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standard; a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical

Brainstorm, take me away from the norm

I've got to tell you something

happening; any state or process known through the senses rather than by reasoning

I've got to tell you something

This phenomenon, I had to put it in a song

And it goes like

capable of exploding; liable to lead to sudden change or violence

My name is Volatile

I've been this way a long while

rebel; break with established customs

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Renegade sound system 311

Renegade sound system 311

edge; the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

got clout and you know that

Large in the margin

my drama unfolds behind closed doors

mild; not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor)

here's hoping the voices aren't too unkind

here's hoping the voices are benign

it's easier when you hear it

interrupt; get involved, so as to alter an action, or through force or threat of force

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This is a dream from the rest of our team no one can intervene

Until the end of our days there is no in between

fragment; a broken piece of a brittle artifact

There's a methane storm on a planet that's warm

You'll find broken shards of pottery and alien forms

Plus a riddle that was left from a conscious queen

figure out; convert code into ordinary language

That's poking out the mist

Once you can decipher my science will fix

And if you're stranded can't stand it, then I'll gift you a ship

having a negative outlook; the feeling that things will turn out badly

Watchin' you sink into the depths of opportunism

Missin' the point, music's about love not pessimism

I'm SA moving supreme and on my team

fall; drop sharply

Open up your heart and proceed to feel

Now you're inchin' up to the summit never plummet

Boot your system up

clasp; a holding device attached to a workbench

Next contestant on this jam is, tight

Feels spontaneous you'll improvise, vise

From chaos comes clarity, I tell ya

illusion; (psychology) an incorrect belief that is held in spite of evidence to the contrary

Glycerin' tears don't fool me, I tell ya

Delusions plaguing everybody

Makin' that hybrid music back in '90 now it's on ya

cut; set or keep apart

Just sever that leash and release

Your freedom of speech

swamp; a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

Welcome to this groove you can move right

We gonna take you higher (higher) not caught in the quagmire (mire)

I can't survive on a stupid nine to five I'd rather be poor

scolding speech; talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner

There's a place out in deep space

Where all the brothers chant and dance and rant

And shave their heads like Buddha

comparison; a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds

Thought long and hard

For a simile true

Now I'm suddenly aware

weak point; a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual

In a sensation of shape shifting sound

You're telling fables to cover up your foibles

From overindulgence on things you find enjoyable

take back; formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure

it's all in the code now

will you let me retract

let me take it back

obsolete; make unfashionable, outdated, or obsolete

They'll say it was a rhyme and a beat of a rap group

Your rhymes have been outmoded

Your rhymes have been outmoded

calmness; steadiness of mind under stress

Hey yo, hey yo, communication is broken, hit a wall

By the time we get out of line it's all over for composure

Hey yo, hey yo, do you hear what I'm saying?

damnation; (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil

Move with persistence cover much distance

Knowing no perdition that's my game for instance

Three Eleven true to no tradition

agreement; everyone being of one mind

311 is down for the Unity

Unanimity of the Unity

easily influenced; easily impressed or influenced

Makin use of everything movin all your muscle

Angry human leads impressionable boy

To skulls and piercings and will to destroy

frivolity; feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness

Let's leave us on a note of positivity

I'm saying this for levity

But if I leave it brief I call it brevity

like an enemy; characterized by enmity or ill will

Chorus:

Hostile Apostle who you following

Negative energy that you're swallowing

permeable; able to absorb fluids

The Pleiades will smash outta Taurus

Energy pure and decomposed in the porous

Soil of life, movin' on it courses

flow back, flow out; flow back or recede

Backwards we fall

Through the Ebb and the Flow

Living within a dream

infer; reason by deduction; establish by deduction

With the lack of further ado, see

As one can deduce, we kick out the jams

Slam the shit out hard and long

rebel; someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

Groove I'm showin' and provin'.

That maverick deal that makes you feel ill.

