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Swollen Members - Monsters in the Closet Album Lyrics



Swollen Members - Monsters in the Closet Lyrics






Intro

(This is a recording)

Yo, if you been listenin' to us since Balance..
Thank you.
If you been listenin' to us since Bad Dreams,
Monsters In The Closet
Thank you.
You're gonna find out why we named this new album Heavy
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Writer: FRANK RAATS, HEIN HENDRIKS, JACK VAN DEN BOSCH, MAURICE VAN OTHEN
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC






Steppin Thru

[Moka Only]
Talking You, What Ya'll Want To Do Just Don't Let...
We're Doing This The Way You Want To Do
Rocking You, Just Watch How Your Shit Gets Blown Back...
I Know You Wish You Could Do It Too
People Think That They Came The Way That Swollen Do...
The Members Do It Like You'd Never Knew
Getting It, By Grip, That's The Way We Rolling...
You Better Move It When We're Stepping Through

[Mad Child]
I'm the first thing to burst a verse of Street Stalker
Off my rocker of Red Bull and Vodka
Provocatively, walking like you're talking to me
Branded outlandish, triple decker stress sandwich
It's an ambush, turn out back to canvas
Ain't it the art words, painted with pain in my heart
New York to L.A., Yonge Street to Robson
We get the job done and rob with tracks on

[Prevail]
Live in effect to such, graze the edge of the metal
Raise taste, game face, first place, the rebel
In the cage with the lions, engage with the giants
Stars with temper, Red October, Prev the Cobra
I coil the sunset, coiled my drumset
Spitting grease out my grill, ya'll I'm Formula One
Crack a hole in your helmet, your bucket, your pail
Moka, Mad Child, Kemo, Prevail

[Moka Only]
Talking You, What Ya'll Want To Do Just Don't Let...
We're Doing This The Way You Want To Do
Rocking You, Just Watch How Your Shit Gets Blown Back...
I Know You Wish You Could Do It Too
People Think That They Came The Way That Swollen Do...
The Members Do It Like You'd Never Knew
Getting It, By Grip, That's The Way We Rolling...
You Better Move It When We're Stepping Through
You feel me as if I was a part of you
If you really feeling what you want to do
If you see how Moka Only gets it done
Swollen Mem, get it off, never sweat it none
Jump in the air, hands in the air, put them up
Girls shake it down, girls shake it down, line it up
Come to your town, come to your town, tear it up
Once ya'll get down, ya'll staying down, pressing love

[Mad Child]
Yo, we shocked we made it, Mad Child rocks the greatest
When I'm intoxicated, got locked, we waited
And invaded and stated the tactics activated
Can't hate it, you play the track and tax infatuated it
Fatal attraction, won't stop till I'm Platinum
Bam-Bam gonna flatten them, I'm baseball batting them
Quick draw McGraw, rap assault rifle
Go blind when you look into the mind of a psycho

[Prevail]
We're the main attraction boy, you're just a sideshow
My bubbletonic glows in the glass, don't try to hide bro
They spin the bottle from the Beat Junkie to the Sonar
The curb to the club, heavy hitting like a crowbar
No stars, no bruises, no cuts or bumps
The signs of a veteran, how'd you come up chump
Through the back door, this is a brand new rap war
Blow the speaker through the mic stand and brand the dance floor

[Moka Only}
Talking You, What Ya'll Want To Do Just Don't Let...
We're Doing This The Way You Want To Do
Rocking You, Just Watch How Your Shit Gets Blown Back...
I Know You Wish You Could Do It Too
People Think That They Came The Way That Swollen Do...
The Members Do It Like You'd Never Knew
Getting It, By Grip, That's The Way We Rolling...
You Better Move It When We're Stepping Through
Talking You, What Ya'll Want To Do Just Don't Let...
We're Doing This The Way You Want To Do
Rocking You, Just Watch How Your Shit Gets Blown Back...
I Know You Wish You Could Do It Too
People Think That They Came The Way That Swollen Do...
The Members Do It Like You'd Never Knew
Getting It, By Grip, That's The Way We Rolling...
You Better Move It When We're Stepping Through
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Writer: CRISTIAN BAHAMONDE, DANIEL JAMES DENTON, KILEY HENDRIKS, SHANE BUNTING
Copyright: Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.






