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Substance by Dälek

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Dälek

Substance

From Brilliance of a Falling Moon2026

Lyrics

Substance

[Verse 1]

Advanced optics make me feel psychotic

Uncut'll bust your blood vessels

More than simple watered-down product, this album ain't hypnotic

Hypothesize lines that defy all logic

Define the core problem, crush your fourth chakra

Inner actions offered when the accolades are doctored

No positions, they just posture

Provenance and documents'll guide you

No constraints, his mind wandered

Meant for use or time-honored

Prada exploits in designer armor

Resolve is hardened by this harsh environment

Civil discourse divides the violence

Wanna stay off-course, give up most times, I ain't convinced

Look at atrocities they did

Blatant acts, ain't wipe the fingerprints

Holding blood-soaked blades as they grin

I'm spouting truth from ink pens

Subverting systems

I'm spouting truth from ink pens

Subverting systems

Felt momentum shifting

Just let 'em miss it

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"Substance" is a song by Dälek from the album Brilliance of a Falling Moon, released in 2026.

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[Chorus]

It's more than words, it's intent and intellect

The nonverbal MC is suspect

Contents aborting, they whole style reductive

Most of y'all spit, but lack substance

It's more than words, it's intent and intellect

The nonverbal MC is suspect

Contents aborting, they whole style reductive

Most of y'all spit, but lack substance

It's more than words, it's intent and intellect

The nonverbal MC is suspect

Contents aborting, they whole style reductive

Most of y'all spit, but lack substance

It's more than words, it's intent and intellect

The nonverbal MC is suspect

Contents aborting, they whole style reductive

Most of y'all spit, but lack substance

[Interlude]

It's more than words, it's intent and intellect

The nonverbal MC is suspect

The nonverbal MC is suspect, suspect

The nonverbal MC is suspect

[Verse 2]

Trace my roots to an absolute truth

Remain clear-eyed, not confused

The noose for the useless

Psychological abuses

Obscure pure vision

You just a rendition, we the prime transmission

Source material

Derivatives are trivial, my mind is ethereal

Vocals amplified for the ones who can't hear me well

Bathed in delirium, transcribe my idioms

Free Palestinians to gain equilibrium

Basic mathematics, path we on is tragic

Power breeds addicts, breathe like asthmatics

Gasp, but not grasp it, catchin' hands half granite

Duran Duran and I'm producin' like Nas

Eventually they'll hear it, it's gonna take a while

[Chorus]

It's more than words, it's intent and intellect

The nonverbal MC is suspect

Contents aborting, they whole style reductive

Most of y'all spit, but lack substance

It's more than words, it's intent and intellect

The nonverbal MC is suspect

Contents aborting, they whole style reductive

Most of y'all spit, but lack substance

It's more than words, it's intent and intellect

The nonverbal MC is suspect

Contents aborting, they whole style reductive

Most of y'all spit, but lack substance

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