RapVerse.com Community - Cruel Contemplations ft. 2XL (ALBUM VERSION)

(Beat: "Bloody Face" – Roey Marquis II)

Hook:

My thoughts begin to fill with wretched flights of fear and dread
I tread a broken circle midst the madness in my head
I’m haunted, daunted daily by a distant dreamer’s curse
So tell me is it true? Is this world turning for its worse?
A cracked imagination, a sort of brutal instigation?
A nightmare’s lurid call, all but a truth’s tall vindication?
Consider if you can figure my mind’s pooled deliberations…
Yeah, imagine if you can fathom all these cruel contemplations...
Imagine if you can fathom all these cruel contemplations…

Verse 1: (Ghost Emperor)

Picture if you can feud and disease sweeping unspoiled across lands
As allures of wicked power wrap world’s neck with iron hands
Imagine insignificant rants and brawls sparking international wars
Where wreaking havoc and death itself all seem rational chores
Imagine the sums of cash being spent on clash and fighting
Yet all the time clone politicians are claiming to do the right thing
While hard-ships’ chores are fast exposed far away and on our doorstep
Floored the soul of another kid, from the day he’s born the core’s dead
Imagine little ones ill-fed with guns putting lead in one another
Yeah what would be if the struggle to eat had brothers killing each other?
One hostile world where aspirations instate the hater not the lover
It’s gone absurd the bitter words carved for yet another teenage mother
But envision if you dare the will to live eclipsing poverty’s tortures
Imagine pimps pushing struggling teens on dingy cold street corners
Imagine all of them used and exposed, they’re wearing shaky fake-smiles
Nonthing but dirt, only mini skirts hugging quaking profiles
Imagine the crack heads in alleys blackin, chasing that last high
Imagine life all jaded, belated, as world turns through a glass eye
Now imagine dealers and cops alike re-counting the bills of their exploits
And imagine lives traded in for paper to fill in for the death void

Hook x 1

Verse 2: (2XL)

Envision the collapse of society, mass destruction on a worldwide scale
Where only the strongest survive… to rape and kill the weak and frail
No government, army, or police to serve and protect us
Starvation: men, women and children flee the cities in mass exodus
Envision New York, London, and Tokyo engulfed in flames
The type uh shit I’m talking bout would make 9/11 look tame
Imagine millions of orphaned and hungry sons and daughters
Or pregnant women beaten and gang raped in front of their fathers
Imagine warlords dukin it out for control of the streets with automatics
Imagine flippin every channel on the TV – and gettin nuttin but static
It’d be tragic… but a perfect word to describe it would be humanity
A word that often timez iz synonymous with insanity…
Pure savagery… the topic I’m addressin ain’t much of a twist
Cuz in sum parts of the world today these conditions already exist
Imagine the world’s worst criminals assuming power
Imagine starvation so bad… that human corpses were devoured
Imagine the return of diseases like bubonic plague and leprosy
Sumtimez it seemz that destruction iz the human race’s only destiny
Imagine mass murderers let out the prisons and becomin politicians
Imagine… shit, is this type of world really all that hard to envision?

2XL:

Hey, hey, hold up the track a minute, hold up! Isn’t all that what the world’s already like…?

Ghost Emperor:

Yeah, you’re right man… Damn!

(Snippet: "Stupid White Man" – Bushido)

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