Breath

[Chorus:]
[nelly furtado]
Im alive,
I can feel the blood
Rushin thru my veins
An thats all i need to know,
Cuz im not lookin for a change.
Cuz i got friends and enemies,
But it just dont bother me,
Cuz as long as i believe,
I can breath!
[end of chorus]

[Prevail]
Metamorphis, battleaxe fortress,
Four-hundred horsepower
Full moon the sorceress
Swollen members an my girl, NF
The predators an the terminator
The tribes cold breath
Why we hurt em'later
We can do so much damage now,
They''ll truck em
When i hit em
So much garbage around
Yells, bells, and whistles
Like carnival sounds.
Phenominal adrenaline
From the words of my mouth.

[Mad Child]
How did shayne manage
To rap?
With brain damage im phat
Remain famished and stacked
Your playin with the
Praying mantis,
Infact you gigantic,
You sink like titanic
Panic attack act up
An im a mack truck
Crash into disaster
Smash like master-plaster,
Punker,
Rangle-monster wants
To stomp ya
Crushin cuz im ?
Crushin that remains
Will tomorrow be the same
Blood rushin thru my veins?

[Chorus]

[Nelly Furtado]
A noices people i knew had to, thats
We are of this point to do what i did of
So spoint to to weither it be easy enough to do

[Moka]
Im sharin a mouth
Im like a crispy creme
Prevayer belt.
With the sync notes
Swollen like your lymphnods,
We went from instro to intro to
Insto,
Coincidentally
Messin up your mental state,
We makin ends glow
Pacific center ?
Me an my kinfolk atttention
Nobody can do it like your man mok'
My bands dope!
The tracks all flow
Im beautiful
Thats for sure!

[Prevail]
The harlem of queens,
The decibal kings,
Inevetable, we were born to do incredible things,
I let it ? like freedom
Swing letters from my jaw
Twenty six in the mix
An we do it better than ya'll

[Mad Child]
Im a neanderthal,
Your bound ta fall,
Im wonderful
We warned ya all
Its foreign to y'all
Its wonderful the underworld
Beautiful minds,
Tryin to keep it independant
In recruitable times.

[Chorus (x2)]

[Moka]
We crashin thru you,
Now feel the magnitude
Were flashin thru
Inside of you
It has to do with how
You do your thing
Be true to only you
Well moka only
Tellin you
Is take your soul an
Talent to
The next plateau
An balance
Who you try to think of times two

[Chorus]
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Writer: SHANE BUNTING, DANIEL JAMES DENTON, NELLY FURTADO, KILEY HENDRIKS, ROBIN HOOPER
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC






Fuel Injected

[Moka Only (chorus 2x)]
Swollen Members gunna make us stop
take a minute and remember who takes the top
to the critics and the cynics your time is up
just admit it everybody knows this rhyme is up
its hot shiiiit...

[Prevail]
Perfected but not invented
rhymes from the ego driven self centered
entered the fast lane and never gut dented
life in a flash hypes blunts and hash
three of my favourite word has made this
more hits than the majors up from the minors
bust from the top dot cops and sirens
fresh out the shop poppin' n' stylin'

[Madchild]
Madchild, wildin' nonidentical
the cynical is medical condition is critical
unforgettable Swollen Members beautiful
language unsuittable tention n' onic
Coastal Chronic track got Moka on it
independant with a diffirent perspective
select effective next (scratch sound) on exit
the young and the restless fool fuel innjected

[Moka Only (chorus 2x)]
Swollen Members gunna make us stop
take a minute and remember who takes the top
to the critics and the cynics your time is up
just admit it everybody knows this rhyme is up
its hot shiiiit...

Yall aint got it so dont even think about it
Cuz I'm tough if ya know the top
Swollen Members, Moka Only gunna take the shot
If you think you betcha know you better press rewind
you can mop it in your song and repossess your mind
if you front it you can blow or you can testify
someone else was about what it takes to climb
whenever battle axe warriors come out to play
you can bet we gunna do it in a thousand way
and we sweating off the duel we resuscitate
members only rock...shiiit....muthaf*cka bait....its hot shiiit...

