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playing the wall
outside the jam sitting down writing rhymes in the hall
the quiet man observes all walks of life
because he's in it for the long haul

i promise that i never saw it coming
never been done with a hit the ground running approach
and it felt like home
but in that first moment my mind got blown
frozen, and chosen 'cause we're both faded
yet i still don't hate it
it's a basic process of gratification
the new craze sweeping the nation
this is how we take the old to the new
stretch out the tried and true
i tried it too
and i remember that i got hit so hard i had to sit a few out
and there's been new doubts that occurred
from the moment that we started the word
the web's been tangled so tight
that to get to me it could take a whole night

playing the wall
outside the jam sitting down writing rhymes in the hall
the quiet man observes all walks of life
because he's in it for the long haul

all i could say is slow down
master your art
take my heart with no sound
deep in the eyes lies control
of some of the parts used to make up the whole
i wish that my stoic facade
didn't make our beautiful moment seem odd
but my nature is to hesitate for a quick second
so the moments are reflected
selected under a slight pressure
to be the one who emits truth without measure
as a result, small talk is extinct
i wanna know what you really think about things
because it means so much
now there's a lifeline we can both clutch
common ground
a place to stand tall when it comes time to get down
when it comes time to be found
a face in the crowd your optics allowed to be clear
when the time comes near
and we all find that in our mind there's no fear
so we're back there again
proximity has the heart pulsating like a theramin
now watch it all fade away
make it easy to find words to say
innocence lost in the past
eclipsed by events and the shadows they cast
events that seem to outlast any need to be more than an outcast
so as we exist on the fringes
and view the world in our offbeat tinges
we can mirror images reflected
and be selected to be connected

playing the wall
outside the jam sitting down writing rhymes in the hall
the quiet man observes all walks of life
because he's in it for the long haul

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from .​.​.​less is no more, released January 1, 2000
written by Chief
produced by The Ill Mathematical

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Chief and TheDoomsdayDevice Austin, Texas

Chief and TheDoomsdayDevice
:: mc : dj : producer : artist ::

A wordsmith with the heart of a poet and the head of a broadcast journalist. A DJ who is not afraid to venture outside of the norm. A producer with a different vocabulary of influences, and no fear whatsoever about embracing them. An artist searching for the link between the palette and the pixel. ... more

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