Masquerade Lyrics - K-os

One two 

See this? 

Right here this is heat 

Yo, yo, massive massive 

There's something deep inside 

That's telling you that love's so much more 

This is just a masquerade 

When everything's alright 

You know it's time for the writing wars 

If it's just a masquerade 

When I feel the way of my lost innocence 

Looking for emotions that are fallacy 

Everything is waiting on that dominance 

Hoping for new opuses and alibis 

And I'm with you, ohh 

If I could starve from falling 

And I bet you, ohh silenced the 

Voices in your head but there's no place to go 

There's something deep inside 

That's telling you that love's so much more 

This is just a masquerade 

I sit back with the microphone watchin' these MC's turn to actors 

Producin' all the factors that flip life, into a masquerade 

We like a bunch of mannequins battery operated, inoculated 

With five sentences connect us to the Earth 

Rich sinners since the days of my birth 

For what it's worth, dissuaded love 

I'm steadily spreadin' love over the beat down 

Let's meditate and feel the heat now 

Like beautiful rain, on the desert plain 

'Cause the sun parch the ground on the weak sound 

I break it down, to elements H2O 

A place to go, that you can't escape the flow 

Does not exist, I love the truth so I persist 

Intelligent men? Or just Gorillas in the Mist 

Clenchin' a black fist, for the size of dollar bill 

I leave the space so you can think about it now so just chill 

There's something 

There's something deep in 

There's something 

There's something deep inside 

That's telling you that love's so much more 

This is just a masquerade 

When everything's alright 

You know it's time for the writing wars 

If it's just a masquerade 

Black shit, ration, tryin' to step up 

But they can't even cash it, kick that shit 

{First saved message 

In this venture, nothing gained, I've only just touched the surface 

Once nervous, when writing for a worthless purpose 

It was once more than this, before the heart left the beat 

The soul left the speech, I'm still trying to reach 

My niche, and teach the love again inside the hate of a present day 

Got stepped after, being genuine we're swept away} 

{Before the importance of diamonds, bells 

And a platinum place, fallen from grace 

Not my campus with another trace 

Of the same thing I came in, this thing is worth saving 

Standing in the pockets holding tongues of what I'm saying 

Blaming myself only for supporting what they're playing} 

{I may peek through the storm, but now it's raining 

Unchanging of late, it's hard to be creative 

Although creating is native to me, I tried to be 

Even patience couldn't save it, from the days of pages 

They couldn't believe I would say this 

No longer without wings, Kamau is what my name is} 

{Too many undermine, what I underline 

Placing my poetry underneath their making of rhymes 

It was a creation of frustration 

Brown bricks or blank slates 

Subway trains and cardboard bound with masking tape 

It was the sound of the evening, the way the day grew late 

Words tumble from lungs over my tongue 

And gave a new taste to my fate} 

{It doesn't even matter how the chatter would paint us 

With love on our side they could barely stand against us 

Um, what up? Uh Kheaven, what's goin' down? 

Um I got your message, and uh yeah 

Basically call me back and tell me 

Sorry about the length of the message, but you know 

You feelin' it? Aight man peace 

End of message}