Silverline - Deca

Sides, we all fall and rise

I try to lend an ear but all I hear is false pride

So I’ve been on the outside looking in

Not been thinking about the past or what could’ve been

I’m clear on all sides, we all fall and rise

I try to lend an ear but all I hear is false pride

So I’ve been at the shooting range killing time

Not been cloud gazing looking for a silver lining

Today was like the first day

Let there be light aside the life

Day divided night like Mr. Mojo Rising to his height

See it started with a bang

A solitary sun spot

As strange words echoed through the void like a gunshot

One drop of blood became a pomegranate seed

Grew into a tree with forbidden fruit for me and Eve

The landlord took his keys and kicked us out the garden

So we moved to New York and got a two bedroom apartment

But life seems mundane, and I’m to blame

So I don’t have the right to complain

I’m spin cycling

Dark angels knock on our door, and I invite them in

To bring to life the things I’ve suppressed and help me write again

I could plant a seed and tear it out the ground

And kill it before it grows like Sheriff John Brown

Stare at a blank page for days, block days off

Parade around my block lost in thought till it pays off

Until the pain stops, until the rain drops

Turn to pomegranate seeds

Point me in the right direction, then aim and squeeze

The shot that echoes through the void’s what created me

(I'm clear on all)

Sides, we all fall and rise

I try to lend an ear but all I hear is false pride

So I’ve been on the outside looking in

Not been thinking about the past or what could’ve been

I’m clear on all sides, we all fall and rise

I try to lend an ear but all I hear is false pride

So I’ve been at the shooting range killing time

Not been cloud gazing looking for a silver lining

Today’s the day I finish what I started

Put the final touches on it

Take the false bravado replace it with something honest

I’m in the lab, trying to figure out my brain chemistry

With good and evil on either side of me like parentheses

I keep my dogma on a short leash it’s ravenous

I feed off Cain’s offspring and bible passages

My little hell-hounds accusing me of sacrilege

But let’s get back to rapping 'bout money, murder and avarice

Able got murked, Judas took the loot

Deca got a stomach virus from eating forbidden fruit

I was duped by a tapeworm, accused of high treason

Given a moral code and taught to apply reason

But I don’t listen well, and mindless obedience

Is like a prison cell, a living Hell

Sinners cast stones at the old shattered bag of bones

In the catacombs where I walk a crooked path alone

(Everything we do is music)

(I'm clear on all)

Sides, we all fall and rise

I try to lend an ear but all I hear is false pride

So I’ve been on the outside looking in

Not been thinking about the past or what could’ve been

I’m clear on all sides, we all fall and rise

I try to lend an ear but all I hear is false pride

So I’ve been at the shooting range killing time

Not been cloud gazing looking for a silver lining

Today was like the last day

We masquerade around backstage

Half-crazed with skulls like Fabergé eggs

When I crack the yolk breaks and light cascades

I think the world came to life that way

I heard the end is like a new beginning

The curtains rise like a red tide

The devil’s hanging by a politician’s necktie

We all fall and rise, the stage comes alive

The veil drops and she’s standing on the other side

Act 2 is the summer of '97

When I figured out you got to go through Hell to find Heaven

But point me in the right direction

I was somewhere in the darkest depths

When she dragged me out of my depression

There’s no better time than now

I’ll be gone a while, drifting on a cloud

Daydreaming at the domicile

Two pupils like two black suns I saw her smile

She pulled a demon out of my head like Gods child