i wear my scars like the rings on a pimp

i live life like the captain of a sinking ship

the one thing that i can guarantee

i'm like a stepping razor, i suggest you stay fair with me

been payin dues for a decade plus,

before that i was just another face on the bus

tappin my foot, to the beat on the radio

dreamin 'bout the mic and the money and the ladies

oh mom, i promise im gonna be large

someday im gonna stop tryin to borrow your car

gonna go far, with charisma and skill

until they put my face on a million dollar bill

atmosphere, its just a ten letter word

discretion is the name of my cement-feathered bird

and if you didnt hear, fuck whatevers heard

i think you got the sickness i suggest you get it cured

caught up in the mix, of a bottle full of fix

im gonna hobble down the street 'til i reach knob creek

its not that i dont like you, i just dont wanna speak

you fuckin freak

now keep your days out my week

the world keeps a balance, through mathematics

defined by whatever youve added and subtracted

im pushin on the hammer, to trigger the brain

embrace how i live it, god loves ugly



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god loves ugly...



once upon a time in minneapolis, yo

i damn near had to steal the show

i stepped on the stage, who is it?

my names slug ive come to kill a couple minutes

whats up with the way, that everybody gathers around each other

so they can steal each others sound

if its all about gettin down with the get down

how long i gotta wait for these fools to sit down?

appears more clear in its simplest form

nobody sees tears when youre sittin in a storm

abandoning the norm, and handling the harvest

measuring the worth by the depth of the hardships

i welcome all the hatred you can aim at my name

i held on to the sacred ways of how to play the game

when the soldiers started runnin short on rations

i began tappin the egg, to spark the hatchin

make it happen

and take this captain to the gallows

i keep steerin us into an area thats shallow

talkin to my shadow, he advised me not to worry

he said i should plant my tree and let it rise out of the fury

so give me some light, a little love and some liquid

im gonna creep through the night

and put a plug in the spicket

and when the water grows

and the dam starts to overflow

ill float atop the flood, holding on to my ugly



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why scream, when you can lose yourself inside the wide-screen

let life be a bowl of melted ice cream

or be the deer thats caught in my high beams

im rollin with the lights on, scared stiff

reality is just too much to bear with

paranoid, walkin around careless

no wonder youre in love with your therapist

go to sleep my little time bomb