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Saul Williams
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And I can't become my father
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When it's all been said and done
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His completions won't complete me
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I've divided me by one
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I'm the answer to his riddle
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I'm the caution of his wind
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I'm the spoon wedged between tongue and teeth
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Beneath his trembling grin
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And I dare add my revision
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For I dare not suffer twice
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And I dare not reinvent the past
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And I dare not be the Christ
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And I welcome any sufferer
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And I welcome any Saul
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Sitting in this room, on wooden bench
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Waiting for Joi to call
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And I suffer here alone, Lord
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Perturbed by my every thought
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How I've tried to strip them to the bone
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I've struggled and I've fought
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Every jealous warped intention
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Smuggled, sewn into genes
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Every hidden mongrel tendency
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Exploiting me in me
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Each time I put them under
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But still they wanna test me
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I cry out through the thunder
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You storm right past me
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I search and I ponder
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I question and wonder
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I roar and I thunder
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Please let me in
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I've been waiting here
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For what now seems the better of an hour
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I've raised every crippled question
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From the dead and given power
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To the absence of my sanity
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The presence of a fear
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That lies in between forgotten dreams
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That pile up every year
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Up above the highest testaments
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Down below the wooden floor
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There's a gutted room, pitch black at noon
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Beneath a hidden door
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Deep within you'll find
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The attributes of every sunken man
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Who must bang his head against the dead
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Each day he tries to stand
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And he's standing pressed against
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The very woman that he loves
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Kissing eyes and lips, embracing hips
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Surrendering to her touch
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And just at the very moment
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That he touches heart to heart
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She pulls from his touch
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'Cause it's too much to mend what's torn apart
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Each time I put them under
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But still they wanna test me
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I cry out through the thunder
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You storm right past me
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I search and I ponder
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I question and wonder
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I roar and I thunder
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Please let me in
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It's so hard to be the man I would be
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If hatred and fear no longer appeared
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I swear I've become the skin of a drum
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The heart of a man, divided I stand
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