Song: The drowning season
Album: Contempt
[" Contempt " CD]

Disjointed context
The words were merely sounds
Watching as the buildings
Slowly crumbled to the ground

Thoughts never rendered
Lie dying by the road
Last breath drawn endlessly
Collapsing into smoke

CH:
Struggling to break free
From life's inequities
The suicide of reason
Becomes the drowning season

Grim repetition
Dour features form a frown
The clock's hand reverberates
Throughout the empty town

De-evolution
Oxidizing the past
The present is uncertain
The future never lasts

(CH)

Pre-emptive reflex
Split-second sanctity
Repeating prayers that somehow
Never got received

(CH)

Song: Awake
Album: Failure
[" Failure " CD]

I am lost
The footprints that I left have disappeared
For now I am driving blind

Accelerate
Without a destination to welcome me
This road is just an endless loop

CHORUS
Every time I close my eyes
The noise inside me amplifies
I can't escape
I relive every moment of the day
Every misstep I have made
Finds a way it can invade
My every thought
And this is why I find myself awake

Directionless
The letters on the signs have long since faded
The sky conspires to swallow me

Paid the price
For burning all the maps to warm myself
I threw their ashes to the wind

(CH)

Walk away
Time to leave the realm of the familiar
To find a place where sleep can come

Hesitate
For one last time I shout into the sky
To wake the ones I'll leave behind

(CH) x 2

Song: Dissapoint
Album: Failure
[" Failure " CD]

Just one more time
For the sake of sanity
Tell me why
Explain the gravity
That drove you to this
That brought you to this place
That pushed you down
Into the soil's embrace

Give me the chance
I was denied
To sit and talk with you
For one last time

CHORUS
Did I disappoint you?
Did I let you down?
Did I stand on the shore
And watch you as you drowned?
Can you forgive me?
I never knew
The pain you carried
Deep inside of you.

I can't forget
Having to see
The words that knocked the wind
Right out of me
It's not enough
I've come undone
Trying to find sense
Where there is none

Just give me peace
You owe me that
To help ward off the fears
I must combat

(CH)

And so I ask
For one more chance
To understand
This senseless circumstance
Help me to see
This through your eyes
The reasons I've been trying
To surmise

Though you are gone
I am still your son
And while your pain is over
Mine has just begun

Song: Divide
Album: Failure
[" Failure " CD]

- Shoota Babylone
(Rockin'Squat / Doctor L) 5' 51

Un nouveau titre, une nouvelle ambiance oppressante.
Accroche toi à la rythmique, surveille la descente.
Car la montée, elle, sera comme toujours assassine.
Comme un fil dans une aiguille, la précision touchera sa cible.
Le micro dans ma main, le retour de l'Assassin.
Whoy, whoy, whoy, choisis ton chemin.
Car le notre se trace à coups de tonnerre musical.
On fume le fonck, et le recrache en freestyle !
Pas de problème man, nous restons undaground,
Sous la couverture des quartiers qui délirent sur notre style.
On ne fait pas de copinage avec le gratin musical.
Préférant de loin vendre moins, mais garder l'impact d'une balle.
Cette vision est radicale mais réflechie,
Car la musique se propage aussi, de façon illicite.
Les cassettes circulent et la masse s'agite,
Et la masse cogite, il faut vite;
Arrêter l'émancipation des chansons à thèmes.
Traitant des réalités, mettant en danger le système.
Vraiment? Je ne pense pas qu'une chanson pourra changer la condition de l'Homme.
Pourtant on vérifie que l'audimat reste dans les normes.
On est loin des Jardins de Babylone.
Alors on prend les rênes en main et par le biais du symbole.
On demande à tous les posse de s'unir pour shooter Babylone !!

On ne me ment plus, l'africain est mon frère.
Le musulman, le juif, je respecte leurs prières.
Individuellement le choix de chacun est propre à lui-même.
Vu de l'espace l'Histoire de la Terre est pour tout le monde la même.
Mais si on se rapproche, on voit qu'une Porsche
Motive plus d'amour qu'une mère qui nourrit ses gosses.
C'est fou de voir tous ces gens attirés par l'argent,
Comme le requin attiré par le sang.
Je suis né et je vis à Babylone,
Là où les enfants tuent, dealent et volent.
Alors accrochez vous, car maintenant nous shootons Babylone !!

Quant on parle de Babylone, on le prend comme symbole
Pour illustrer le monopole qu'exercent les structures dirigeantes en métropole
A l'égard des minorités qui forment une majorité sur le globe.
L'ennemi de ce système s'adresse,
A tous les gens qui ont encore l'espoir que ces horreurs cessent.
Babylone et moi,
Nous ne dealons pas ensemble, la décadence je n'aime pas.
L'oligarchie est présente dans les rues de Ripas.
Le futur dépend de notre action présente, ne l'oublie pas !
Si tu restes statique, si tu ne t'occupes pas de politique.
La politique s'occupe de toi.
Si tu t'en occupes trop, gare ! Aux chiens de garde de l'Etat.
La pression constante d'évoluer en terrain inhospitalier
Fais monter la parano, monte le débat à un autre niveau.
Ca y est, le flot de mes mots résonne ... Smoka Babylone !!

