1. |
Re:Volition
02:04
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Tip-toeing through life, I pretend
That time might change what awaits at the end.
Enemies and friends, inherent beliefs, trends, I'll ascend
To the seldom-seen spiritual Zen, what then?
Tell me what drives you, I can just listen
The journey through the mind is a mission of stealth
For admission of self, I petition:
The hero and the villain of the story is VOLITION.
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2. |
All Barz, No Hookz
02:48
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Will-Powerz known to spin beats among the dirt
Wielding words as weapon like William Wordsworth
My surplus of words will certainly provide a burden
Ain't you heard? Hip-Hop's dead and buried, wrapped inside a curtain!
Will-Powerz holding down bass like a soldier
Trying to embrace what I face getting older
Dreams dry up, stagnate and become colder
Than being stranded in Antarctica in an over-the-shoulder boulder holder.
The 90s was a golden age for rappers
Now they talk about 9s but miss the T like BA Baracus
Glorifying guns enabled Conservative backers
To condemn rap and then take offence at the word 'crackers'.
Powerz just one of the phatter society mappers
Who's vying for the enactment of propriety for rappers
Boom, Bap, BING! The bassline shatters the matter contained framed in your face while you chatter!
Will-Powerz known to vanish without a trace
Like Madeleine McCann but nobody's seen my face
Hiding in the place where fake music's embraced
And if I die from it I just beat you in the human race.
The craft you deface, I've marked you as a disgrace
In the past hard graft and masters set the pace
Now rappers sing with auto-tuners and waste
Makes me wanna burn iTunes 'Urban Database'.
THIS AIN'T URBAN - we call it HIP-HOP!
It loves every style of music except pop!
Grey skies clearing it's time for a fresh crop
Calling every rapper up in the cards of Don't Flop.
Think about the art and you'll find it's behind
What's hidden between the lines in every rapper's book of rhymes.
Bars full of crimes and personal gain frame
The illusion of fame as merely cheapening your name.
WILL-POWERZ! Say it once more for the game!
Spitting fire like a Dhalsim Yoga Flame
Rappers selling out made the craft go lame
Then they tried to cast blame like they made an insurance claim!
Please GET OUT! You know who you are
Featured on the album of some bait pop-star
I'd even go as far as to dedicate you a bar
To say I hope a crazy stalker cuts the brakes on your car!
Picturing you burn, a victim of your desertion
Of discerning emcees, but people will never learn:
Respect works best if it's something you suffer to earn
Then turn it into something that's a service to the world.
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3. |
The Mirror
03:25
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[Verse 1]
I shone a light into the mirror trying to find me
But that reflection only lit up what's behind me
Now I search for clues among the litter like a crime scene
Pick up every pipe dream then distribute for a finder's fee.
They wanna tell me it's too late,
Put me on a shelf then lock the door and shut the gate.
Let me think my life has been defined by my mistakes,
All that's left is age and death so I'll be best to sit and wait.
So there I am, resting on my laurels in a state,
Spending every day eating junk and playing games,
It's what I want to do, they convinced me I was safe
If I stayed away from trying to rise above a life in chains.
Does living on this planet mean a thing? Should I even sing?
Or should I fill my life with many stories Stephen King?
The mystery is what I'm free to bring,
Cos looking back I only ever learnt to bleed and sting.
[Chorus]
I keep walking in the night,
Secrets forced into the light,
Looking in the mirror...
Trying to see clearer...
(x2)
[Verse 2]
Clearer than the fear of dark days getting nearer
I feel afraid cos the price paid's getting dearer
How do you embrace fake smiles on your face
As you give up on the chase for a better future era?
Learning from the world expecting wealth
My words affect nothing in the world except myself
In turn it wrecked my health, better than me?
You better believe it's better to be
A veteran set in a method of freedom ready to lead indefinitely
But every warrior has a weapon to bury
Looking back finding my regrets are many
The mirror of the past, like looking through stained glass
Memory can place a mask where you never intended
So any mistakes you're ashamed to tell
Remember when it happen bro you only meant well
Life can be a ride, one day you climb the next you slide
But always keep in my you gotta hold your head high!
[Chorus]
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4. |
Can't You See?
02:48
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[Verse 1]
As above, so below. Betrayed the Holy Ghost,
Hell on Earth, Satan is written into our chromosomes.
Ruled by misogynists and homophobes
Polarised, split between the fascists and the over-woke.
See him grinning from the dark like the Cheshire Cat
But he has a sweet disposition like the Temper Trap,
We forget faster than a visit from the Men in Black
People warning us but they boring us - to hell with that!