It runs in my family.

investigation; the testing of an idea

It's up to the people to brave on with

Experimentation

Move forth the species by using our imagination

dizziness; a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall

"I'm feelin' fine, lord it's time"? Go tell it on a mountain, then again bring a friend

You'll maybe get dizzy with a scence of vertigo

Uplifted soul from the view that I'm on nothin' but love

importance; special importance or significance

The scene dictated by the frustrated former musicians

Switchin' the emphasis from art to money

But I demand autonomy what else, huh

kiss-up; a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

Six more lives till I feel equipped

Take the names of the sycophants

Smash their dreams into little bits

bizarre; conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual

You'll take your licks, and you'll never come out stainless whoa-oh, oh

Outlandish dreams can come to pass, it happens so fast

There's no end to what you can achieve

history; record in chronological order; make a historical record

I'll show you a thirst that can never be quenched

Temptation chronicles, the story of my life

Been spent on a dose of balancing strife

think about something constantly; haunt like a ghost; pursue

You look so sad to me, tell me how could that be?

ah- ah she said things I obsess

I would never confess

fluency; powerful and effective language

Sacking many elements and making a dent

Meanwhile I'm racking up the eloquence to say what I meant

Because the bigger the bomb, the bigger the blast

drive away; force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

Sometimes jealousy will dwell

You can't begin to dispel

When you can not even tell

lying down; having a tendency (to); often used in combination

Inside the dark womb inside of our mother

Prone to the beat and vibe of our tribe

We catch the drift and ride moving tides

give up; give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

I'll not renounce my views do what others do

I'd rather drink the hemlock than be like you,

religious order; a subdivision of a larger religious group

Check it our karma plus the avant garder

Style of out sect wise to ways comes to wreck

While the masses mill around curse in anguish

related to hell; characteristic of or resembling Hell

Who'd guess it could be so unfinished

A never ending infernal process

Yeah where is that bliss

wanderer; a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment

Lookin' good like you should you're bad

An itinerant dimension mystic is your spirit see

Like color absolute bodiless indeed

calm down; cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

Democratic, non-erratic, Socratic method

We'll take away the pain, we'll pacify the bullshit built up in your brain

In times of change or the same old thangs

conduct; (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people

Leaving charred wreckage from my latest eruption

Unpredictable, my erratic demeanor

Bobbing and weaving as my mind gets leaner

difference; inequality or difference in some respect

Across the ocean cross the sea

navigating disparity

miles wide you hear me calling calling

disagree; withhold assent

I get more from the hours spent

Minutes that are free of dissent

A day without argument

struggle; disorderly fighting

My knees buckle, I chuckle chuckle

Motherfucker I get back up like there never was a scuffle

Strange like a tale from brothers Grimm

future generations; all of the offspring of a given progenitor

Tracking ideas from the team

Down for posterity

Through the friction we came

scheming; indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading

That's how it's destined to be

Coin devious loin

Capricious desoin

erratic; changeable

Coin devious loin

Capricious desoin

Auribus teneo lupum

harmful; contrary to your interests or welfare

And we're on to another one for better or worse

And we're gonna discover one no matter how adverse

I'll come around in a better space

dividing; dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)

how could something well guided

turn out to be divisive

mostly wondering

insight into the future; providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future

Next your gonna find blissful pleasure

In a freedom reigning through blissful foresight, yeah

Do it smoothly

overused; repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

To control your own direction choose to be free

And I reserve the right to be as trite as i want

And you can lick but don't bite

argument; a point asserted as part of an argument

The bullshit, trouble was coming from me honestly, oh oh oh

Point of contention, pain will both motivate

And leave you to change, oh oh

quick; moving quickly and lightly

'N shit gets drastic, check it out

Right now my brain is fragile

But you seem so agile we'll make it in tea

pretentious; impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur

Badder behavior in our shit is flavor

Grandiose endeavors yes the quest is greater

Make no mistake i know the time and i wake

jumble; a confused multitude of things

And we're fresh dude just check my man P

He said I will not muddle my mind with impertinency

Lost a lot in vegas plays a lot of Sega

glowing; softly bright or radiant

The whales know I'm quick watch out

And I get funky fresh as for the fishes I'm lit luminous

I'm not nouveau techno I glow like a glacial

agree; be in accord; be in agreement

But where we at now – solid

I concur time it slurs and it blurs

The vision like a drug and yo it's the word

liberate; give equal rights to; of women and minorities

'Cause jealousy is such a bitch

I hereby emancipate myself from that

You can consider yourself free to flirt and chat

ill smelling; corrupt

With a brownskin friend claiming kin to crazy horse

I stink of vino, my greasy clothes are rancid but

I tip the bottle back the spirits are in me kid

adapt; be similar, be in line with

My words are flowing out like a fluid

Never give in never conform

I'll be bustin' out rhymes in a triplet form