something has changed? like What did you expect? And as far as money I make enough money to put clothes on my back Food in my tummy A Cup a coffee a day And-the rest typically tends to go to gas I got family and friends And as far as investments I'll invest in them Do you realize how offensive your obsession with skin actually is? And how it makes others feel inadequate Like I'm too thick, Too thin, Too wide, Too big Too small, Too high Too Low Buy clothes, Get dough, Feel bad about the fact that you don’t know how to love yourself control. Sometime I wish you were blind, Maybe then you wouldn’t spend so much time pointing outside. (2x) Sometime I wish you were blind, Maybe then you wouldn’t spend so much time pointing outside. (2x)
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TWW4N- Is It Right? (Featuring Eyedea, Crescent Moon and Mike Schank) Hey ladies (2x) [ Eyedea Verse] I'm not really dead This caskets for show I'm not really alive I only cry to bring you into my hole And I will hold you tightly in the name of fucked up 'Till you bite away the staples that connected us My ribs break every time I get a hug A billion stars in the sky and I only want to taste one You're my Jupiter, I'm your junkie I know your pretty I can see it in my ugly. Now I'll put my face down You can stand on my back. If I drown Please know that I'm happy to see you get where you had to get. [[hook]] Is it wrong? Is it wrong? If I still feel like its wrong Is it Right? Jokes on you Is it wrong? Is it wrong? I still feel Is it wrong Is it Right? Jokes on you. [Kristoff Krane verse] Meet me in the middle where we know each other's pain And understand the reason that we fight is only cause we feel the same Angry at each other We know no ones to blame We do not need to suffer for what's covered underneath I care about you too much to abuse true love then lose trust In what use to touch But grew immune to using us and getting used We use it as a crutch It loses us. But its beautiful How we go through the bruises And see each other change. Sometimes I get all blue because I wish I knew How to love you better Like I've become a letter That was sent in June But it didn't make it till mid autumn Right before the winter took the light away from the smile That reminds me you are new. [[hook]] Is it wrong? Is it wrong? I still feel like its wrong Is it Right? Jokes on you Is it wrong? Is it wrong? I still feel like its wrong Is it Right? Jokes on you. [Crescent Moon Verse] Reap what your hands sow. Sleep on your land cold. Take what you must take. And leave what you can't hold. Cornered with a paper trail Bail when nature fails See the razors While I'm sipping on sky scraper hail But a night so stale And a light so pale I'm walking to it Gawking foolish Often stupid Who is, you to lose it through the bluest eyes she pins me with a thought that's moving by Drew the line I'm never ending, am I simply losing sight I, I can't (can't) dance Dance on wounded lies Caught a flash back took a back track with sad eyes trippin on suicide ways walking The highways talking in my sleep But the talk is always cheap, get's lost under my feet Summer creeps like a killer still the thunder sky weeps. Stop to wonder why me. Hear a hundred cries deep I push with a little more push Keep on with a little more keep on For the jukebox only plays our favorite R&B song I hope it plays forever fifty train tickets long Well it'll die whenever Whatever, so tell me is it wrong. [[hook]] Is it wrong? Is it wrong? I still feel like its wrong Is it Right? Jokes on you Is it wrong? Is it wrong? I still feel like its wrong Is it Right? Jokes on you. MIKE SCHANK- With the little bit of strength that I still have Ive been working on a better way to go about my death And I never took time to take a second look at certain Instances that left me hurting as a person I'm witnessing what is better known as perfect which you cannot see but that's the purpose Nervous twitches Ridiculous mischief I'm so done with this Let's just break away Dull the pains Make it a point to point out mistakes As long as we can get it to a level where we both understand that I am happy. I am. I wouldn't lie, I wouldn't wanna pry I wouldn't wanna see if I couldn't look you in the eyes Justify, trust the sky Seek shelter when it's time to make the clouds cry [[hook]] Is it wrong? Is it wrong? I still feel like its wrong Is it Right? Jokes on you Is it wrong? Is it wrong? I still feel like its wrong Is it Right? Jokes on you.
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TWW4N: The Phoenix (Featuring Saturday Morning Soundtrack: Ecid, Capaciti and Mike Schank) [[hook]] Moving too long, blood rushed to the head, when my days work is done, watch the phoenix rise again. (2x) [Kristoff Krane verse] All I want to do is cook everybody kale And forget I ever sat in jail When I was young I didn't know who I was Now I dread getting old, setting goals, knowing I could fail But oh well, As long as every day I take a trip down to the well And make myself available to someone else No guilt Hold still Show me how to love something my doubt won't kill. Ripe behind the ears with my whole life ahead of me It's up to me to figure out where I apply my energy I would have so be naive to believe the vision I have casted while catching anything for my family to eat Yet responsibility now paint a perfect picture And commit to what appears to be reeling me in Whatever it is I'd like to say I'm sorry I know I'm partially responsible for what is harming the environment I can not wait for the day where lion lays with lamb And scientists can fall asleep without a worry in their head Without the need to find a cure for a world that's been misled Because something is too blind to steer- Ring around the rosey Pocket full of seeds I know I should be farming but I'm busy pulling weeds! [[hook]] Moving too long, blood rushed to the head, when my days work is done, watch the phoenix rise again. (2x)
