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  3. Asphalt for Eden
  4. Shattered

TRACK

dälek

Shattered

Release date: 22nd April 2016

From Asphalt for Eden
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About This Track

"Shattered" is a track by dälek, from the album Asphalt for Eden, released 22nd April 2016. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

dälek

dälek

Lyrics

Shattered

[Verse 1]

It's never quite right, is it?

Endless rigors delivered by hair-triggers

Prepared figures and a hollow-point speech

Won't follow, don't preach

Wrote each syllable to be deciphered beneath

[Chorus]

Agreed aesthetic is embedded so I'll shatter that

Impaired vision like the world got cataracts

Endured attacks on all fronts, now we pushing back

Aligned thoughts to outflank how they counteract

[Verse 2]

About the verbs over nouns, actions over states

Struggle over hope, just to quote brother Coates

Mind-scape provoked as we rewrote the scope

Hit divine notes, kept the dialogue dope

[Chorus]

Agreed aesthetic is embedded so I'll shatter that

Impaired vision like the world got cataracts

Endured attacks on all fronts, now we pushing back

Aligned thoughts to outflank how they counteract

[Chorus]

Agreed aesthetic is embedded so I'll shatter that

Impaired vision like the world got cataracts

Endured attacks on all fronts, now we pushing back

Aligned thoughts to outflank how they counteract

Agreed aesthetic is embedded - I shatter that

Impaired vision - I shatter that

Endured attacks, man - I shatter that

Shatter that

[Verse 3]

Grasp at straws refuse to withdraw

What some deem offensive, I'm never repenting

Your objectives ain't like mine

Each act perhaps is a slight crime

Willing to lay down life just to write rhymes

I bide my time observing details most overlook

I'm that leather bound first edition older book

I'm that Raw before it's stepped on and cooked

I'm that pawn and rook endgame

60 moves to wag my finger like Dikembe

You can call me Mr. Brooks

You already know my pen-name

[Chorus]

Agreed aesthetic is embedded so I'll shatter that

Impaired vision like the world got cataracts

Endured attacks on all fronts, now we pushing back

Aligned thoughts to outflank how they counteract

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Track details

From Asphalt for Eden

2016
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