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Arsonists

Venom

Release date: 24th August 1999

From As the World Burns (Deluxe Edition)
Hip-Hop/RapMusicAlternative Rap
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"Venom" is a track by Arsonists, from the album As the World Burns (Deluxe Edition), released 24th August 1999. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Arsonists

Arsonists

Lyrics

Venom

Hook [Freestyle & Q-unique]:

We got the backstabbers

Cutthroat niggas is fake

Hard to maintain everyday

Dealing with these

Backstabbers

Cutthroat niggas is fake

Hard to maintain everyday

Dealing with these

Verse 1 [Freestyle]:

Within my intricate weave of brain cells I withhold the main spell

To cast upon you demons plotting and scheming, dreaming about

Things that will never occur in this dimension

Far beyond your wildest imagination

The illustration's suspended animation

I put you on pause 'cause you're too busy

Bending rules while I'm breaking laws of gravity

Don't give a damn if you're mad at me

Filling jaws with cavities

If you're still breathing you should be glad to be alive

Some don't survive or live to see the next day

You can't reset and ain't no freebie in the game that you play

You slither skillfully and willfully all over my trust

Then it's a must that you bite the dust, you might have to get bust

Or persecuted, executed, lyrically degraded

Mentally decapitated making sure you never made it

Cause I'm fed up with your mission

Stupid niggas never listen

Talking 'bout they never dissin'

On they own people they pissin'

The hissin's at a tone, undetectable by ears

The advantage is his own if you have neglectable fears

Slidin' through cracks and crevices no matter how tight

Show fright, and prey gets swallowed up in one bite

Hook [Freestyle & Q-unique]

Verse 2 [Q-unique]:

Beware of the one with the fork tongue

Slippering around city streets pulling tricks for treats

Hiding in the shadows set for attack

Now watch the serpent strike

Spitting out the venom and blinding off your eyesight

Poisonous fangs laced with temptation pierce the flesh

The prime symptoms: lies, hatred and stress

Manipulating Eve, have you bite into the fruit

Forbidden fantasies, your innocence is right to execute

Cast out the Garden of Eden, you run amongst the dead

Until the officer pinpoint your cranium with the infrared

That nigga reptile watches grinning at the sin and youth

Coming with unequal lie to dilute the truth

The virtuous fall victim to the viper

Mental sniper, round biter coiling around my cypher

Take heed, my brother, be aware of the subject

Because when serpent time comes, it’s coming through unexpected

[Verse 3]

Word, all jokes aside this matter can be complicated

You could fail in unveiling the ones who perpetrate, kid

Their cloak and dagger hides their desire to use the next kin

It's hereditary and necessary to shed skin

It tends to burn when you're touched by the Holy Spirit

Presented with the word of God and you don't wanna hear it

You can't be near it, you fear it, it always foils your plans

You deal with greed and always feeding off the blood of man

It's all a hoax, you try to coax when you're up in my center

You enter but the temptor's not my mentor

It's my belief within the chemistry, I preach my ministry

Got my seal of authenticity that's why you're always dissin' me

Interference with signals, the things I always try to prevent

Slippery serpents, you need to repent

There ain't no reptile with fangs long enough to take my shit

From time to time I pray and stay away from deep snake pits

Track details

From As the World Burns (Deluxe Edition)

1999
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24th August 1999
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1999

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  • Credits

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    Writer
    Alain Wisniak, Cerrone, Freestyle (Arsonists), Jise One, Q-Unique
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    Q-Unique
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