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Side Effect Lyrics by Dark Side Poet

III: Broken Things

2018

[Verse 1]
I'm exhibiting these restless characteristics like Xzibit did
I'm bouncing off the Walls like a Ritalin kid
Jumping Around in this House Of Pain
Bungee from the rafters seeking what comes after like Saddam Hussein, ha
Don't have to have a doctor explain
Or label based on what he found after escaping my brain
The pain is just a Side Effect of my attempt to try to get
My fingers underneath & try to pry but fail & die again
A little more inside each time
And try to find the words to construct another 16 line
Verse, that at first, I'll think is my worst or most personal
And have it dawn it don't matter 'cos it's mine & it's worth
Whatever I want it to be worth, so... here we go
These words are worth a thousand pictures or at least a thousand frames
24 per second of me going insane

[Chorus]
Broke, beat, battered and bruised, black and blue
And a fist in the sky despite what I go through
I'm a human being, yeah, I'm a Side Effect
I'm a human being, yeah, I'm a Side Effect
A mutation, black and blue of evolution
And this rap shit the Poet's only resolution
I'm a human being, yeah, I'm a Side Effect
I'm a human being, yeah

[Verse 2]
Thoughts of things that I would never do, feelings I'd never share
But are there beneath the surface attempting to reach the toxic air
That's probably the reason insomnia got me a zombie
With knowledge that the apocalypse'll often be on me
So honour me with radical honesty, gaze into own abysses
Instigate and conversate with the vicious and
Non-fictitious hellish elements of ya spirits
You can propagate a monster and never rub against clitoris, ha
Now I'm comin' dog, bearin' incisors
Exorcisin' demons who been screamin' inside my mind
Schemin' to find my front door and bottom line
End my time or simply sever the brake lines
I told y'all that all I can do is rhyme
Or commit to something else, nah, really y'all, I'm fine
I'll never be that far gone or maybe I am already
And never considered death an option, I'm too young to be a memory

[Chorus]
Broke, beat, battered and bruised, black and blue
And a fist in the sky despite what I go through
I'm a human being, yeah, I'm a Side Effect
I'm a human being, yeah, I'm a Side Effect
A mutation, black and blue of evolution
And this rap shit the Poet's only resolution
I'm a human being, yeah, I'm a Side Effect
I'm a human being, yeah, I'm a Side Effect

[Verse 3]
Reality gradually defied the laws of gravity
And had me levitating graduate to insanity
Double major in psycho-ology and anthropology
Hollowed the head of everything considered apology
'Cos I understand it now, and so I'ma write it
Biological makeup can be a result of environment
Changes can happen at any time and to any part
Muscles can't break but you can still die from a broken heart

Ha... fancy that
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Dark Side Poet

Dark Side Poet

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"Side Effect" appears on "III: Broken Things" in 2018.

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