| This is an ode to the modern man
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| It’s the ode to the modern man
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| This is the ode to the modern man
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| Word up, this is the modern man
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| This is that ode to the modern man
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| This goes out to that modern man
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| This is the ode to the modern man
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| It’s to the modern man, lightning blend
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| Word to B E, I’m a tad bit too easy on self
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| And maybe I should keep a closer tab on my health
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| I suppose that it’s simpler said than completed
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| I thought me to attack but in fact again retreated
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| Completed this word search, crumbled it up and ate it
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| My hunger for my blue-collar heaven keeps me sedated
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| Escaped it, last night in a dream
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| And now I sleep, with a flashlight and it seems to keep
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| The nightmare demons and semen-laced portions parallel and apart
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| Like Stephen’s Avenue in Portland
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| A much-traveled one-way, or a slow residential
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| And if the camels don’t stump me I’ma grow with my pencil
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| Once I climb the skulls of this MC graveyard
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| I’ll see the sun again, I’ll jump and run again
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| So come on over, visit, cause I got a lot to say
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| And tell Stress I ain’t mad, cause I got my way
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| But my man Spawn’s here now, so I’ma make it brief
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| Finish up my coffee, gather up my shit and leave
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| I got an army of peers, we fight single-handed
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| And I won’t damage your brain until I understand it
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| You have only one chance to advance to the next stage I’m at
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| Do you really think you actually will pass through?
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| I have to ask you, did you see what happened to the last dude
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| Tried to compare styles, word he got his ass chewed
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| Now with this in mind, do you still wanna bring your shit and find out the hard
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| way
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| Spawn’s not the one to play with, trade blades with
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| You might as well slit your own wrist with the razor
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| It’s best cause I’m crazier
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| Blazing you, for my own amusement
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| In tune with your body, when I split your whole fixture
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| This is what happens when you’re on my shit list-er
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| Brains to give a blister, so next time you call me sir or mister
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| It’s the word-twister tongue used to make the verbs hit ya
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| Now do you get the fucking picture?
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| Well if you gotta save you you better call up
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| Cause my behavior blows kids away like a tall wind
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| I take you all in between my jaws for consumption
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| MCs and coffee at my luncheon
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| One or two lumps, and some cream, call the team for the gathering
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| Bring mics and turntables, let’s do our thing
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| Ha, cause it’s an ode to that modern man
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| This is that ode to the modern man
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| Yeah, this goes out to that modern man
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| From Minneapolis, St. Paul to that modern man
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| And it’s like a dedication to that modern man
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| This one here, this is for that modern man
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| From Atmosphere goin' out to that modern man
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| It’s to that modern man, lightning blend
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| What, now for the umpteenth-time we kick rhymes about something
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| Can’t front, I’m frustrated with heads that don’t listen
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| My position’s off-balance
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| It’s a constant challenge between the talents and the underlying mission
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| I can fill your head some more with metaphors, some cute catch-phrases
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| Filtered through accessible things
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| But if I don’t stay sincere to love and hate
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| How do I differentiate between chasing cream and chasing dreams
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| Oh yeah, fuck an MC in my city that wants to diss me
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| If I was to bounce to Atlanta with Shocker y’all would miss me
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| So kiss me, smack dab on the asshole while you battle
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| I’m with your wife sharing a Newcastle
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| Big up to Gene Pool, cause he’s the modern man
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| Word up, that kid Abuse, that kid’s a modern man
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| To Self-One, yo, that kid’s a modern man
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| Full Circle, you know them kids is modern men
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| The Native Ones, word up to that modern man
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| Beyond Extreme, this goes to the modern man
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| Dynospectrum out to that modern man
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| From Atmosphere goin' out to that modern man
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| Word up, this is the ode to the modern man
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| It goes, like, one time for that modern man
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| This goes out here now to that modern man
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| It’s to that modern man, it’s to that modern man, kid
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| Yo, this is the ode to the modern man
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| It goes word-up, yeah to that modern man
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| It’s for that modern man, it’s for that modern man
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| It’s for that modern man, lightning blend |