Feed the Beast

Beneath the surface Evil emerges With an unholy purpose Slitherin serpent Observin victims Collectin Souls Obsessed with flesh Best protect your doe Choke hold the flow Replicate the crap That's the mission Grant wishes Just to take it back 8 tracks and vinyl CDs and cassettes And now downloads Swap respect for a check Asses filled with cement Breasts filled with saline Contracts fall apart Executives raping Costume jewelry fading Tomfoolery playing While the worlds spectating You feed the beast But he hungers for more Bring more bodies for the next world tour Can't recoup cause sales are slim Investments spent Empty within The devil grins It's the truth So please believe me In the darkness Where you see me Close your eyes Let me in deeply Embrace the lies Soon you will feed me It's the truth So please believe me In the darkness Where you see me Close your eyes Let me in deeply Embrace the lies Soon you will feed me Behold a puppet Dancin on strings Cookie cutter rapper Master of dreams Streamed into young minds Before their time Emulatin lines Garbage rhymes Read the signs Success awarded To culture marauders Bleedin the artform Drowned in water Redistributed for mass consumption A population paralyzed from redundance Substance exchanged for flash Dumbed down lyrics Bathed in jewels and cash Suck out spirits Forefathers fume Predictin doom The end of an era No more soul Where the pallbearer Theres a new fad in town That old ones dead Pour the ash on the ground Rap styles were proud Originality the key Now they run wild and foul Stealin on beat It's the truth So please believe me In the darkness Where you see me Close your eyes Let me in deeply Embrace the lies Soon you will feed me It's the truth So please believe me In the darkness Where you see me Close your eyes Let me in deeply Embrace the lies Soon you will feed me Run Run away Run fast Keep Keep away Run fast Run Run away Run fast Keep Keep away Run fast I came into the game Young and naive Eager just to get on a stage And start rhyming Can't avoid cracks In the ground opening Swallowing morality While ethics eroding More money More problems occur Rappers dyin It's all part of the curse Pardon the hearse It's in your contract Part of the plan And if you die sales multiply Thanks to the fans They surround you with guns and goons Roll like a platoon Consumed funds Shrink like a balloon Per diem Gets charged to the game Ain't no freedom Contract preceded By ball and chain All the fame But no riches to claim No land No bitches No mistress No sippin champagne Kind of strange Everyone on the way up I saw on the way down In the corner in the dark Havin a break down It's the truth So please believe me In the darkness Where you see me Close your eyes Let me in deeply Embrace the lies Soon you will feed me It's the truth So please believe me In the darkness Where you see me Close your eyes Let me in deeply Embrace the lies Soon you will feed me