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A toast to the uncontested, murder...ark your mistake as soon as you're rested, I...Time is money well invested, burning y...Never protested, the living proof manifested ...Put fist in thought, care to te...ss, I throw a stare in the eyes of uncommon wi...Future darker than black p...I bomb the target without a so...By the South Pacific, ched...ve me gun, detonate the shells with my tong...I'm young plus I'm well hung ...I ride the fine line between yours and mine, check the design ...I'm high beaming in your rear view ...Get out the left lane before I ...til I'm considered, the high exalted ...ven then I'll still be bitter, sipping on ...Through the speech, now it's ti...refer to show it to the hardest of hip hop ...hat you started and be a MAN ...amn, resort to plan be sucking on candy ...The fine line between yours and mine, freak the design ...I'm high beaming in your rear view, CRA...rds cats I describe in this rap production...Now the name Saukrates ring...e me well, bringing the future ...e me well, bringing the future ...u want to poise for the portrait, here let

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hon Aaron Steel, to the parents of William ...m a Leo, born under the sign of the lion and I was raised in a ...the name stuck. So when...uld have known from the first time when I ...t I just didn't fit in to my ...And as I grew older the constant comparison...ittle doubt who was the image of perfection in my ... wrong and I became The ...Invisible Boy, the proverbial 'black sheep' and I soon figured out that ...nd black don't mix. The beatings I received...frequent to the point where I would ask my father "Am I the orphaned son ...enough I worshipped the ground my father ...magine we came from the same parents. I ... wondered if we had the same father, but I ...and said "You shall be the ...I had no idea what 'The one' was, but as I ...the Virgin Mary but wit...the good. She was opini...over-zealous to say the least. A mind boggl...ics that many times in my life I would ...look back on in bewilderment and the women I sought afte...would be nothing like her. In the pain of youth, the misery of my neglec...uld manifest itself in many ways; depressi...nality would become the guiding force of my...later in the story about them wh...The mirror, the great plaything for man's vanity. The mirror was to ...y greatness. It was the ...self, to find love, in an otherwise ...ehold where I could be great, where I could be anything or ...anyone I wanted to be - one hundred perce...ts precious secret. The mirror lives, it br...the wishes you could ever dream, at least in my case - all excep...s my 14th birthday, the day that changed my...Michael, the one person who was ...d by a drunk driver in a head-on collision...er, especially that living hell called ... his death I roamed the streets in a fog barely ...and in general a life I ha...town city street in one of my drunken r...music shop and in the window stood the instrument, the fiery tool that ...would become the object of my new found desire. The instrument of my ...sion, my obsession, the blood-red six strin...the thing all my life. ...I soon found it was the only way I could tr...und myself going to the mirror for counsel ...my destiny was in my music but I was ...ackwards town I was in if I was ever going...nowhere and the only thing my paren...e. So I ran away to the big city with the lights, excitement ...do my music without the ...g. I hitchhiked all the way with a ...suitcase in one hand and my guitar in the other and as I stood at the edge ...of the city the magic of the place was incredibly intense. It was to be my ...new home the place I would call the 'Arena Of Pleasure'...struggled in the arena for two years trying to get a break in music and ...ck over more people in the recording industry then he ever could in a ...t of law and he was the president of one of the biggest record ...companies in the world. The music business to C...sacrificial lamb to be led to slaughter and the weapon of choice ...ike a mighty sword. The great tool ...vingly refer to as 'The Chainsaw'. The morgue, Charlie sai...was the music business where everyone sells out. Where all the artists ...s to commercialism, the place where the ...about the music business and ...e me a star, one of the biggest things the world had ever seen...The big time was callin...together we took on the whole ...nd kicked it square in the ass. ...Just before the release of my first album I was sitting on the steps in ... tell me of my past in which she went into great detail about the pain ...anted to know of my future ...wealth and fame and in the cards she saw a fal...ked at me and said "Be careful what you wi...for the face of death wears the mask of the King of Mercy". I a

ms to me there must be something more ... get some adventure soon ...There's gotta be something better ...There's gotta be something better th...I feel like the world is passing me...When I could be an explorer ...My future looks like nowhere that I want to be ...There's gotta be something better ...There's gotta be something better th...The crazier the better is what I sa...To tell the truth I really woul...l put my courage to the test ...And I'll be my your side ...We'll be by your side ...There's gotta be something better th... know this life I'm living can be my destiny ...There's gotta be something better ...There's gotta be something better th

you play if for me. In the mix mister hop ...The second somebody die...Home may be home to you but to ...Even the matador don't pull the bull by the horns ...The changing of the guard oh it's so ha...It's the balance of the scales it can't be challenged or expel...Soon as somebody lost so...someone is quiet at the same time someone y...or half empty water in the well ...It's the Half and Half Hypothesis the 50/50 theory ...It's the Half and Half Hypothesis the 50/50 theory ...ath or not you find the answer is really not the plot ...The same emotion differ...It's the posa and the nega tive ... and on and on till the principles are laid...The scales of justice w...Got to balance out the power don't we? ...pull positions like the moon pulls on the ocean ...her or not you find the answer is really not the plot (really not the ...And the solar system rotes ...Clues the past and cash and keys to the future ...Some quick fast on the dash ... heads or tails but the head usually leads the tail ... tell my tales from the head ...n shout or leave it in your mouth ...y Father Time who's the chaser ...It's living and dying homey ...f you are gone find the time to shine ...The other half gone fin...Till it's to late in a disillusion state...To late in a disillusion of mi...The orthodox is the unorthodox they just got you on the names ...The insane and the sane are the same ...Caught up in the subliminal ...and pain, water for the flames, the wild and the tame ...The style still remains if you use the right side of your ...ad of going against the grain ...You can penetrate the vein to the point where what re

This morning I made the call ...The one that ends it al...But dammit,this well's gone dry ...Not for the money,not for the fame ...Not for the power,just no more ...But now I'm safe in the eye of the tornado ...I can't replace the lies,that let a 100...No more living trapped inside ...In her way I'll surely...In the eye of the tornado,blow me awa...You'll hate me just the same ...And soon you'll meet your de...Not from the years,not from the use ...Not from the tears,just self abu...t's for me to say...be...do ...a big nothing it'll be for me ...The land of opportunity...The golden chance for m...My future looks so bright ...w I think I've seen the light ...In this bed I made for...I warn you of the fate ...It's the kiss of death