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Ambition

from Ready for a Renaissance by HCM

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Ambitious, uncertain, pulled back the curtain
lookin at the world like a mirror saw my face in the oceans
i was young i was dumb, but i saw it clearly
since then i’ve been a bosun
years passed, all that’s changed is i’m a big fool now
i done the opposite of cool down
building a rocket ship in my basement
my pen point’s hot as shit bout to ignite pages
im transforming, dream of fans swarming to late night stages
filled with impatience, far away places
calling to me like Columbus sought the Asians
waiting for these new stars to fall in place,
make my own constellations
and i’m onto bigger things always innovating
like Davinci, but i’m simply too creative
not asking anyone to do me favors
absurd ideas stand out through the ages

open up the door,  cause you know that im knocking
and i know you need me bad like coal in my stocking
i’m that troublemaker, kid with the fire and brimstone
tortured by some sort of maniacal syndrome
you cant sway me, you cant stop me
call me crazy and everything, but i call it poppy
cause those words are bagels, i just cut em in half and eat em
and maybe i am insane but we all have our demons
and this is mine
and this is mine, don’t forget it
you’ll never take it from me i’ll hold on til my deathbed
i’ll never give up
cause i stand for something you can never prove wrong
stuck on that question? You’d better move on
i’ve found the love of my life and i’m gonna hold on
gonna hold on
i know disbelief i've heard it in surround sound
I'm a loud mouth can’t be drowned out now
i've worn the dunce cap, been there, done that
for all those disses i've finally got a comeback
fuck a rhinestone, nose to the grindstone
when i’m through with the speakers, i’ll have your mind blown
far as I’m concerned I’ve made it a reality
i don't need my fortune told by a salary
i’m not really sure how it'll make me a living
but the money ain't for me thats a given
i’m hell bent, maybe gonna burn like Harvey Dent
people saying keep it down--i’ve hardly leapt
fuck em, only takes a small noise to cause an avalanche
and even if i die alone i’ll be glad i had a chance
freedom is misunderstood, now I better understand it
defeat is an orphan and i’ve been abandoned
i’ve been fighting six years, still standing
nobody freer than me across this whole planet
biblical flow, God damn it
and He’s the one who can do so;
stranded, like Robinson Crusoe,
just a speck in the sea, i suspect no one’s reckless as me
what i do know: young pro will have you gung ho on this new flow
world hatin' on me like Pluto
i wont be stopped cause i can't,
the world made this monster i’m just a witness
you'll try to prevent it but you cant
invented a new plan? forget it i’m too damn ambitious

and do i bring it life
this passion i spoke of
failed more than you can imagine--so what?
history flows in my veins
i would know it even if i were going insane
ambitious in all aspects
i wanna be a king, emperor of the Aztecs
centuries-old classics, forget em
and i’m my father’s son
but if Mary was a virgin, i’m a bastard
and see how this lonely toiling
makes a slow drone out the phone boiling
makes the vines creep
i don't care who’s ahead or behind me by the time i sleep
i will have done, and will have made
more than the Romans with the roads that they paved
and when in Rome, so they say
fuck it you know the rest
and i'm not going that way

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from Ready for a Renaissance, released July 4, 2011

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