1. |
International Criminal
04:10
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I am white - the spitter of the spite
I partied with your fears in the middle of the night
with the lights turned off
I take the blights off
I am the sights at which you so unknowingly scoffed
unconscious in your blissful sleep of the pissed upon skeet ... whatever your pleasure
never take your measure against my pen tipped feather
I'm not afraid of the nether I weather the storm
no tethers have the strength to defy my scorn
I plot against what I have not been born
and what I should have been
everything that would have been
Things are never quite as simple as they could have been
no hos populate my rhymes
the only signs that you'll find are just shovels and troubles
I am crime coalesced into sixteen lines of rage
on a pristine page
International Criminal is on the mic tonight
So get ready for a fright!
International Criminal is on the mic tonight
Now we're gonna do it right!
all seeing, all knowing, gall flowing
flaws growing forever
never severed from my Id
I skidded with Sid
I hid out from Nancy
bidding on fancy words to disguise my inner demons
searching for a corresponding light in the darkness
of this starkness long heartless teatime of the soul
a few green leaves rolled with a few mean bees
stinging me and bringing me back into my sense of right and wrong
freeing one from being one fenced in by a song
bonging nightmares into pipe dreams
life's seams splitting
unwitting
yet still sitting here being me seeing me
as I'm freeing me from this limited vision
that is our prison on this schematic
given to us one time to live as we see fit
sick as it is
I skid to a halt
Could it be that this is all my fault?
International Criminal is on the mic tonight
So get ready for a fright!
International Criminal is on the mic tonight
Now we're gonna do it right!
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2. |
Keep it Real
04:05
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keep it real
keep it all the same
keep on singin bout your hos and your bling
keep it real
keep it all the same
I heard it all before don't wanna hear it all again
They call me crime cause I'm illegalness personified
I keep on livin cause I really just don't wanna die
I took those drugs because i thought that i was gonna fly
Now I'm horrified to find I wasted all that time and I
Ain't buyin in to those lies that you keep sellin me
I hear you bleatin your rhymes like it's a spellin bee
I'm smellin greed - money worshippin and fellin trees
Tellin me your carbon copied lines you're repellin me
I ain't got time for all this keep it real nonsense
You're jumpin on the train maintainin the wrong tense
It's a long fence - just to belong that you been sittin on
and gettin conned - and all along the truth's been written on the wall
- outside the backdoor of the shoppin mall
I seen more interestin thoughts scrawled on a toilet stall-
Door - your shit belongs on the floor
No use implorin me - motherfucker just stop borin me
The other day I saw your video on mtv
Big titted bitches bouncin booties, dressin flimsily
You really think I'm gonna take you jokers seriously?
I guarantee you won't fool me you fuckin brain amputee
So when exactly did you sell out to the enemy?
I know the facts G you been messin with some alchemy
Tryin to change your message from empty and meaningless
Into a pot of gold you sold your soul and now you've been posessed
So obsessed with gettin dressed up in the best clothes
Your style's regressed the better sex into oppressed hoes
I guess the rest of us are gonna have to bless you sluts
With a kick upside the ass - can't miss with the man's dick up your crack
What's with this twisted dealer pimp style anyway?
You must be saving your good rhymes up for a rainy day
Your just a poser pushin pennies for the system
When ya kissed the devil's balls did ya even try resistin?
Fuckin bitch on your knees and suck ma dick
I got a big gold chain a small brain I'm stinkin rich
I got a big car we can do it on the hood
In ma neighborhood I'll even let ya drive it if you're good
Just keep your mouth shut untill I wanna come inside
Don't cry or I'll tie ya up and leave ya lyin by the roadside
Me an ma whiggers are so bad we don't do drive by's
We got a motherfucking jet we kill on fly bys
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3. |
Do You Believe?
03:13
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I used to go to church every fucking sunday morning
So boring
i coulda been in my bed snoring
No use in imploring
deaf ears and blind eyes
mama said you gotta if ya wanna go to heaven when you die
So I'd sigh
and haul myself outta bed
Put on a tie
And drag a comb across my head
No rest for the wicked
This is supposed to be my religion, but what's that?
i never picked it
They stick you into it just as soon as you're born
Holy water on your head and overhead a crown of thorns
You're still warm
Fresh out of the oven
The devil is below and god is rulin up above in love and glory
A pretty story
For a prehistoric race of nomads wanderin in the desert
believin in an omnipotent god with blind faith
But that was then - man this is 2010!
Preacher man keep your religion, I got no use for it
You say you're quoting scriptures but I know you're talkin shit
Preacher man keep your religion, it ain't no use to me
You say god needs my faith, but I say I need to be free
Now I ain't sayin that you gotta think like me
You make your own decisions every one of you is free
I just like to look deeper and ask myself why
Of course I fear the reaper man nobody wants to die
But just imagine for a second
That humans had no faith
No religion
Just science and debate
And then some dude from outer space comes down and tells us there's a god
but he ain't got evidence
no reason at all
Just a bunch of ancient stories filled with death and glory
Written after driftin somethin like forty days and forty nights in the desert
under a hot sun with no food and no water
Delirious and then some
We'd laugh the silly shit all the way back to his home
We'd say we weren't born yesterday
WE know that the unknown it can't be known
There ain't no throne in the sky
Or maybe there is...
