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Salem Jeru

by Ed Word III

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1.
The lost souls are the stars that blaze In The Watcher's gaze as he offers praise The Apostles fade to black and grey An array of light in shades of darkness Our shadows dance to fancied tunes That bloom from memories in the enemies room We shall not go softly, whatever the cost We shall rage, Rage And on that good night Bare witness to the dying of our plight Self imposed The blackest rose that only grows In snow and endless white So it renders sinless sight Please remember we are embers Semper Fi Simplify the Central Eye What's meant to die will pass away As temples rise in perfect lines with shining stars As they explode from gentle skies In late December Sight will enter tombs of flesh The dead will rise and give you breath When you decide to give to them What's deep inside you always hide And pride protects I beg of you Surrender this Save us all And nothing less This Is a Servant's Philosophy
2.
Channeled 03:32
Meta-terrestrial visit Born to defy Newtonian physics Not sayin I'm fly I merely imply That gravity does not apply to I I, pull out both eyes and use them for spelling divine Blind to the reason but not to the fact In fact My mind is in question but faith is in tact Tactical syntax impacting the masses amasses a fascist nation Masquerading as democracy Plutocracy, hypocrisies The pyramid structure is isosceles The fulfillment of the prophecies Of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates Offers me Peace of mind My mind is not their property So I speak of entropic atrocities With increasing velocity And kick flows like I'm walking across the sea Nonfiction, Egyptian Alchemy I'm the falcon that sits on the balcony And meditates on the mastery of blasphemy No, truth is not mass produced in a factory I'm not rappin' actually I'm touhcing your soul with a morphic field of love So of course it heals when you feel that the source is real And the forces yield to the power of Mankind Dark horse on a course for the light Leaving designs in the sands of time Reaching for the hand of God Only to find that that hand is yours, that hand is mine So we pantomime Repeating patterns of past that we can't define Only lessons of the heart will advance the mind To climb the tree of life and break the trance The expanse of time OH, isn't this dance divine And these words just can't be mine They were written in the stars to enhance the signs And these words just can't be mine They were written in the stars to enhance the signs And these words just can't be mine They were written in the stars to enhance the signs (Chorus) And these words just can't be mine They were written in the stars to enhance the signs And these words just can't be mine They were planted in an ancient tomb to advance the times And these words just can't be mine They were carved in the starving soul to enchant the mind These words just can't be mine They were written in the stars to enhance the signs Applying the science of Mayans We look to the skies for defiance of lies In the silence of space Receiving the guidance of giants that time has erased That star may have died But it's light is a grace in the face of eternal night Equinox of my journal is vernal The spine of my rhyme book aligned with the Sun Every letter in tune with the moon On my lips sits a solar eclipse My people consumed by the dark side, aparthied in bloom The rose that they hide in the Vatican archive of doom I was not conceived in womb I rose from the tomb of Osiris the 7th of June, exhumed Painted the heavens maroon Bloody Sunday, afternoon A splash of color in a black lagoon To summon my brothers our mother awaits The moment we wake from the last cocoon The great K'atun Through the open mind the stargate resumes And we are soon to find platoons of like-minds in the dunes of time I am Ed Word to the square root of 9 And I live in an Einstein-Rosen Bridge With a Firebird Who gives me rhymes So you see These words just can't be mine They were written in the stars to enhance the signs (Chorus 2x) And these words just can't be mine They were written in the stars to enhance the signs And these words just can't be mine They were planted in an ancient tomb to advance the times And these words just can't be mine They were carved in the starving soul to enchant the mind These words just can't be mine They were written in the stars to enhance the signs
3.