[Prevail]
How many albums bought n sold
triple ghetto gold rocked and rolled
sound....mixed and mastiff
stick with the program, get payed after
TV shows, zeens and magz
positive feedback, jeans still sagged
hands still knocked, Prevails gets props
the same as always rising to the top

[Madchild]
With the sworm of excitement
fighting form we invite critisicm
rhyme shine like prism
spit flames we see in 3D vision
even my people play CD in prison
bad decision, fatal error
get scars from bars and bomb every terror
we own lable never get dropped
now the crew combined and we cant be stopped

[Moka Only (chorus 4x)]
Swollen Members gunna make us stop
take a minute and remember who takes the top
to the critics and the cynics your time is up
just admit it everybody knows this rhyme is up
its hot shiiiit...
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Writer: JONATHON ALEM, CHRISTIAN BAHAMOJNDE, SHANE BUNTING, DANIEL JAMES DENTON, KILEY HENDRIKS
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.






Battle Axe Exclusive

[Mad Child]
Star struck, awkward glances, rock phenomenally
Armed with honesty, Doven wove in tapestry
Of obscenity, eliminate the enemy
Watch closely, I'm what you're pretending to be
We took the turn inpenetrable, and fine tuned it
Cleared the path, laughed and walked past the wounded
You shouldn't have assumed we'd take time to breath
F*ck tricks, I've got alot more weapons up my sleeve
I'll tell you when I'm finished, I'm armed to armageddon
Hard headed with the steel ball pulse heart imbedded
It's hard to believe this is controlled by a brain
They're retired because I'm wired for sound with iron lanes
If at first we suceed try again
I'm turning verses into fire by applying pain
Manslaughter in the first, Incidence of red
Confidence is king, innocence is dead

[Prevail]
Over the course, something like life-endorsed
I've entered the mother ship, terminated the Denver airport
Too many guns in the air, you're about to be prepared for
You've heard us speak, attention should be second nature
Or maybe you enjoy being severly severed
By sacred sabres uppin for plegance to break the paranoid
You're about the dreamscape, we fought with backlash
Ya'll gonna see my phoenix rise out my black ass
Tad's cash, a loss of breath
The only three certain things in this life and death
Corrosive breath, fermented tissue acid test
You trying to tell me entertaining is a time exspense
Any event of contact, to clack
Draw my herd man, verb back and see what goes black
Elevated elements, and the knowing guards
We know the future without the use of the tarot card
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Heavy Thinkers

"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"

[Prevail]
It's canastrophic, if you lose your optic in this market
With heavy bags of garbage floating in the tar-pit
It's strange, like chemical drips down Aspirin lane
Tobacco and Shane, me and Mary-Jane
We all got a clutch that can shift us to want
It's the amount that you grab when you get to the pot
Cuz this only recognizes time that ticks
I enter the building to blow out the bricks
My statements, got to get it fixed like a patient
I love it, it pushes my brain to non-complacments
Numbing out the pain, pulling ribs out of stomachs
All because of the feared geared by outer limits

"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers"

[Mad Child]
We some thought provokers for weed smokers that need focus
No hocus-pocus, just some lead vocals
Wrap round your head and choke cold local yocals
Till your face turn purple, can't break the sacred circle
I'm a mathmatician with a master vision
You have to listen, focus on business now who's ass ya kissing
Lit the flame, got mass support
I'ma pass the torch, if you're asking for it, if you got passion for it
This is an example of substance abuse
Loving abuse, consuming a few in a hotel room with a view
And I love giving the answers to the same f*cking questions
Love signing burnt CD's at these autograph sessions
Love getting drunk for my shows and stage diving
And putting my life in the hands of the tourbus driver
Love taking planes and vicious bitches with no names
I love to get home to pack and just pack up and do it again
You ready J?