I guess we'll have to find out when we die
Preacher man keep your religion, I got no use for it
You say you're quoting scriptures but I know you're talkin shit
Preacher man keep your religion, it ain't no use to me
You say god needs my faith, but I say I need to be free
Do you believe?
I believe in me
Do you believe?
I believe in being free
Do you believe?
I believe in me
Do you believe?
I believe in being me and being free!
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4. |
Here and Now
03:45
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enigma code deciphered
invisible ink a cigarette lighter
Fahrenheit 451
Burning paper, the barrel of a gun
Age old dead sea scrolls
cracking cryptanalysis code
Life unfolds nothin's foretold
Transmutation - fool's gold
We're all alone in the great unknown
You own your own philosopher's stone
Hone your sense, look inside
Don't rely on some guys who died
So Long ago how the hell could they know
How the future would go
Fear and ignorance led them to god
Monkey's awe a fatal flaw
The Laws of physics skewed by them mystics
Propagandistic, over-simplistic
Thor and thunder prometheus and fire
percieved as god's ire
Just to keep the masses in line
No fate, no greater design
no divine plan
Poor man shammed by a preacher man
It all began with those first stone tools
All the way up to us modern day fools
Still scared to death, still scared of death
forgetting that we've been blessed
CHORUS:
Here and now boys, the rest is just noise
All those false hopes and decoys
Destroy the chains, employ your brains
Pain is life and life is pain
Verse 2
Jewish mathematicians
Searchin the torah for repetitions
Millennia old traditions
Truth confused with superstition
Christians with their bible
Ratzinger wants hell's revival
Muslims die in flames
Fightin each other but they're all the same
Insane son's of cain
3000 years and millions slain
Abide by an eye for an eye
And pretty soon the whole world's blind
God need not exist
Despite plethoric apologists
Evolution explains man
Wake up ye sons of Abraham
Verse 3
transcendence ain't dependance
Prayers don't equate to repentance
Sentenced to this sentience
Longing for comprehension
Dissention is a way of life
Don't fear the fate of Lot's wife
Fairy tales to keep you meek
Mind game control technique
Seek the path don't fear no wrath
Of vengeful gods dogs of the past
The first shall be the last
I ain't never seen that don't make me laugh
Forgive me I'm a skeptic
Don't tell me just to accept it
Life is strife and fright
I don't know nothin and that's alright
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5. |
Where is the Revolution?
04:18
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I been a long long time sittin on the cold snow
and I know
I should go back into the house
But the wind blows change
The game is pain
It's plain that this system has no way to maintain
So let me explain
The way that things are goin
The food is runnin out but still the populations growin
The banks are now gods
The corporations prophets
And profits ain't no heaven they lead straight to armageddon
By way of opression
Unending new possessions
Limiting self-expression economic depression
It's supression of individual liberty
It's time to pay the piper and it's C.O.D.
I ain't no saviour but I got my pride
And I got 2 eyes both open wide
This ride called life is headin right off the rails
They put your future in a coffin and you you're drivin in the nails
If I could take you back
to the faraway past
If I could make you see
There is no you and me
There is no physical
There is just energy
I am part of you and you are part of me
I wish there was a way that I could make you realise
But you ain't gonna see nothin with your hands over your eyes
Take a look into the skies the energy is flowin
Just pick up a brick and stick it in the thick of the sick trick
your ignorance is showin
It's never easy so don't complain
If it first you don't see nothin take a breath try again
The answer's in your brain it's contained in the rain
The wording of the question still remains to ascertain
I feel your pain and I see your fear
And I know that things ain't always what they appear to be
So let me be me and you can be you
But if you're doin what they told you to do then you ain't you you're just a fool
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6. |
Voices in the Night
04:08
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Concrete dreams in a country paradise
I was lookin for some peace but now the quiet's like a vice
The hornets and the bees have brought me to my knees
The crickets are too wicked they won't let me get to sleep
Dirty queen sheets on a rusty metal bed
I'm tangled and I'm strangled and the pillow's filled with lead
The Spiders and the flies have taken control of the room
Like little spies they lie waiting lurking in the gloom
An evil owl howls in the middle of the night
My blood is running cold I roll over in fright
I start to think I've woken up on animal farm
I sit up in alarm- somethin's crawlin up my arm
A train whistle screams like a furious machine
Tanked up on motor oil and bootleg kerosene
I can't take it any more so I stand up on the floor
Something slimy's underfoot - I'm boltin for the door
A black cat hisses giving me the evil eye
On second thought i think maybe I'd better stay inside
The night's alive with a symphony of creatures
Somethins movin in my sneaker my legs are feelin weaker
Stumblin and fumblin I try to reach the light
It looks as though I'm not gonna be gettin any sleep tonight
I'm a city boy I never should come this far from home
I can feel it in my bones - I'm gonna die alone
CHORUS
Voices in the night are calling me into the woods
I should not go outside but somehow I have understood
Voices in the night are calling me up from my sleep
I didn't want to see
Death is my destiny
At the back of the house there's a room that's always locked
I can here somethin movin I wish I had a glock
Or a shotgun to keep me from succumbing to my fear
I oughta steer clear I oughta get the hell outta here
But somethin in my my nature makes me wanna take the risk
So I get myself a stick I give the door a kick
It squeels on it's hinges like a pig being slaughtered
My feet are gettin cold - the air is gettin hotter
I keep my cool sweep the drool off of my chin
It's like trick or treat with Hitchcock at the Bates's motor inn
Somethin shuffles in the shadows sendin shivers down my spine
One two oh my god! it's ice-nine
And the cat's in the cradle chewin on the silver spoon
You won't be comin home son not any time soon
Full moon through the window casts a sickly yellow spell
On Poe's worst nightmare - my blood starts to gel
I slam the door on this abhorent room of horrors
The brochure didn't say nothin 'bout angry demon whores or
Seein hardcore gore galore
It's only half past four but I'm gonna ignore
My better judgement's call and get the fuck outta this house
I grab my stick I put on my coat
I'd really rather face the critters creeping outside
Than stay take my chances here with Frankenstein's bride
The front door slams behind my back, it goes "BAM"
I scram like Shazam my feet a battering ram
Cold clams are my hands my brow is drippin sweat
I wish I had a flashlight or at least a cigarette
I run straight to the trees - fucking S.O.B.!
