
This past Sunday, the world lost a lyrical genious. Mike Larsen, Eyedea, an underground rapper from St. Paul was found dead by his mother early in the morning. Since the first song I heard by Eyedea and Abilities, they have been a favorite. I was legitimately upset when I heard the news, almost cried. I figured I would dedicate this post to him, and his fucking incredible talent.
RIP MIKEY LARSEN. you will be missed.
Sometimes gunfire's brighter than the sunshine Sometimes a child's scream influences every dream Sometimes we fool ourselves into thinkin' we've moved on But no way, no how, do we ever forget what we've seen
-A Murder of Memories
Trying to sleep, but the visions give him a cold sweat The war's been over for two decades, but he still hasn't been home yet Everyday he wakes and strains to supress his guilt And forget the horror, the violence, the kill-or-be-killed Fists are always clenched, teeth are always grindin' Real life is lost, and in a bottle he tries to find it "It's not fair", he mumbles through a nightmare Only in the fight for two years, and wound up spendin' his whole life there He was face to face with the devil for the "welfare" of his country Now he's strainin' to live, but his conscience won't let him It ain't flashbacks, you have to understand the tragedy, see He left the war, but the war never left him, see
-A Murder of Memories

She's a big shot. You know your dream girl She knows how to use her looks to take advantage of the world She's a big shot. You thought you could school her She dissed you like you were neutered, and told you to go get a sexual tutor She's a big shot. She wouldn't touch your ruler She's so beautiful. A cute but cruel looter, user and abuser She's a big shot. Your eyes are glued to her behind You know her steeze, but you fall for it every time
-Big Shot
But now I know what I am, and so to that man I give thanks I've always lived inside this glass box that reminds him of his head It just goes to show ya that your minds your own monster Realities what you make it, if you take it away Your just a fish, like me, swimming in the powdered water
-Birth of a Fish

Everyone knew she was a special young girl From her neighbors to her teachers Some labeled her a prodigy, others called her a genius It was amazing the way she could play the violin It made it hard for people to believe that she was only ten But behind every brilliant mind there lies a monster This one just so happened to be her father See daddy was sick, he'd get a rush by playin touchy touch And tellin her to keep it hush It was his secret way of loving that he needed someone he could trust Fucked her head up, sayin if Momma was alive she'd be so proud of us So she'd hide the desire to die But if you paid close attention you could see the sorrow in her eyes Walking around in the only real hell No one would ever think she'd have such a story to tell Afraid to go home, afraid to talk, afraid of cryin She was too young to even know why And everyday she'd go to the river with a message in a bottle sayin 'Please, God help me I don't wanna live to see tomorrow' Each day she'd scrounge for a tiny shred of hope Just to wish the bottle would stay afloat But every single solitary day, the bottle seems to sink I don't know why but the bottle always sinks She never sees it happen, but the bottle always sinks Now only the bottom of the river knows what she really thinks She made that violin sing with so much pain You could almost hear her scream through the strange vibrations What was once sweet and innocent Is now riding with the psychotic father Chose to probe the flowers of the pure and sacred Her instrument was a rolly tongue To express the infinite abuse in its depths At night the footsteps crept to her door and she'd begin to shake and weep And with tears rolling down her cheeks she's pretend she was asleep When the nightmare was over, and the sun dawn is light She'd retreat to the same place she always did Rip a page from her diary, and write with all her might Then send it off into the current, determined to find a way to live
And everyday she'd go to the river with a message in a bottle sayin 'Please, God help me I don't wanna live to see tomorrow' Each day she'd scrounge for a tiny shred of hope Just to wish the bottle would stay afloat But every single solitary day, the bottle seems to sink I don't know why but the bottle always sinks She never sees it happen, but the bottle always sinks Now only the bottom of the river knows what she really thinks Being a victim of her daddy's hands for so long She lost the will to move on Sick of picking up her violin to hide from what's wrong Exhausted, but stayin strong She tried to play the bright side, but couldn't bring herself to make nothing but sad songs Sick of that sick feeling that stays in her stomach Sick of waiting for a rescue by someone who found one of her bottles Sick of being daddy's little secret She got up at the crack of day and smashed her violin into pieces Then proceeded to walk towards the river with a plan Only this time the diary and bottle was in her hand Just walk with herself, away from the hell Not knowing at the river bottom lied all the cries for help It was weeks before they found her dead body Some fisherman reeled it from the water like something from a detective novel Diagnosis: suicide, stemmed from desperation Was near where she drowned they found about 500 messages in sunken bottles
-Bottle Dreams

