Toynbee Suite

Movement 1 - Toynbee Idea [Verse 1: Lushlife] I started walking with the birds Wishing we’d never die Never be lost and gone If we levitate Or we reach the sky All a lie All my life I always wondered why If the promises of the gods Is just flaws of the human mind Human lives depreciated Molecules is vibrating ‘Til they alleviated The face of everything Everywhere is forever changing So why, bottom-line Technology won’t be the spaceship That’s on some outer-space shit Right now If heaven don’t exist Then it don’t mean it won’t It’s just the next ledge of evolution That we could hope They build the data Build a ladder Then we rise up Sing it, black Spin it back A puzzle ‘til they wise up But they won’t listen I’m spitting Rapping tradition The vision of every human in history Wizen, living It’s gold dust But, Larry King Hellion gold rush That’s when I begged and I tried And they had me Choked up [Hook: Lushlife] Murder every journalist They won’t hear a word of it Tell ‘em what I could see In the asphalt They heard of it Why David Mamet Don’t lie You deserving it Spitting truth in the Cracks of the asphalt They heard of it Movement 2 - In Movie ‘2001 [Hook] Dave, Stop, Stop, Dave, Stop, Dave, Stop, Get up [Verse 1: Yikes the Zero] Set trips in visual clips Several fits to launch scripts This monolith in blur Tap matter format shattered The attic swells all parallel data lost This black orbit is flushed Dust settle on plan Z your planet is stumped In a trance to cause puppets to run amuck Controlling terror in an era that's pushed back Steps through the mirror while reality cracks Shift Hate to pretend Surrender time and again The possibilities insist, it's never an end Dream seems to be shattered from jump Your looking at me I'm looking at you Do we need to agree? Memory banks flooded gut human condition All premonition is lost here but nobody listens [Verse 2: Lushlife] If you watch Then the words just come alive And the dream Feel real in a lullaby Why I’m spending my life Telling them otherwise If she dies Then I’m live on the other side So I drive all night Just to tell ‘em Maybe if they see it Then the world won’t dead ‘em Ghosts in they heads And they just won’t listen So I’m back on the block In the ‘Lac With a mission I’m a spit a shortwave transmission Interrupting the Hellions On the television Floss when they living Lost in the myriad lies of politicians Lost in the prism All I really want Is birds in the junipers If the world don’t stop From the Lucifers I’ll be happy that they Live in the universe Eternally yours Waiting here for Jupiter Movement 3 - Resurrect Dead [Verse 1: Lushlife] Plus, back home I never answer the phone I’m all alone South Philly Hellion Thugs Like a Terrordome Never known Sleep with the birds ‘Til they send me home Knight-Ridder Nightmare Nighttimes, I’m dead and gone With all the lights out The birds is chirping I’m steady working my life out That’s that accordion Humming before the night’s out ‘Cause when they send ‘em To get me They read my rights out, black Then it’s lights out Secure the blast door Or flee the country With money And just a passport The Grinning Man Is just spinning inside the Task Force So, I don’t want to be Asking him what the mask for That’s what the last bol This ain’t Bradbury This ain’t Roddenberry It’s just a matter of fact This isn’t monetary The monastery is a Hellion Cult That’s out to get me Out to wet me With a million volts, and uh… [Chorus (RJD2 Scratch of Lushlife Vocal)] All anyone ever told me is, “Yo, it’s copasetic” [Verse 2: Lushlife] Santiago, Chile To New York City Or Back to Philly, I’m Working on a scheme A dream for the millions Phenomenon that I seen About the Hellions Ideology Scream Phoenix And they just tell me I’m All lost in cinema Instead of writing my senators I’m inventing a new way Of telling them How they ended up Lost in the newspapers Too late for sending up I don’t want to be Hit by the union goons They setting up [Chorus (RJD2 Scratch of Lushlife Vocal)] All anyone ever told me is, “Yo, it’s copasetic” Movement 4 - On Planet Jupiter [Verse 1: Lushlife] Back to life again Back up on the corner spot Either on the block Back on the mic again Ghost in your soul Still just a likening Still feel the world in my face And it’s still frightening Lush Vida supreme Where Jupiter was still a dream In a gas giant Last of the Ibrahims Last of the Philistines Everybody still alive Ghost in the kerosene Celebrate the Eloheim Whatever you wanted I gave it to you readily My head is full of ghosts Science is ahead of me Melody in the atoms Vibrating and they telling me It’s still possible but I’m tired The drive dead in me Resurrect the legacy And I’m a be there My sister gon’ be there My mother gon’ be there The birds gonna be there The birds gonna be there The birds gonna be there