going play of this then I'm to play
Hi there Wren, it's been a little while,
did you miss me?
You thought you buried me,
didn't you, Risky?
Cos I always come back,
deep down you know that
Deep down you know my
move is in periphery
Wren, aren't you pleased
to see me?
It's been weeks since we spoke bro,
I know you need me
You're the sheep,
I'm the shepherd,
not your place to lead me
Not your place to be batting
off the hand that feeds me
Hi Wren, I've been taking
some time to be distant
I've been taking some time to be still
I've been taking some time
to be by myself
Since my therapist told me I'm ill
And I've been making
some progress lately
And I've learned some new coping skills
So I haven't really needed you much man
I think we need to just step back and chill
Ren, you sound more insane than I do
You think that those doctors
are really there to guide you
Been through this a million times
Your civilian mind is so perfect
You're always being lied to
Okay, take another pill boy
Drown yourself in the sound
of white noise
Follow this 10 step program
Rejoice, all your prob
lems will be gone
Fucking dumb boy
Nah mate, this time is different man trust me
I feel like things might be falling in place
and my music's been kind
of doing bits too like
I actually might do something great
and when I'm gone maybe I'll be remembered
for doing something special with my self
that's why you don't think that
we should talk man
cuz when you're with me
it never seems to help you think that
you can amputate me
I am you you are me you are I am we we are one split
in two that makes one so you see you gotta kill you
if you wanna kill me
I'm not leftover dinner
I'm not scraps on the side
oh your music is thriving
delusional guy
where's your top ten hit
where's your interview with Oprah,
where are your Grammys,
Ren? Nowhere!
Yeah, but my music's
not commercial like that
I never chase numbers, statistics or stats
I never write hooks for the radio,
they never even play me
So why would I concern
myself with that?
But my music is really connected
And the people who find it, re spect it
And for me, that's enough
Cos this life's been tough
So it gives me a purpose I can rest in
Man, you sound so pretentious
Ren, your music is so self -centred
No one wants to hear another song
about how much you hate yourself
Trust me
You should be so lucky,
having me inside you
to guide you, remind you,
to manage expectations,
provide you perspective
That thing you neglected, I get it,
you wanna be a big deal,
next you meet Hendrix, forget it
Man it's not like that,
man it's just like that,
I'm inside you, you twat
No it's not man, you're wrong,
when I write I belong
Let me break the fourth wall
by acknowledging this song
Ren sits down,
has a stroke of genius,
he wants to write a song that
was not done previous
A battle with his subconscious,
Eminem did it
Played on guitar, Plan B did it
Man, you're not original,
you criminal rip -off artist
The pinnacle of your success
is stealing other people's material
Right, mate, we've heard it all before
Uh, she sells seashells on the seashore
Fuck you, I don't need you,
I don't need to hear this
Cos I'm fine by myself, I'm a genius
And I will be great,
and I will make waves
And I'll shake up the whole
world beneath us
That's right, speak your truth
Your fucking God complex
leaks out of you
It's refreshing to ask for you,
say it instead of downplay
Uh, music is all about
the creative process
And if people can find something
to relate to within that
then that's just a bonus.
Fuck you, I'ma fucking kill you,
Well, fucking kill me then,
let's fucking have you, Ren.
I'ma do it, watch me prove it,
who are you to doubt
my music?
Cause I call the shots,
I choose if you die.
Yeah, I call the shots
and so I choose who survives.
I'll tie you up in knots
when I lock you inside.
Newsflash.
I was created at the dawn of creation.
I am temptation.
I am the snake in Eden.
I am the reason for treason.
Be heading all kings, I am sin.
With no rhyme or reason
Son of the morning, Lucifer,
Antichrist, father of lies
Mostopheles, truth in a blender,
de ceitful pretender
The banished avenger,
the righteous surrender
When standing in front of my solar eclipse
My name is stitched to your lips
so you see
I won't bow to the will of a mortal
Feeble and normal, you wanna kill me?
I'm eternal and mortal
I live in every decision
That catalyzes chaos, that causes division
I live inside death, a beginning of end
I am you, you are me, I am you,
friend
I've been taking some
time to be still
I've been taking some time
to be by myself
And I've spent half my life ill
But just as sure as the tide starts turning
Just as sure as the night has dawn
Just as sure as the rainfall
soon runs dry
When you stand in an eye of a storm
I was made to be tested and twisted
I was made to be broken and beat
I was made by his hand
It's all part of his plan
That I stand on my own two feet
And you know me, my will is eternal
And you know me, you've
met me before
Face to face with a beast
I will rise from the east
And I'll settle on the ocean floor
And I go by many names also
Some people know me as Hope
Some people know me as the voice
That you hear when you loosen
the noose on the rope
And you know how I
know that I'll prosper?
Cos I stand here beside you today
I have stood in the flames
that cremated my brain
And I didn't once flinch or shake
So coward the man I've become
When I sing from the top of my lungs
That I won't retire
I'll stand in your fire
Inspired by me to be strong
And when I am gone I will rise
In the music that I left behind
Ferocious, persistent,
immortal like you
Irreplacable in different sides
ooooo ooooo ooooo.
Oooh,
Oooo h,
Oooh
When I was seventeen years old
I shouted out into an empty room
into a blank canvas
that I would defeat the forces of evil
and for the next 10 years of my life
I suffered the consequences
with autoimmunity,
illness and psychosis.
As I got older I realised there
were no real winners
and there were no real losers
in psychological warfare
but there were victims
and there were students.
It wasn't David versus Goliath.
It was a pendulum eternally swaying
from the dark to the light
And the more intensely that the light shone,
the darker the shadow it cast.
It was never really a battle for me to win,
it was an eternal dance.
Like a dance,
the more rigid I became, the harder it got.
The more I cursed my clumsy footsteps,
the more I struggled.
So I got older, and I learned to relax,
and I learned to soften,
and that dance got easier.
It is this eternal dance
that separates human beings from angels,
from demons, from gods.
And I must not forget,
we must not forget,
that we are human beings.
