Madlib
Fake Names (remix)
(Verse 1)
Fake Names and complications, waiting
For our pseudonyms to become synonymous with all-time great
Under lead eyes I'm patient, if my midnight oil empty
I might be asylum bait, sleep-deprived I ain't
My enemies catch z's the whole nine yards
I'm up the whole night translating fine yarns into fire bars
Fighting tooth and nail the scale is charred
In and out the elements you couldn't hold the weight of gold
Between Yin and Yang yall fold
The way I lay game only the box fan blows
Under the comforter spelunking for tomorrow over years ago
Honestly I'm trying to take a long walk on a short pier being woke
Then Polaris flares I gotta lightbulb
Was striving to sermonize myself half-past drowsy
Studying my surroundings, Blacks and Blues
Shadows and silhouettes just off in the view
If these walls could talk the emissions they'd spew

(Verse 2)
Honestly I feel no change as years go
Since my world turned twenty-five greys and shades of indigo
Watching the hourglass if you're ashamed
Come by castrate me to the skeletal frame
In the event I'm under ya paygrade say
The long arm of the laws to blame
Till that day I'm at the intersect of angel or insect
On my six square in the valley of death
With my music the only belongings left
My wish is not to be disturbed, even when
My hallowed grounds remind me more purgatory than earth
Afterwards let me show you worse
People who live life for the fight purse
Since birth I've handled baggage both paper and plastic
To the result of greater apathy
It's not a tragedy to pull myself by the bootstrap
I leave footprints in higher planes you just yet the K yap
Amidst the yins and yangs its easier to hate than to embrace contrast
Till the demands to be romanticized
Then I'd have to testify about the death of a bachelor and the panic at the cypher
And the tool kit of a 9-5er is what you'll die by
Don't be offended of being left lynched when living off the highs