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C-C-C-C-C-Coming like a nightmare Word like I'm gonna go for it Fuckin' around, and what ya got to show for it? Let it be known that I'm in the zone And whatever I need I just pick up the phone 'Cuz I'm true with it You're new with it I just swing the thing and then I'm through with it I don't need friends to act like foes 'Cuz I'm Nick Hexum, the one who knows about things 'Cuz it takes two and we swings better than you Then it's time for the dub and we roll into the club And you know just what I do, I'm hittin' in the freak mode Puttin' on a load, sippin' on Guinny then lo and behold Una vision girl from bottom to top and yet I just can't stop, uh 311 show them the air is rarefied Don't give a damn 'cuz the groove is hellafied Grew up punk, listenin' to funk I'm a hyper type of fella that does not touch junk You're the back of the pack and the bottom of the stack That's what you get when you're steady talkin' shit Not goin' for self, that shit is on the shelf It's '95, we go for the hive Listen up to this, you're gonna bump to this And if I'm feelin' mean I'm gonna clutch my fist Now when I say mean, I mean I'm gonna rock it You're gonna find out, kid, I'm 'bout to shock it When I'm on I'm gone, I hear the beat that spawns The way we freak it, and we kick up a storm The day we turn to pop the show will stop, so Feel the beat and get lost, now Back to part two, the hard way we play Sublime on time, to all the fans I'm SA And if you don't know I say check the show Do what you got to on the dance flo' Some say the style is wack but I say fuck that Get the hell back and watch us rock the set We cast the mold, bust it cold explode Mega-trendsetters known around the globe Friends takin' you where you never been We done what we wanted craftin' poems You can rock, there is a glow around you Lose control, holmes, just like we do Hard to obtain, brotha, what's my name? Mad to find unlike ya' mama and your masquerade I drive a Mach-1, no dashboard Jesus I hear voices say "that's Doug Martinez" You're all up in my mix like fuckin' Betty Crocker You think you're playing me, but actually you're a jocker You bad mouth me bitch, man you givin' me juice It ain't nothin' but a party, everybody get loose Notice what I don't do when stress steps to me Whatever your complaint, so sue me I say fuck the naysayers and keep goin' Gotta do what I gotta do to get the people glowin' So let everybody gather, the more the better I represent the traveler, him he's a shredder At ease with yourself and don't try to please me I'm just here today then quickly, I'm out On the town one light I'm a glow worm For several hours wiggle jiggle like I'm a huge sperm Can't appreciate a brother's love of funky music You think I'm a silly rabbit 'cuz my style has tricks Of the way I feel now I just got to rock The music be poppin' through me like electric shocks I think and blink and I wink but that shit's not tiny 'Cuz in a blink of an eyelash you will not find me You're the back of the pack and the bottom of the stack That's what you get when you're steady talkin' shit Not goin' for self, that shit is on the shelf It's '95, we go for the hive

Yeah Rise, we're gonna need another witness just like you Surprise, your inadmissible testimony might be true You better pull the hood (get it off, get it off) You'll be lucky to tear the place down Then you're gone for good (set it off, set it off) Scorched earth is your favorite sacred ground Turn away if you know you wanna stay But you're never gonna like what's left of me When the carcass is down and the predator's around You're gonna play dead if you wanna run free You're such a tortured soul But I don't wanna hear about it You say you're not involved But all you do is talk about it Go bless this shit where you belong For your own information For your own entertainment This hell comes to you live And if you need some assistance A little time to convince it Dial in your sordid hive mind Crawl across the broken glass Of every window you're pressed against And scrawl, your little bits of hate Your little digital graffiti breaks So don't close your eyes (get it off, get it off) When you're pulling your messages down You wanna go to sleep? (Set it off, set it off) You'll be lucky if they take you without making a sound What a guy, God, I hope you fucking die And your sympathies don't mean shit to me When the competence goes and the predator knows You better be dead if you wanna be free You're such a tortured soul But I don't wanna hear about it You say you're not involved But all you do is talk about it One more thing And don't forget to burn For your own information For your own entertainment This hell comes to you live And if you need some assistance A little time to convince it Dial in this sordid Protect the hive mind Hold on, there's a river around you Swim hard for the other side Don't drown to spite your critics Just blow a kiss goodbye Hold on, there's a river around you Swim hard for the other side Don't drown to spite your critics Just blow a kiss goodbye Yeah Protect the hive Yeah Protect the-

Eons have passed since the ghosts in the sky breathed souls into simians birthing mankind Traces untrodden their faces forgotten whilst men are besotten, bewitched by their machines Once prey they crawled from their caves to reap All they could claim Now this apex predator shall inherit the planet Earth Revolution A new era of man is at hand Fusion of mind and machine (of mind and machine the perfect being) Evolution The singularity progress There are no gods but our flesh (no gods but our flesh, none can attest) Embedded within the brain An interface to fathomless realities Modern marvels combined with an ancient artifact Emerald effervescence sparked the digital sentience transcendence Implementation of a new kind, enter the human hive mind Revolution A new era of man is at hand Fusion of mind and machine (of mind and machine the perfect being) Evolution The singularity progress There are no gods but our flesh (no gods but our flesh, none can attest) Pushing the threshold of perception And the digital blindfold of untold deception AI enabled this streaming of consciousness Indistinguishable from Dreaming or Waking life No gods but our flesh Unlocking the AI phenomena Mankind devolves into automata Digitized augmented fantasy With rhapsody to dreams they flee Their minds free of reality Integrated into society, currency, and hive mind psychiatry Cybernetic life-force invasion Of unknown source it guides the course of Earth's future with without remorse

