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Illegoaliens - Fres Thao - Timeless

from Blank Canvas (illegoaliens) by Fres Thao

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Timeless

See the real facts seem to lay down on faded glory
Now it’s a little story of how we all treated horribly
Wake up in the AM before theres mutiny and mayhem
Excuse me, I may, hem … cough cough …
Catch me some breath and breathe poisonous fluids
Up before I do it, wash the malnutrition and then im out the door
Up before the sunrise, back again the sunset
It’s a never ending mission always half way dead

Pulling out my hair so please spare my life
These eight days a week, Saturday to Friday nights
And they keep sending em bills
Giving a hardtime
So I got a little job down at the assembly line

So mind your own, you and me both got problems
Ive got mine to work, you’ve got yours, so solve em
No need to be bitter, the simple life im living
Giving it all ive got until im down the river

See these Friday night shows, hotter than lava coals
Listen close, youll get another lethal dose

So lets, roll down the window, catch the windy breeze
Its another in the middle, take a deep breath … breathe!
Imma leave like a tree, burning down to the roots (so)
Have a feast with my fruits, that’s all you getting from me

See with no time to write, hardly the time to breathe
Its hard to be that poor broke emcee in the city
With the lack of beats, hard job working for the factory
Tackling me to the floor and strapping me with them chords
just a nasty little way of saying you love me more
Glove beat me in the head, don’t you know im halfway dead
Half crazed head, im cramped in a boxing ring with more than half of my days
Fed, to the ostriches

So take a listen, don’t be shy, im giving a piece of i
Its another little reason, im half way and never die
It’s the ill in me, the sickness I carry and its killing me
Reaching out to the surface
Living without a purpose
The truth hurts in the worst way
And still I breathe

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from Blank Canvas (illegoaliens), track released January 1, 2007
Written and Performed by Fres Thao
Produced by Fres Thao

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Fres Thao Minnesota

I am a Hmong American poet, Hip Hop artist, multidisciplinary artist, activist and educator. My life long love of poetry, Hip Hop and storytelling has spawned eight albums, including Illegoalien’s ‘Blank Canvas’ and a vinyl release of my ‘Mind Full Of’ album, and one book, Lullabies for Happiness, A Manual for Love and Peace. ... more

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