Real One

Unpuig your prisoners lay down your guns holy war is over click off your weapons

Are you a gown of earth or a bride of Summer sun

Are you the real one

Alone alone I wasted years hunched over tuned into my dead radio

And all along I faked the funk for the pretend punks on invisible video

I robbed their saints to cop their praise but I didn't pray hard enough

I nabbed black Chucks to surf their waves but I didn't run far enough

Like a Neverest fool I stormed Mount Cool but I didn't climb high enough

And all the while The Underground never gave me no love

Unchain your monster let your Lazarus run roll away that stone for the brand new day begun

Are you the word of mouth on the tip of my tongue

Are you the real one

Are you that urge to dirge for birds that stuff they'd never play on my dead radio

Six strings and a downer shenanigan is all it takes to get played on invisible video

I shed soul clothes halos to toes but I didn't undress enough

I hipped the hype when the rap was ripe but I didn't confess enough

I rewired thoughts and connected dots but I didn't wild guess enough

And all the while The Underground never gave me no love

Oh cosmic loon beware the ides of June for soon you'll feel Fall rumble

Oh dread oh dream so sweet we cling to bloom but oh how soon we crumble

I sired sounds for sore ears but they weren't phasey enough

I reerased the serenade brigades but it wasn't spacey enough

Now I rewrite hits and skip the dull bits but it ain't shoegazey enough

And all the while The Underground never gave me no love

Are you the real one

Bow down street soldiers whose Uzis weigh tons as you were killers let the games be done

Are you pre-rebirth or beyond redemption

Are you the real one.