(Blueprint) He been a starter since he first walked through the door Skills undeniable, they had to put him on the floor Just when you thought he showed it all He would show you more Saw at his way out since his family was poor Moms workin' 60 hours just to make some change Overtime sometimes she couldn't make it to the game It never got him down He would always play the same Knowin' what she sacraficed for him Wasn't all in vain Junior year All City in a major way Broke his leg when he got fouled on the breakaway Out the whole year and never had a chance to play Didn't know the groupies and the fame would all fade away Couldn't play ball so got a job after school Flippin' burgers, people laughin', he the opposite of cool Humblin' experience but did what he had to do Learnin' how to help his family is what got him through He saw the big picture once he was out of focus To rehabilitate his injury when no one noticed Pushed through all the pain like the coldest soldier Then came back to play his senior year so much stronger Team Captain with no insecurity 17 years old with grown man maturity Leader on the floor and in his community Cause now in every setback he sees opportunity Chorus(Audio clip) We're all fightin' Fly by night to find thy light in The finite shadows of Titans As twilight heightens A life enlightened by darkness A starvin' artist whose heart departed In broken years of smoke and mirrors As he choked his hopes with fear and open bottles Though his flesh remained his ghost appeared And boasted chains to float through life and numb the pain Til all he had Was a pen and a pad And pages stained with the same refrain Of how the shining sun becomes the rain But he glimpsed peace when those same notes became The eye of the storm And his mind transformed as his focus changed And he wrote an opus The story that he came to tell of how the angels fell But began to rise When the fire inside was inspired by the flames of hell (Audio clip)
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Voice 02:13 video
It's like I just woke up from the dead With enough stuff in my head To fill a book for every moment in life That you wanted to speak but nothing was said And giving a voice to the silence Is an art and a science Like painting pictures of particles That compose the heart of a giant But it was painted with blood Tainted with love So in a display of defiance It leaped off of the canvass and into the mud And then a man sprouted out of the clay And started to play with the nothing That stood in his way My only challenge is me For all that I see I've created A dream that I pulled from the stars I've never written these lyrics These bars are scarred in my spirit Like I was murdered with poems And then arose from the tar And the word became flesh on my bones And I the testament that beckons you home I built the pyramids then slept on the stone Now I'm out of my sarcophagus To propagate the populous Ascending through the oculus And topple this Acropolis We marchin' on the city of Rome Suddenly emerging from the margins Between myth and biology You ready Freddy? This is Jason and the Argonauts We make dreams into Waking Life And What Dreams May Come From the Tears of the Sun are The Passions of Christ My flows turn riptides to undertows(under toes) By walking on water Bringing peace where the thunder goes You either do or don't wanna know Welcome to the puppet show A hand full of chiefs have been eating all the buffalo And we don't have enough to show To justify we shouldn't go Geronimo Joshua at Jericho It's gonna take a miracle But that's my fuckin' specialty I'm manifesting parables Gathering Samaritans And governance is terrified Cause love is uncomparable I'm carrying the wisdom of Sumerians And channeling the spirits of original Americans Our enemy is arrogance So it's humble when I'm telling you There is no comparison There's no distance between you and I Our relationship is Baltimore and Maryland Star and Sky We are One and I am I
5.
Dreamers 03:49
(Audio clip) The way the flow rides beats is tantric You can't anticipate my slanted antics As semantics dance on canvas Giving breath to fantasies I'm a lantern in the heart of darkness Where phantoms banter with an artist Carving anthems in the carcass of a panther I've stolen inspiration from the spirit of a bandit He told me come upon them in the night Then your candor must be candid So I'll continue emptying my heart By spouting from the mouth I insist upon insisting that I'm sick Til the day I flicker out I suppose I go through these withdrawals Cause I'm always kicking flows Watering these ugly seeds until they sprout And the beauty is exposed When I die From the wound will grow a rose Chorus(Audio clip) Looking to destroy the common way With my hands upon the eye of Amun-Ra So I put a pen to paper Then I watch the letters play Like Children of Light Building temples in the night To align them with heavens Telling stories of the Eve These piano keys have opened doors Where metaphors were locked away A vast array of colors also laced with spots of grey All contained within a room Where you can watch the Devil pray And the ugliness of beauty Is subtly displayed When the people are afraid It is not that we are evil Hearts are simply cast in darkness By the truth that they betray Chorus(Audio clip) The writing's on the wall Using my apartment as a parchment For my heart is a compartment for the force within us all Watch the world around me darken As the jargon of the bargain keeps swallowing the light Til angels learn forgiveness and Lucifer is pardoned We are humans seeking stardom by returning to the fight Burning candles in the garden where the serpent gave us sight Along came the servant of the night Like a moth unto the flame Smokeless as it was, growing brighter in the rain Til the Moon became the Sun Shedding light on revolution Change in usage, evolution of the gun And when it's done Only one remains We We are the same Love Untamed Letters written in blood stains
6.
