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by Luka Lesson

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1.
Babylon 03:25
BABYLON Verse 1 I’m a monster Love me back I’ll pounce in your honor Prostrate to the gods Awaiting for me procreate another lamb for the slaughter None taller Kolloso 8th wonder Alithino I risk it all to kiss the abyss athiest and a christiano Peace To the preachers The demons The seekers The leaders that blow For the betterment of most The feathers on the crow The pediment we sow I pace my flow So the haters can taste their choke Resurrect their carcass To take their ghost I was pre-hate Pre-fake Now I premeditate you'll never take my Post Either I die inside Or I Aspire to let it fire tonight Or I Step inside this dynamite And I Let this lightning light the sky So I I keep this electric So my dreams stay elected I'll increase my perspective And decrease their correction I'll deceive their deceptions And relieve their infections I'll breath in my direction And inflict my inflection Verse 2 Big Bang through your eardrum Chaos Theory in your cochlear Fireworks in your arteries The battle of the Somme of insomnia Landscapes of the give and take Your sweat is my tongue on your nape Neck break Patè Your liver's delivered up on my plate It'll never be heaven so never wait It'll ever be better long as you pray To the devil and angel on every step that is left When you attempt to impress upon the place I am a blessing and a curse I am the lesson and the learnt I am the petrol in the hearse αφτος ο λουκας ο ελλινας και το Turk Verse 3 They can't ever be touching what I be gushing I’m gutting the fucking government They guzzling the blood of the public Puzzlin how they be muzzlin the truth Pushing buttons - bubblin up all the trouble in the youth I see my lovers in the news Huddling and amongst the rubble and the troops Humble under guns crumblin’ they stumblin’ in their boots Better they pick up and shoot or tie knots in a noose What else they gonna do? They never get into the sedatives they sellin’ us They never settle for the their level of malevolence They tellin’ them the terrorists And it's the pressure from the pessimists They getting restless - of course they gonna level it Embezzling, the President is nothing but a resident A puppet of apocalypse so how you gonna measure it Us Westerners, we all wanna revel in the rebellion But the question is whether our presence is even relevant
2.
Labyrinth 03:41
LABYRINTH Verse 1 Born in an earthquake I learnt fate was nothing but a cross between my search and my birthplace Blood from Meltemi winds that speak to me Where the mountains meet the sea On an Island of dreams I mean East of where Minoans first made mosaics West of where Jesus once spoke Aramaic North of where Hypatia taught algebraic South of where Athenian theories were formulated I Couldn’t believe my eyes when I found the Labyrinth In the ground Wet from clear water coming down the mountain I’d never seen a labyrinth How was I to establish It was grounded in a battle Like it was a map of Nazareth town? The Labyrinth grew from earth From patterns in the dirt Heard a battalion converge I heard the call of birds We’re all born into a labyrinth at birth We’re all born into a labyrinth at birth On a search Chorus Come follow me I will guide you in to the middle Every step you take Every mistake you make I will guide you in to the middle Verse 2 Escaping execution I ride to retribution Two moons in the sky A diamond in my eye An eagle by my side A letter from a beggar telling me to turn six lefts And twenty-seven rights Assembling the evidence On a quest to find the centre of this Elaborate Labyrinth I’ve been banished to the desert and resurrected a Bedouin He’s telling me the essence of why I’m eloquent And how I’m heaven sent And then he let me know: “Be as powerful as the owl that glows and as wise so that you never choke” Before he left He gave me many letters and notes And taught me how to read the sand dunes Like a Rosetta Stone And that was hieroglyphics So he reminded that writers were invited To fight at the Olympics With their lyrics He said: “The earth is made up of words; It’s a labyrinth of knowledge We all enter at birth On a search” Chorus Verse 3 I walked forthright I paused Caught sight Of four knighted horsemen Drawing swords in the torchlight All four corners of the labyrinth were in plain sight So I remained calm Took the reins And got my aim right I shot straight past They made way and chased hard I prayed to the grace of God to lay the path Cobble-stones Had gotten so Grotty, still no- Body knows Where the Autumn snow shows Where our footprints go They started shooting guns I knew that they had won A bullet through my lung Just like a setting sun And like a setting sun My demise is my rising When seen from the other side Of the horizon So as I ate the dirt It reminded me of church I took Communion from the crust of the earth We exit a labyrinth at death It’s the same one we enter At birth On a search
3.
CELEBRATE THE STORM Verse 1 – Luka Lesson This is for my people who celebrate the storm Cross borders and ignore Whenever they are warned This is for my people who climb up the mountains Never caught lounging Who light up their lanterns This is for my people who have fought and won For the fallen ones And for those who have just begun This is for journeyers Pilgrims on the path Forgetting the past Finding diamonds in the dark Chorus You don’t know when you will die So celebrate tonight You don’t know when light will dawn So celebrate the storm Verse 2 – Nahko Bear This is for my people who are lying in their graves This for my people who were buried there today This is for the wolf clan Bear clan Sand man Wing Nation Every beautiful relation This is for the gatekeepers Guardians and Angels Displaced Culturally appropriated people This is for the old growth Fresh-water rivers Thunder bring us light To bring us closer to the spirit Verse 3 - Luka This is for the kids who can't even write a sentence But police still try to get sentenced This is for the poets and writers Those that inspire us Warriors of the mind Fighting between the lines This is for those who know the truth in their hearts And believe it even when the world tears it apart This is for the migrants who come in on the tides The stars that inspire them To leave their lives behind them This is for the citizens First Nations Indigenous My respect for you is just limitless This is for critics who said I shouldn’t dream I know you only hate me cause you know you can’t believe This is for the party people Friday night relief For the DJs who play it loud Just to bring us peace This is for my people who dance to this rhythm Just to get the energy to fight the system Chorus
