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50 For The Misery

from Optimistic Picnic by Cautious Kieran

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This is just a test
this is not real/
my mind paragons
to a movie reel/
flipped round and round and round n earth bound/
reverberate the sound and play the rap clown./ 4
I woke to detour from my consciousness./
I woke to find, my mind with accomplishments/
the bags of my eyes, they disguise, /
the heartfelt lies, each night rewrites/ 8
manoeuvred between riddles
of whether to feel better/
and if I can, then can I be a trend setter/
a perverse little letter to 'em souls of mischief
any down and out misfit, you see// 12
I was born in 93
set to rock it till infinity/
but for now i sit here
without divine divinity/
no earthly symmetry
no real identity/
just a vessel, to wrestle,
withit lyrically/ 16
Like a soul artist soul searching/
gotta get this voice working, dispersing, some honesty/
droppin the, philosophy, to say me, properly*/ 20
I gotta be stoppin the imposed policy
I sat and watched as my teacher drew a box/
outside it was me, inside it was society/,
yet the lines blur, we confer cry quietly/
.. I know it don't change silently/4
they change you violently, I march on streets/
just to be beat by Victorian police/
lines fall
between complicit and resistant /
Those that comply
and those that fight for a difference/8
oppressed and oppressor
self-oppressing mass conjecture/
how much can I learn
by sitting in this lecture/
it's so much more than I ever expected/
yet I feel guilty, for being contented/12
attention won't last, hungover from the past /
trying to remove a sadistic laugh/14
trying to explain my own lifes path/
tryina find myself beyond race, sex and class/

I grew up amongst blokes and sexist jokes/
a broken home, a fabled hoax/
dropped out by year 7, destined for a trade/
wanted to play footy but my skills were poorly made/4
everything was shit, a black hole abyss/
should've been to young to be depressed like this/
say it's not real, it's just a test/
grown from my hate, so I'm not senseless/8
you couldn't be right wing and livin like this/
gettin screwed by the state on a daily basis/
so if you got ya class, then take your place/
learn to look beyond with intellectual ways/12
learn to debate , respond retaliate
my resontemont , says it's time to detonate/

...and then there's...

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from Optimistic Picnic, released March 1, 2014
Produced by Jack Hewitt

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Cautious Kieran Melbourne, Australia

Born in 93, and set to rock it 'til infinity, Cautious Kieran will happily assure you that he is no average MC. Growing up as a fervently discontented individual, it was in a world of hip hop that he found a medium suited to his disapproval of society. And now, with the release of his debut EP 'Optimistic Picnic', he can happily go on, to crush kill and destroy. ... more

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