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Carvens Lissaint, performing for the Striver’s Row.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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for the days
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when i wanted to die
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i beg of you before i’m
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six feet beneath the soil
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before the maggots hug my flesh into a
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shivering carcass
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speak of me as i am
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nothing false nor set down ought and
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malice
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i pray that you will tell them that i
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died a proud man
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that i was one who never spoke unless it
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improved upon
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silence tell them that i never moved
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unless it improved upon stillness
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this here was no walk in the park
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that life felt like a cigarette break
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during a one-night stand there were
00:56
mornings
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when i wanted to staple my eyelids shut
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because the sunrise
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was a horror film i never wanted to wake
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up
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and tell them i wasn’t perfect speak of
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fear
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speak of discouragement speak of the
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days when i shattered as loud as
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dynamite hissing through a funeral how i
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danced through the gauntlets
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during day and still made it home in
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time to kiss my mother good night speak
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of gladiators
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speak of honor speak of the times when
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my eye sockets swamped my knights into a
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river
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tell them that i was honest and felt
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everything tell them
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that i didn’t hide that an army of
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hooded men with sickles
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introduced themselves to my front door
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and my fist was a pistol tell them
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that i was a righteous man i was a
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righteous man that i was my brother’s
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keeper i held
01:45
my friends tight like the first drop on
01:47
a roller coaster speak
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of loyalty speak of the wars us kings
01:51
fought against the blood leaching demons
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goblin like creatures with mouths as
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wide as the gates of hell
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hijacking my serenity until it set
02:00
ablaze like a church
02:01
in the south speak of heart speak of
02:04
these equator arms that wrapped around
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the women i found paradise and tell them
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tell them that i was one who loved not
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wisely but far too well
02:13
that i was never afraid to wear my heart
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on my outfit and i adore the things that
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my wife will one day hate about herself
02:20
tell them
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tell them that i picked up my son every
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single day and told him he was a miracle
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that
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that my daughter had the spine of a
02:26
doctor deal tell them
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tell them i kept it real tell them that
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i kept them funky tell them
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i kept it 100 tell them i kept it cheat
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up from my feet off that i was
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real rap raw in the flesh that that i
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lied like a dungeon dragon that they
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tried to lock me but they tried to knock
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me in the cage you know and i
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regurgitated balls behind bars behind
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bars like
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like knock rodman is the devil
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tried a lot of me
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and i loved him i loved him fiercely
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that every
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single time i opened my voice box i
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revealed the truth
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what is math what is math what is logic
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that was only god tell them
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speak speak up tell them that i was
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monument tell them that i was scripture
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i beg of you before i’m six feet
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beneath the soil before the maggots hug
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my flesh into a shivering carcass you
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tell them
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that carbon’s lassant was human
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you
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