On the 3rd of the 12th month of 83 Robert Anthony entered the hellish fiery scream Of life, they gave birth to the man on a mission Came to piss off the world with his tears and his vision Of self richestness, like he grabbed the torch To fucking reach at the weak souls sitting on the porch Open the wounds of scare tissues and tombs For the sake of breakage and the flight just to enter your womb I came to fuck it, leave it in the bottom of my nest So I can come back in a later date and tear apart the rest The hunter prowling on the prey on this bright sunny day Moving forward with intent for departure dates Sacrifice goes to those who sell they souls For understanding of the painted picture fishing in this hole Come on and get real with me, and search for progress Releasing all the darkness that’s imbedded in my chest Get back to basics; wash behind the ear lobes of fakeness Fake shit, running in an orgy of statements Of fearful tactics that spreads to the trendy The minds willing to sir come to anybody steering Everybody aint fake this is what life’s becomes A shell of mirages, plastic and fronting on the funds Aint nobody real cause nobody’s real to themselves So fuck the bullshit, I’m looking for the knowledge of wealth The answer can’t be found in the sky by vertebrates who lay Cause wickedness follows those fucking birds that prey Feeding all who listen this watered down mush of mudd Soldiers hit the streets with pins and write from the blood But you can sit here and talk and claim you’s the shit With your platinum watch and chain and your iced out wrist Fuck you! And the rusted table that you stand Cause understand what you see and what you hear is a man! The Centaur has returned to claim the throne Abolishing feeble minds, who abuse the chrome Obliterate the thoughts of anarchistic tiffs Rain supreme with a mic in the ruler’s fists Those who doubt me will feel the wrath of the quiz arts hatarack The sleeper has waken to battle back I bring forth the spice that enlightens the mind Ouzel the chosen one here to mend the broken line Eyes open, illuminate the darkness, regardless Settle the smoke, and bring the starship Star fantasia expand the galaxies, Then the black hole emerges in time to battle me Super novas and Novocain can’t explain my game I crush moons and planets like asteroids insane Give birth to the eclipse when my backs on the earth Destroy every organism what its life was worth Plague man women and child is where I begin Killing off this deadly world naming Knox the eight sin Four horsemen before bow to me The prophecy of pain and I set you free Upon this world as my mind takes control The world that I chose for me to behold And shatter the opposition with egotistical vision And see your down fall with psychedelic predictions This mind capacity eradicates you mentally Rips ya tissue and strangulates you physically My rhyming fluidics, it floats moon physics Fuse my thought patterns in labs like bio-chemists I’m automatic, like attics inclined to be a habit You sporadic and can’t breath a breath like asthmatics My ability to spit some crazy shit like this Increases the possibility of thumping my shit

I’m so tired living check to check Struggling to save my neck I’m so tired living check to check Why can’t I escape this mess I’m the American Dream caught in between The seems of life beyond schemes just to make my dream I know the feeling of hopelessness and being broke The same pair of shoes, 3 years, laugh and joke You work 60 hours barely making ends Stretching every single dollar till the penny bends Eating roman noodles up as a healthy score 6 pack for a dollar, need I say more Peanut butter but no jelly you think it’s funny I grew up on food stamps cause we had no money Look forward to bi-weeks, its pay day Pay ya bills, and it’s looking more like dooms day I gotta get myself out the only way I know Ink drops on a loose leaf and let it flow Put all my thoughts down carefully with out a hitch Cause I refuse to continue living like this I’m so tired living check to check Struggling to save my neck I’m so tired living check to check Why can’t I escape this mess I’m the American Dream, caught in between The seems of sociological teams and the triple beams Balancing the position of fatherhood and a social moth I’d rather be home then run the streets like night hawk Playing the game of false senses of securities When mc’s try to battle, I release & let my mind free I’m a man, I bleed like you I’m a regular cup of Joe, without the cream or a clue Working hard to stay afloat of the sunshine rays When inside I feel bottled up with a sadness and rage Knowing, nobody controls the fate of man but I Continue to stumble forward all efforts of try Refusing to loose and let the world swallow me up Regardless of the pain see I will never give up Conquer the world in the eyes of my precious angel You can steal the substance it’s the mind that I dangle I’m so tired living check to check Struggling to save my neck I’m so tired living check to check Why can’t I escape this mess