For centuries I have languished within the confines of this wretched storm Sealed away by my progenies who sought to usurp the throne As foretold - In my midst treachery seeded Unforeseen - The deeds of my seed bleed greed succeeded Sealed away None possess the might to slay Lead astray, betrayed Cast away, frayed And left to decay Blasphemous lies divulged with efficacy At the mercy of insidious spawn The unbeknownst crown soon a pawn "My liege, please heed these words of prophecy. The golden throne shall be seized by treachery The days of your rule have foregone." Blessed be the oracle's vision They have foreseen my demise Deeds of treason Thus I began purging perfidious ranks from my legions A creation to ensure my legacy Willing a consciousness into being Manufacturing the means to my eternal rule Compressed memories and accumulated knowledge of centuries Converged into a flourishing vessel Artificial, autonomous, yet intertwined The gleaming tesseract primed Replication of the divine contents that lay within my mind In my absence it shall wake Rise to retake in fervent state Decimate those who dared to displace Hastily summoned by my generals To distant stars Unveiling their ethereal phenomena Planetary rings Several of my spawn joined ranks with thee Once trusted advisor turned adversary The words you spoke as prophecy Foreshadowed this act of treachery Unsheathed to claim the hides of heretics Crimson rings will adorn your throats Blood becomes mist as I claim the first of the iniquitous Perniciousness will be your demise Suddenly seized by cyclonic force Sins of his seed were the only source Altercation would be their downfall And thus they created a celestial squall Paralyzed by the insurrection Deprived of the verdant mind in my possession Chain upon chain of magnetism confines me to this maelstrom prison These distant memories replay obsessively hauntingly daunting my sanity My immortality staves off fatality And when I finally break free of This exiled sentencing There will be a reckoning

At last glistening light rains upon me From a crevice in the cavern shines through the debris On this day this odyssey Concludes setting me free The vast chasm holds the remains of a frozen lake A usurper's dominion Bound waist down by frosted chains The fallen angel's bane Through the eyes of the demon, I see myself My bloodthirsty sword pointed forward Thunder it seems Ripples a top the ice as Lucifer speaks Come forth, my child You hold the key to release me from this misery Strike me down and steal my crown Taste my power's true majesty Son of the dawn The morning star Beelzebub, the wicked one Abandon Indulged by a madness, betrothed to his death With only himself to blame As he approaches, their powers coalesce Awaken an ancient flame A congregation your presence bestowed The blade thou hath unsheathed is part of me As are you, my son, my seed, I profess With the sword forged from the heart in his chest Violently restored by the flesh born from his soul The revenant rebirth On contact, he saw himself lose his own life Through the eyes of the dark lord's sight He could see the convergence Absorbed betwixt the union of the fight Now one and the same, bringers of the light Rejuvenation by freedom from my chains A declaration I shall proclaim Storm all life on the earth At will, reform the heavens Rejuvenation by freedom from my chains A declaration I shall proclaim Storm all life on the earth At will, reform the heavens Light bearer, the heavens mourn Light bearer, I am reborn Light bearer, I am reborn Light bearer, the heavens mourn

Disoriented in a state of vast darkness Graveless corpses jolt back to life Bewildered masses awaiting drudgery Minds untethered awakening As though it all were all just a dream They bear witness with their final moments of consciousness Awe-stricken eyes gaze upon empyreal skies Veridian waves devour the face of the horizon A rift betwixt worlds steadily forms Veiling the deity scorned Its crucible met by violent storms As if to protest the god reborn The celestial aperture exposes the passage to oblivion His apparition peers in from perdition And from the vaporous vortex Of eternal imprisonment The deity's immensity Spews through the sky with magnificence Centuries of plotting now at long last This destiny shall come to pass From the clutches of exile To revival arise reprise that which was deprived Reemergence of power forgotten and lost Sheer volition fuels the quest of this ravenous god Upon the reunion of crafter and artifact Knowledge once lost comes crawling back Bestowed dispelling delirium Though seething hatred remains Dwelling in disbelief beneath the bastion Simians fall to the digital veil again Bound to serve their true master Forever is their sleep Atop the citadel a declaration is made To sweep and swiftly conquer what remains of this plane Heeding the call of their overlord deity The hive mind sets out to do his bidding Once they complete this mission Anu will pursue his true ambition From exile to exaltation This journey from abnegation Begins with liberation ends with domination and Damnation for those that oppose From exile to exaltation Begins with liberation Ends with their domination Revelation, devastation For those who oppose the golden throne

Condemned, yet before I cast the befouled Contents of my mind across the wall I wish to unburden my soul That fateful eve we found ourselves In the shadow of an ivory cathedral Compelled to behold the ghastly grave of a ghoul And extract an artifact In an effort to quell life's ceaseless ennui We have descended into depravity The abhorrent art of grave robbery Crack the lid, apex of our endeavor Round the neck of this corpse lay our treasure And when I seized the jade amulet it began Echoing through the graveborn mists as if calling from the abyss Distant baying, colossal entity hellbent on slaying And the foreboding gaze of an unnaturally well preserved corpse A haunting presence of chilling Malevolence shattered our solitude night after night Baleful shades, creeping moonlight, and that accursed growl I had an inkling that we were jointly going mad Until the beast reared its loathsome head Bloodcurdling screams shook me from sleep Shreds of my mangled partner littered the streets The assailant flashed demonic eyes And bayed as it took to the sky No doubt the same fate would befall me Lest I somehow break the curse Once again in the shadow of that ivory cathedral Crack the lid, unveiling the vile thing caked with fresh blood And shreds of flesh I cast inside the cursed jade amulet Startled awake by the whirring wings and Torturous baying of that horrific thing A swift demise is the only mercy this world has left to offer Before I find myself betwixt those cursed teeth With this revolver, I embrace my fate and choose to obliviate