How you do it? Struggling, going through it?
Now you're vulnerable, good and evil are fluid,
He's focused on your soul like a Pythagorean druid
He'll whisper when you are lucid - Luciferian music.
Eve bit the apple, the desperate fill the chapel,
Trump caused the riots and liars on every channel.
The good die young and the wicked feed the rabble,
Shackled to the Devil and told we should be thankful.
[Chorus]
Can' you see the mark of the beast?
Can't you see you're part of the feast?
He comes to you in a mask to deceive.
It's coming, why can't you see?
[Verse 2]
It's a struggle to resist
The devil hides in our mind's lie that he doesn't exist
Every vice we persist and delight as a gift
Must apply pride to provide sight of a wish!
Invidia, full of spite, is the glitch
That an envious mind can't fight like an itch
From the bite of a parasite hiding in the pits
Of a gluttonous rich man lying in a ditch.
Lust is a twitch with the power to bewitch
The quick, the sick, the sour and the switch is flicked
Before allowing, for kicks you're now devouring
Flowers of the artificial kingdom you cower in.
Now you're bowing to your pain;
Rage, laziness and greed for any material gain
The seven deadly sins sling dirt on the Earth
There's seven heavenly virtues, learn what they're worth man.
[Chorus]
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5. |
Only The Good
04:35
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[Chorus]
I know it comes for everyone
You can't hide and you can't run
If our mistakes can't be undone
Only the good die young
[Verse 1]
Altogether memories are hard to tell apart
It's rare to find a memory that lingers in your heart
Other than memories that represent a new start
Or chances you took for granted that end up being your last
My chance passed with others, we never knew
Just a normal day in school would be our final time to speak to you
We never knew that the day the ambulance took you away
We lost the chance to say that we loved you. Because we did
Seventeen, we were just kids
You were the brightest among us, every moment you lived
You did nothing but give, and you were equipped with
A gift for living happily unrestricted
But in one moment you were stripped of it
No-one could predict it, it was so quick
It's difficult to depict, like a switch was flicked
And there was nothing we could do to fix it...nothing
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
The last time that I saw you, I was in the street
You were on a stretcher looking like you were asleep
With a respirator helping you to breathe, I was scared but never believed
That life would only offer you two more weeks
I remember the phone call, struggling to speak
When I first heard they turned off the life support machine
I was like "What does that mean?" My friend in his grief
Didn't want to have to say the words differently
See, words, in the end they aren't enough
Every one of us woke up on the first day
Knowing you were gone. The world carried on
But for us time froze in the moment you were taken from.
The moment you were holding on
The moment we were praying you could still recover from
The moment to this day we still dream we could change
The moment that in memory we constantly prolong
[Chorus]
[Guitar solo]
[Verse 3]
We were only kids, you were in a box
Carefully they carried you and placed you at the top
Of a shrine of flowers and photographs with a cloth
Embroidered with words quoting a solemn prayer to God
I almost felt ashamed of my own heartbreak
Your mother cried more than her body could take
For her sake your dad chose to speak. Stood beside you
And told us the story of your last two weeks
He recalled that you opened your eyes
And even though you only had movement in one side
You comforted your mother as she cried, reached out to hold her
Every second you breathed you'd carry on the fight
Til only a machine was keeping you alive
You silently drifted away in the night
In our dreams and memories we sustain your life
You changed our lives...
[Chorus]
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6. |
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[Chorus - Will-Powerz]
People living on their knees tryna get by
People dying in the streets trying to survive
Every struggle every never-ending fight
Wishing everything will be alright
[Chorus - repeat]
[Will-Powerz]
Sifting through the bars, Will drifting through the stars
Still a million miles away from Mars, destination far
Estimation target designation hard, desperation
I regard education marred our imagination
Regard preservation as the bard
Explanation of the shards of my heart
This my declamation marked by the defamation
Of the human nation as we're racing to the end of domination
Self-abomination
All that we give for life
We live for life
And if for life
We give our lives
[Alex Fay]
Remember...
Remember...
Remember...
Remember me...
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7. |
Lady Society
04:58
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If only you could see how deranged I can be
If only I explain what remains within me
Talking dreams of relief to extremes of belief
Plotting schemes underneath what I speak and you see.
See this here is my fantasy, and my woman is society
Gyrating slowly as she dances for me privately
I am free to strip her to the flesh our lies are hiding
She's a state of mind blinded by zeitgeist and irony.
