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[01:02.97]Hi there Ren, it's been a little while, did you miss me?
[01:06.07]You thought you'd buried me, didn't you? Risky
[01:07.88]'Cause I always come back, deep down, you know that
[01:10.13]Deep down, you know I'm always in the periphery
[01:11.94]Ren, aren't you pleased to see me?
[01:13.38]It's been weeks since we spoke bro, I know you need me
[01:15.47]You're the sheep, I'm the shepherd, not your place to lead me
[01:17.32]Not your place to be biting off the hand that feeds me
[01:19.88]Hi Ren, I've been taking some time to be distant
[01:22.82]I've been taking some time to be still
[01:24.86]I've been taking some time to be by myself
[01:27.00]Since my therapist told me I'm ill
[01:29.37]And I've been making some progress lately
[01:31.43]And I've learnt some new coping skills
[01:33.56]So I haven't really needed you much, man
[01:35.76]I think we need to just step back and chill
[01:37.61]Ren, you sound more insane than I do
[01:39.79]You think that those doctors are really there to guide you?
[01:41.63]You've been through this a million times
[01:43.22]Your civilian mind is so perfect at always being lied to
[01:46.07]Okay, take another pill boy
[01:47.62]Drown yourself in the sound of white noise
[01:49.83]Follow this ten-step program, rejoice
[01:51.74]All your problems will be gone! Fuckin' dumb boy
[01:54.03]Nah, mate, this time it's different, man, trust me
[01:56.79]I feel like things might be falling in place
[01:58.99]And my music's been kinda doing bits too
[02:01.49]Like I actually might do something great
[02:03.66]And when I'm gone, maybe I'll be remembered
[02:05.66]For doing something special with myself
[02:07.93]That's why I don't think that we should talk, man
[02:09.94]'Cause when you're with me, it never seems to help
[02:11.64]You think that you can amputate me?
[02:13.23]I am you, you are me, you are I, I am we
[02:15.37]We are one, split in two that makes one, so you see
[02:17.58]You got to kill you if you wanna kill me
[02:19.61]I'm not left over dinner, I'm not scraps on the side
[02:21.94]Oh, your music is thriving? Delusional guy
[02:24.00]Where's your top ten hit? Where's your interview with Oprah?
[02:26.17]Where are your Grammies, Ren? Nowhere!
[02:28.76]Yeah, but, my music's not commercial like that
[02:31.17]I never chased numbers, statistics or stats
[02:33.17]I never write hooks for the radio, they never even play me
[02:35.94]So why would I concern myself with that?
[02:37.70]But my music is really connecting
[02:40.13]And the people who find it, respect it
[02:42.30]And for me, that's enough 'cause this life's been tough
[02:44.52]So it gives me a purpose I can rest in
[02:46.33]Man, you sound so pretentious
[02:48.24]Ren, your music is so self-centred
[02:50.14]No one wants to hear another song about
[02:51.71]How much you hate yourself, trust me
[02:53.66]You should be so lucky, having me inside you to guide you
[02:56.68]Remind you to manage expectations
[02:58.16]Provide you perspective, that thing you neglected, I get it
[03:00.69]You wanna be a big deal, next Jimi Hendrix? Forget it
[03:03.67]Man, it's not like that
[03:04.95]Man it's just like that, I'm inside you, you twat
[03:07.08]No, it's not man, you're wrong, when I write, I belong
[03:09.14]Let me break the fourth wall by acknowledging this song
[03:11.42]Ren sits down, has a stroke of genius
[03:13.42]He wants to write a song that was not done previous
[03:15.68]A battle with his subconscious, Eminem did it
[03:18.17]Played on guitar, Plan B did it
[03:20.24]Man, you're not original, you criminal, rip-off artist
[03:22.06]The pinnacle of your success is stealing other people's material
[03:24.75]Ren, mate, we've heard it all before
[03:26.14]Uh, "she sells seashells on the sea shore"
[03:28.40]Fuck you, I don't need you, I don't need to hear this
[03:31.36]'Cause I'm fine by myself, I'ma genius
[03:33.41]And I will be great, and I will make waves
[03:35.67]And I'll shake up the whole world beneath us
[03:37.53]That's right, speak your truth, your fuckin' God complex leaks out of you
[03:40.88]It's refreshing to actually hear you say it instead of downplay it
[03:43.91]"Ugh, music Is all about the creative process and if people can find
[03:48.04]Something to relate to within that, then that's just a bonus"
[03:50.52]Fuck you, I'ma fuckin' kill you, Ren
[03:52.41]Well fuckin' kill me then, let's fuckin' have you Ren
[03:54.56]I'm a do it, watch me prove it, who are you to doubt my music?