"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers- Got The World Spinning Hectic"
"Heavy Thinkers"
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Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher






English Breakfast

We interrupt this program to bring you a special bulletin from our inter-planetary newsgroup

Sound
Do you have a clue what to do?
Pay pay attention to the man with the blessing
Sound
Do you have a clue what to do?
Pay attention to the man with the blessing
Sound
Do you have a clue what to do?
Pay pay attention to the man with the blessing
Sound
Do you have a clue what to do?

My main advantage point
Is I use live ammunition
I survive the restrictions
That make my mic goes into diction
Friction leads to fire
Crews to get burned
How much ink I just injected is none of your concern
Unless you're on terms of understanding with the meager
Eager to be mean so you can inherit the heater
I can tell your not graced in the study of conflict
The graceful words have come to pick my burst of a convict
A sceen at the schools about teaching class
I stand the ground, colours of glass
Sunday mass, so I ask
Who plays the lead role of darkness in my past?

What message do you have for the world?

Taste my torture
Smooth words of the warlock
A filthily minded mongrel
Make sure the doors locked
I adore addiction
Punched in depression
Flesh and skin cover my skull
Shine with aggression
Emerald eyes and golden strains
A painful voice
Pale skin and acid rain
Showers, powerful stream of tears that trickle
I walk softly with a hammer and a sickle
A sick individual
High voltage assault
Hit with a battering ram
Throwing heat with a catapult
Added jolt of electricity
Extreme wattage
A psycho in the forest with an axe that ransacks your cottage
Up in this bitch
The weird and the wonderful
The circus tents been pitched
I wake up in the night
In a cold sweat and scream
Swollen members
English breakfast with vadeime

Let's take a trip inside of my thoughts
Updating records, educating all
Let's take a trip inside of my thoughts
Updating records, educating all
Let's take a trip inside of my thoughts
Updating records, educating all
Let's take a trip inside of my thoughts

I'm sorry but your going to have to repeat that in English.
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Writer: KILEY JAMES HENDRIKS, SHANE JASON BUNTING, VADIM ALEXSANDROVICH PEARE
Copyright: Lyrics © THIRD SIDE MUSIC INC.






Red Dragon

From the lungs of an original member,
Savagest traveler,
Pick my teeth with the bones of cadavres
Ravage and magic there's rap in your cabbage
Swing with Battle Axe cause I can't stay average
Roll with the maverick who moves spider-matic
Down with the ice vein, angel misguided
The phantom in your cabinet of lies
Why can't they fathom the pattern of the skies
It's dark when I wake light falls when I sleep
Fright comes off me when I walk in the street
Embark on my feat of neuroscience's discoveries
Acid on your brain makes the holes seem lovely
And you thought I couldn't rock this way?
You thought wrong, partner; my thought displays
The most caustic array that I bring when I choose it
F*ck when you wanna see me use it.
Red Dragon

Unbelievable, under duress

I'm not easily amused,
I snap when the fuse blows
Alligator trap door, crumbs on the fool's flo (or)
Delta brain of an unstable genius
Flies in your face when the gun's safety freezes.
Run hasty to quicken your suffering,
Grizzly react, when you gasp, they'll be busting in.
Get down, with no buffer zone
Buffering's useless just leave what you suffer whole
Buffalos roam, the bisons stampede
Icing on the cake is the moment when you see
The scorpion chains, and the fire from the nostril
Hostile, exotic, collossal
Red Dragon

Unbelievable, under duress

My voice resonates, and ignore these featherweights
Resonates, pound up with this acid taste
Resuscitate the double horn side of me
Colliding with tusk, and make the harm bodily
Idle hands never, but whatever, my workshop's still hot
Algorithms, Superior skill shots
Mathmetician, it's half past sufficient
You grab-ass is wishin'
That you had another mission
In mind
Instead of trying to f*ck with mine
Underestimatin' is half of the crime
The rapid supply of my graphic design
Can fool the unwary,
Put a snap in your spine
Don't be sorry, you just findin' out
Chop your neck off, muthaf*cka now you really beside yourself
Cybermouse
This is more tangible than keypads
You ain't so tough with the kneepads.
Red Dragon