Dimethyltryptamine; spectral effervescent
Psychedelic light nebulized clouds the skies we fly between
Time freezes, dry ice screens the weaved realities
And seamless fallacies a human seeks
Her eyes shine brighter than life's prizes that justify violence
And silently cry more than I could ever hope to buy
But hope to buy's precisely what her misty eyes remind me of
Man's design to balance sacrifice with open pride
Unable to decline but unwilling to resign I bind her eyes behind a blindfold
Lady Society is intrigued; why hide what I've seen
But try to abide enticement twice? Now the scenery's
Enclosed, she's unclothed, sliding closer
Pheromones intoxicate and strike in her aroma
She knows I've been exposed to the glow of possibility
Now to show me I can only get it through servility
Her lips whisper to me with language and imagery
Seductively she tells me what my desire should be
It seems she has the audacity to preach to me about freedom
Paradoxically, toxically, leads me to believe
I'm needed, I'm heeded, I'm unique and unexceeded
If I leave my individuality she'll always carry me...
She's all that I can see in the swirling haze around me
There may be something further with the beauty to astound me
Her covered eyes have bound me to the bounty
And the whispers of her lips, impossible to resist like Will O' The Wisp
Mystified I mask her face, deepening the masquerade
Keeping her advance at bay, giving me a chance to say
I'm looking for a different way, the pain that I convey
Makes her hesitate, like a killer with its first prey
Persevering with the fray I make my play and stray away
From Lady Society to chance it in the grey
To blaze a trail as a castaway, at last display
A vast array of martial arts, I paid to study Descartes
But they can't persuade me that she won't betray me
She'll keep on dictating, her charms will decay me
But as the day recedes, motivation seems to cease to breathe
I'm alone amid the trees and on the breeze I catch the scent:
Lady Society
Maybe I'm uneasy but she still inspires my
And once again she's all that I can see, now
I feel Her, I need Her, in fear I'm beneath Her
I tried to be free in society; to be or not to be
I can't believe it isn't possible, it's got to be
She's got to me, I know it, I'm reeling, I'm feeling ecstasy
Inexorably swept to be everything she expects of me
She's a multiplicity; a plethora
Whether I seek freedom or never believe in leaving
I'll forever be weaved among the skin
Someone intravenously feeding me edicts like a king.
Nothing eternal I'm just an epidermal cell
Interminably preserving a certain version of the shell
A burden I repel...to be or not to be
The options I've adopted make living a lottery
Instead I'm taking option three: let a disease spread in our melanin
Carcinogenic, ahead of any relevant medicine:
If I'm going down then I'll take the Lady with me
Misery, hate and rage are the gifts the Lady gives me
Call it a murder/suicide, anything you like
I survive sometimes by dreaming of the day that I die
Dreaming of the day that I die
Dreaming of the day that I die...
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8. |
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[Verse 1 - Snypa Delic]
As time flies by every year I'm getting older
Months fly by and days are soon over
I tell myself to keep composure
Remain strong like a soldier and catch what life throws ya
Too much a lot of weight on your shoulder
Life can be tough I'm sure you knew before I told ya
Friends close, enemies closer
This ain't Jeremy Dot Operah, nah
I'm getting what's rightfully mine so I'm
Going all out when I'm writing these rhymes
In time I visualize I'll make it big time
So in my spare time I'm writing these rhymes
Driving 'em mental, but yet I don't drive
So slap on an instrumental and just close your eyes
As I take you on a trip to the depths of my mind
A place non-civilized and full of grey skies, no lies
This is my life in words and when I
Wrote this verse I struggled at first but
Then I thought fuck it mate, show 'em what you're worth
So for now, since birth, I swear I've been cursed
I been from good to bad, then worse
From worse to bad then flip it in reverse
Kill it when I spit it give it everything I've learned
Throughout the years the tables have turned, look
I turned my life round now
Cos I'm living my life safe and sound now
Check my YouTube account or Sound Cloud
All these weak emcees better bow down
I been crossed, I been lost, but I'm found now
I got over it now since I found out
Out to everyone I really wanna shout out
Latent's Records mate, we're gonna stand out!
[Chorus - Will-Powerz]
These hands of mine
They can't do nothing 'bout the hands of time
[Verse 2 - Will-Powerz]
Space/time I chase by and erase mistakes I made tryna base my life on
Fake signs, I trace lines in case it takes the shape I would equate the size from
Part of my life's gone, I measure in years
Irrelevant numerical rhetoric subtlely smears
I've got nothing to fear, I have struggles and near buckles
And clear sincere trouble to steer what appears to bubble beneath cheers!
