The I inside I

The I inside I - Fringe Mob

[Verse 1]

The habitual, ritual, instinctual delinquent

that you frequent — the sequence, and you seek hence

the consequence: this obligation at the station,

that's ego inflation, that's against all things creation.

Lyrically timed, lyrically rhymed,

off the count — lyrical crime.

But that's fine, 'cause I'm ready and I'm primed.

Nickel and dimed, wined, dined, and not sixty-nined.

[Pre-Chorus]

No boom boom in the doom room — it's non-binary.

No zoom zoom to a hidden room in this fuckin mind buried

to be money makin', soul takin', life stakin' —

get to rakin', 'cause everybody know you fakin'.

[Chorus]

I am the eye, the i inside I,

easy on the eyes, hard on the mind.

I cry at the desire to fly into the fire every time —

but I don't. I stand. Higher. Standing High.

Love isn't money and anger isn't hate.

Money creates monsters — character creates fate.

[Verse 2]

Perpetual, residual — the ritual is criminal,

individual, invisible, the interval is minimal.

Rat in a maze getting paid in a sliver of the cheese,

same wheel, same squeak, same knees.

Corner store lottery, everybody got a scheme,

everybody sellin' somebody a piece of a dream.

Bumper to bumper, every runner in the race

runnin' hard as they can just to stay in the same place.

They dangle it, angle it, tangle it, strangle it —

you rent your own life and they bill you to handle it.

[Pre-Chorus 2]

So swallow it, follow it, model it, hollow it —

they hand you a dollar and a collar and you follow it.

I gave 'em the hours. They don't get the mind.

Take the whole clock — you can't have the I.

[Chorus]

[Breakdown]

GET TO RAKIN'.

(everybody know you fakin')

SOUL TAKIN'.

(everybody know you fakin')

LIFE STAKIN'.

I'm not shakin'.

[Bridge]

excision with precision with the vision— I will defend my right.

Not the title, not the money — just the man inside the fight.

The obligation at the station don't get all of me,

'cause the eye inside the I is the last thing that stays free.

Take the whole thing — every scar and every night.

I don't ask the fire to cool. I just refuse to lose the light.

[Outro]

Habitual. Ritual. Instinctual.

Individual.

I am the eye —

(the i inside I)

I stand high.