4.
Exit 01:59
EXIT As the sun sets The galaxy rises like a map of eternity I wash my eyes with the white of clouds So I can read God's fingerprints Like dust On her ceiling Under the reflection of the moon The rain is like a spiral staircase falling onto the earth That needs to escape As the heart of humanness hums in the canopy of city Still perfecting its call to inspiration Trees grow seeds for spring Oceans fly south for the winter So I walk through cemeteries of hope And see my conscience in the marble of mortality I know the wind has a crush on me And it won’t stop until I’m caught by her currents Turned into the shadows of thunder Used to resonate shards of hearts Shot Into the atmosphere We are all spores Blown by our ancestors Who were as unsure of us as we are of them So let the tricks of history besiege me As I place rubies in my palms and set off into rough Searching for answers I know may never come Looking to capture a horizon straighter than any truth I could possibly believe A horizon that falls further away from me As I take each step Into the future
5.
FOR OUR WOMEN VERSE 1 Change’ll come if I raise a fist, they say Gotta keep straight “Stay on the path Gotta take a risk” they say Gotta meet fate “Gotta fight or they take my life”, they say “Gotta fight for what is right”, they say Or whatever they like, ‘cause whatever they write is whatever they say, they say They say “They look just like you” They say “They disguise the truth” They say “Our proof is proof and their proof is just useless, like you” They say “Think for yourself, just like everyone else…” “Just don’t listen to them, only we can change the world” VERSE 2 “Change’ll when they stop the war,” they say Gotta bring peace “Gotta be the change, gotta rearrange,” they say Gotta find me “And when the troops invade,” they say “Don’t turn to hate… just pray,” they say “And if you die No need to cry Sleep safe in the grave” they say They say they look just like you They say they hurt just like you They say “our truth is truth and their truth is just useless, like you” They say “Don’t think for yourself Think of everyone else. Get killed and go to heaven Make a kill and go to hell” VERSE 3 Change’ll come when I raise a gun they say Better be game “Don’t play for fun No time for love” They say Better stay sane “They come they shoot your brain”, they say They come they shoot for days, may day “They aim for you, better learn the truth, or you lose the game they play” They say “They look just like you” “Except they disguise the truth” They say “Our truth is truth and their truth is just useless, not you” They say “Don’t think for yourself” They say “It’s bad for your health” “That’s what happened to them, that’s why we send them all to hell”
6.
Crystaline 02:55
CRYSTALLINE Chorus Oh no don’t hide from me And I won’t lie to me I know my mind has been Away in silence, seen So many types of you I know the light in you And all the shades of grey Won’t let us fade away Verse 1 Another broken promise I mean I meant it in the moment but I choked and forgot it I steady the hand to jot it but these nerves are neurotic She says my words are cursed I should’ve never been a poet My little lightning strike They say lightning never strikes in the same place twice But my storm has been a warning since we first locked eyes And her tears have been pouring – now the well runs dry And this shit is the problem I’m not as good at love as I am at writing love songs I hope my verse is cursed and these words are wrong I hope this beat beats me up But keeps us strong Carla Simone I know our love is flesh and blood and mud to the bone I know we’ve tried and tried but we’ve both been wrong I know I’ve been a headache You never left me alone I know the crystalline misaligned Distance tried to twist the line Between being mystified and my wish to try And convince my mind To be the man in your life Chorus Verse 2 My little thunderclap You’re the one that gave me the strength to run and that Was the reason I’d always have to run right back I love the rose of your cheeks Every mark on your back And I fucked up I’ll admit to the blame I never learned to connect with the love that you gave I made excuses and used my shame in a way That told me I wasn’t worthy of your light and our fate My only love are the words That stick around long enough to deal with the hurt That drive through my pages That pave my dirt But I don’t want to be good at this I want to be hers I know I get claustrophobic As the door closes My bones are exposed And I lose all composure And my promises are fodder for the longing for a better kind of road And another kind of life And the grass looks greener and I find that I No matter how perfect No matter how right I leave and sabotage what’s right I know the crystalline misaligned Distance tried to twist the line Between being mystified and my wish to try And convince my mind To be the man in your life
7.
5th Season 03:25
THE FIFTH SEASON I wrestle with my demons In the attempt to take control At midnight The fifth season When even the summer's burning cold I've been staring into mirrors Trying to mine my eyes for gold I guess that's why I drink these spirits Because I'm searching for my soul I've lived upon this dirt Dodging cracks in a tangled search Frankincense has burnt beneath my skin I've wished upon the birds I've heard voices in the moon Seen their faces in the waves So when the tides are at their highest I spray their verses to my page I've had those oceans rise and fall for me The doves fly in with the bats I've had no-one come to lend a hand And hundreds stand to clap So I've convinced myself of my own genius And I've hated with a passion Every second word I've written So my pages read in patterns I've learnt the thin line Between speaking and staying silent There's no difference between keeping quiet And just preaching to the choirs I am the hopeless and the hope The spoken and the choked I'm the place to pray to make it mend And the way that it first broke I am the message to the rest of us To never look inside Unless you're ready to know your position In the consciousness of life So I am exactly where I want to be And I’ve almost killed myself for the chance So I hold the responsibility That comes with finding some answers Γράφω ποιήματα στον ήλιο λόγια πρακτικά γράμματα για τους Έλληνες που δεν μιλάν’ τα ψέματα* Έχουν καρδιές που δεν φοβούνται τα πουλιά θα σκοτώσουμε τους κλέφτες και φωνάξουμε τα κρυφά* I have spoken to the earth In so many different tongues I'm sure she only knows me From the volume of my lungs She has spoken in the clouds I hear similes in the leaves Metaphors in the now Desires in the breeze I have listened through my skin Osmosis through my tears I have focused with my body Her smoke has burnt me crystal clear Because this search is not a stepping stone A journey or a path This search is a letting go Back into the shapes we were first cast Because we all wrestle with our demons In the attempt to take control At midnight The fifth season When even the summer's burning cold We all stare into mirrors Trying to mine our eyes for gold I guess that's why, sometimes, we drink these spirits Because we’re all searching For our souls * I write poems to the sun practical words letters for the Greeks who don’t speak lies * Who have hearts that aren’t scared of birds we will kill the thieves and shout our secrets
