Phantom-Mr. Lif

[ti:Phantom] [ar:Mr. Lif] [al:Emergency Rations] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Phantom - Mr. Lif [00:18.30]Check it out [00:19.13]I been waiting, playing, for a long time [00:22.13]X amount of thoughts carried out in my mind [00:24.48]I turn on the TV, I see crime [00:26.58]Script written diligently and aired on time [00:29.41]Push the power button, now I'm to the tower something [00:32.33]Opened up my fridge and found nothing [00:34.33]Tipped to my room with an aura of gloom [00:36.73]Wishing I could write another tune [00:38.48]But my hands are paralyzed, plus my eyes [00:40.94]Wanna shed tears, but it's not possible, there's [00:43.81]The burden of things I couldn't bear [00:45.88]Feelings weren't dealt with properly [00:47.46]Remorse follows me [00:48.80]With his good friend, the threat of poverty [00:50.78]Here's where I am [00:51.93]Versus where I think I ought to be [00:53.72]There's a certain chance I'm a victim of circumstance [00:56.25]I take a look at myself and at first glance [00:58.66]I see who I recently thought to be me [01:01.05]Based on identities public and private [01:03.68]Behold the radio pirate, ya ni**a [01:06.28]A felon, chilling with a gun to your melon [01:08.53]A pimp with his pockets swelling, a jester [01:11.13]A slave with wounds that fester, the wanna-be [01:13.52]Pre-med 3-D dread an academic reject [01:16.45]Hoping to detect life, erect what god gave [01:19.75]Human laws are laid, we go to war, come back [01:21.98]And come up with more [01:22.98]I'm kind, friendly, your worst enemy [01:25.77]Charming, crass, and potentially [01:28.22]Dangerous, have you ever heard of such [01:30.59]I'm invisible and impossible to touch [01:32.86] [01:33.81]This is not my beautiful melting identity [01:35.93]The thoughts that I can't manipulate for the safe line [01:38.91]Is personal, one among st many is the macro [01:41.28]Made from the pain of the fragile [01:42.94]This is not my beautiful melting identity [01:45.78]The thoughts that I can't manipulate for the safe line [01:48.45]Is personal, one among st many is the macro [01:50.83]Made from the pain of the fragile [01:52.80]This is not my beautiful melting identity [01:55.77]The thoughts that I can't manipulate for the safe line [01:58.03]Is personal, one among st many is the macro [02:00.59]Made from the pain of the fragile [02:02.65]I still say fresh d**e and things of that sort [02:05.02]I don't shoot up, smoke crack, or take shorts [02:07.31]Your thoughts are always welcome, I seldom [02:09.62]Won't enter another is perspective, corrective lenses [02:12.86]Are something that I wear [02:14.63]So I can see the globe real clear [02:16.49]Look, there's famine over there [02:18.46]Plus the families in fear [02:19.64]Of disease and distress that lingers in the air [02:21.81]These are the words of a man in purgatory [02:24.47]Words of a simpleton living in oblivion [02:27.01]Is this the model for life you will envisioning [02:29.47]Free as can be in a world of imprisonment [02:31.96]I dare you to check new territory [02:33.98]American dream? Time for another story [02:36.67]One where I don't choke to keep afloat [02:39.05]I'm sick of living on false visions of hope [02:41.40]With a knife to my own throat [02:43.13]Stick of dynamite inside my overcoat [02:45.12]Because I know the ropes [02:46.57]Reality in this world is bought and sold [02:48.84]A very limited scope of life is shown [02:51.45]And I'm just one of the mold, fully controlled [02:53.82]Left to erode in my humble abode [02:56.11]You won't hear me because I got no loot [02:58.51]You don't hear me because you don't compute [03:00.92]I'm docile, psycho, have you heard of such [03:03.50]I'm invisible and impossible to touch [03:06.04] [03:10.70]Single mother, who are you? [03:12.82]I phantom [03:13.67]Office worker, who are you? [03:15.05]I phantom [03:16.17]Caught up in the system, who are you? [03:17.57]I phantom [03:18.63]Trying to earn a living, who are you? [03:20.07]I phantom [03:20.83]Depressed and uninspired, who are you? [03:22.24]I phantom [03:23.06]Hard working, broke and tired, who are you? [03:24.93]I phantom [03:25.87]Seeking education, who are you? [03:27.44]I phantom [03:28.28]Can't get ahead no matter what you do? [03:29.85]I phantom