Listen all This beat is but a crystal ball I found it sittin' in the endless hall of all creation Look upon it with your ears and hear the future call Soundin' like woman singin' sittin' on a seven headed dragon As she's dancin' with the beast Final feast Last call before a thousand years of peace Sun is risin' in the east as tyrants fall Castin' shadows that will dance with deceased Come and kick it with the walking dead Conversate with talking heads that think that they're the livin' Haven't recognized this prison Where the broken souls of Zion come to die until they're risen The future's just a past that is cast as reflection On the glass of your perception So prophecy is merely recollection of the path to resurrection Only recognized by asking for direction from the deepest of connections What you see is but projections of infections in the mind And I am but a gypsy Takin' up collections for the blind (Chorus) (Lyrics Spoken) The cryptic mystic Takin' shots, no ballistics With smeared lipstick from this chick Word, linguistics Spit sickness, plague fans, what is this? Sadistic punchlines, killin' myself, masochistic While reppin' my district Stack cake, no Bisquick Oil pimpin' on some slick shit Ham animalistic Cause I'm Engaged to the present Merry Christmas And you can't fix this So YOLO apocalyptic UH And that's word from the fortune Tell her why it's coursing in her blood Release endorphins Paint a future lavish livin' bigger portions Clothes and jewels A black ranger mighty morphin' Morphine coursing Give her red eyes no chlorine Lies and predictions Facades creating more fiends Truth be told, images foreseen From the Son of the Morning Fortune Teller warning as we sing... (Chorus) (Triniti) My future was written by magical mathematicians That cannot be deciphered with the ciphers of earthly diction Dating back To the beginning of Genesis The Universe Molded into one and the pyramids represented The Earth, Father and Son And the Holy Spirit existed on a plain Astronomical, beautiful, holy matrimony Demons of the past shaping us in the present The Nephilim congregating, nominating the Reverend They believe Every human being was made from sediment Forgetting The Breath of Life How we were made in Heaven They deceive and convolute the congregation Praying that the prophecy will not unify the nation Seven beasts of revelations will never defeat The commander and chief inside of me This the future So I give every part of me through language and speech Praying that they believe and see the Triniti, HAH!
7.
She 02:40
She She is me In third person with an extra "S" My reflection The piece of my soul that I could never quite express Til we were reunited Mind spirit and flesh When I look into her eyes I am humbled for a moment and my ego starts to die You need an eagles heart to fly She reminds me who I am As my lips caress the sky We hold each other in silence for hours As our love testifies to the power Where the starseeds grow And the sun flowers in the snow If my blood was full of hatred She would bleed me dry on sacred ground as angles cry A thousand times She Recreates me She Chorus(Audio clip) I love to wander in her irises Endless fields of blue and violet See her love is the virus to my doubt Infectious to the fiber of my being The fire in an icy core Oh, more than adore(a door) my amore Your eyes are a gateway to the heavens My off key angel singing brings me harmony As we ride side by side where we've lived and died Destined to collide and abide creation Twin flames Ten frames from end game When rains block the Sun She sees past my past and pen names In pain she leans on no man She reaches for the hand of God So my pen stains pages in her honor Your honor My devotion to you Forever as true As your blue eyes peering through the disguises of my heart You Reveal me You Are her She (Audio clip)
8.
My flow is a river of ancient souls Contaminated by tainted love and painted gold Foretold by the saints of old So I hold blank scrolls in cold hands And transcribe codes and programs To unfold tenfold the power of one man Sacred origami, geometry of the spirit The angle of stars aligns With cosigns in the minds eye of the blind messiah My pineal gland transcends time Bends rhyme Forming rings of fire in the eye of the storm Where desire was born with four horns To challenge the four horsemen It's dance with the devil And ten poor orphans The endorphins have already entered the stream It may seem that I'm spittin' But I'm really hittin' your chakras with energy beams (Chorus) The world grows smaller as my mind expands(x4) (Lyrics Spoken) The world grows small Time flies leaving you in awe Automatic flow mind grows so true and all Jack of trades do it all Lyrical coup de gras P.O.E. back like the hooks of a newer bras Like you never knew at all Lost your mind medically Lyrics eat knowledge, brainiac E.T. pedigree Lines blow your mind, Kennedy Gotta hand it, extremity Break the bank no memory Food for thought, telepathy Best believe, know thee P.O.E. Got hits so O.D. Dope flows fo' free Inspirational Come together, goatee Holy God flow for mankind no Foley It's goin' down like Kobe Through the net, goalie So we lyrically rich, new whip no Toby Goin' pasta, macaroni Looking for the old me So I drop the Mic and leave these bars, parolee (Chorus) Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Brahman, Zoaraster The great Shaman, The Jedi Master Is what you're seeking, is what you're after Then look within You're hiding pain in your porcelain palace And jammin' to Alice in Chains I'm calling you out of the flames I'll enter your brain through interdimensional plains And shatter the stained window At a tempo predicted by a Shinto Prophecy I the modern Samurai Poppin' a Tropicana while choppin' the propaganda With topical panoramas of truth This is not philosophy It's matter transformed to energy By conquering the ego My only enemy A lonely entity in a sea of people He owns me mentally Til the moment I am freed by empathy And essentially return to the essence of man And the world grows smaller as my mind expands
9.