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TWW4N: This Will Work For Now When I’m feeling under pressure And I know I could do better This will work for now It could get no worse But I know it will get better This will work for now Feel bad for what I did Sorry for my sin. This will work for now. I gotta give myself credit for the drive and the effort This will.. I am very disappointed in the way that I decided to Interact with the world that I selfishly create And I say this only because I need to hold myself accountable to what I claim is all-okay. When will love finally believe in itself enough to let the images that have imprisoned us free? Cause until it does-Ill keep giving it my all And coming up with strategies to help everything that bleeds. People always tell me that I’m well on my way I say that’s nice but tomorrow’s compromise is still a war today. Don’t get me wrong I know it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, But the size of the fight in the dog when it growls for peace… It’s here to stay, in fact it never leaves It’s just sometimes the filter opens ups and lets in the wrong things I’m afraid today that I lack the courage that it takes To make a difference and I hope that you don’t feel same. Under pressure I know I could do better say This will work for now It could get no worse. But I know it will get better This will work for now I really want to practice, But no passion This will work now I gotta Give myself credit for desiring to grow. This will work for now Momma’s boy- Yeah that’s what I am. Not afraid to admit It Why should I hold it in? Ever since I was young, I had the tendency to run, Dependant on your reassurance, encouragement and hugs. Practice makes perfect, that makes perfect sense Still uncertain of my purpose haven’t found my passion yet. There once was a time where I thought I heard my true calling, When I got to where I was going I knew it wasn’t for me, so I Followed my heart, way in over my head Felt the high inside the moment-that follows the crash. And so I now accept that every person that I’ve ever met or meet Will never be worth more or less than me. Nothings ever cracked up to what I think I see And a chain is always weak if it believes that it’s the strongest link. So for now Ill keep believing everything’s okay And even though I’m lost I know that I’m exactly where I need to be. Under pressure I know I could do better This will work for now It could-get no worse. But I know it will get better This will work for now I really want to practice, But no passion. This will work now. I gotta Give myself credit For desiring to grow. Look outside, see something tall and assume that it could walk before it learned to crawl. Inside I feel small sell myself short but as long as you don’t buy it then I know I’m not alone. Happiness for someone else when sad is commendable Cause when I’m sad there’s always room for two down in this hole I am. I wonder why I covet someone else’s potential instead of realizing what I have to offer is just as important. Spend less time worrying about whether or not I have wasted it I’d be more in the moment Been burned enough to know that even though you tell me not to touch the stove That it wont stop me from learning that lesson on my own. I should have listened better… Instead I spoke too soon, That’s what I get for trying to fix something instead of holding you. If I could do it all over I wouldn’t No hope in regret, slow blow to the head. Give me the run around. The mirror became her god Started entertaining men In a way she thought would maybe save the ache that wouldn’t end within. Always trying to chase the beauty she already caught Completely blinded by light that liked to hide behind her softest spot. It seems she wasn’t clear enough to see the mirror in me So now my heart appears to be a theory that my fear defeats. It worries me to sleep until I can’t I think about what I could of done different… Wish I had another chance. Under pressure I know I could do better This will work for now It could-get no worse. But I know it will get better This will work for now This will.
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TWW4N: Halfull Of Empty No, I don’t think you understand The eyes you see through now are different than the ones you use to have. All your loved ones, The walls, the map you used to make sense of the world you choose Have changed and they’re not coming back for you. What you interrupt is the light traveling through The hole left by the tip of the needle As if the sky were pricked in June The images are clear as day But also grey and scarred I know its hard to disregard the piece of pain that’s in your heart. So whether lost or not your caught on top a cosmic web And it’s only a response to father natures Karmic pledge And I’d rather starve to death than be poisoned without knowing Why the good die in love and wind up despising the lonely. I’m only man. I don’t believe that’s all I am. But if I tried to explain I know exactly how I’d feel And so do you There is no reason to go deeper than we need to We’re just people filled with hope and bones to bruise. Your pulse is beautiful, it beats perfectly in time, To a rhythm that’s been teaching us how to lose our minds Sooner than later this eclipse will loose its grip Drift away and shift the picture of what will become of us It will be that which we have known to be wrong all along.. That which we could sense but never put our finger on. So for now I'll sing a song when something is missing Cause I knows I’m doing nothing wrong when I’m simply singing La la la la la la la la la. (No, I don't think you understand.) Everything is empty Pain doesn’t exist The fear of suffering is only meant to show me what true beauty is And I’m a fugitive on the run looking for someone to love and loose again. And I’m almost done. I’m always better gone Too far away for you to touch I’m always wrong And you were more than right for giving up She was drug Through the dirt and the mud and the hurt and the blood and the truth That we lost when we were young But now trained how to live Self-destruct light another flame to melt in rain again Death is just another name for life that’s changing forms But I’ve yet to learn how to die dancing naked in the storm Let me live I’m otta control But I’m not afraid to admit that I’m weak I’ll give it my all I Know that Ill fall But nothing can dissolve the image I see In front of my face In front of the wall Inside of us all It’s all in my head I know that I'm dead But I don’t know why I’ve been fighting to find out what peace is/pieces in me. to set free.

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released September 8, 2008

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KRISTOFF KRANE Minneapolis, Minnesota

Kristoff Krane is a Minneapolis based rapper known for his stream-of-consciousness approach to writing, improvising and performing. In addition to solo releases, Krane was also frontman alongside Micheal ‘Eyedea’ Larsen in Rhymesayers’ freestyle group, Face Candy. His latest offering, ‘Improvisations Vol. 1' is the debut release for HHHAPPPENNNINNNGGG, a new freestyle project w/ producer PCP. ... more

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