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Ra's al Ghul

by Frank John James

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1.
The Demon 02:34
There's nothing better than a simple minded lame duck It's not that I enjoy it hell I'd rather quit doin' the same stuff If I carry out my plan we can live symbiotically Maybe then I won't be seen as such an oddity I'm not the one pullin' the strings behind your ecological destruction I'ts so illogical the way you function So dedicated to your masters you would never question You would go through hazards purposely so you could duck the lesson I guess they warned you of my tactics slightly murderous But who attacked first? See what we fight for what it's worth to us I understand I'm slightly mad, so please forgive me I'm angry as fuck, my reasons you ain't contending I've lived through centuries of so-called evolution Lazy humans causin' a lot of pollution Hidin' the facts 'til it's too late, then pick a scapegoat Fuck the same boat I build my own and rig theirs to blow (Explosion) To defend their way of life is preposterous So if you're in my way, understand I am option-less I will not hesitate, please don't test your fate If you can't handle the fish then don't fuck with the bait The head of a demon? That gets me bad rap I need a publicist or somethin' to snap that My bullet points are of the peace prize-type But since I'm willin' to point bullets I guess, I'm the bad guy A bad lie I prevent and end suffering Tell me if I'm the Earth what the fuck have you done for me? Batman protects you, but who protects her? Who kills who? When she's just trying to sustain you I blame you go ahead and tell me otherwise You can switch to hybrid fluorescent or cut out pesticides It won't matter it's ingenuine you had your chance A message to the rest of them change your fuckin' stance
2.
(Verse 1) I gotta meet up with this guy around midnight, my sniper guy And make sure that he makes the hit on time, so that he die A president, newly elected a small nation Whose flippin' all it's politics on to a U.S. basis Already in his first month, he privatized water And legalized fishing and skinning seals and otters Since the average citizen don't got it in their ability I see the murder and message as my responsibility Civility's gone, the moment he dropped a bomb On the indigenous of his nation, and then he thought Nobody would notice since he owns all the news That day he visited schools as nothing but a ruse Through his scope he see a target, ready to fuck up the free market With a single trigger pull the bigger fool is not him Got him, but it's just a way to stop the bleeding Next up the bosses I believe they in a meeting (Break) "Did you have anything to do with, that?" "Yes I killed him." "You...? Oh god..." "You're upset?" "I'm upset? You just said you killed." "Violence can be used for good." "What are you talking about?" "Justice." "I see." "There's no court in this country for men like Prothero." "And are you going to kill more people?" "Yes." (Verse 2) I have my men form a perimeter, around the building My sharp shooters do half the killing of the guards leave 'em reeling Have my foot soldiers attack, and take out the second half Throw in gas bombs through windows and throw on our gas masks Thermal imaging as we enter every entrance We encounter top private military agents Blind with trouble breathing we give 'em the neck snap Any form of attack on their part's a death trap My men on the roof crash the meeting through 2nd floor windows And take out every man the floor equipped with pistols The highest of the high in politics and business There's no foiled plot or hero left to save 'em We kidnap 'em and drill 'em for all they information Eventually the message is sent, the plan in motion In death there's no room for regret, nor for the hopeless
3.
LA 02:50
(Verse 1) I burn this bitch down, a melting pot of crime Where potentially, any citizen'll steal your dime It might be the colored kid who wants the Nike Air Maxes Or dirty white politician with new taxes The meter maid, waitin' seconds away The cop whose bogus speeding violations got him a raise Either way you're fucked, but odds are, you ain't doin' shit about it So that makes you guilty as the motherfuckers who found it You walk around it every time the problem raises its hand And think your vote is all the proof you need to show you understand And I get it, you think the oppressed will forget it If you give 'em roads and electricity, but I won't let it You're shredding all the evidence but me? I'll shred your streets I'll blow your building to the ground and send your army in retreat Every time you breathe you'll wonder if I'll cut it short So take a deep breath, your death will be quick, and nothing more (Chorus x2) LA is the place if you don't value life And you waste all your time since you destined to die And since destiny is imminent, I share the same sentiment I hope you understand that its destruction is our benefit (Verse 2) I been around the world seen a lot of shit some worse Yet the citizens here only believe in fun first They don't like parks, they'd rather turn 'em into parking lots They freak out every time housing development stops like they don't have enough homes, stupid you gotta share You know there's plenty so don't act as if the money isn't there I'd empathize with the lower class when they steal If they didn't buy dumb shit, their threat would be real Fast food alone is enough to bring apocalypse The most natural resources you taint then you bottle 'em If you breathe the air then you might wanna filter it Every new drug everybody want a pill of it Your fill of it you get none, you add it to your waistline Worried every spring if his foot was on the baseline I could give a fuck about a game slash distraction Tall skyscrapers are built to be blasted (Chorus x2)