[03:56.76]'Cause I call the shots. I choose if you die
[03:58.65]Yeah, I call the shots, and so I who choose who survives
[04:00.41]I'll tie you up in knots when I'll lock you inside
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[04:05.97]News flash
[04:08.12]I was created at the dawn of creation
[04:10.99]I am temptation, I am the snake in Eden
[04:14.93]I am the reason for treason, beheading all Kings
[04:17.32]I am sin with no rhyme or reason
[04:19.77]Sun of the morning, Lucifer, antichrist
[04:21.99]Father of lies, Mestophilies
[04:23.70]Truth in a blender, deceitful pretender
[04:25.81]The banished avenger, the righteous surrender
[04:27.92]When standing in-front of my solar eclipse
[04:30.22]My name it is stitched to your lips, so, you see
[04:32.50]I won't bow to the will of a mortal, feeble and normal
[04:35.59]You wanna kill me? I'm enteral, immortal
[04:38.26]I live in every decision that catalysed chaos
[04:41.26]That causes division
[04:42.14]I live inside death, the beginning of ends
[04:44.61]I am you, you are me, I am you, Ren
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[05:06.37]Hi Ren, I've been taking some time to be distant
[05:09.61]I've been taking some time to be still
[05:12.32]I've been taking some time to be by myself
[05:14.64]And I've spent half my life ill
[05:16.84]But just as sure as the tide starts turning
[05:19.32]Just as sure as the night has dawn
[05:21.85]Just as sure as rainfall soon runs dry
[05:24.38]When you stand in an eye of the storm
[05:26.73]I was made to be tested and twisted
[05:28.96]I was made to be broken and beat
[05:31.45]I was made by His hand, it's all part of His plan
[05:33.89]That I stand on my own two feet
[05:36.42]And you know me, my will is eternal
[05:38.86]And you know me, you've met me before
[05:41.07]Face-to-face with a beast, I will rise from the east
[05:43.55]And I'll settle on the ocean floor
[05:46.16]And I go by many names also
[05:48.20]Some people know me as "hope"
[05:50.57]Some people know me as the voice that you hear
[05:52.93]When you loosen the noose on the rope
[05:55.20]And you know how I know that I'll prosper?
[05:57.77]'Cause I stand here beside you today
[06:00.05]I have stood in the flames that cremated my brain
[06:02.52]And I didn't once flinch or shake
[06:04.90]So cower at the man I've become, when I sing from the top of my lungs
[06:09.75]That I won't retire, I'll stand in your fire, inspire the weak to be strong
[06:14.61]And when I am gone, I will rise in the music that I left behind
[06:19.57]Ferocious, persistent, immortal like you, we're a coin with two different sides
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[07:11.21]When I was 17 years old, I shouted out into an empty room
[07:16.66]Into a blank canvas, that I would defeat the forces of evil
[07:20.78]And for the next ten years of my life, I suffered the consequences
[07:24.59]With autoimmunity, illness, and psychosis
[07:29.67]As I got older, I realised that there were no real winners
[07:33.10]And there were no real losers in physiological warfare
[07:36.73]But there were victims and there were students
[07:40.11]It wasn't David versus Goliath, it was a pendulum
[07:44.81]Eternally swayin' from the dark to the light
[07:48.68]And the more intensely that the light shone, the darker the shadow it cast
[07:54.50]It was never really a battle for me to win, it was an eternal dance
[07:59.05]And like a dance, the more rigid I became, the harder it got
[08:02.55]The more I cursed my clumsy footsteps, the more I struggled
[08:06.55]So I got older and I learned to relax
[08:10.95]And I learned to soften and that dance got easier
[08:15.48]It is this eternal dance that separates human beings
[08:19.82]From angels, from demons, from gods
[08:25.12]And I must not forget, we must not forget
[08:30.33]That we are human beings
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