Empathy is the poor man's cocaine And love is just a chemical by any other name
-Burn Fetish
It happens faster than you could ever think From always and forever to never again in less than a blink The river runs until it's dry But I’d die spittin' my last drip into its mouth to keep it alive Long drives, wide eyes, and your smilin' face You dance I drink, let's waste the night away They say you always know right away But you can't foresee the sand being pulled into the sea under a tidal wave
-By the Throat
You took me by the throat and made me understand the world as if I were you and I couldn't breathe And you can lead a horse to fresh water but you can't teach it how to be okay when you decide to leave
-By the Throat
Turned hope inside out a thousand times tryin' to see if it was ever anything more than dressed up fear, But the two go hand in hand you can't have one without the other bein' there I'm barely breathin' waitin for these screams to end Beggin' a god I don't believe in to let me sleep so I can dream again We went through thick and thin Came out separate on the other end But please know no matter what you'll always have me as a friend
-By the Throat

I'm goin' crazy outa my control But there's nothin' I can do, I have no choice but to let it go Each day gets a little less intense No longer feel like the skins standin' on my chest You made me more me, and I won't forget the times you helped my find my feet When I was buried in my head Thank you, for givin' what you had to give Takin' what you had to take, And makin' me believe in you. Even though I might be gone forever there will always be a place in my brain that'll think of you. You look so graceful when you're flyin' Keep goin', there's a lot of world that you haven't seen, You have my best wishes, even if only in silence, you deserve everything that you've ever dreamed.
-By the Throat
I turned love inside out a thousand times tryin' to see if it was ever anything more than the will to persevere, but the two go hand in hand, the clouds surrounding you eventually will clear. I can breathe I found contentment in the end, Tellin' a god I don't believe in to go to sleep so I can think again. We went through thick and thin, Came out separate on the other end, But please know no matter what you'll always have me as a friend.
-By the Throat
He once saw a painting that told his whole life story And I realize that I'm not real God just imagined me
-Color My World Mine

The mind can't handle that much, it's just insane It's like reading a book where each words describe your thoughts And in quotations, it reads whatever you say when you talk You think it can't happen But it did happen I guess there's surprisingly wide cracks in each life's sidewalk He stumbled upon an answer when he never had a question And decided to stop dreaming to maintain his mental health
-Color My World Mine
This is a strange universe Is it all just a blueprint? In the real universe, is my consciousness useless? Are we really something a higher intelligence made up? A figment of imagination colored by a cosmic paintbrush? Maybe all of our art creates the fate of other beings Then every character in ever novel thinks it's alive and were just gods Ruling blindly Just a theory I don't know what it means But that's the story of the man who trained himself not to dream
-Color My World Mine
But they can’t tell your troubled as you pick up your pace and sleep alone when the day is done You used to get in fights for fun Its your way of getting close to someone when you dont know how to love I feel sorry for you, even though your fans adore you The more you try to wiggle your way lose the more you get stuck You're so sex, You're so drugs You're so rock and roll, You're so in the moment You're so self-centered, You're so sad Cuz your so so so so Cliche'
-Factory
One day I'll be free from the brain that makes me "me" Now that I know that I'm in control I can cut my own puppet strings
-Forgive Me From My Synapses
one day its all gonna shatter and i hope you're right here
-Glass