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(Sample) "The only thing that the human species can do perfectly, it's so easy for anything that is a human organism to just cause destruction, because we have this ability to, invent destructive things." (Verse 1) So you developed this concept of money to determine Other people's value of life, was lower than yours You gave 'em chores cuz you sustained 'em, you claimed it at least Became the beast and declared, "You will now be afraid of me." You gave 'em money, a fraction of their value When you charged 'em for some services you say because you had to They didn't have shit, so now they owe you, Perfect opportunity to charge interest too And now the many gotta worry bout their payments They can't worry bout the world and sustaining its maintenance Hypnosis not upfront, subliminal Scabs to the point an opposition look pitiful Minimal success, what did they expect When they entered negotiations with you for respect You wanna hurt 'em? cut off they cash flow Put 'em all on trial or to death if they can't go (Sample) "And on a scale that no animal or other organism would be able to do. We can project the worst part of our nature over such vast areas...we have the ability to do that." (Verse 2) What is a soldier if he don't know what he fightin' for? I would rather die than never know what I'm dyin' for Leaders fightin' for the sake of startin' scuffles But ya too busy to care with your TV and your Ruffles I didn't see it for a few hundred years only heard of it It wasn't 'til England, that I got a word of it They been workin' it, suckin us dry They didn't infiltrate they built it over time, rather a lie You start to wonder why we're so slow to advance When we start to share our knowledge they would make it so we can't That is unless it helps their plan or is inevitable, Look at the medical they want us dead or in bed and them paid in full Made a fool every time we accept their side of the story Meanwhile our concerns they're ignoring It's simple, stop making excuses for poor decisions Otherwise I'm the surgeon and I'm forced to make the incision. (Sample) "I should think that if we ever connected with a superior intelligence someplace, he would probably do the rest of the universe a favor by blotting out all human life on this planet as quickly as possible before we get SO skillful, that we can spread the bad things that we do to other environments. "So maybe the best thing IS to find these people, you know, cuz we'll spend a lot of money in it, we'll go out there and we'll get the superior intelligence and think that he's going to help us out and he will, just by blowing us up."
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(Verse 1) So many men with real talent, capable of bringin' down many Organizations even with patience Like Two-Face, who brought down countless individuals With nothing but a book of broken laws and judge criminals But he was all alone trying to clean up the streets Where was everybody else? You couldn't even hear a peep So of course he went crazy took the law into his own hands Now he flips a coin to determine his own stance Now Scarecrow? I love his potential I really dig the fear-inducing toxins on the mental I would love to test on the men and women capable Of overcoming fears and prove that some of us are savable Possibly my favorite is this young kid Anarky Once he's outta jail I think of the fun he'll have with me He stole from the rich and reinvested in the 3rd world Exposin' world corruption to all the boys and girls (Chorus x2) Ya know I kinda like these criminals And though they're psychopaths at least they ain't so minimal I know I have to put an end to them eventually Until then there's bigger fish to fry, here comes the penalty (Verse 2) Now me? I'm a thinker so I love me a puzzle even riddle Edward Nygma never gots to keep it simple I'm kinda jealous of Bruce, he gets his best puzzles I would love to see him get a little more for all his troubles Like this Bane from Santa Prisca we could all learn from him Served his father's prison sentence turnin' nothin' into somethin' Got himself into peak physical condition Educated himself, replete, with plenty wisdom Now Pamela Isley that's a real woman Ivy A botanist who cares about the plant life like me Who can blame her when they bombed the island that she lived in She should make America pay for the buttons they be hittin' And the Joker make me smile and frown in the same sentence Infinite potential 'cept I, question his methods He's provided the detective with his greatest moral challenges I'd of killed the motherfucker by now, for all his damages (Chorus x2)
6.
