Chapter Ten - Posterity

By Stereomyth

On Stereomyth

Released on August 5, 2016

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[Verse 1]

Legs skitter, eyes glitter

A million little robot feet, they move with a pitter

And patter, they chatter

Here comes the queen

She emerges from the dark in a flash of pale green

Light, right

What a hideous sight

Deadly beautiful with a fierce underbite

A trillion eyes, thighs that crush

Terrified and awed, your blood starts to rush

As you start to pass out

The queen addresses you, she begins to shout

She bellows with a force that could causе a drought

Blow the rain away and turn your insides out

And with a hideous snout, shе says


[Bridge]

You are not the first, and you’re not the last

Every single future turns into the past

But not mine, for I draw no breath

I’ll call you stereo, you can call me death


[Verse 2]

You search the gloom as you survey the room

You come to think that maybe this place will be your tomb

From the womb to the grave, life can be such a knave

Suddenly you see a glimmer from inside a cage

The old man, beaten and bruised he groans

From his mouth, he produces a single stone

A final push, he hurls the stone with his might

The bots swarm, with a terrible sound he dies

Horrified, you watch the stone fly

It sails like a fastball straight to your eye

You catch it, inspect it

It’s dull, round, and grey

He got it from the sliver of beach by the bay

Where you grew up running from the cops in the rain

A flash of memories overwhelms your brain

You turn around, understand what to do

The queen snarls and she charges at you, you say


[Chorus]

Stop

Now I’m gonna explain

The future generation gonna sing my name

Oh, such clarity

Well you can go and vanquish death with that posterity

Stop

Now I’m gonna explain

The future generation gonna sing my name

Oh, such temerity

Well you can go and vanquish death with that posterity


[Verse 3]

Confident now, you start to invoke the muse

The queen stops now, puzzled, perturbed, confused

The bots quake, uncertain of what takes place

You let em know as you start to say


[Bridge]

Let me invoke the muse and infuse this hip-hop

With words that enthuse and then cue the beat drop

Gather round, I’ll expound it forthwith

It’s the profound sound of Stereomyth


[Verse 4]

You hear a deep rumble, it thunders below

Your knees start to shake, but you continue to flow

You speak in rhymes as you tell your own legend

The volume in your voice surges up to eleven

She twists and grates

The queen starts to break as you feel the earth quake

You feel your legs give, but your mind is awake

You sing your own song for posterity’s sake

With a strength in your voice, you go


[Chorus]

Stop

Now I’m gonna explain

The future generation gonna sing my name

Oh, such clarity

Well you can go and vanquish death with that posterity

Stop

Now I’m gonna explain

The future generation gonna sing my name

Woo, such temerity

Well you can go and vanquish death with that posterity


[Verse 5]

The queen screams in pain, her brain surges

And purges her memory banks, they emerge

As you grip the grey stone in your hand, held tight

You rear back and launch the stone, it takes flight

A beggar vagabond grey-hat street-rat orphan

You grew up poor and forcing situations

Yo, and still you survive

And you’ll survive beyond life

You pass into legend, the stone smashes her mind

A bright flash, she explodes like the Death Star

You think to run, but you know you won’t get far

You stand calm, the cave turns to scree

You close your eyes and you think of the sea