Black 02:51
The view was blacker than night Blacker than Africans back trackin' creation Turning dark into light Blacker than the backdrop of the heavens back when it cracked off And the pride of the Angels cost them a fight A price paid in the flesh Their debt is the breath of this life Blacker than thoughts Seen through the eyes of a woman Married to a man who makes his livin' beatin' his wife Having forgotten himself He lays hands on the bridegroom of the Christ Blacker than the inside of a womb Inside of a tomb Buried in shadows on the dark side of the moon They thought if the light didn't reach her Than her Son wouldn't bloom But Isis is Mary in death Full of joy, her baby boy pressed to her chest While jumpin' the broom Blacker than the factor of absence Blacker than the day after a night lacquered with absinthe Blacker than the fabric of time Wrapped in the play of the tragically fractured self centered mind Our discontentedness still screamin' the winter is mine! A tale of fiction entitled The Splintered Divine God screamed as they dreamed they were fractals They seemed practically dead But were more aptly actually alive So we cried And light streamed from our eyes Chorus So stare long Into this abyss which you grip with iron fists And give it a kiss as you wish it away I am the beggar who's song Is don't feed me teach me to fish and make fire from clay Who once thought desire would lead me to bliss And the reason is this The eye of a needle is easy to miss I needed a myth To explain how these hands heal the blind while I bleed from the wrists You may never see me but I leave you with this As all that I am recedes to the season of mist Received with burning amethyst flame In this The Garden of Eden Where even the trees whisper of freedom And speak of the secrets they hear from the rain What I have eaten of knowledge Consumes me in blackness til my shadows cease to exist And there Where I am nothing I remember my name And laugh at the pain
10.
It was getting high to 9/11 Fahrenheit Where I discovered I was scared of heights But Daddy I swear that I'm as brave as you I could be a soldier too It's just that I've got a mind full of parasites Terabytes of viruses contaminating paradise Examining the erudite And I confess I'm arrogant as fuck Comparing life and death, light and flesh Might just arrest my development Or maybe I'm on the verge of something new Newly found courage To address the elephant we built the room around And find out that he never weighed a million pounds but two Like finding out the whole time that monster in the closet was you But instead of opening the door and facing up We created demons in lieu Loosing Lucifer Who only ever loved her when he had a use for her Now we're swimming through the crucible Crucified upon the crux of everything we thought was real And everything that's really us Crucified upon the crux of everything we thought was real And everything that's really us And he told me like Forgive them for they know not what they do And you You know not who you are Now I'm trippin' watching pigeons turnin' blue As the Earth becomes the Sky I'm becoming you You becoming I The whys becoming exes Leaving questions in the past The quest for answers is a cancer He forgot the destination now he dances on the path So here we are The blessed unmanifested A living star bleeds behind the curtain of a crescent moon Awaiting certain doom The seed must die for the rose to bloom The seed must die for the rose to bloom The seed must die for the rose to bloom So I'm dying to myself instead of lying for my health Cause I've been crying for a change Now look at all the colors here where everything is stained Blood spatters on the wall Cause love matters, love matters Love matters above all I'm the dark matter in the nursery where angels learn to crawl So come and get your mind erased And celebrate the anniversary of time and space Find a place among the dolls No strings attached Just black wings on the queen And what the means is that Everybody, everybody, everybody falls Everybody Falls Everybody Falls (Audio clip)
11.
Undead 03:39
(Audio clip) I aint got no time for the drama Don't even pause at the commas I've written when spittin', the clocks tickin' And I keep my eyes on the sparrow That's flying the narrowist path That will lead to the secret teachings of pharoahs Playing poker with cards from the tarot Dealer pulled The Fool on the river I flipped The Sun and The Moon Understand Creation is to I As the Summer to June And watch me rearrange the planets just by bumpin' a tune Spittin' bars on the beat that made the stars cry When they saw that all the Angels were scarred The road to Zion is hard For you will never know the light til you travel to the dark side Take a walk among the garden of tombs And find me sittin' on your grave Pourin' water on your headstone And prayin' for your spirit to bloom This was written in your heart I'm just channelin' the archives Chorus(Audio clip) For we are so much more Than the distorted designs Reported to climb Forward from primordial slime Upon the ladder of time It was patterns of thought That taught the atoms to scatter or not Ah hell All matter is a matter of mind So gather the blind With any data you find on Venus and Saturn in trine And let it be known The Traveler's home Remember when I sat on the throne Gatherin' bones with gavels and clones Lathered in chrome Then I went to turn The Dragon to stone Because I had to atone And the aroma was of burning a poem Within a cavern of stone Now drink of this ash and ink And be free of what the masses think Black mass, dark matter and The Master's link So arise from the dead as your casket sinks In a river called the past Running past the Sphinx (Audio clip)

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released June 23, 2017

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