Awake - Intellectual

In the present state, you’ve gotta stay awake

Keep your eyes open

Uh!

[Verse 1: Helms Deep]

I’m finally Awake for God’s sake

Left my state to discover something great

Elated by half-lives trying to relate

But concept’s much deeper

They waiting for the sequel

See I could push a Regal or a Jetta with a see-through

But I connect through the people

Friends and Phonetics…

That’s how I get a re-do

But I’m done talking, rapping’s what I do

But I don’t do it on command

So that might have fired back on you

Toxins in my system like I’m cleaning up the Forrest

Whitaker reminds me to stay glorious in Chorus

The brother in me comes out prosperous

Mono-tone Style, the 90’s in me

Ronald Reagan Era

Deep respectin Section 80

But I’m pixelated like 7D

Stories broken 6 Feet Deep

I’ve got 5 on it, but I’m left in defeat

Old E’s the only 40, and there’s only one C3

But I never fell asleep, guess it’s the Nas in me

Spirit growing like the Cali Redwood Tree

The Cousin of death strikes the closest seeds

(Cause Sleep is the Cousin of Death)

[Hook: Helms Deep]

This a peace for the Republic

But y’all probably gonna shun it

One year to this day, Nolan got a drumkit

I stay half-asleep and always Awake

Third-Eye blinded, trying

To leave this state

I’m Awake…

Yeah

[Verse 2: Helms Deep]

I said man, we gonna teach em lessons

Revamp the game, and keep em asking questions

Answer through the music

It’s an honor and a blessing

Benedictine, like the Pope I’m droppin a 16

First got inspired when I was just a sick teen

Kept in hospital beds, held in by IVs

They gave me ‘roids, so I could stay half-sleep, (Overnight)

But they never wore off, kept tapping my feet

Multiplied by deaths that left me complacent

Homies evicted from this planet

Others come and go like I’m just flipping through channels

So I upgrade to HD and establish the reunion

I’ve got no ego cause I’m not always consuming

Materials the drug we’ve all been preluded

So find happiness in people, instead of the drugs you shooting

(Put the needle down)

[Hook 2: Helms Deep]

This a peace for the Republic

But y’all probably gonna shun it

One year to this day, Nolan got a drumkit

I stay half-asleep and always Awake

Third-Eye blinded, trying

To leave this state

I’m Awake…

[Ad-libs: Helms Deep/Doc Mcfly]

Yeah

Third-Eye blinded, trying

To leave this state

I’m Awake

That’s Josh Thornton on the skins

Doc Mcfly in HD

Keep your eyes open