Pedestal

Every pedestal crumbles and decays like all matter does When expectation is a prison with nowhere to run I refuse to be fettered up, cold as a hired gun Blaze in the morning like a rising sun Whether or not I fit the existing image, it's all nines and sixes Who defines your blueprint of what success is? This is alchemy in practice: elemental, galactic Tracing these puzzle pieces from jigsaw to jurassic Connecting dots till heads explode, rhyme in color-code Spit kaleidoscope, psychedelic flow The crowd's faceless, I'm third round with a crane-kick That's basic, I'm phasing - Aiming at a point till time and space rip So pardon my vernacular The mysteries of science form a large part of my character I hypnotize with written styles, shining on scavengers Hit jugular, blood clots call me Count Blakula Build me up, don't break me down Said you could build me up not break me down Said you could build me up not break me down Don't break me down Build me up, don't break me down Said you could build me up not break me down Said you could build me up not break me down Don't break me down I've seen them around the way, they claim they're unphased When it's time to speak truth they just fail to conversate The comfort of denial is the bane of our existence And money can buy a lot but not an exit from this system There's no ending to the mission, no ears willing to listen You're just singing to the deaf, your most heartfelt admissions This rat-race has no finish lines, only souls diminish Enemies within, they just can't quit competing Make you a slave to the feeling This game's got a lotta chains to break Before you blast through glass ceilings I seen em, Kaptin oh my Kaptin I believed him Circle small like nanobots, cliques I never joined - I had to beat em Knowing if I loosened my grip, I'd watch reality slip Out of my hands, I'd rather burn my own spaceship Float belly up when the stern dips Morph from a rock into dust when that wave hits So you could build me up, not break me down Said you could build me up not break me down Said you could build me up not break me down Don't break me down Build me up, don't break me down Said you could build me up not break me down Said you could build me up not break me down Don't break me down Build me up, don't break me down Said you could build me up not break me down Said you could build me up not break me down Don't break me down