Any anniversary; personal or universal working the rehearsal we
Learn observing history, furnishing the mystery
Of yearning for the gift to see the person that you wish to be
The clock ticks another tock
Another thief somewhere picks another lock
Another leaky tap drip drips another drop
And another 'once had' becomes another 'have not'...
Space/time relativity, I embrace mine as it's relevant to me
If an element's ever perceived beating the limit of life speed
It might be a nice read with a sweet cup of tea
It's hard escaping the past
We see it every time we get a glance at the stars
Or a chance in our bars as rappers to go hard
On a shard of our heart that's irreparably scarred.
Whether we are or we aren't gonna last
One minute ends then another one starts
You cover it in your graft or your art when you mark
What's regarded as charting the parts of your craft!
You only need to be half-smart
Clock ticks aren't easy to tell apart like...
[Chorus]
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9. |
A Simple Life
02:54
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[Verse 1]
See...I do this for the people,
Never stop the struggle, I will do this til we're equal,
But as I fight I find I need to prove I ain't deceitful
Or a hypocrite that preaches shit but moves with Mr Needful
That's the Devil, and I ain't close to God like no cathedral
But I recognise that living right is how we all live peaceful,
Co-exist, all you need is love, I learnt that from The Beatles
In a yellow submarine where vibes and colours drenched the easel.
The symmetry in mirrors superficial, hides the evil,
But only through reflection can we see above the prequel like a periscope,
Learning from mistakes and being heedful
So the past don't just repeat like Final Destination sequels.
All of us is working, trying to live,
But every single person has a purpose and a gift,
So do you, bring it to the surface and uplift,
Find your inner self, be determined and commit.
[Chorus]
I believe that we
Have never been free
And I want back what they took from me
My identity
A simple life's never been easy...
[Verse 2]
Right now the future's waiting on you
Man, I you believe it's easy I'll show you a thing or two
See we're living in a world where wealth is a measure of self
And anything else is irrelevant element
Prevalent, decadent, pastimes eminent
Unintelligent art hinder development
I just want to keep it simple
I just want peace and freedom for all my people
'My people' means everyone, differentiating can be overcome
Why are we divided when ultimately we're one?
I wanna bask in the light of the sun
Wanna see past what life has become
Wanna see one day where I breathe with the freedom
To believe I could be at ease some day
Some might say that it's me with the problem
Life's great and the world's a-ok
That being the case, I have no place and I'll
Leave to conceive how I lost my way
Everything I say, what I'm trying to convey
If you don't buy into living your life how they play
There's nothing we desire more deeply
But leading a simple life has never been easy!
[Chorus]
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10. |
Re:Write
02:58
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Ooooh...
This is not a dream
Destruction on the screen
Rewrite with me
Come fly with me
We just want control
So much we lose our souls
Rewrite with me
Come fly with me
Oooooh...
So much...
So much I wanna show you...
Oooh...
Rewrite with me
Come fly with me
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11. |
Re:Straint
02:29
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[Verse 1]
I got a lot of angles in me
I make hyenas and the jackals twitchy
Cos many shy away from London, they can't hack my city
I spot the patterns quickly, analyse the activity
Then make it OK if it's not right, like that classic Whitney.
To clash is risky - you should re-examine swiftly,
Create a strategy, be vigilant, don't ad-lib strictly.
Don't underestimate the others if they acting shifty
They be on their tactics G while you don't even practice quickly.
Time to orchestrate like Arsene Wenger.
Too many man ain't plugged in to the architecture.
Your luck ain't gonna last forever, winging it is half a measure
Time to play the longer game and style it like you're Harvey Spector.
It's hardly better - the loser will be tarred and feathered.
It's time to focus on your target like a market sector.
Me, I'm like a carburettor
Cos I be coming with the drive bringing fire to your dark December!
[Chorus]
True facts, and you know that we'll pursue that
Coming up short, time for a new tack
One hand wash the other
And you know both hands seen a few bags
And through that, dispatched in my terrain
Withdrew gaps international to build acclaim
So when we hold it down, ain't the fact that we're afraid
Cos the man who holds the power is the man who has restraint
[Verse 2]
I got a lot of angles on me
Snakes tryna make a profit from me
Con me into rolling with 'em then they drop it on me
Think they're stopping me from clocking what's a problem for me
But I keep it locked like a safe-deposit box
Sorry but you can't knock me. Will treads softly.
Got you where I want you when you start to think you got me
A cocky state of mind ain't a good design to copy
If you can't deliver half of the potential you embody
You think it bothers me that on top of breeding hypocrisy
The Hip-Hop dream routinely makes gods out of mediocrity?