I’m just trying to live, right way Just telling my story, my life, my, my way I’m just trying to live, right way Just telling my story, my life, my, my way Since I could remember I never really had too much to boast about Pops was a feigning attic who always had his emotions out Methamphetamine's had his mind twisted up He could give 2 fucks about his children growing up But then before that, the man seemed to drown in his sorrows The liquor bottles, dreams of taking back tomorrow Consumed by the clouds the darkness that prowled Situations that seemed to always put him down So in reaction he reacted in cold fashion Bruisen kins mind body and soul is the action Living in fear for years the wrath of this man The uncalculated ways that he carried out his plan Confusion and the act of love was an illusion You crossed the crooked man and your breath is what you’re loosen An insert to a chapter of my adolescents So take a lesson as I step in the intersection I’m just trying to live, right way Just telling my story, my life, my, my way I’m just trying to live, right way Just telling my story, my life, my, my way First off, I want to say I love my moms But growing up was rough and rugged while she was gone Childhood days was blacked and pushed away He gave me life but innocence was plagued and decayed You can say that sounds a little drastic But pops raised men not little boys who sit cower That rage that I keep from my younger days Intertwines with my nows and my yesterdays Daily regiments of physical brutality I’m 20 plus and it’s hard to let my mind free You can say I pushed away the good times But it’s the hard times that penetrate my mind A motto from the man to his youth Do as he say but not as he do To him those explained the facts of life A blueprint or a path of the wrongs and rights I’m just trying to live, right way Just telling my story, my life, my, my way I’m just trying to live, right way Just telling my story, my life, my, my way I sit up at night and I stare in the mirror Contemplating about becoming what I feared? I look in my daughters eyes and I could never do that See I could never do what he did or even think that The cool breeze sways aside in her short hair Her eyes glisten from the sun light and the spring air When she grins, I can see my moms And when we hug they’re both in my arms If she ever looked down I know that she would smile Proud of her son and her grand child I look back and wished that she had saved me But my crazy childhood is what made me I don’t hate my pops for the things that he did He didn’t know better and for that I forgive I’m older now with my own child It’s hard times before that help me grow now I’m just trying to live, right way Just telling my story, my life, my, my way I’m just trying to live, right way Just telling my story, my life, my, my way

Do you understand feeling powerless obsessions? I mean substance abusiveness without perception I never stole from a loved one to kill my cravings I did ignore my loved ones for misbehaving For me, the flood of dopamine to all of my brain Caused a euphoric adrenaline rush I couldn’t contain Unattended and recluse, resided up in my room So staying up alone was part of my royalty tomb Christina and I, together with an oil glass lamp We traveled the seven seas with a first class stamp Never enjoying the cuisines of our white surroundings Occasionally getting warped around psychosis dreams A constant race, no format with a winners pace Just a heart locked and loaded in a crumbling rate Self loathing, pin one against the other’s own route Until you swallow up yourself from the inside out Don’t apologize for me for the things I’ve done I’ve put it all behind me now, I’m a stronger son A better father, a better man, who stands his ground I’m free from P.M.C. and I’m standing proud 2X Go ahead and judge me, for my past, decisions I’ve made I spent 6 years, in a clouded haze and mind state Paranoia, depression almost had the best of me My ability to walk strong helped from killing me Noticing the devotees and suspects here Awakened the need for me to get my own mind clear I saw friends; families loose themselves in the shards Ignoring self hygiene shuffling sex like cards For payments, and highs to help un-nourishments Gauntly faces from sleepless nights and binges It’s pitiful that I subdued myself to that lifestyle I saw it all, sex, crime, drugs with no denial Echa sketching sectors for criminal intersections So we could buy another bag of silly misconception I don’t condone what I did, but I’m glad that it was done Cause everyday I live wiser and life is so much fun Don’t apologize for me for the things I’ve done I’ve put it all behind me now, I’m a stronger son A better father, a better man, who stands his ground I’m free from P.M.C. and I’m standing proud 2X Some times I just feel so lost… Some times I just feel so lost.. I’m calibrated with sociopathic tendencies Sporadically overshadowed by my dependencies One in the same my vices hold the key Unlocking the mystery of my own psychology Theoretic it’s speculation of my troubled past But dealing with the situations I just want to pass I’ve conquered, overpowered my inner demons Advanced past the obstacles then proceeded I’m still standing in a cage imbedded in my mind I can’t escape with out a pen and a cleaver rhyme You have your problems and I possess my own Someday in the future I won’t feel so alone You have your problems and I possess my own Someday in the future I won’t feel so alone Don’t apologize for me for the things I’ve done I’ve put it all behind me now, I’m a stronger son A better father, a better man, who stands his ground I’m free from P.M.C. and I’m standing proud 2X