8.
DUST PARTICLES IN THE SUNLIGHT Verse 1 The golden age of method of madness Time passes – hour-glasses full of my own name Drip opaque passages Like wind chimes of life's grace I've made it a habit I'm glad it’s the faces that change More than hope's accent learns to accentuate All of my pain I leave my home where weatherboards shake In storms their nails pattern my skin with full-stops as my bows break Now I take a set back Add an opportunity and mix Sprinkle endurance and listen to chinks of two glasses Toasting the impossibility of this Our existence is as listless as no risk It’s as if we've twisted into the option of no target so we can't miss We forgot how to shoot So when they come for you Cock back your gun and tell them you're ready to lose You won't feel the winter when it's gone Only feel the summer when it comes So when purpose has gone numb 9-5 feels alive And torchlight seems like the sun Chorus You won't feel the winter x 4 You won't see the sun Verse 2 I hardly write anymore Just scrawl letters on my palm to keep score And a pencil through my temple Seems a step in the right direction I'm sure So what’s fake? What's this snake wrapped around my tongue as I draw From an entity that enters me when my potential is met with the best of me And we talk My locked jaw is blocked - sore From the pot-holes my plot fought Against hip-hop even though that's who I fucking rock for And what's more Life is up for grabs Down for the bidding If you've got enough cash you can by us freedom Even though my math keeps me twice bitten - or beaten I'm sure that I don't need it Happy to be free from both the affluence And affliction of every season Though the journey to the top is treacherous Success does not require us committing treason Being rich won't give you brains And being poor won't make you numb But if your purpose has gone numb You won't feel the winter or see the sun Chorus
9.
An Oracle 03:11
AN ORACLE Intro From the oceans of eternity The future circles her prey She’s travelled through an oracle to meet me here Just to come and crash in a wave Verse 1 Personal parenthetic Tuberculo Sounds aesthetic Aversion though Habanero to burn and choke And it’s the track that made it happen So I rap in sacred patterns And they call me a de Bergerac with vertigo Or Napoleon Bonaparte My bones have been blown apart Two eyes to get to know it like I’m Noah’s arc One moment One play If the whole world’s a stage Then I’m Shakespeare’s grave Verse 2 – Jordan Thomas Mitchell Lighter fluid on Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” All of the colours run down into a pool of liquid Red burns the hues of the yellows Overwhelmed the politeness of the blues and the greens at the helm well strike a match Light a the cigarette ash all over the broken craft let it burn down back into soot into the minerals that formed its materials Like wine grapes crushed under a foot Pressure How can one possibly measure all that it took To refine diamonds from gold Whole generations of living beings dead Decayed, reformed and sold in shops Whole city blocks dance the dance to own rocks I too will decay I too will be carbon I too will transform and maybe someone will wear me on their necks and people will see me and pay their respects For the dead Verse 3 Moments I’ve devoted Emoted in the spoken Provoking hope in hopeless And cloaked in potent quotes Opposing triggers loaded And all nomadic omens Emotions grow through thematic notions Ecstatic oceans But I write to heal all the scars Every word is a bridge between Venus and Mars And a dam to stop these wounds from cutting deeper but Luka means wound in Bahasa Indonesia And their custom is to teach ya So I trust it no amnesia I remember in the streets the Rhodesians would try to eat us Now I’m feeding on the geniuses That have faced what’s deceiving us And leading to the keys to the teachings of the Sphinx and Oedipus The teachings of the Sphinx and Oedipus The lava in the womb of the earth – the heat in each of us The pulse of the wings of a bird – Icarus The pulse of your heart in a surge – the beat in each of us
10.
R.I.P.B.T. 02:12
R.I.P.B.T. Verse 1 I grew up Prone to accidents I felt strong They kept happening Two broken arms A broken leg Dislocated knee And an open head Every year I fell into another crutch Stitched up From an open cut And when I spoke of luck The sky turned grey And opened up I stuck Posters up Tupac convinced me to write When I got emotional Da Vinci had me Thinking actually I could change the word With the stroke of a brush So when my best friend was taken before his time I wrote my first diary to the moon and asked it why I was still alive Verse 2 My bro came And gave me space And helped me dream Of a greater day And Mum and Dad they just stayed away And I thought ‘They never liked him anyway’ And the pastor at school looked us in the eye And told us it was normal if we’d cried Until we burned inside The boys at school and I wouldn’t wag school to play But to Visit his grave Smoke weed And pray Rap along to ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ again for old times sake Visit the spot he was hit And read the messages on the bricks Outro That morning you woke up And felt something was wrong You put on your best suit And asked your mother to take a photo of you With your new baby brother The only photo that exists Then you got changed Packed your bag with tools and got on your bike with no helmet And rode
11.
ELOQUENT ABYSS Verse 1 They told me I could make it work
 I wasn't ready for your heart to burst
 The explosion of your lungs The erosion of our love They told me I could make you fantasise
 And in effect resurrect the painted canvas I
 Had splattered with my heart
 Patterned with the stars
 I'd fashioned it in glass
 It was glowing 'till the winter came
 Until the sun made way for the winds of change
 I still pray for the simple days
 Though you're to blame
 I hope you're still the same
 