Song: House on fire
Album: Failure
[" Failure " CD]

I lost myself in shapeless oceans
Whose depths concealed more than they showed
Beliefs obscured by mists around them
A legacy they'd been bestowed

Columns of ice paint awkward pictures
Distorted forms that once seemed real
Engulfed inside transparent textures
Billowing curtains as hard as steel

For all the noise filling the landscape
Whispers and cries with no reply
It's quiet here within these boundaries
And thoughts collect like pools of light

My eyes divide the sky
As sirens sound in heaven
My will brings down the moon
And shatters it to pieces

The silence grew inconsequential
The day became a paradigm
A thousand years, a hundred decades
An arbitrary slice of time

I found myself with no companion
Except the salty earth and sky
And suddenly there came my focus
The world around me clarified

My eyes divide the sky
As sirens sound in heaven
My will brings down the moon
And shatters it to pieces

And so I walked in isolation
Hoping solace would cross my path
Ignored the road that lay behind me
And stepped away from the aftermath

I lost myself in shapeless oceans
Whose waters turned from dark to clear
I floated there, a tiny island
With no more doubt, with no more fear

My eyes divide the sky
As sirens sound in heaven
My will brings down the moon
And shatters it to pieces

Song: I am the rain
Album: Failure
[" Failure " CD]

Sifting through the ashes
With unsteady hands
Searching for the remnants
Of a broken man

A history of hollow lives
And low ideals
A backlog of wrongdoing
We can never conceal

I stand up
And walk away from the dross
Towards the doorway
Of our mutual and harrowing loss

The only way I know
To shake myself of this curse
Is to bring myself to something
That is measurably worse

I sought refuge in a house on fire
I took shelter in a wall of flame
I built a prison in my own subconscious
There's nothing else left
Nothing else left to blame
Nothing else left

Emerging from the wreckage
Of a life that once was
Confounded by the damage
My own psyche does

I bear the scars
Of an insufferable will
And the tyrannical reign
It threatens to instill

Some seek control
By grabbing hold of their lives
In a futile attempt
To help themselves survive

I dig myself
Into a much deeper hole
Running from a fate
That I can never control

I sought refuge in a house on fire
I took shelter in a wall of flame
I built a prison in my own subconscious
There's nothing else left
Nothing else left to blame
Nothing else left

I woke up
In a column of ash
While the world came down
In a horrible crash

I was naive
For ever wanting this much
Using self-deception
As my only crutch

Footsteps diverge
From the path they once walked
Words are eclipsed
By the language they talked

Actions betrayed
By promises broken
Flames consume intentions
Best left unspoken

I sought refuge in a house on fire
I took shelter in a wall of flame
I built a prison in my own subconscious
There's nothing else left
Nothing else left to blame

Nothing else left to blame...

Song: King Of Insects
Album: Failure
[" Failure " CD]

Words come easy
Behind a screen
When there's no interface to face
To be seen

King of Insects
You eat your own
Atop an anthill
You call your throne

Kingdom of one
So unaware
As one-by-one your subjects
Vanish into air

Chatter to the wind
Make your decree
And save your venom
For the ones who disagree

Your castle walls are falling
Your body's frail
Your window on the world
Is minuscule in scale

Burrow deep now
Escape the light
Heaven forbid you have to face
The ones you slight

Song: Longevity
Album: Failure
[" Failure " CD]

I forgive your weakness
In light of all this bleakness
You were merely human
Destined to be ruined

CHORUS
Startled as your brevity
Turned to my longevity

I can't follow your steps
Can't go the places you went
I must forge my own path
Overcome & surpass

(CH)

The more I see around me
The more it does to ground me
At peace with all my limits
Grateful for all I'm given

(CH)

Song: Naked
Album: Failure
[" Failure " CD]

Too eager to appease
The cure is the disease
And it's only growing worse

Day by day it takes its hold
Divides its cells a thousand-fold
And makes your blindness seem perverse

Out of sight and out of mind
Are deadly traits when they're combined
But it's easier that way

Sit and watch the world go by
While all the problems multiply
With nothing left to do but pray

I am the rain
Falling down to cover you
Wish me away
But I'm here for your own good
I am the storm
Sent to wake you from your dream
Show me your scorn
But you'll thank me in the end

These amenities are nice
But there is need for sacrifice
You must lose so you may gain

It's too easy to malign
The implements that steal our time
But it's we who are to blame

Fill your pockets while you can
And try to keep the upper hand
The voice of reason sounds so shrill

Surround yourself with all you own
Work your fingers to the bone
And happiness evades you still

I am the rain
Falling down to cover you
Wish me away
But I'm here for your own good
I am the storm
Sent to wake you from your dream
Show me your scorn
But you'll thank me in the end

Too eager to appease
You've lost the forest for the trees
And it really is a shame

It is such a sorry sight
When you evaluate your life
You've only got yourself to blame

I am the rain
Falling down to cover you
Wish me away
But I'm here for your own good
I am the storm
Sent to wake you from your dream
Show me your scorn
But you'll thank me in the end

Song: Silence
Album: Failure
[" Failure " CD]

Awake, aware, alone
Lost and far from home
I walk without these walls
So there is less to fall

I am naked
I have nothing left
My bones are picked clean
And riddled with regrets
Nothing can touch me
I've nothing left to take
For I am naked
But I can never break

Bombarded by brutal events
Like the rays of a sun
Knocked to my knees
By the waves that continued to come
Each time I rise to my feet
I am knocked to the ground
But I am an element
Nothing can break me down

I am naked
I have nothing left
My bones are picked clean
And riddled with regrets
Nothing can touch me
I've nothing left to take
For I am naked
But I can never break

Link after link in a chain
Pulling hard at my limbs
The search party's lost now
The outlook is growing dim
Praying for wisdom
There's nobody left to impart
But I am an atom
And nothing can take me apart

I am naked
I have nothing left
My bones are picked clean
And riddled with regrets
Nothing can touch me
I've nothing left to take
For I am naked
But I can never break