I pressed up a limited run of CDs for this album since it was so successful in digital form. The CDs are very bare bones (e.g. no track list) and thus a bit cheaper than my other CDs.
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The most original song I've ever written.
lyrics
Headphones on, no distractions
Head home to inscribe head stone, prescribe the best inaction.
I can’t fake it inside but I can take it in stride
And then take you aside to say they can survive
With a famous surprise but not saving their lives
Stripped naked of lies in a blanket divide
Celebrating the vibe of all races combined
And their faith intertwined with a safe inner mind
Now escaping the bind of all the statements denying
The most sacred design for the raped and the blind.
Religion is decision and an educated guess is less
Respected than an uninformed belief
Do you believe in integrity especially
When alcohol let’s you let it be?
Secret ingredient in the recipe
Food for thought, mood for mania
Some squares come full circle
Ask anyone who only falls in love with what hurts you
Banging on the keys, hanging from the trees
Disease says please and the host says “Stay awhile”
Fake a smile in the only reality left
So much space and it’s all gonna fall apart
Who’s at fault when the fault line falls in line
With its only purpose in the duration of all time?
Time’s a joke told to stones at the bottom of the food chain.
If I were you, I’d be proud of how to break the fall
When I get a busy signal in response to a mating call
I’m not afraid of ya’ll, put the cameras away
Of course I understand what you say
Just- not who you say it to.
I remember falling in love with the idea
That people are better than ideas
Which is honest, but hard to explain yet easy to believe
At the end of the day, we’re all reaching for a key.
“Open my eyes and start looking for the key” – Aceyalone scratched by DJ Cam One
Sober man silently hopes to stand quietly
In an anxious society ruled by social anxiety
And it ain’t just the ancient
Mind fuck of being complacent, it’s the basic
Entirety of finally coming to grasp
With the fact that there’s nothing to grasp, ask or have
Cause the only wrong questions are the one you don’t ask
Cause the only right answers are the one you don’t have
Both halves of good and evil are masterminds
That learned long ago to simply laugh and cry
To pass the time after being asked why
Everything including themselves has to die.
I remember falling in love with the idea
That people are better than ideas
Which is honest, but hard to explain yet easy to believe
At the end of the day, we’re all reaching for a key.
credits
from Broken Clock : Skeleton Key,
released May 1, 2010
Rap = Seez, beat = nocreditscore, scratches = DJ Cam One, vocal sample = Aceyalone.
supported by 7 fans who also own “The Idea That People Are Better Than Ideas”
A friend of mine back in 2004 pointed me to this track and I was mesmerized. Been a huge Illogic fan ever since! Very nostalgic listening to this again presently. I would love to get this album in vinyl record to add to my collection. :) fyrin
supported by 6 fans who also own “The Idea That People Are Better Than Ideas”
I have been listening to variations of this album a long time. I remember I was living in a cardboard dumpster when some young guy was like yo dude it's gonna rain come crash on my couch. He played The Many Faces of Oliver Hart for me. I fell in love, I set my favorite track as Rain because we looped it when the rain came. That was one of the early acts of kindness I received in the nearly 20 years I've been homeless. @NomadRoamsFree