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DOWN

When you're down
That's when they show
Funny how
They always seem to know
A cloud of doubt
[illegible] turns [illegible] becomes a down pour
soon you're all wet
Burned out black out
[crossed out text] forget
[crossed out text]
Less we [arrow up to forget]

OUR HISTORY
Is Full of regret [illegible] 's
what [illegible] we pretend to be
Sams [illegible] SECRETS

When you're down
That's when they show
Funny how
They always seem to know

A man like me
teeters back and forth
between being benevolent
And [illegible] force A fan of
Half of me believes
the [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
there can only be one king of the jungle
My other half is n't deceived
And keeps reminding me to stay humble

If you find yourself in a hole
The first thing to do is stop digging
What I've learned you will soon know
You lose the right to chose when you're begging
Once you took pride in self-control
Now you take whatever you're given
That warm smile's [illegible] turned frosty cold
You're making a mistake this ain't really living

SOLVING PROBLEMS
by Tom Jensen
Precision beats power and timing beats speed
I walk up to the biggest mother fucker
and see that he's afraid of me
My defiance and disdain
Act as my suit of amor
Your reliance on the same old same
leaves you distressed while I get calmer
when things change
Chaos thrives
Those stuck in chains
will not survive
minds with walls
will not evolve.
The Riddle Remains
the Puzzle unsolved
Cunning and wit can have the same effect
To sooth the savage into deep introspect
Or else [crossed out word] prove to the farmer [crossed out word] he's incorrect
That a peaceful life is what is best
You told me the price
And yet knew not the value
The trouble was the bubble
They been trying to sell you
It's gonna burst there's no doubt
You were the first man in and last one out
Lost your shirt! Then your house
Playing in the dirt so why you still running your mouth?
Punk! Life just damn knocked your ass out!
I suggest you stop talking and think about it
Cork that Kettle before you go offsponting
Oh shit... he's still dribbling toxins
And just the sight of him is making me
nautious
When I get like this It's best to be cautious
It can lead to flying fists or else me dropping logic
I got the answers to your questions
the problem's gettin' solved, kid!
(Either WAY)

Precision beats power and timing beats speed
I walk up to the biggest mother fucker
And see that he's afraid of me
---
SOLVING PROBLEMS
by [?]
Precision beats power and timing beats speed
I walk up to the biggest motherfucker
And [crossed out: see that he's] and see that he's
afraid of me
My defiance and disdain
Act as my suit of amor
Your reliance on the same old same
[crossed out: leaves you distressed] while I get calmer
[crossed out: leaves you distressed] and re-rearrange
When things change
Chaos thrives
Those stuck in chains
will not survive
Minds with walls
will not evolve.
The Riddle Remains
[crossed out: the] a Puzzle unsolved
have
Cunning and wit can [crossed out: the] the same effect
To Sooth the savage into deep introspect
Or else [crossed out: someone] the farmer [?] he's incorrect
Prove to

EITHER WAY
by Tom Jensen
I'm a vessel of violence
Live alone on an island
I CAN NEVER KEEP SILENT
They keep playing violins
To cover everybody's crying
I got no one to hear me
No family lives near me
No friends close by
No friends at all that was a lie
No one to call or stop by
That's why sometimes I cry
You would to
When I got nothing to do
It gives me something to do
Many say medicate don't educate
Become an arsonist to your history
Self-knowledge just drags in complication
When somethings are best left a mystery
The agony of meeting expectations
Has led to the cancelling of many celebrations
In both your honor and your name
Yeah it was all for you - but you never came...
If you only die when you're forgotten
Anonymity must be rotten
The value of reality lies in immaterialality
Everything that lives exterally dies
Yet the value of life is measured by the soul
Which you know can be compromised
The choice is fame or integrity
Will you have riches or character?
that's what she said to me
Now you know why everyone's after her
She gives like its charity
With instant familiararity
A true gem that's a rarity
with brown eyes gazing back at me
Indeed she's looking so lovely
Feeling like there's no one above me
As she stares right through me
It's like she's always knew me
Let's hope she never forgets
Remember - you can't give somebody everything
Because then you'd have nothing left
Either way no regrets

(3) If you only die when you're forgotten
Anonymonity must be rotten

(2) EITHER WAY by Tom Jensen
The agony of meeting expectations
Has lead to the cancelling of many
celebrations
In both your honor and your name
yeah it was all for you but you never
came

(1) Many say medicate don't educate
Become [crossed out text] an arsonist to [crossed out word] your history
Self-knowledge just drags in complication
when somethings are best left a mystery