Knox's Verse Apparently they knockin me like isonomy, cock blockin’ the heart of me got me parked in this mockery Sittin’ still aint doin’ nothing, but muckin’ and fool fuckin’, chillin’ but nut huggin’ you know I aint for frontin’ Stop the pilly poppin’ and bell stomp ya jump got me kickin’ and wishin’ you fake would grab the pump I shatter ya bone shell and dwell and raise hell while clones be sittin’ still and run the mackerel I’m an epidemic, the lyric steal the weak spirit, eat the flesh off the weak and shit while ya hear it Catastrophic, lost it, Spittin’ and livin profit, rocket, with out the boom & wishin’ ya’ll can stop it Nonsense with the Jedi mind trick I bisquick the makeshift bake’n the rest not to be mentioned , pinch the bitch shit pay attention to this spit hope the outcome is people be getting rich like freeze

As we lay her soul to sleep We wish for him to come complete As he carries out her life on earth Walking proudly cause you gave him birth 2X She left this world the same way that she came, Weathered and weak and no control of the day Life slipped through the moist grip of her womanly hands And failed to hold on for her third second chance Infestation started from the breast Grasped on to the soul and multiplied as a test For individuals who surrounded her life force Stand up or be swallowed by the hurricanes course As she drifted away, the kids drifted away The pain overloaded and the ship sailed away Navigation from the captain, what happened Now the troops rome alone for the snatching Unable to control from the lost essence, Asked questions why she left him with etchings Of blessings and understandings and meanings Of life or self control to help with his breathing… As we lay her soul to sleep We wish for him to come complete As he carries out her life on earth Walking proudly cause you gave him birth Vanishing with out a proper good bye from the middle Holding on to resentment he felt so little Conquering every obstacle routed in her path He looked up to her for the strength that he lacked Watching this hero dissolve from disease He walked away freely but begged on his knees Taken respected mechanism to which to battle Bumped heads with this shark to make this cage rattle Similar in bite and the bark for which he knew It’s that very understanding that made the grief true Reconciled after years of departures and feuds The one with many names now has taken his muse Inner conflict, or conscience which ever Berried emotional passages to endeavor Life has passed away and life is now The only chore left is to make his mom proud He saw the being of life and what to pursue Slip away from the cancer how can it be true She was him, her other son and her daughter by the same Maiden name for original kin which she came He fought not break down fought not to frown Fought to keep his head from pulling him deep into the ground But no matter what he did it ended the damn same There wasn’t adequate bottles to smother the pain. As we lay her soul to sleep We wish for him to come complete As he carries out her life on earth Walking proudly cause you gave him birth 2X