Unbelievable, under duress...
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Writer: DANIEL JAMES DENTON
Copyright: Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC






Bring It Home

Swollen, always, brings it home
(Swollen always brings it home)
We do it, up where, we belong
And Moka Only, always, brings it home
(Moka always brings it home)
Let's do it, up and, keep it on

We built a foundation, brick by brick
Eye for an eye, keep your eyes on this
The shadows move in the strangest forms,
Our music in your ear is like a dangerous storm
And when we perform, it's a whole new arena
We raise the stakes while you follow the leader
This song's a heater, long live the speaker
S&M the name explains the main feature

I'm an abnormal creature with pummelin' action
Feature presentation plus the comin' attraction
Asians, Iranians, all same opinion
Indians, blacks and whites and East Indians
Latins, girls draped in lace and satin
North Van to Venice, T-Dot to Manhattan
All get the picture, it's not quite invitin'
Mad Child's excitin', strike of white lightnin'

Swollen, always, brings it home
(Swollen always brings it home)
We do it, up where, we belong
And Moka Only, always, brings it home
(Moka always brings it home)
Let's do it, up and, keep it on

Where would we be in the world
If we never did our thing?
Please believe me it's my world
Everybody hear me sing now
If you've never heard of us I'm sorry you ain't hip
Here's another track because we always come equipped
Moka love the ladies and the ladies lovin' Mok'
Ain't no need to argue 'cause we're just so f*ckin' dope
Take it with a grain of salt or maybe with your drink
Thankin' Swollen Members 'cause they keep the party crank
Like dang dicky dicky dang dicky dang dang
'Cause we bring it home, put it on, make it this way

I stay low to the ground so I can keep my balance
The element of surprise, the advantage of silence
And all you root beer motherf*ckers floatin' around
I pop your top you must be watered down
No fears of the glowin' lights of show biz
Young kids, I'll show you whose show it is
Swollen Members hits hard like Heartbreak Ridge
I put my heart into this, no alternative

That's affirmative, we burn with passion, smashin'
Flashin' on kids too concerned with fashion
Handlin' my business, we last longest
My whole congress, strong as King Kong is
Sledgehammer grammar, thunderbolt jolt
Mad Child what you got under your coat?
Adrenaline pump and I'm swingin' an axe
Swollen Members bring it home while Moka sing on the tracks

Swollen, always, brings it home
(Swollen always brings it home)
We do it, up where, we belong
And Moka Only, always, brings it home
(Moka always brings it home)
Let's do it, up and, keep it on

And Rob The Viking, always, brings it home
We do it, up where, we belong
And Moka Only, always, brings it home
(Moka always brings it home)
Let's do it, up and, keep it on
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Writer: DANIEL JAMES DENTON, KILEY HENDRIKS, ROBIN HOOPER, SHANE BUNTING
Copyright: Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing






Zenith

I'm Prevail Wonder from the Neural Bombin' Agency
We control the watch tower now,
Power of assembly in crowds, hypnosis
The only closest pattern to our process
Our signature of razor blades and vinegar
Walkin' the path of the workin' class is a f*ckin' blast
And in our union, no reunion without hard hats
This is the work place of jackhammers, sledgehammers and mallets
Packin' a mic in our arena, leads to many maggots
Too many heavy magnets pullin' you closer in
The territory of the desert of the cobra pen
I gotta give a shout-out to my brother Orko The Sycotic Alien
Who stamped our performance, who speaks like reverent poets
Opposin' the possibility of lots of endurance
Isn't it my precious beheaded Elizabeth
A vision of the greatest thing you've seen since your Christening
I'm listening to children speak of the matrix
Battling the bubonic spread of the primal hatred

Mad Child, Rock steady representative
A combination of creative energy and tentative
Percentages, take advantages, manage to increase
Cause damage to vanish into thin air, Rest In Peace
Not to be tested, possessed, invest in me
I'll fight with my last breath til there's nothing left in me
I'll smash on all sorts with these extreme sports
Prophets of doom consumed with what I dream for
Subtle as a chainsaw, blood shed and rain fall
Welcome to the side of my brain that entertains y'all
Feel my wrath, you couldn't recover from the other half
Behind the shower curtain stabbin' bitches in a bubble bath
I'll make you an offer you can't refuse
Then leave a horses head in your bed, I'm bad news
Don't question my authority 'cause it's a mistake
There's madness in a whisper, like the hiss of a snake
You got the first album Balance (thank you) this might take you back
Zodak's tracks attack on Battle axe
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Writer: Shane Bunting, Kiley Hendriks
Copyright: Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.