The value of reality lies in immaterality
Everything that lives has a [crossed out word] body that dies
But the value of life is measured by the soul
(Whoa...)
so now you know
The choice is Fame or integrity
will you have Riches or character
Yeah, Thats what she said to me
Now you know why everyone's after her
She gives like its charity
with Instant familiarity
A true gem that's a rarity
Behind her brown
eyes gazing at me
Looking so lovely
There's no one above me
As She stares right through me

It's like she always knew me
Let's hope she never forgets
You can't give somebody everything
Because then you'd have nothing left
Either way, No Regrets

CUTIE PIE
by Tom Jensen

Since a miss by an inch
Is as good as a mile
I'll die wearing hip dirty clothes
Opposed to clean ones out of style

You can tell as much about me from my eyes
As you can from my smile
I don't mind being hypnotized
By a cutie pie for awhile

I'll have you understand
I found my weakness as a man
Running my fingers through your hair
As your breathe became my air

Everytime I closed my eyes
You'd be there inside my eyelids
As your voice became my music
I'd hear piano, harp and violins

[crossed out: No longer]
No longer am I lonely
Since Our hearts [crossed out word] were [crossed out word] joined solely
Even apart we're still together
From now until forever

DIRT
by
Tom Jensen

Whose got the dirt on you?
Maybe you've been keeping [crossed out word] secrets from yourself?
Do you know who I've been talking to?
No it wasn't her, it was somebody else...
Ooh someone's afraid of sunlight
Stays lurking in the shadowy rhelm
To only be happy when it's cloudy
Seems to me to be trapped in a living hell

Whose got the dirt on you?
Won't you whisper what your little secret's worth
Certainly no one could have deserved this
Never seen you so nervous pacing back and forth

Well sure we all make mistakes
Yet this one was so easy to trace you didn't
look guilty
just
heavily disgraced
the look on your face
That Best Discribes
would

Whose got the dirt on you?
Has anyone offered you to cut a deal?
Or are they just letting out the line?
Let you run a little knowing they hold the reel

ROCK STAR DREAMS
by tony
genser

I've been living for a legacy since seventeen
That's when music filled my head with Rockstar dreams
I've been tightrope walking up against the razor's edge of infinity
Perception is just ones illusion of reality
It's not strange for my brain to change the scenery

Sure, they say the truth comes with a price
sometimes you give more than just your life...
Pay the ultimate sacrifice
You say you don't think twice
But we ALWAYS think twice...

I was craving
Retracing my past
There were things worth saving
I see that looking back.
What now seems ancient
A Newly uncovered artifact
I've been contemplating
How best to back track
What will be waiting?
A part of me's afraid to ask

I've been living to be a legend since the age of twenty seven
I'm always giving in to the present it's the quickest
way to get to heaven
Lately I've been debating should I change the books
I'm reading
Somehow I started hating everyone I followed since
no one was leading

I even been growing nervous of everything
I keep hoping for a world that's fair we know
it'll never be even
I believe in
Reason
I'd rather be led
by
Rhyme

Like you
I don't
wanna
be led
by
Rhyme

I'm still trying to find
an occupation that's pleasing

6/2/18
by
Tom
Jensen

RAT PARK

Like the town witch on fire
I've become a social pariah
I've lost my desire
To climb up any higher

There's an energy vampire
Now standing right beside ya
There's lots to know that you can't see
Until you crack the code or else find the key

I was in rough shape
Looking for an escape
Started feeling sick
Must be time to get fixed

Look inside to see what's broken
Hoping it's not a hopeless situation
And that I really am worth saving

Since copping is not coping
And when stopping isn't an option
Oh how can I regain my focus?

It seems we cling to our vices
In major times of crisis
And when we're feeling isolated
Today and day to day we're being sedated

In a state of constant bereavement
Because we've failed to have our needs met
Hence our only sense of achievement
Is when we depart this world and leave it

Often it is fleeting; lost after a moment
Even though you're taking a beating you try your best not to show it

It was when my world was dark
I met a friend at rat park
They told me I could stay there
there were lots of fun games to play there

In lofts, down slides and on wheels we play
Oh no more lonely, boring days
I'm growing stronger no longer do I crave
Thinking, drinking or sleeping away the day

Yeah, Some get lost and some get saved
Some find themselves others get thrown away
Remember if god grants wishes to those who pray
Then somewhere there's an angel that's been led astray

---

OTHER Times
by
Tom Jensen

The more get less as less gets more
They keep on raising the ceiling
While dropping the floor
The rich get richer
those in the middle grow poor
That's when the soldiers realize
They've been fighting the wrong war

