The Scarecrow Speaks
Deep Puddle Dynamics
[Verse 1: Sole]
Okay everyone
Put away your boyish desires, your buoyant sighs
Your rolling eyes, your lust for Rolling Rock
Your lust for getting rocks off with other follies
All your desires for couch and TV
Pick up a book, pick up a shovel
Put down the gun, throw up the fist
Throw intelligent words in this game of conversation
Try a new arrangement, dollars and sensibility
Intelligence and ability, eloquence and nobility, Delicatessens
Treat your girl like you treat your TV
How you should use your headphones and positive role models
Try staying home, stop trying to prove, stop trying to be
Stop trying to do, just be proof, do, and exist
Go to college, respect your mother
Look out for your little sister, respect no one except yourself
Treat all others how you expect in return
Exercise intellect, if you're lackin', pretend
Call few people enemies and call fewer people friends
Don't do it for the wealth, do it all for the love
Love everything you do, and do nothing halfheartedly
Be what you speak, man, never speak on what you be
Even if you're lost, front like you got a plan
It ain't that hard, but stand if you're ready to be a man
[Verse 2: DoseOne]
I come to you, with one heart, broken in two
Lashed hands and many flaws, a man
In return, I ask only an ego-less unbiased listen
For what I speak of offers freedom from mind
Freedom from a focused impulse, freedom
And not at all the spangled, Yankee Doodle
Union musket encompassed sense of liberty
Which our forefathers in Holy-Wood have fed and sold us for scores
I'm eluding, and rightfully so, to salvage clear-headedness of composed
Fated state of human being
No grand inquisitor myself I pour forth
A pensive frown upon and frustrated
Humble, however, furious
This reason for being here
This well you've found is phenomen-all-lone
In the immortal words of Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A mind that is stretched to a new idea
Never returns to its original dimension"
Simplistically, topsoil is no seashell
Full of bitter ocean body, but it can be
Changing for and from triumph to mystery
Every somehow has a place
Where you dare not set foot and can't see a thing
So weave those silver threads into soul-leveled bonds
And be unbounded
No longer, manipulative, let it go
Go, let the wandering take it all in
Generate, make you yours
My masters, my pupils, my equals
Drop, decorate, I implore you, just think
[Verse 3: Alias]
Let me address you with two conflicting topics at this moment
Two paths I've roamed it
Intention to hit home with this discussion
And make you pawn to strengthen your words
Not talking racial connotation, but loosely tied with bees and birds
Also loosely tied with opposites
The depths of negativity in your soul
Let it take control, and you can see deeper into the hole
Of self-destruction it's obstruction of the opposite feeling
My fellow men and women, it's love and hate with which we're dealing
I've experienced both words, let's ponder my theory and thought
On these two and the correlation that each other has brought
I've sought the answer and I've found hate is stronger than love
I love to hate you, I hate to love you
Hate always ends up above
It's much easier to say you hate than to say you love a person
But easier to say you love material and currency when it's dispersin'
I've realized long ago that either word is a delicate topic so
Hence the circle on my finger "I.D.O." on that day was my flow
And although I see many problems in my fellow man
Hatred of others is absolutely not my master plan
My other spiritual half has taught me much about my true feelings
I was slipping into mental remission
But it was brought into the healing process
I consider myself blessed when I think
Floating up above the majority makes others look like they sink
Hating, you give up nothing
Love, you give it up all
So I smirk at all of y'all
While you await my downfall
[Verse 4: Slug]
Condescending, the lake dove into
When you finally acknowledge that I'm not pretending
Follow the language, the direction, the dialect
The cadence, the enunciation, emphasis, pretentiousness
Assumptions makin an ass of you
Point A in the air you share with me
Point B now draw a straight line connecting us
Wait, wait man who's not paying attention?
See, class here's the problem
Y'all all need to quit resting and collectin 'dust
My stance resembles anger but no your perception's crooked
Now be some good little bastards, turn your textbooks to page seven
Where it reads that God got drunk, drove heaven into a tree
Now there's no reasons left for you to continue to breathe
Hahahaha, just joking only trying to see who's listenin'
Now heads up, time to test the potential of your faults
And the results will stay confidential
For as long as you face the front of your self esteem
Lose focus, get broken at the seams
Let's open up the discussion for comments
To complement your circumcised mind state while I ride on your anxieties
Trying to speak to the class and justify the act
By pointing my finger at your head and askin' you what the fuck is that!
Thank you, thank you
Write the lyrics for a rap song made in 1999, titled "The Scarecrow Speaks", by artist "Deep Puddle Dynamics".