Fade to Black

[Verse 1: manCHILD] I push my pen past the breaking point, the point of no return Past the pointed fingers, past the point at which you learn Past ideas and perceptions, past lies and deception Pass my life around the room to try to make the right connections My obsession is this; past cash, past crime Past beats, past rhymes, past life and past time After time, time is money, time out, timing is everything Your mind's my forty acres, on these fertile plains I'm settling I'm steadily gold medaling in peddling what's the truth Point my finger to the heavens and grip the heart to break it loose I'd bear my soul to save the youth and place myself upon the altar Make this world a better place both for my wife and for my daughters And that's a hard lesson to learn, because mankind's so unkind Like political prisoners who threaten the agenda of One Time One rhyme can't change the world, so make no mistake And that's just my point.yeah, that's the point I'm trying to make [Hook] One rhyme can't change the world, but sill I'll never back down Speak my peace on microphones and fade into the blackground What's wrong has prospered too long, it's time to take it back now Write what's right upon walls and fade into the blackground [Verse 2: Sintaxtheterrific] Sintax the backlit shadow box backdrop Silouette of the sunset across the concrete blacktop Bet He's more brilliant and beautiful than we thought Burn fame on the fingers of flame from sunspot Then bask in the black where the spotlight's not Mic rock late at night so nobody can watch Some serve in daylight, Christ taught behind the scenes So I caught his sunstream with the sea of the unseen Humility sunscreen, I thank God for anonymity My geneology is a forest of family trees More branches than a bank, thank you's to pass around Put gratitude on paper, extend my words like verbal pounds Remember my past like people in small towns Regard simple truth and profound, then write 'em down I've found I like to watch autumn leaves just fade to brown They turn without a sound, I'd like to fade into the blackground Then drown the well renowned, pound my pride until it backs down Clown myself just so that Yahweh can abound Soul Heir the manCHILD and Sintaxtheterrific We ripped it for a lifetime, but we'll vanish in an instant Blink once and you missed it [Hook] What's wrong has prospered too long, it's time to take it back now Write what's right upon walls and fade into the blackground One rhyme can't change the world but still I'll never back down Speak my peace on microphones and fade into the blackground [Verse 3: manCHILD] I build this lifeline in the nighttime, hide my presence in this place Anonymity's a witch, but I've grown acccustomed to her face And it's broken, camouflage my emotions, chosen token Spoken to those cold and frozen and watched new life awoken Got that close to closing notion, overdosing on the ocean No one knows this unsung hero, the dirt that makes the tree grow But it's all right, I'm a peace in the puzzle like Bill Cartwright Programmed to command the mic with deepspace5 all night I'm the fly on the wall who's watching each and every bar fight I'm the brick wall backdrop that's decorated in the starlight Mars ILL, we do battle deep in the belly of the beast And as the b-boy backspins, we be the cardboard that's beneath See this wedding of art and science and let's all live and grow together I'll choose to keep the memories and you can choose to buy the records Maybe make that life better, leave that soul no longer vacant And let the prejudice skeptics keep warm with blanket statements With patience I set my paces on city streets of Atlanta While my people being slandered by that false propaganda Got answers, got questions, gotta teach and learn lessons ManCHILD spits one rhyme and it tastes like sunshine Holy, divine design, peace to the nines worldwide Play my part to perfection and softly fade into the B-side [Hook] One rhyme can't change the world, but still I'll never back down Speak my peace on microphones and fade into the blackground What's wrong has prospered too long, it's time to take it back now Write what's right upon walls and fade into the blackground Refuse to be pimped into a record label's cash cow Speak what's real upon reels and fade into the blackground