 They told me love was gonna be a cinch “As long as you talk You never feel a pinch” Since then every flame has made me feel a singe
 Next time we hang out Is if I'm being lynched

 Because I'm drowning in our memories
 Going to ground like a penalty
 You’re making lovers of my enemies
 I'm just trying to be a better me

 I'm seeing double now I'm never sober
 Two of you is like a four-leaf clover

 And no good luck just good lies
 I roll the dice
 Snake eyes for my road signs

 Refrain In the mist Eloquent abyss
 I see you twist Illicit assist
 If we kissed
then I'd be your bliss
 But since we missed
 I guess I'm just a risk

 Verse 2 They say commitment is a test of fate
 So I search my own doubts and assassinate
 Though I know you think you told me the truth
 A real truth hunts down a lie 
 And executes

 And even though you're cute
 Your talk didn't stand up
 So I take aim and shoot
 They say that's what a real man does 

 And when the clouds cry We let them storm 
 And when the grounds dry We know we're getting warm
 I found life—I'm getting born
 And when the birds fly 
 We let them swarm

 This is not the way to make a start
 This is not the way to break a heart
 This is not the way to make it last
 If you're coming first 
 I'll take the last

 Refrain In the mist Eloquent abyss
 I see you twist Illicit assist
 If we kissed
then I'd be your bliss
 But since we missed
 I guess I'm just a risk



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released May 1, 2014

Executive Producer: Jordan Thomas Mitchell
Track 2 Produced by James Mangohig
Track 3 Produced by ISHU
Recorded and mixed at A-string Studios, Beijing.

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