Born in the 14th century to a nomadic family Handed me nothing of interest, but the sand under my feet I had to leave I had an interest in science I had to feed And it was in the city where I found the knowledge to read The resources were greater, than the tribe that's full of thieves Could've ever offered me, obviously I gotta leave Honestly I just wanna feed my curiosity Plus there gots to be something better than murderous robberies I earned the trust of everybody I met, the sweet kid And even bullies had to squash it, every time we would beef Even the king took notice and made me his top physician It was then you could say my potential carried no limit I met a woman unlike you could've imagined Even the prince's passion demanded but couldn't catch it Me and the prince were what you could call friends Despite his ignorance more out of respect for his father So when he fell sick and the king wanted to save him I had to explain most likely he wouldn't make it Realizing that a virus had to been passed I understood the nature of this difficult task I know he's not the best person, alright But I could never let another die for no life is worthless Every new disease is an opportunity To make sure in the future it never is hard to beat
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I leave my Sora and go to my place of birth in the desert I lay and start to dream nothing better Nightmares of death trying to fight me The fear of falling prey really fucks with my psyche I shrivel as I fall into a pit, my resurrection I defeat the motherfucker it was on some introspection The second lesson was the concoction inspired A mixture of poisons and chemicals that make a man expire But where I awoke, was one of many places Where the Earth emits a healing energy able to save us These ley lines are like the Earth's meridian system It uses negative waste, to reverse every symptom Time to use all this information in me As I mix together all these liquids otherwise deadly I tell the king to curb his hopes As his son starts to die it's now time for him to go He rises out regenerated filled with a madness Ran after Sora like a possessed savage Pushed us away as we tried to make him sane By the time we did, I fear it was too late
8.
And I wish she wasn't gone, sittin' here caged When I was the one wronged, in the desert's flames Together for eternity just me and her corpse The cruelest kind of punishment ever to be enforced I miss her skin and how it would touch mine Always makin' me feel, everything would be fine I just wish her lips would move, say it again! You made the best dishes, would you make 'em again? My stomach hurts and I thirst with no sweat I miss your perfume now the scent of old flesh At night I can't help it, I hold you for warmth I wake up with reality leaving me more and more What's that? Oh I thought I heard you say something If I lose more weight, I think I might weigh nothing I can't believe I was so naive And now I leave knowing ignorant man should never lead I wanna bleed, anything end the pain At the very least the mercy of only a little rain I wanna join my love wherever you went Wherever with you I know is time well spent
9.
I can take a virus and put it to fine silk fight the war from afar watch the enemy wilt Take a small army of raiders and bring a city down They didn't have it for me, so why should I have pity now? A Trojan horse of a microscopic nature Left it at the city gates for the prince as a favor Or so he thought like the raiders would get weak 3 days later the king would need me "It's my son please forgive me for my actions I know we did you wrong I'm hopin' we can move past it" Well of course I'll need your cooperation All the same supplies and a whole lot of patience Dumb fuck, he really thinks I'm an idiot Took him to the mountains where raiders awaited him Had him dig the very pit his son would die in Little did he know the entire time that I was lyin' Caught smilin' the moment his son rose out the acid Flesh meltin' screams in obviously loud fashion Same treatment, without the ley line This moment ruined his day, for me it made mine Tied him to his son's corpse put him on a horse An eye for an eye no room for remorse Moments later threw my sword through his chest piece Moment of weakness, never again showing mercy All the men he brought left dead we took their robes Returned to my home and took the city by storm Murdered every soul and destroyed all the evidence So history would never acknowledge my former residence (Sample) "I warned you about compassion Bruce."
10.
Hands Up 01:52
(Verse 1) This is a stick up, put ya hands up this is what you wanted When you bought that shit you didn't need and you flaunted I'm here to rob kings and the men with many things You have failed as a leader and this is what failure brings Many man-servants and nothing to serve man It seems you're the only to benefit from your plan Some of these kings so deeply into religion Some of the smartest men in science held to a limit The progress of man and what they're capable of Could result in the manifestation actual love To create and sustain the world and its inhabitants I have to put an end to your life, and all your damages (Chorus x2) Hands up, this is what you wanted put ya hands up Put ya hands up get 'em up get ya hands up (Verse 2) I am not a masochist, I can end your life quick It could only hurt if you struggle so please don't fight it When I say my message is something very sincere I mean it and it really is nothing that you should fear Many feel it was just a long time coming You should see all the supporters in all the cities we're runnin' We see the wealth as plenty enough to spare Judging by the armies they got, these kings care They could surrender cooperate to the max And enjoy a new life communities that could last They can't imagine a world not upperclass Get your throat slashed, if I have to I will laugh last
11.
Styles Pt.1 01:34
