4th WALL


I refuse to live in a limited world
I refuse to live in a limited world
I refuse to live in a limited world
I refuse to live in a limited world

everything I ever rapped was tactical
Headshots turning tables in temples ‘til Christ is a Scratch Pikl
Holding crucifix needles on John Chaney’s Vestaxes
Rocking past the fast break of Dawn Staley stress packets
Drive kids in Seine on Susan Smith’s French school bus
Leaving another mule stuffed..societal rules rust
No more A’s, I’m on a role grade made with Joe Clark’s steamroller
Kill yourself expeditiously, step and the rest is history
A repetitious set of misery exercise in futility
And I’m personal trainer to the stars who search for saviors
Satan's doing preacher curls weighted with plates of envy
His guard was up on No Doz ‘til I strafed the sentry
Great, another anorexic steps to the plate
Seeking some weapon array to collect a vet’s rep in a day
I refuse to be voiceover fodder for a mortician’s mixtape
No Cris in this face, I look at life this way:
Each breath’s a down payment-expenditure’s a certainty
So I practice ‘til HMOs will strangle the sick perfectly
And David Kelley makes mindlessness for the networks
Who lose more in a second than my whole city’s net worth

I refuse to live in a limited world
I refuse to live in a limited world
I refuse to live in a limited world
I refuse to live in a limited world

Why save the best for last? armageddon’s a record release date
Pushed back with RuPaul’s privates for profits,
cause these days are keepsakes that I hold close
I’m no longer the child who’d huddle to hear the tales of old folk
My soul knows truths that no pen can explain
How much energy has been wasted in defense of a name?
Tentative claims of dominance in the ways of phrase and consciousness
Sidewalk passerbys pause, trading common grins
The saga begins and ends as such
If the proof’s in the pudding, it’s no wonder the kid becomes a lush
One to rush to conclusions in musical wheelchairs
Bare tires squeal the organ grinder feels scared
His monkey signifies the end of the game
Greedy eyes flickering with a sense of the pain
Torrential rain plus a brand new agenda to claim
The high life, the blemish of his sentence remains

I refuse to live in a limited world
I refuse to live in a limited world
I refuse to live in a limited world
I refuse to live in a limited world
let the chains break all in the same place
let the chains break all in the same place
let the chains break all in the same place


S. Bryden for Slingvoltage (ASCAP)