There's a curtain of silence
Now draped over your island
It blows in from the high lands
where everything's in ruins

Many were trapped there stranded
Left right where they were standing
Those poor fools lacking the tools
who Got caught not knowing the rules

Yeah, we all know what leads you
Your reputation proceeds you
You may say you've changed
Still no one believes you

Healing takes time
To mend a broken mind
when the wounds cut deep
To all the way in side

As my luxuries have become necessities
I'm being slowly stripped of my spirituality
This lack of harmony within humanity
Has begun eating away at me

I can't decide if this is a side effect
Or the scheme behind the Plan
I don't know where it's going
What I was or who I am

Positivity triggers mental agility
While negativity kills our ability
To forsee a future better than the present
As intuition tunes us in to what isn't evident

Every pauper's voice shall be equal to the president's
When we get things right no more will we be hesitant
To speak out against what we feel isn't right
Sometimes love heals othertimes it starts the fight

The dazzling darkness carresses the silence
The perfect calm at the edge of the violence
Meant to do us harm or gently guide us?
outward and upward or deep down inside us

There's many with ears that can't hear through the fear
Those not standing in the light {struck: loose}
Are out of sight [crossed out: failed to guess my trust]
Means they're still stuck in their invisible prison
When your spirit is trapped in form
It can't soar
Listen:
The Matrix is [crossed out: what does]
What the matrix does
What does that mean?
It don't give a fuck!
In the kingdom of the blind
The one eyed man is king
If you can change your mind
Then that changes everything

I believe that space and time are one
And I'll finish exactly where I begun
What always is always was and will be
Use your free will to create fate and
destiny

Wheat and Chaff by Tom Jensen

Your suicide was glorified
Like a police chase on the news
Neither your vanity or your family
Was enough to pull you through

When you crashed in the past
You walked away unscathed
This time you fell
didn't go so well
The Saviour was not raised

The memories are overwhelming
As they all come flooding back
You feel yourself being swept away
the dam burst where it was cracked

Such An explotion of emotion
Leaving everyone taking flak
His war is over the priest spoke sober
Then a scream, a yell, a gasp
Let us raise our glass to the past
For the cries
And to the laughs
Both the wheat and chaff
For what was left undone
For what can't be taken back...

by tom
jensen

RIVAL
Once the whole gets halfed
There ain't no going back
Yeah, it all went to hell real fast
Republicans and Democrats

As This nation is facing
The shattered after math
Our fate has been placed
In the hands of a psychopath

Asking a leader to lead
When no one agrees
Leads to blunders it's a wonder
we're all not deceased

The best way to start a fight
Part the middle tween left and right
Just stir the pot to get some action
Then do what you want during the distraction

yes the method is tried and true
Throughout history it's been used
safety in numbers were harmed by division
This fractured state becomes our prison
with this knowledge at our disposal
It's time to act local {struck: and} while thinking global
We're all allies in the struggle for survival
You'll die for your brother while I'll die for my rival
---
RIVEN
Once the whole get
There ain't no go
Yeah, it all went to
Republicans and Demo[c]
As This nation is facing
The Shattered after math
Our fate hgs been placed
In the hands of a psychop
Asking a leader to lead
When no one agrees it's a wonder
Leads to blunders between left and right
we're all not deceased to get some acti
The best way to start a fight
Part the middle to stir the distrac
Just Then do what you want during the
yes the method is tried and true
Throughout history it's been used
safety in numbers were harmed by divisi
This fractured state become
with this knowledge at our
It's Time to act local while
all allies in the stru
for your brother
w[?]

MULTIVERSE by Tom Jensen

The only thing real is this moment
So get up on it
And be a proponent
You want first place at the end of the race?
Before long you'll find the seeds were already sewn
In your mind from the very beginning

The day you stop dreaming
Is the day you stop achieving
And live down to expectations
With nothing to believe in
You could become an infidel and die
To make things even
As the victims fell
To another godless heathen

Or you could visualize grilled cheese
And that could lead to world peace
Or you could visualize a barbeque
And that would be [crossed out word] the end for me and you

The best possible version of all outcomes desired
You could make happen so easily acquired
If you only knew the power of your own mind
I could retire, I quit, I resign

---

MULTIVERSE by Tom Jensen
The only thing real is this moment
Get up on it
Be a proponent
Fuck the trophy
For Participation
You want first place
At the end of the race?
Before long you'll find the seeds were sewn
in your mind
In the very beginning

