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Grayscale

from Grayscale by Navi

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Track 14 of the Grayscale album.

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let's deconstruct beyond line graphs and pie charts
get the last word in to eulogize this dying art
we can ride this roller coaster mine cart
bumping to the tell tale rhythym of a lying heart
so where's the lying start what's to gain?
readjust the mask so much, bruce wayne seems sane
the day's parade on to the next charade
another grade a bastard weaving the lanes
through the wasteland, lone wolf searching for the oracle
space man is amongst you, martian chronicle
with third eye monacle draped like a hindu
aside from these costumes not much i cling to
twenty three years still feigning through faces
fanned out like ravana in a ramayana painting
manyana i'll be changing, but for now i'll do the same thing
and flip my face cards just to deal with what today brings
never black or white, always modify the characters
one face for old friends, one face for managers
one face fitted for the asian family that
would never understand why i behave this badly
and sadly, it scares me to try and unpeel em
revealin nothing beneath em except the husk of a feeling
a fucking figment of breathing, somebody go grab sigmund,
i'm stuck on this couch with a shrink as my wingman
dad used to whip me and beat me to teach me
it only made the path i was on more seemly
no hard feelings, i smile when he greets me
and maybe one day, he will listen to my CD
and see me better than the faces i'm projecting
grab your gloves, dig deep, let's take em dissecting
deep in the bowels where the hydras waiting
hibernating in the soul of my fabrication
let's deconstruct beyond rough drafts and rewrites
and all this insight that i attribute to my windpipes
i'm getting so skintight, my skin might explode
from the overload of living in the shadows and the dim light
so i write poems just to understand my limits
and leave my own worst critic pale and livid
calling me a gimmick pushing me to stay aimless,
this wasteland is littered with the almost famous
i wanna find a safe place, start defacing
keep em all shelved in commemorative casing
i wanna stop pacing this ditch in the basement
erase off my debt, clean slate, new arrangement
cause most days i'd rather down brews than chase tail
playing all these roles got me biting off my fingernails
alone in my room's where these masks won't fail
i'll be checking hatemail from the castle of grayscale

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from Grayscale, released January 19, 2010
written by navid azeez
guitar by josh baker

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Navi Washington, D.C.

Known for his eccentric stage energy and stream of consciousness lyrics, Navi creates verbal pastiche by employing a variety of influences to combine his personal experiences with pulp imagery. His lyrics tell stories of his own ethnic narrative and personal relationships through themes of internet culture, pop culture, classic science fiction, horror, and surrealism. ... more

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