Arcane Rap Cypher

I'll hear you out, but I ain't that type of counselor

Established seat, oh, you know no one is bouncing her

Breaking generational curses. Owe it to me

And my kin like Kino, never lost in the sea

Play 'em like tic tac! Foes on their tip toes!

Exiled yet holding these puppet strings on their elbows

My boy, it's quite a quarrel that I've walked into

It's nothing that the feline MacGyver can't find a fix for

Just call me Heimerdinger! The little Einstein

Who always finds time to tinker while he opines the wider picture!

A scientist who puts mind over magic

Any skeptic question you can imagine, you know I mustache it

'Cause this craft, it is dangerous if the wrong hands could grab it

So why don't you pass me the gauntlet and allow me to snap it

I built this city! And with this committee

Y'know it sure ain't pretty. They tried to evict me

But I'm still in the hood, and if they lock off the entry...

I'm 300 years old, I know how to knock off some sentries

I'm a prodigy! Still in my prime, it seems

'Cause when I spit a progress speech, it sounds like a prophecy

And I admire all who tried to rap up on this jolly good beat

But just because it can be done, doesn't mean it should be!

Three lanes, six chambers, I'm with the mafia

My clan tag him, sliding with a stick, my opp a hockey puck

(Ham Sandwich Noises)

Zaun born and bred, they tried to lock me up

It's nothing but corruption at the top, but that ain't stopping us!

This city'll eat you up alive, and it won't cough you up

Fish outta water, they gon' fry you up, tilapia

Topside, these crooked cops could pop ya just for rocking up!

I been wired, you'd think they put some shimmer in my coffee cup!

It's Firelight's 4L! And we are not for sale!

The prize we seeking is peace, but we ain't got Nobels

I know assassins and killers but I am not gon' tell!

If you ain't come from my section, then you do not know Hell!

We been hidden in the trees like Nigel and them

Can't even try to pretend, that I got a mind full of zen

Crib 'bout the size of Big Ben, it's something like a Time Bomb

The runic echoes resonate like, "Who gon' lead, if I'm gone?"

Storming in the palace with a passion in the talisman

Who can harness magic into gadgets but a Talis man?

Holding up the hammer, I'll be locking down the lab

Until I'm channeling a multitude of mana in my callused hands!

You best bet I don't need to be regal

I'm giving Hextech to the streets of my people

'Cause I imagine a city no pain or poverty plagues

We're on the brink of a breakthrough so let me open the gates!

Because this element is infinite in luxuries!

Brilliant discoveries! Medically magnificent recoveries!

Knew this was the future, but we never figured what it means

Look at what it's done to you! Look at what it's done to me!

Every universe I made a promise to prove...

That the beauty in our imperfection's something to lose!

You know a cure for humanity wasn't part of the plan

I just want to change the planet with my partner in hand!

A lifespan could be much more than finite

When my hands crank the wheels of our zeitgeist

I hijacked the government's precious guidelines

There's always a choice, you just need the right mind

Leave my footprint on this planet until they snap my cane

You see progress day as a reason to celebrate

Until that progress gets set ablaze

So I will not wait for your permission to change the world to a better place!

Frankenstein, I can get it line!

I'm the Jesus of your sacrifice, your travel guide!

Turn your bleeding into bread and wine, so grab a bite

With the people in my paradise, with better lives!

Put Hextech magic in your lap, scared I'll turn it into profit?

With access to a lab, I will turn into your prophet

Bring the apple to its branch when the core's already rotten

You have to forgive your past for a future without a coffin!

We walk the line of two different sides

Not too empathetic for the people who don't even try

Cautionary tales can be evil, got my reason why!

Loneliness is often just the product of a gifted mind

Infinite wisdom. Yeah, I stand on business!

Went through hell and haven't made it back but I am not the victim!

But the thesis is, never show weaknesses, keep it consistent

How do you expect them all to keep it, when there's no conviction?

I've got my own ideals!

And you might understand a fraction of what I reveal

Look, I just put it into practice, if it's how I feel

Not too much left they can steal. Promise to you that you'll heal!

I have done the most that I can, but I'm still not even sure of it

Never felt this kind of pain before, but still enduring it!

Always making progress and at least that's reassuring

If there's anyone who can, I know it's me who finds a cure for death!

Power, real power

Only comes to those who'll do anything to achieve it!

I was cast into the deep end, but not defeated

Forged in the water, reborn and I shed my weakness

Let me tell you of the vilest secret

The power of peace lies in the violence used to keep it

Defend your throne with the iron hand that had seized it!

Change will be needed, lest history be repeated!

I pay no heed to the feelings, they just divert our attention

I tend to aim for the peak, no fun in murdering henchmen

You may gain my respect, but never earn my affection

If you're not in first, then you're not worthy of mention

Zaun is a sea and we stack bodies for the buoyancy

Many greater men than you have tried to foil me!

Chem barons, topside, and old friends annoyingly...

But I still believe in loyalty!

First thing's first: you're the greatest thing I've ever achieved

You've made me prouder than I ever could dream!

They want to keep us underground, and so I planted the seeds

And now I see expanding branches of our family tree!

And watch it grow through the cracks, 'til we're breaking the walls

You know I'll be there to catch, when you're taking the fall

Though your stubbornness and heart were perfect gifts from your mother

The greatest gift the world will ever give you's each other!

Now I hate my girls have got to pay pain's fee!

I want to change the world, but now the world changed me!

I prayed that we'd be leaving this place

But now I only pray that I can keep the beast in the cage!

Stuck 'tween the love of my daughters! Dad?

And Lust for their blood in the slaughter! Dad!

Please cut me free and be brave!

'Cause I just wasn't meant to be saved!

What's another life lost?

What's the cost of blood on my hands?

Like you'd understand!

I'm tearing apart at the seams where I stand!

Let the bullets rain on down!

Watch an artist paint your sacred town, a crater now

You made your vow, I'll make you bow

And bring this whole world down!

Light the flare and watch the rockets fly!

I signed the air and made a violet sky

You try and strike, but don't you get close

Take me on and then you'll join the damned ghosts!

Scumbag that always will come back!

I'm too much to unpack! I been there and done that!

Some call me a "Slum Rat", some call me "The Revolution"

Don't get in my way, 'less you want an execution!