The day you stop dreaming
Is the day you stop achieving
and live down to expectations
With nothing to believe in
You could become an infidel and die
to make things even
As the victims fell
To another Godless Heathen
[Crossed out text: The worst known [?] is reserved for for for]
The worst version of hell in Dante's Inferno
Is reserved for betrayal or treason
you know
is unceasing

---

MULTIVERSE by Tom Jensen
The only thing real is this moment
So get up on it
And be a proponent
Fuck the trophy for participation
You want to finish in first place at the end of the race?
With time you'll find the seeds were already sewn
By you in your mind in the very beginning
The day you stop dreaming is the day you stop achieving
And start living down to expectations with nothing to
believe in
Through the years [crossed out text] infidels have raised hell
Trying to make things even
Leaving us in tears as more victims fell
To another godless heathen
If you visualize grilled cheese
That could lead to world peace
But if you envision a barbeque
That just might be the end of me and you

[Handwritten below the printed lines:]
Once you take control over the power of your own mind
you can create the best possible versions of all
outcomes desired

Before you come around here
Something you gotta know
I make people disappear
So dont go stepping on my toes
Make a mistake
And I'll break your face
Along with the promise I made
Where I said, I'd behave
Why? Cause it would be worth it
Why? I've died for a purpose

7/8ths
Lately I've been walking on eggshells
They say that times [?] heals
But I got a raw deal
I could not be saved
from the tidal wave
One day while I went out looking for
sea shells
God came along [crossed out] and dropped a bombshell
---
UNDEFEATED
by Tom Jensen
I AINT GOT NO PLANS this minute
So I'm seizing the moment - I'm in it
I'm not losing or winning - Just present
Not up, not down - I'm all around
From the city to the towns
to the horses and the plows
Not just the black or the white
But [crossed out: the] in the crowd
every face

If you can see it you can be it
If you wish to delete it then don't repeat it
Some Good advice to those who seek it
[crossed out: Though] Those Luckier than me might not need it
sure you can try to pin for the win
When the argument becomes heated
But a sly guy vies for the [crossed out: tie]
Because father Time's undefeated

What about space? That's a whole 'nother race
we started with moon then wouldn't you know pretty soon
It was on to Mars and that's just so far
There's more in store we keep raising the bar
I'd rather not roam stick closer to home
Preserve what we have before it's all gone!

ninety nine percent of my time is spent alone
And I give the one percent to the fucking hoes
I'm good for dick
But not much else
I have a hard time
Controlling my self
{struck: Since I hurt those that I love the most} / Those that I love I hurt the most
In Time you'll find I've {struck: looking} become {struck: a} ghost
You {struck: may} think you
{struck: Sure you may} see me
But I'm not really there
{struck: Since}
Behind my fake concern
I don't {struck: fucking} care
{struck: really}
ninety nine percent of my time is spent alone
And I give the one percent to the fucking hoes
She turns a trick
Well that's a treat
We get a room
Take her off the street
Hey {struck: Howd} {struck: babe} {struck: would} {struck: you take} {struck: how} {struck: 'bout} {struck: some} {struck: a} {struck: breakfast} {struck: butter} {struck: sausage} in bed?
{struck: I asked her for a hand}
{struck: And then I asked her for head}
{struck: {struck: woul} {struck: y} {struck: O} {struck: and} give {struck: you} me a hand}
{struck: {struck: if} {struck: you} {struck: you} give me head}
and then {struck: some}
Arrogent and yet insecure {struck: = choose victimhood} {struck: over failure}
Bitch Slap the Nigger with love
connect, control and kill

My fear is my friend / So long we've been together from the beginning until the very end /// It takes dialogue not debate / To make whole this fractured state

Weaponized envy surrounds me
It's everywhere I can't break free
Negative energy, now grounds me
As I'm watching the world so jealously
My High anxiety {struck: over} {struck: intimacy} stresses me
while a {struck: my} fear of intimacy threatens me
Averse to pain I constantly retreat
Living {struck: as} a zombie {struck: state} {struck: a} half a sleep
like

Just a second
could change your
life
---
AMONGST BY
MEN TOM JENN

[crossed out word: THE] QUESTION

You fell in love
But she wasn't a ten
Now you're wondering
What if you went back again

Would you look her up
Just to fuck her hot friend?
Yeah, that's the question
Most asked amongst men

You keep on putting yourself
Straight through the ringer
Falling in love with these
Fucked up singers

Oh you know you've heard the story
As you count the fallen seeking glory

Here I am alone with my thoughts
Sitting sstaring, watching the clock
---
When tragedy struck my family
I began my decent into insanity
It started to creep
so slowly week by week
And before too long
I found I couldn't sleep
again
Never alone
not with these fantasies
As I lost my [crossed out: true] self
To the worst version of me
Kept holding on
[crossed out: un] til I couldn't break free
by the time I realized
What was happening to me
I [crossed out: became] became someone else entirely.