There's no hell more harsh than a memory. There's no home more hell than an empty nest. Winter takes the warm away. Spring takes the cold away. Summer takes the rain away. and Fall took away my friend. I believe there's never a place better than right where you are. although imagining an after life can tend to mend a broken heart, And with someone dead, it's a way of coping with loss. But I don't need you out there somewhere if I have you in my thoughts.
-Hay Fever
Having everything's having nothing at all, I watch you climb your way to the top, and I'll still be here when you fall. There's no fulfillment in a lazy nation that keeps feeding our infatuation with the idea of being famous.
-Junk
Everyone wants to get out of the rain Wants to be free, wants to see no more pain We're guaranteed that the season will change 'Till then, I'm keeping sunshine on my brain
-Liquid Sovereignty
I'll be writing till I'm dead or maybe till I'm alive All the emptiness I've bled has only helped me survive
-Music Music
But there's something special about the notes that he hears Those scales are redemption, unraveling repressed memories And when he breathes, a new energy enters and consumes him\ To heal his wounds and unseal his doom If only I could make you understand But words are just words so I can't The universe's deepest art form keeps my heart warm with influence I tell ya Ain't nothing quite as beautiful as Music
-Music Music

Success aint only based on self esteem It takes a sense to differentiate between Whats yours and someone else's dreams
-Now
The average romanticized, American relationship Sinks, capsized, when either side becomes a slave to it Conditioned, dependant, afraid to be alone He needs that feeling that he can't create all on his own He despises the fact she has a life outside of ‘them' It drives him crazy to think she's not insanely consumed with him Give her the guilt trip, and maybe she'll quit livin' To stay behind his prison walls and loose all individualism Well, this is happiness, masochistic torture, Plagued by the decadent, craved for affection The needle digs deep to push contentment through his blood stream It drowned out a hollow, the pothole of a junkie If he could only hear her sing, he wouldn't wanna break her wings But emptiness has such a warm subtle sting She makes up for what he lacks, trapped He can't imagine life without someone like that.
-Paradise
We've rediscovered the long lost art of dyin' Only the lonely resent angels for flyin' Addicted, afraid to take control of my own life This is paradise
-Paradise
Now every once in awhile, she forgets to breathe Terrified of loosin' em, paradise is misery Too much faith in the life-saving knight in shining armor Now what knight's noticin' the scars she can't hide any longer But they were her story way before he was
-Paradise
Silence is the most obscure sound I've ever heard Those lonely, giant spaces in-between your every word And maybe I'm totally crazy for holdin' on But, just cause I'm insane don't mean that I'm wrong Now that you're gone I can't sleep at night, I barely even function right My memory's on overdrive, to hungry and too cold to cry Miss the companionship I once took for granted The way you helped me manage, the partnership that vanished But I don't expect you to stay chained by the ankle There's so much world to see, so, fly free ~ my angel I'm dying without you, but it's teaching me to live Heaven ain't something someone else can give
-Paradise
We dont know the rules of our heads From inside these cubicles we cant see the truth No one really knows exactly what happens when we think Therefore we can never really ever know anything This is the consciousness revolution You got the right to think Don't think about it just do it
-Powdered Water Too
Lost sleep, tossed and turned, only to learn love is expensive Talk was cheap, till my thoughts grew feet Now I take them on walks with me But don't let them off the leash Cause they might cross the street and get hit
-Pushing Buttons
I rummage through old love letters And photographs in a desperate reach for A clue into who I am With only the distant past as reference I fail to feel any connection To the bones under my skin
-Sky Diver
Bad habits make for good memories
-Sky Diver
By the grace of breeze I never scraped a knee That didn't help me see nothing's really what it seems
-Sky Diver
When you’ve never been moved makes it really hard to move on.
-Smile
tears soak each card the dealers dealt But time taught me how to see every second as heaven even though they're perfectly disguised as hell And I refuse to let past bruises cover the light it ain't all good, but its all good enough, so I know I'm alright
-Smile
I can only build if I tear the walls down even if it breaks me I wont let it make me frown I'm falling but no matter how hard I hit the ground I'll still smile
-Smile
But curiosity killed the cat and taught the dog in him how to act and it burned his bridge to Jill so he tries to drown the guilt with a bottle of Jack
-Smile
Self proclaimed rebels say "We must oppose the system!" "You gotta take a stand!" "If your not against them your with them!" signs read "Support the troops bring em' home!" "No more innocent victims!" but when a homeless veteran asks for spare change your to busy protesting to even listen And I'm no different I live in conflict and contradiction but it can be so beautiful when I don't reject what lies within It's beautiful the way agony connects us to the living I think of the world when I hurt, and keep on existing in the now
-Smile |