See I remember when we met like damn I fell hard I saw the beauty in your eyes and they grasped my heart I bragged to everyone I knew like this is the one To bear my children and my love until the dying sun Months have past I felt like my whole life changed You were older so I knew I had to mature things I had a plan back then it was us and the world Like we could conquer anything we could settle the swirls I engulfed myself in you and you met my moms And when you met she immediately embraced you in her arms Then the day came we were going to have our first child The first in both our families to have a grandchild You know I always wanted this, but I wasn’t ready To sacrifice my youth for the future was scary So like a fool, I walked away with my girl in the womb Expected everything to work out not now but soon I know that I hurt you, but you were my life Everything I ever wanted, you warmed my insides You were my backbone, the rock I leaned on And hope that one day I can be strong 2X We found each other again just in time for the birth But before that my mother passed away and it hurt I made a promise on her death bed that you would be my wife And that I would man up and overcome all our strife Game day 2-10 of the year 2006 Leia Elise was born and she was perfectly fit A blessing to you and me like we couldn’t believe For once in my life I felt like I had family But it wasn’t happiness and I knew why I wasn’t prepared at all resented you and you cried Everything I always wanted was right in front of me And blind to the mishap I once again let you free My love never stopped I was simply overwhelmed Inside I was a child in a fatherhood realm Because I had to get away so I could be free And become everything that I needed to be I know that I hurt you, but you were my life Everything I ever wanted, you warmed my insides You were my backbone, the rock I leaned on And hope that one day I can be strong 2X I came back in the picture but lost a piece of me Love was there but the passion we didn’t see The fire we had was missing I blame myself I failed to compromise I put your love on a shelf I embraced being a dad and gave it all that I had I pushed you away from me and the feeling is sad My drive I held before vanished away The man I was then dissipated away A lover not a father, a father not a lover Never was both and now I lay up under a cover My ignorance clouded the fact I was stubborn Drove you away from me your decision is stern I wished that you knew the truth up in my mind While you’re out having fun I sit and think about time The wake up call you gave, I cleaned my slate And if you find other love I’m sorry that I was late I know that I hurt you, but you were my life Everything I ever wanted, you warmed my insides You were my backbone, the rock I leaned on And hope that one day I can be strong 2X

I see the way that you look at me I’m a looser, a lowlife, a nobody You can say what you want, that I have no goals Cause you pissed on the game and you shat on its soul You think your criticism is breaking my spirit Resurrect the inherited mind phoenix of the gifted Defecating on mellow drama, the stupid and simplistic Battle ramming these manikins who picket Knox, mother fucka, shaking the foundation Penetrating through the gorilla mist of all the hating Upper cutting the shallowness of this business With anxiousness to pin drop the penmanship I’m hated like communists in America People doubting on my outcome, I will bury ya This one is dedicated to all the peeps Who slept on me, wished I would be deceased I see the way that you’ve played the game Now, I’ve returned back to remove the shame Seek and destroy an end of you It’s time for the rest to say adu. 2X I sit around and watch these gimmicks, Clown the craft, it’s time to quit it I’m a critic a man that spit it The game is flushed I wipe my ass hole wit it You phony you fakes you made a mistake I’m here to bring the chaos back and raise the stakes What you don’t know? My habitat is surrounded by static See I’m an attic for punishing and I’m bringin’ the havoc Listen! I aint playin no games, fuck the shame of fame I’ll put ya teeth on the curb and kick ya frame Cocky yes, I don’t deal with stress I lay you flat on your back so you can finally rest Imitational no, I got a vendetta flow, And I’m back on the grind to settle the score So watch ya mouth piece homie when you speakin’ on me Cause I’m a hungry motha fucka with his heart on his sleeve (Let me get a second to breath break) I almost hung the microphone and put the pin on the shelf But family encouraged me to give AZ some help So I loaded cases of knowledge and headed to the lab With a blueprint in a bag and my ego much in tacked I loaded the verbal millimeter, cocked that shit back And amplified electrical signals to hear the broadcast I spilled the data from the manuscripts out my throat box Until communications connected people by the flocks I had a message of “fuck it” speaking to open your notion And let them know n-w-o was now set in motion Me and my peeps went from blocks to neighborhood running We had support from the hood that respected vocal gunning And every now and then we would hear odium flares So like soldiers we handled every state of affair With out reflection just arrogance with which we abide The Eye of RAA family just jumped in the ride I see the way that you’ve played the game Now, I’ve returned back to remove the shame Seek and destroy an end of you It’s time for the rest to say adu. 2X

