Intangible

By Cex

Released on January 1, 2002

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[Chorus]

Intangible man can't touch him can't do it

Half-man, half-nothing, hardly there and barely human

Never been punched, never been fucked, never been kissed

Slips through the floorboards he won't be missed

Intangible man can't touch him can't do it

Put your hand to his face and you'll pass right through it

Never been fucked, never been punched, never been kissed

Hard-pressed for evidence he even exists


[Verse 1]

I hit the streets serious, period

Intro superimposed and disappеaring

The credits are rolling, turn off your cеllphones and look here

Remember the face of our main character

Because this is a narrative that'll change America

I'm wearing a brown suit jacket and crew socks

O Fortuna blasting out of my boombox too hot

Hand in my pocket, itching to grip the pencils

Spill the contents of my tonsils over ill instrumentals

Sometimes I'm like "Cex, don't be so self-referencial"

But Frankenstein was not the monster, he was the inventor

So heads if you're ready, here's the picture I wrote and directed

21 years long and hella full of nude scenes

You're mistaken if you think I plan to make it on the basis of my natural ability

I'm over that pipe dream

My scheme is split this space between my skin and thin air

There's a place where they're the same and I've been there

I've been scared of my lack of gravity but that's long passed

Tried to make myself matter, and I just got gassed

So the plans of cultivating aim to change these chains

Has always waved me back into my greatest assets


[Bridge]

Also takes believers to be a Jesus

A pack of matches to be phoenix

If no-one knows when it's over I'm the world's greatest failure

Ain't my failure all the more complete?


[Chorus]

Intangible man can't touch him can't do it

Half-man, half-nothing, hardly there and barely human

Never been punched, never been fucked, never been kissed

Slips through the floorboards he won't be missed

Intangible man can't touch him can't do it

Put your hand to his face and you'll pass right through it

Never been fucked, never been punched, never been kissed

Hard-pressed for evidence he even exists


[Verse 2]

I was born on purpose, it was an act of intention

But still, there were certain birth defects to be dealt with

My mother's intestines and abdomen for instance remained unchewed

I didn't eat my way through like you

And other normal children

I had to crawl out the womb in a natural delivery

The doctors induced contractions, they had to

A last attempt at pushing me back

I barely made it out intact

It must have been years later that my physical faded

It told me wait no more contraint or considerations

Hard to explain like anime with tentacles

So I don't think with my brain just my left and right ventricles

Obsessively document my mistakes are misteps

To hell with saving face, I'mma make this shame permanent

Turn red and burn incandecent

While other artists trend-set, I'mma dig in the opposite direction

We banished the humanity, demanded music free of any mess, and artists larger than men

So I'mma invert success

Imperfections the antidote

It's the planet-sized stone I load in my sling

To bring the liar's head home


[Bridge]

Also takes believers to be a Jesus

A pack of matches to be phoenix

If no-one knows when it's over I'm the world's greatest failure

Ain't my failure all the more complete?

Guess I succeeded


[Chorus]

Intangible man can't touch him can't do it

Half-man, half-nothing, hardly there and barely human

Never been punched, never been fucked, never been kissed

Slips through the floorboards he won't be missed

Intangible man can't touch him can't do it

Put your hand to his face and you'll pass right through it

Never been fucked, never been punched, never been kissed

Hard-pressed for evidence he even exists