I'm like Socrates swapping beats with philosophy
Possibly ontologically formed of features of prophecy
Stopped beyond the reach of what fakers speak when they rap
I'm waiting for the breach and I'll take a piece of it back
Sleeping on the wackness I'll make a beast of a track
Then feast on the pack of rappers that ceased taking the slack!
[Chorus]
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12. |
Built For This
03:31
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[Verse 1]
All of what I've been through could have broken me.
Instead I got some knowledge and some dopamine.
Survival of the fittest, let 'em go for me
I'll blow and make the whole landscape look bleak just like a snow machine.
They ain't opposing me...I'm breaking walls down with my cogency,
They stay tryna bridge them gaps but slow things like a go-between.
Their twilight beckons, I'm the start, just like an opening scene
No-one they supply is on a level even close to me.
Now how they gonna fuck with this?
Man are changing colours like a hiding cuttlefish
I ain't one you wanna tussle with
They're a basic fighter, I'm the mothership
They could not keep hold of me if I came with a rubber grip.
Enough of this they can't put me in a box.
Call a publicist, have 'em push me to the top.
That's the rub of it, hell I would be on the rocks
But my upper lip's stiffer than a pulley when it locks.
[Chorus]
Just keep pushing on
And stand your ground
Cos you are built for this
Steady flow is better than none
Don't stand around
For hardship you're built equipped
[Verse 2]
I got mad jokers thinking they can break me
Even my sanity is threatening to forsake me
They think the numbers are providing them with safety
But I show 'em why a freedom fighter rides on higher stakes, see
I'm medieval knights fighting to the death
I'm even breathing white fire that's igniting in my chest
Enlighten and believe unless the grieving we express
Leads a dream beneath the seams of every demon we possess, nah
I've been a flying winged bringer of destruction
Or a serpent sent to haul a nation out of its corruption, and what?
Instruction undermines the mind's powers of deduction
So for now fear is an insurmountable obstruction
They know that Will-Powerz can discern a skilled liar
It's no hiding out behind the earnings you acquire
Cos on the wagon wheeling through the furnace of desire
I'm a dragon man of course I won't be burning in the fire!
[Chorus]
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13. |
Go Hard Or Get Out
02:41
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[Verse 1]
Believe I take my time when I'm writing a sixteen
I'm weaving innate rhymes, designing a sick scheme
As five of the nine planets arrive in a prime alignment
I'm winding the lines tighter than carbon atoms in diamond!
Part of cracking enlightenment lies in high entitlement
Nullifying the violence, purifying environment
Silence applied science and climates of non-compliance
The blindness of pious acolytes acting like advertisements.
Lacking guidance attachments are trapped inside us
Enacting actual riots and fashioning fake Messiahs
Liars aspire to be suppliers of desire
And I'm trying to amlify what fighting requires
Re-ignite the fires before the culture expires
This is Hip-Hop, why are we treating it like pop?
Drop my name in a cypher: Will-Powerz decipherer
Life of a righteous writer I shine brighter than Blake's tiger!
[Chorus]
Go hard or GET OUT!
Go hard or GET OUT!
This ain't the time to be slacking so get the lead out!
You're lackadaisical, lacking days but you're capable,
This scene is breakable brother so make your pen count!
[Verse 2]
I'm a different echelon, spectral, I made the Devil strong,
Next I'll be an emblem like errors measured with Epsilon
Where has the vector gone? Intellectual lexicons
Buried in the essence of metaphors getting slept upon.
I'm never wrong, I'm the head of the peloton
Read the seventh psalm then I said I'll never need any god,
Elevate your energy, effervesce like your Espeon
Effort gives you merit so get it in like a femmedom.
Read the vespers wrong - autobots and decepticons
Meditate, develop for decades, now I am getting on.
Give me the credentials to keep on rhyming for hella long,
Still I need some help with the best method to end a song.
Find me in Durham heading to Neville's Cross,
Came from Hellfire to ex men like I'm Emma Frost.
Met a heavy obstacle at the end like a level boss
Had to sell my soul but I kept my spirit to spread the cost!
[Chorus]
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14. |
Be Water, My Friend
01:36
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Volition is the start but can also be the end
Money is the least important currency you spend
Others aren't the toughest things with which you must contend
Be water, my friend.
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Will-Powerz London, UK
Will-Powerz was born and raised in Croydon, SE London, where contemporary Stormzy hails from. He is, however, a different
kind of rapper, fusing a range of styles to conjure a sound that doesn't quite fit any one mould.
With radio airplay, countless blog features and a growing presence on his local scene, Will's music has the power to inspire and educate.
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