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War Over Words

from Fraud Complex by Brian is Ze

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Have you ever felt worthless
Have you ever felt worth more than this

I hold the throttle can't pull it back
I push it forward
Be forewarned this ride is going nowhere fast
And I never made the time to install
Seatbelts, brakes or airbags
Just before the crash I'll mash on the gas hit the nitros blast
Trying to make sure velocity is terminal
Too many times I've been standing on the brink and abruptly brought back
When it could've been so easy to be gone in a blink
It kind of makes me think that I might just have a purpose
Because it sure as fuck isn't good luck
And I'm just trying not to be worthless

Have you ever felt worthless
Have you ever felt worth more than this

Rhyming these words in a rhythm
Just trying to give them purpose
Purportedly I'm more than the
Average asshole with avarice
I want the world and everything in it
But not for the sake of just saying I'm winning
I want it for you
I want it for me
Everyone feeling the need to bleed to be heard
No one is going to war over words anymore
Just because no one is listening
See the future
See it glistening, glimmering
I can just make out
that last bit of hope
Hold with this like the North Star shining
A guiding light calling us home

Have you ever felt worthless
Have you ever felt worth more than this

Words are for rhythm
The venom is in the connotation
You seem complacent when nothing should offer consolation
When I work these words
This is what it's worth to be birthed on the brink of a breech
Bolt cutter teeth
Bold with the breadth of a beast
Meals over sleep
Millions of miles on my losing streak
But I'm losing no sleep
I haven't reached my peak
And I would still sacrifice to see the family feast
I'll never let you see a full on famine
It would be foolish to fathom
Ghost like a phantom
Death to the thought like Latin
Laughing it off
Lavish with love
Living a life with no luxury
Lugging this baggage chip on my shoulder
The doctor thought the weight was of an adolescent
Baby weight. It'll fall off when you're older
Dark horse candidate for
Hometown hero
Running on a platform
To burn the city down like Nero
But I'll build on the ashes
Keep driving with a crack in the axis
Keep fighting with a crack in the armor
Keep working. No breaks like a bad shift
Or like a cut in the line
Only thing that I'm full of in life is sacrifice
Never fall
Never slip in the least
What truth is burden to a beast
I can bare the weight
Most can barely bare to watch me

Have you ever felt worthless
Have you ever felt worth more than this

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from Fraud Complex, released July 11, 2016

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Brian is Ze Houston, Texas

Brian is Ze is a lyricist and producer from Houston, TX. Fearless, bereft of fucks, and always on some new shit, Ze pioneered an era of aggresively socially conscious art in Houston. With rap style ripped from the mouths of the hip hop pantheon brandished with a scythe of pure wit and production like 8 genres ate each other, it's like a record store had a brawl and Ze won. ... more

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