On Fire (Song)

I wrote my verse and the chorus, and featured another local rapper named MC Koya.

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/Verse - 1

(MedD) 

Ultra violence

The loud sounds of the sirens

A lonely mom that lost her son

Now tell her, who's her prized one

Corrupted dreams of a fiend

How fucked up a scene to be seen

That's what's up with these city streets

Now bust up the dream to relieve

Synthetic side effects

I'm convinced of the rise of it

Like forgetting the lies of it

Dice fell down and decided it

A higher order has rigged it

Our lives are sold without reason

Some kind of hidden agenda

Now rise up, up from your seats and

We'll begin to take this back

I will lend a hand with my rap

Will you just stand there way back

Or sit down with hands in your lap

Come on

Rise up, rise up

We can end this any day

But you're scared of what you'll lose

And you'll settle for this taste

An infinite distance

Persistent existence

Sentenced to lay, wait, and witness

As they wrong us, ask forgiveness

See a comet, say your wishes

Hope for longer, maybe get this

But you're nothing, we're disgusting

No discussion

Man, forget this.

/Chorus

(MedD)

Have the stars aligned?

Have the Gods all died?

I will cross the line

Setting life on fire

Spinning and spinning

We run in circles

Trying to walk a straight line 

City to city

Have the stars aligned?

Have the Gods all died?

I will cross the line

Setting life on fire

Spinning and spinning

We run in circles

Trying to walk a straight line 

City to city

/Verse - 2

(MC Koya)

I present a collab

That won't be a fad

Cause this fate

Put me on a better proper endeavor 

That I could measure the best of my ability

Like the two stars that we are, we collide

A black void is created in the system

Give a ray of hope

Peacefully listen to those who've left

And they still sound broke

Yet the devil has a compass

And I won't believe to them to be a man

I know the best of it in the system

Respect is given to the dope fiend

Who hadn't been a dope fiend for over 6 months

Pick a pipe and properly write

For we shall slay this trashed pop culture system

And then you can see that this hip-hop game

Will make us rap demi-gods

This b***h is gonna break like the system that it is.

/Chorus

(MedD)

Have the stars aligned?

Have the Gods all died?

I will cross the line

Setting life on fire

Spinning and spinning

We run in circles

Trying to walk a straight line 

City to city

Have the stars aligned?

Have the Gods all died?

I will cross the line

Setting life on fire

Spinning and spinning

We run in circles

Trying to walk a straight line 

City to city

Author's Note

Collab I did with another local rapper. I wrote my verse and the chorus, I know you need to like rap to like it but if you do then great!

Reviews

[kublakhan27]

I wouldn't call myself a rap buff but I like it when it can be lifted from a song and still be poetic enough to carry a message on paper...obviously the music is vital but you get what I mean haha Well done :)

[Damien Davison]

Thank you very much, I'm glad you were able to enjoy it!

[KAOlmsted]

While I liked the message in the entire piece, I think the first verse was performed in more of a "rap" style than the second. The second verse reminded me of spoken word poetry, and that is more my taste than rap ;-) so I think if the entire piece was done in spoken word with, maybe, just the chorus sung, it would have appealed to me more. But, naturally, that is just my own opinion. (p.s. check out some spoken word poetry of the Beat generation if you have not done so already...I think you might enjoy it.) (Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, even Jesse Bernstein...do yourself a favor and give them a try)

-kimmer

[Damien Davison]

I will be sure to check them out. Yea his part he was supposed to be rapping not 'spoken word' style, heh but there is a language barrier so it was hard for him to make it sound as such. Thank you!

[KAOlmsted]

Awesome. My pleasure.

[AYVID N]

The rhyming is great in places. The chorus is nice. The message about the system and dope was partly understood...
Though I am unfamiliar with rap, I like it.
Thanks for sharing.

[Damien Davison]

No problem at all, for being unfamiliar with rap you seem to enjoy it :P Thanks a lot, take care!

[Frieda P]

Alrighty. I think this is your best one yet.

'Have the stars aligned?
Have the Gods all died?
I will cross the line
Setting life on fire'

Stuck in my head now like crazy glue! ;-)

[Damien Davison]

Haha thank you! That's great to hear!