[00:11.23]I've always hated these long good-bye poems
[00:13.95]If I saw the face of death, it's cause I kissed her with my eyes open
[00:17.10]Lipstick on my closed funeral casket
[00:19.20]Asking "what for" like a roman numeral math quiz
[00:22.16]It's enigmatic, the way a soul can hang-glide
[00:24.87]In a world of diamonds but remain a pearl like Shanghai
[00:27.67]I aim jewels at the heads of angels
[00:30.05]To examine when the gold in their halos became Fool's
[00:32.87]They played pool with my options for eternity
[00:35.59]But missed the cue and chose purgatory out courtesy
[00:38.42]I was seduced to slumber by Serendipity's lips
[00:40.98]And tied to a swan feather like a rotisserie spit
[00:43.75]Heaven's on earth and I'm glad that I caught a glimpse
[00:46.65]Before they lured me to a sea of slaughtered men with water nymphs
[00:49.45]And it's torturing to think it's like this where the light ends
[00:53.61]Reminds me of America the way it's run by white men
[00:55.22]I'm tiptoeing this tempered katana edge
[00:57.59]When I take the time to wonder what's under the monster's bed
[01:00.35]These perverts play with feelings while they work nerves
[01:03.05]And a piece of me is murdered every time I say a curse word?
[01:05.76]Their land of milk and honey doesn't seem fake
[01:08.45]Cause they know you couldn't paint it in your wildest dream-scape
[01:11.26]But on the other side, we can hear our mother's cry
[01:13.88]And linger on the muffled highs of their final lullabies
[01:16.78]Your soul is scented by a potpourri of lotus leaves
[01:19.51]They float the breeze and grow beneath the rosewood trees
[01:22.37]It's poetry, no, it's closer to a finger painting
[01:25.02]From the simpler days when everything
[01:26.73]Was crayon-wax and pencil shavings
[01:28.06]I'm integrating 8 millimeter memories
[01:31.64]With letters in lipstick that ended with "Remember Me"
[01:33.39]Blanketed in purity, security's tight wrap
[01:35.70]If this is forever, f**k that, I want my life back
[01:38.90]If I was death, if I was life, if was pain, if I was strife
[01:42.10]If I was man, if I was god, would you walk toward the light
[01:44.75]If I was death, if I was life, if was pain, if I was strife
[01:47.63]If I was man, if I was god, would you walk toward the light
[01:50.32]If I was death, if I was life, if was pain, if I was strife
[01:52.98]If I was man, if I was god, would you walk toward the light
[01:55.20]If I was death, if I was life, if was pain, if I was strife
[01:58.33]If I was man, if I was god, would you walk toward the light