As I traveled on east I first visited India Where I learned yoga it really helped to control the Breathing and meditative states I would rely on Silambam really helped to get my bamboo staff fight on Kuttu Varisai gave an order to my punches While the Varma Kalai gave a power to my touches In Cambodia I learned Bokator I wish faster It took twenty years for me to master every technique With speed, I searched for my next style Dambong Veng, Dambong Lebokator and the Dao Were the weapons of the Angkor, and now my styles crossed As I traveled even further but careful of gettin' lost The Malay were kind with their Silat Whether Cekak, Medan, even Lian Padukan The Philippines took my weapon game to another level Usin' their Eskrima, come on like I would settle? A long boat ride, took me to Japan Where I met the Samurai whose battle methods were grand The Way of the Warrior found in Bushido Then Jujutsu, to Kendo to Ninjutsu Using the roots of Subak in Korea I formed Taekwondo before Duk Son and Hong Hi And then came China with all of its many styles And I had to learn 'em all so I had to spend a while The Five Ancestors and the Five Animals Tiger Crane Leopard Snake Dragon in my mold Drunk Monkey to Eagle Claw and Praying Mantis Wing Chun and Tai Chi elevated my status And as time passed I continued to return And travel 'round the world, always trynna learn I gained control of all Chi with much ease This is just a small sample of the styles in me
12.
(Verse 1) And as I took my last bite of these magical mushrooms I felt so connected to the dirt in which it grew Sensing a multiplicity in my vicinity I felt the inner beings in me, not physically And every time I hear a bird or a brother say a word I can sense their emotion and open their self-worth And the glow of light that's even bright at night Provides me understanding that everything is alive Surrounding all of us interconnected fully And my trip goes bad every time I see a bully And they slaughter more animals chop down trees We are runnin' out of forests and I'm tired of sayin' please Inorganic material in its waste Starts to give the Earth trouble digesting it not its taste And we could of stopped here and we could of stop there Now we risk our lives every time we breathe air (Verse 2) And as I took my last bite of these magical mushrooms I felt so connected to the dirt in which it grew I felt this feeling before It's now a love I could never ignore, as it only grows more I understand where I come from, where I shall return Every time I make a decision I try to be sure I read a lot of books cuz I love to learn a lot The rich don't get it that wisdom cannot be bought And as I close my eyes and I start traveling Out of body 'round the world I see it unraveling I can almost feel my capabilities and how to heal And it's not far-fetched the concept is very real These humans are sadistic, twisted in their minds So what if I untwisted, gifeted 'em with life And as the solution appears it loses clarity I guess the connection to me creates disparity (Repeat Verse 1 until fade out)
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(Verse 1) I'm gettin' tired of sayin' it's good enough When it's used as an excuse to never give a fuck What's a half effort? but a quarter of an outcome An eighth of satisfaction but you're fully outdone Quit negotiating, every right you deserve You either like the work or probly got a tight nerve Every next move is a choice to be made And we're all responsible for improvement in everydat=y Ya say ya want change but won't change yourself Ya self-inflict pain and only save your wealth Save yourself why do you expect a superhero When it's you and only you who can reverse the way you feel The way I feel is frustrated Hundreds of years of waitin' but now I must say it Yous said you would but never did, whatever shit I speak in the interest of livin' forever kid (Chorus x2) And you say you want all the right things And you say you want things to change And you say you want no more fighting And yet you still stay the same (Verse 2) You probly don't see the connection between your choices And think a certain level of discipline's really pointless You won't shop here so instead you shop there But the same guy wins meanwhile, you're unaware It's a false sense of choice in our power We can shoose not to and detonate their tower Without explosives or any violent means We can rely on our homegrown beans Fruits and veggies, we can all eat plenty While they realized the power they had was from the many And through the fear and makin' us incompatible And chemicals that make us all a little more commandable It seemed real the hope I once held But seldom seemed approachable thus my hopes fell And I know there's a few out there who want the same thing It's just too bad we don't play for the same team (Chorus x2) (Sample) "If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop you, then you become something else entirely." "Which is?" "Legend Mr. Wayne."