I left my chin in the gym.
so when I went [crossed out: made] into the ring

Close your eyes
Quiet your mind
and describe to me
What you hope to find
Don't give it a name
Let it be free
for fear it may change
Or worse never be

Calm your breath
yes inhale deep
And then punch yourself
Make sure you're not asleep
[?] of the work [?]
[?] let me what you see

In I walk
You hear the mic drop
Even the hands
Of the clock stop
As all the fans
In the stands
Knees knock
Rhymes are dropping
Girls in knickers Kicking
Their panties off
Seats getting wet from
it's soft like cotton
Chicks flicking their wrists
Lingerie on the stage tossing
We be G-string flossing
Fluzzies using sausage as a losenge
Salad tossing is that an option?

I've got no tears left to cry
It just feel dead inside
And I'm not gonna lie
I love to hate you more than I ever
loved to love you
Yeah, and it just may be
That that one's on me
But For leaving me in misery
I'll still be screaming out "Fuck you."

I love you to learn you / Just to hate you and burn you / All too capable of being filled / by peace and love or murder and kill

The weapon is loaded / There will soon be explosions / To a new Eden, Yeah! / The old me would lose to the new me

RUNNING FREE by tom jensen
Do you remember what you were
Before the world told you what you had to be?
Back in the haze of the days
A distant memory of running free
Then what happened to my mom and dad
It came calling [crossed out word] for me
I ran for awhile and tried to hide
But you see eventually...
Race baiting wars are waiting
If you're scooped up in the media spin
A tidal wave of Hate and Fear
Still the celebrities, car wrecks and sex keep you sucked in
Remember Not everyone who smiles at you is
actually [crossed out text] your friend
Sometimes it [crossed out word] resides behind the eyes
another's true intent
For one might say
It's not how you play the game
It's whether you win or lose
Given time Everything will change
What you Red, Your black, your white, your blues
Yeah, that's what I said
So your destiny is yours to choose
[?] let too many voices in [?] your head
The one you lose belongs to you
It's alright to hide behind a lie
Yet if you dare share the truth
Hey baby, I'm your guy
Just one look into your eyes
Lacking fire - that's no surprise
[?] if you sought out the flame of love
What exactly do you think you'd find?
The reason I speak of
I think it's time you tried
Sometimes it seems that sir is short for serpent
And miss for misses and mistakes
When the realities of all your dreams
[?] but heart [?] break
Bring you nothing
And if this is the case
We can [?] track and retrace
But we can't go back and erase
So let us relax and embrace
the fact that haste makes waste
Do you remember what you were
Before the world told you what you had to be?
Back in the haze of the days
A distant memory of running free
---
RUNNING FREE by tom Jensen
Do you remember what you were
Before the world told you what you had to be?
Back in the haze of the days
A distant memory of running free?
Then what happened to my mom and dad
It came calling for me
I ran for awhile and tried to hide
But you see eventually...
Race baiting wars are waiting
If you're scooped up in the media spin
A Tidal wave of hate and fear
Still the celebrities and sex keep you sucked in
Not everyone who smiles at you is
actually your friend
Sometimes it [?] reader behind the eyes
another's true intent
car wrecks
For one might say
It's not how you play the game
It's whether you win or lose
Given time Everything will change
What you Red, Your black, your white, your blues
Yeah, That's what I said
So your destiny is yours to choose
[?] let too many voices in your head
---
Remember everyone who smiles at you is
actually not always your friend
Sometimes it does resides behind the eyes
another's true intent

For one might say

It's not how you play the game
It's whether you win or lose
Given time Everything will change
What you Red, your black, your white our blues

Yeah, that's what I said
So your destiny is yours to choose
[crossed out text] let too many voices in your head
The one you lose belongs to you

It's alright to hide behind a lie
Yet if you dare share the truth
Hey baby, I'm your guy
Just one look into your eyes
Lacking fire - that's no surprise
[crossed out text] if sought out the flame of love
What exactly do you think you'd find?
The reason I speak of
I think it's time you tried

Sometimes it seems that sir is short for serpent
And miss for misses and mistakes
When the realities of all your dreams
[crossed out text] but heart [crossed out text] break
Bring you nothing

And if this is the case
We can [crossed out text] track and retrace
But we can't go back and erase
So let us relax and embrace
The fact that haste makes waste

Do you remember what you were
Before the world told you what you had to be?
Back in the haze of the days
A distant memory of running free