A better day, a better day, I just want to leave I’m so lost can’t be found, can’t you let me be Can’t I run, run away, from the pain I feel I can’t fight another day, why can’t I leave I got issues but you don’t even know the better half Suicidal thoughts compromised from the fallen half Stolen pride and confidence we don’t deserve Yet the egos clash until the heart hits the curb Blood sucking tentacles is pitiful How the outside never resembles the individual Huggin’ and kissin’ while the thoughts run ramped Judgments of taboo giving meaning to the madness Giving life to the stifled, neglected ones Yet communication wasn’t clearly shooting from the guns It’s a give and take for both parties to see the signs Secrets evolve into infidelity crimes A simple jump from innocence to the provocative Can lead to a tunnel of lies and self awkwardness Breaking the foundation of times architecture Ignoring to fix the leaks of self manufacture A better day, a better day, I just want to leave I’m so lost can’t be found, can’t you let me be Can’t I run, run away, from the pain I feel I can’t fight another day, why can’t I leave You got issues but I don’t want to know the fallen half The secret societies of flocking to a better half Misinterpretation of pleasure to the need While bystanders watch the heart rate bleed Imagination, is a plague to the self Hatred upon the intellectual mind is stealth It penetrates beyond the remnants of recognition Allocating the pessimistic views of the fiction Eradicating the overconfident ones Discombobulating clarity to separate the puns It’s a life lesson, to pick the right confrontation To satisfy both parties take for separation Rejuvenating, depart from the harsh nature Solidifying needs for a positive lecture Fixing the foundation of times destruction Acknowledging the need for self resurrection A better day, a better day, I just want to leave I’m so lost can’t be found, can’t you let me be Can’t I run, run away, from the pain I feel I can’t fight another day, why can’t I leave

Waking up in the morning the days you aren’t here A tear slides downs my cheek and I wipe it clear The soothing sound of air from your lungs Can calm my spirit and the man that I’ve become The simple smile you give when you awake Illuminates my soul and takes the cake You call me Poppa, Daddy because I am I’ll never regret the responsibility at hand To raise you and bathe you and teach you Everything from the ABC’s to thank you I want to take this time to bless my favor And acknowledge to you that you are my savior You gave me life when I gave you life I’ll never regret the fact that I entered your life It took me awhile to man up to the passage I’m glad that I did you’ve become my passion because I’m a man and I cry from happiness The fact she blessed me with this holy bliss Sometimes it’s hard to think I made you Something so beautiful from this worthless fool I stand tall and smile when you laugh out loud Because inside I blush you make daddy proud I’ll try my best not to let you frown And hope in the future I never let you down I can’t explain, how sorry I am That your home is broke for your life span Just know your heart and home is where the love is And regardless of your mother and I know this We love you more then words can ever say We’ll never stop showing you until our dying day Until then I look forward to life’s adventure With you by my side a cohesive mixture because I want to teach and learn from each others actions What life’s really about in all factions The fact you grow so much everyday now I can’t imagine what to expect and how? But I’m excited and I wish for the best While I reminisce of you sleeping on my chest You went from walking to talking so quick That I know I’m going to enjoy this life trip So take this as my pledge to you my baby I give you my heart and dedication crazy Maybe in the future, when you lay me down The love I gave you will even still stop the frown And when you look up above and wonder where I’m at You can feel my presence like I never left So with this I say thanks for things you don’t know In time you’ll understand when you grow because