Lanterns

By Confucius MC

Released on January 29, 2021

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[Verse 1: Confucius MC]

Wide screen with a curve, lights beam from the words

The good dreams are a trip, the nightmares can disturb

Wide angles of life's gambles, hear a lot of shit

But tend to forget the wise rambles

Just a crumb of wisdom

Hollow feeling like something’s missing

Running two time lines fam, something's different

Herb vendors, serving up canned weed

I'm laying low like Sam Seed

With the lantern in my hand to proceed

Through these dark tunnels

And vast mazes, penning world class pages

Bare pretenders, highly skilled mime artists

It’s just a circus, watching who could climb fastest

The prime artist, the Sage fam, my line reaches

My rhyme book is a divine thesis

I penned pieces

That left dents in the densest reaches

Never knowing what the centre piece is

Never knowing who the sentence reaches, words manifest

Some shit that you thought can become flesh

Strange alchemy

My brain lay it out for me

May the band play it loud for me

When I'm outtie B

Biros, plush paper, piant - yo!

I'm painting pictures of the crushed equator

Through my hazy eyes

Where I swim in the confusion, the Internet age

Where we live with the intrusion


[Verse 2: Sonnyjim]

I drive fast and talk slow

I'm sipping Bordeaux in Bordeaux

Killed a fox, cut me a couture coat

Buongiorno

Beach house in Borneo

Girl Scout Cookie wax , smoking on the Oreo

I had to risk it for the biscuit, dabbed it and dipped it

Put it in the Pyrex and whipped it

I necked the vodka

Ate the lobster

Live long and prosper, flip the Oscar

I pull the ting like Go! Gadget

Guerrilla tactics, you can feel the fibre of my fabric

Pop the pinger, shave the cocaine like ginger

Send it with the messenger Melinda

I got that fire work

Like the fifth of November

Pull out a brick out like Jenga

You betcha

Apply pressure, take you out like a stretcher

Finesser, number one selectah

Uh


[Verse 3: Verbz]

I stare blind into skies and watch time pass

And life's fast I know, though might chance

Appreciating all there is to be taken in eyes glance

Wonder if life's ours, underneath the night's stars

Asking which path to take while we find ours

Chance fate, run the race another day

For only slumber awaits, succumb to ways or rise above ‘em

Tired and stubborn, a product of my environment rugged

Where youngens stay thuggin' and jugglin’ weight

Huggin’ a block that ain't loved‘ em, I guess we chase what we given

Livin’ day to day

In the same place we sin in, and traipse the plains

Plagued with hate, jakes and villains

While I stay chillin' with the same mates, eighth billin'

And some stay with it, traits of the young

Enabled by the funds that we all cradle in the slums

Lay all cards on the table, still chased by all we've done


[Verse 4: Jehst]

Ay yo my thoughts off track with a 40 sack of Train Wreck

Walking a razor blade’s edge with the brain dead

Faded like a blend cassette, in your tape deck

Survive in the jungle? Best take heed and take check

Somebody might run up in your spot first

These Flintstones shot rock work, like clockwork

Ludovico technique so I can't sleep

‘Til I'm under coroner's sheets with no heartbeat

Tired eyes pried wide shut by the equipment

Rapid Eye Movement, now I'm losing my religion

We're all aspiring to a living contradiction

Precog recognition for criminal conviction

We're in a critical condition

On this blue marble

The food sparkle

Strap the zoot, loop the sample

Set a crude example , for the next gen

Collect ends, trying to cop a mansion like the X-Men's