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Baba Brinkman
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The mind is its own place, so it's a base in itself
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When it's impatient, paradise feels like a prison cell
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And it's wasted, but however far from grace it fell
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The mind can still make a heaven out of raising hell
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We live in a strange realm, and I'm beginnin' to doubt
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My ability to figure it out; now
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If the mind is its own place, then mine is an open space
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I'm home on the range like a coyote roaming the plains
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Showing strangers how to notice correlations, only
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I'm facin' down some cowboys makin' loud noises
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Hoping my home is a vacant location so they can take it
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It's the same ancient battle for the temple of the mind
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That people have been fighting since the beginning of time
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And the winning side has always been the mentally blind
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Who try to simplify everybody into two different kinds
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Of people: "You're either with us or against us, and you'd better decide
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Or you're gonna get criminalized!"
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In this critical fight, I'm livin' behind enemy lines
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Keepin' my mind open like a nympho's vagina
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Tryin' to fill it with every different kind of info I can find
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And you know why? "˜Cause propaganda machines
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Can teach you a whole lot about an enemy's strategies
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And every piece of data feeds into reality
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There's no need to understand, just believe
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Hidden in the temple in the center of my head
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I've invented a script that can never be read
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I write it as I'm livin it a few steps ahead
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And if I'm ever gonna quit then I better be dead
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When the mind finds itself in a police state
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It needs a secret place to keep it safe
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And when it's mistreated daily and repeatedly disgraced
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It stays sane by retreating into the deepest cave
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Where the siege is laid to keep the demons at bay
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But the easiest way to break free from these chains
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And make peace is to take a leap of faith
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And believe something that can't be reasonably explained
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That's how people change, by takin' a chance
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On a path when they can't see the destination in advance
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And laughin' in the face of disaster when their best-laid plans
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Are translated into wastelands; it doesn't make sense
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But all you need is a beat and street corner to break-dance
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And no scientist could ever explain that with brain scans
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"˜Cause the mind is the one place in the infinite expanse
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Of creation that still has infinite space to expand
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Hidden in the temple in the center of my head
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I've invented a script that can never be read
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I write it as I'm livin it a few steps ahead
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And if I'm ever gonna quit then I better be dead
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There's a place in the mind that waits in silence
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Until it's awakened by some inspiration inside it
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Sometimes the sensation is violent, and we're surprised
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By the places it finds us; in strange environments
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We do exactly what the act of creation requires
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It takes an entire civilization to change the climate
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Into a lake of fire, but at the same time
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Every person is alone when they change their mind
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So the landscape inside is one of the only places
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I know of that's really capable of homeostasis
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In times of crisis; it's a lonely oasis
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Where you're totally safe, a place to resist the barrage
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Of information in this modern day system of ours
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I walk through it feeling like I'm living on mars
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Recognizing ninety percent of it as just a mirage
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That's why I'm tryin' to drop the curtain on the Wizard of Oz
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"˜Cause behind the smoke machines and faces made of green plastic
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I feel like there's real magic that people can access
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If they learn to reach past all the easy answers
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And ceaseless distractions that we're always being harassed with
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All you need to grasp is that the mind is its own place
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And when you make this known then no one can take your home away
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And nothing you do to improve it will ever go to waste
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And you can use it to create your own fate, so don't throw it away
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Hidden in the temple in the center of my head
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I've invented a script that can never be read
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I write it as I'm livin it a few steps ahead
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And if I'm ever gonna quit then I better be dead
Off That (Rationalist Anthem) - Baba Bri...
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