My mind is playin tricks - I meant to hit the street
Somethin claws at my pants - I'm kissing ants
And then the darkness engulfs me like a gothic romance
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7. |
Dream Lady
03:21
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Every night when I lie in bed I get images of her swimmin in my head
Sometimes I think I mighta seen her before in the street in the park or the health food store
Then again it might just be deja vu cause i see her every time I fade into
The sandman's grip in the middle of the night ...and it's more than a little bit of fright
When I see her standing there at the back of a cave like a dragon's lair
Red rubies for eyes and long black hair and a deadly smile like a rabbit snare
My mind says run but my legs don't care and I'm feelin excited even though I'm scared
She beckons come hither and I'm at her side - her arms open wide
The first time that I saw her I went to her like a sheep to slaughter
The closer I got the hotter it got and the hotter it got the hotter I got
Her skin was white like a full moon night and her teeth we sharp like a racoon bite
Her arms enclosed me like a vice I surrendered myself to her despite
Knowing that she was danger never accept candy from strangers
But I just could not resist the cold sweet kiss of her blood red lips
Now at least a year has passed since I first fell into her seductive grasp
Every time I say it'll be the last but I know like snow....I'm gonna come back
After what seems like an eternity the morning sun comes to rescue me
Pullin me back from the land of Nod shadowland facade shattered like a mirage
But every time I open my eyes the world seems grayer as the days go by
Is that Morpheus at my side standin just out of sight at the corner of my eye
Reality keeps on slipping away the dream lady keeps chippin away
At my will to mix with the creatures of daylight i just keep wishing it would always stay night
Cause I know she's waiting for me at the back of the cave serenading me
When I next close my eyes I'll not wake gimme more of that opium I can't wait
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8. |
Don't Wait Too Long
03:56
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pretty young things in the park
sendin that funny feelin to my heart
like the flowers in spring, they sing
pheremones to my head gettin me outta bed
with a smile love that mornin glory
All day long i been feelin kinda horny
long legs sprout out like buds
i'm feelin that urge to fall in love
with the first young thing to catch my eye
some innocent doe readin catcher in the rye
I'm gonna die soon a cold tomb
Been about 90 years since i left the womb
Flowers bloom fast and die soon after
Laughter and tears and bats in the rafters
I wanna get laid one more time
The younger the better it ain't no crime
So gimme a kiss love i ain't so scary
One last time before I'm buried
I wanna make love I wanna have sex
I'm older than coal but i ain't dead yet
My body's old but my soul is ageless
My bones are heavy but my mind is weightless
I hate this graceless old man's face
Purdy young thing gimme your embrace
I wanna pluck that sweet ripe cherry
I wanna bury my face in your hairy
Mountain of love bitter-sweet shrub
I know a few tricks i ain't no cub
I got experience I could show you things
You never imagined in your wildest dreams
Me I'm the king of the fornication
Your time with me will be like a vacation
I'm patient and ancient I can be your guide
Open up your thighs and let me slide inside
Nice and slow I'll keep ya safe from harm
My fortune is yours if I die in your arms
So gimme a kiss love i ain't so scary
One last time before I'm buried
I wanna make love I wanna have sex
I'm older than coal but i ain't dead yet
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9. |
Sleazy Online Love
02:49
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10. |
Colours
03:32
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11. |
Soul Clappin'
04:47
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International Criminal Madrid, Spain
International Criminal is a five-piece funk/rock/groove/soul and occasionally roots dub/reggae band based out of Madrid, Spain. This past year has seen the project expand into it's current formation, featuring Jalex Yestera on bass , Nicolas Martinez on drums, Miguel Verdaguer on the alto sax and harmonica, plus our latest addition, Jesus Perez, on the electric piano and Hammond organ. ... more
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