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The Man
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Lyrics and Songs "The Man" 11 - 8 - 02
The Song Contains the Following:
Cuss
Indirect God-bashing
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I was bored so I counted the lines and stanzas...
This song contains 102 lines; 10 four-line stanzas, 1 six-line stanza, 3 Chorus(6 lines), one 15 and one 16 lined series and the close(7 lines)
1 the mission set before is too much to ask
the objective, lay before, an impossible task
here you go tryin to dirgrace my ass
but all you do is shatter like a piece of glass
5 look at yourself and you patheticness
you lie to yourself in your happlessness
cover the scars and wounds in a cloud of bliss
life flew you by, never knew you missed
you sit and you sulk in your hopeless hole
10 tryin to redeem yourself and your fallen soul
but it's too late, can't cut the cake, can't take control
so you lose yourself in your weed and bowl
[Chorus]
you just dismiss
all your happlessness
15 in a sea of regrets
and false hopes n this
one thing you keep in your mind:
"You'll Never Be Free Until the End of Time"
you continue to sulk and regret your wish
20 you realize your false hopes and forgetfulness
you remember the times when none of this
could ever happen, would never come to this
but here you are now in your pit of despair
losin fast all the light and the thinnin air
25 it's in this moment that all becomes clear
you'll never be home always with this fear
you try to dig yourself out of this pit
try to free yourself of all this shit
kickin yourself for bein a twit
30 losin the hope and sayin, "To Hell With It!"
you say to yourself that you're losin your mind
thinking and sayin this aloud all the time
but in time it will consume your mind
makin it real, comin to life in this rhyme
35 you lay all balled up
crawled into a ball
ballin about this hell
this hell is all
all you think about
40 about all the pain
the pain is home
home never again
again to feel it
it never leaves you
45 you kick yourself
you were never true
true to yourself
to yourself you lied
you lied and cried
50 cried hopin you'd die
Death never came
never called your name
your name you scream
scream with all this pain
55 the pain that remains
not enough remains
all of this pain
it consumes your brain
your mind is fragile
60 all shaky n weak
weak from the pain
pained from this week
weak from this day
day is almost away
65 never again to see the light of day
[Chorus]
you just dismiss
all your happlessness
in a sea of regrets
and false hopes n this
70 one thing you keep in your mind:
"You'll Never Be Free Until the End of Time"
you lost all hope on this fateful night
you never were rescued, you never had a Knight
to save you from night, from this dreadful sight
75 now with no sight, now left to the night
now it's all over, never meant to be
this man went blind, never again to see
the light of day, never a way to navigate this sea
if only you knew that man wasn't him but me
80 now all you know how i came to be
now you all see what i did see
you shared my blindness, my lack of sight
and how i lost hope on that fateful night
[Chorus]
you just dismiss
85 all your happlessness
in a sea of regrets
and false hopes n this
one thing you keep in your mind:
"You'll Never Be Free Until the End of Time"
90 i laid it down for you to interpret
please don't be gentle just say it and work it
in your mind, run it over again and again
think about it everytime that you say "Amen"
because i never say that to the Big Man
95 who thought my life wasn't above His damn Plan
you just dimiss...
(just dismiss)
lies and bliss..
(all your sinfulness)
100 can't come to this...
(hopelessness)
102 can't believe it came to this....
EMINEM was a major influence on this one: I just got back from seeing '8 Mile' and I couldn't shake the rhymes--kick ass movie btw