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(Verse 1) And in the ast days when the last road is built And you don't have another gallon of gas for cars still You'll probly go to war thinkin' that'll solve shit Come November you'll be sittin' at home on the 5th And in the last days you'll think you finally found the candidate You'll vote him in shortly after he'll change his stances quick You'll latch on to the next hope, realize you don't know And that it's easier to cover your ears and keep your eyes closed And in the last days when the last tree is chopped And all the oxygen you breathe is artificially bought Animal life is down to its last species And they're all modified for the pleasure of eatin' The last days, everything is man-made And you made it that way through a broken pathway If you wanna change that should of been prevention If you wonder how then you should of paid attention (Verse 2) The last days, in the last days few rule the many With a life-long goal to own every penny With their petty methods, they invest into weapons Over anything else, and you're too damn tepid In the last days to ever put an end to their rule And it's probly all the pacification from drugging you When you thought luxuries were better than self-health You denied all the power you had and self-wealth In the last days you're only interested in the fast way Suicide is common so really what that say Is no one wanna live that way, they're lookin' for a way out They wanna end it quick since the world will end any day now And so the last days are maybe my last chance To avenge Mother Earth for the pain at your hands I'ma bring it sooner than maybe they hoped to Cuz if she gotta go, then each of you go too (Sample) "It does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia...but to keep the very structure of society intact."
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All Is Dying 03:01
(Intro) Before we begin, hear me. I have knowledge which is alien to you, for I have tasted food fresh from dark fertile soil, and I have filled my lungs with untainted air, and I have quenched my thirst with water clear as the first day of creation, and you have not....because you cannot. Those things do not exist on this world any longer. They have been destroyed by man's lust for dominance, a lust I know well, for at times it all but consumes me. All is corrupt, all is sick, all is dying. (Verse 1) They say their grandfather lived forever, so will you Well their grandfather wasn't eatin' the shit that they do They claim it's all in their nature, therefore it's defendable Native's watchin' TV? that's just not credible I'm cynical this shit is beyond cyclical There's no pass go collect 200 at intervals Everytime you save their lives they turn around and kill I guess the answer is a very hard to swallow pill If not for the Earth, then how bout for the babies Who they take and then erase the very nature worth saving You should run some lab tests, on their inoculations The odds of brain damage not the best approximation Face it, you're noble but you're really misinformed You would be amazed by things I sit and think I miss more The forests I'd explore now covered in concrete The rivers I would swim in now dry and empty (Verse 2) "So your solution is to kill?" I know it's not the best thing In my travels to the east I've learned the nature of our being "Which is?" Our higher self and the frequency of love But to take two forward you gotta step back one "But at what cost?" Well the more we wait the more is lost So the question is if we let 'em live how much is lost? The way I see it, they got our source of life held hostage And I know a superhero has trouble with this topic "Drop it!" I won't, don't you see there's no more lines There's good villains bad heroes under the disguise If you really love 'em thaen you gotta do what's best for 'em If they love their kids, then why do they ignore 'em? "That's not our place to say!" So we should just be bystanders As they commit crimes against humanity and die faster? We're sucking blood out the very ground beneath us "But if I used your methods then nobody would believe us" (Verse 3) Listen, detective, you know I study lots And there's mutual respect for the info that we gots I would never misinform you or try to manipulate You see they had their chance now it's time for us to demonstrate We can end wars introduce cooperation The population doesn't even know of meditation Or innovation in the way we prevent degradation Of the natural resources that we've let become a ration What you don't get is I would rather no one die Which I'm sure we could accomplish if we unified our minds If we held leaders corrupted accountable I am sure the resulting resources would be bountiful We can end starvation disease and all need To commit crime, fulfill the potential of every mind And so I ask again, detective will you join me? "Well, I..." "So what do you suggest?"

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Loosely based on the DC comic book villain, traditionally found opposite Batman. I take you inside the mind of a man trying to balance good and evil, hoping to bring an end to suffering through any means necessary. About midway through, I spend four tracks paying homage to the origins story found in the 1992 comic "Birth of the Demon".

I always felt he had a point, and this album is to prove that point.

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released November 5, 2012

Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Frank John James
Artwork by Frank John James

A big thanks to Danny Lopez, THE biggest Batman fan ever, for the help and resources.

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Frank John James is an MC/Producer, born and raised in Santa Barbara, CA, perfected in Los Angeles. Represents Earthworms with MC Braiiinstorm, who together with MC Mas1 form the trio Stereotype. Stereotype is a part of Echoes of Oratory Muzik.

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