Members Only

[Mad Child]
Experiment with mind control, crowd convulses
We don't act on false impulses
Discipline with fierce conflicts of interest
Different opinions, but damned if we relinquish
Intentional exuberance, tolerate the turbulance
We attract the mentally disturbed and suburban kids
Peculiar forces, no time to take a breather
Talking cockyness, rocking with these awkward overachievers
Vicious sense of humour turn you into a believer
Either dig it or you don't, we won't settle for less
You should hate us with a passion or love us to death
The feeling of enchantment, this blissful rapture
Hits home for some, for others it's hard to capture
Adapt to interference with a sinister appearance
Get devoured by a powerhouse of perceverance

"Swollen"
[Prevail]
Members only, for the ceremony
You know I know you know me, the ill testimony
"Swollen"

[Prevail]
The main concept to mochary is simple in its motives
You move when it moves, you plan out its orbits
The consequence to that, its heavy in its taxness
It spins your body around with units made for blasting
The thrashing of nationties on action filled streets
The more I stress it the less I feel complete
The heels of my feet are burnt up from walking
Up and down the pavement yelling slave auction
I don't praise those options, I'm not that innocent
I raise my opinions through the nemesis dominion
They ration the supplies through the big brother of this brave new world
Catching rye with the Lord of the Flies
The presentation of demise printed in thirty dialects
I'm early to rise, the connections of the monument

"Swollen"
[Prevail]
Members only, for the ceremony
You know I know you know me, the ill testimony
"Swollen"
[Prevail]
Members only, for the ceremony
You know I know you know me, the ill testimony

[Prevail]
I'll be sure to tell your crew how hard you fought

[Madchild]
Got Rot, Caught by this onslaught of unbridled thoughts
Valiant Vikings strikes upon with vengeance
Misguided Angels means bad with good intentions

[Prevail]
Pay Attention

[Madchild]
We rhyme with Divine Intervention

[Prevail]
See the intersection of Connecting Nerves now awake
becuz cannonball crush means blast until they break
How is it? Living your Life inside of limits
I try to find mine, but found they were non existent
thats Belief in my self, and the verses i use
i have confidence and somehow that always gets me through

[Madchild]
Me too, My Ego shines about as bright as the sun
At the same time, Insecurity weighs a ton
Scandalous Days are Done

[Prevail]
Thats probbly the best step
keeping focus in depths
so bet on us gettin over
for my talent and reps
while we out balance the rest

"Swollen"
[Prevail]
Members only, for the ceremony
You know I know you know me, the ill testimony

"Swollen"
[Prevail]
Members only, for the ceremony
You know I know you know me, the ill testimony

"Swollen"
[Prevail]
Members only, for the ceremony
You know I know you know me, the ill testimony
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Act On It

[Prevail]
Before I fade to black in the shaded shack,
In a box with handles and my family in back,
I will have achieved my life in leaves, of paper, that kept me safer than hangin with theives.
I've been in the big house, but not for long,
But long enough to know it's hard to make songs,
I played my cards and kept movin along,
Hooked up with Madchild and righted my wrongs,
You don't continue with circles, we generate light,
So three hundred and sixty five days I study and write,
I bloody the mic and will continue to learn,
From the best in the world until the night I burn.
I fought for my turn, you can check my gloves,
We both have inkpads covered with blood and scabs,
I love what I have but I will progress,
And I do every day when I take my first step,
It's all about Breath, when it's done I'm gone,
And death is a pawn in a game on a board of which I'm on.
I've had a sword in my palm from the very first tracks,
That were cut, mastered, and released under battleaxe.
It's nice to know that I've been a part of something reversal,
Camouflage to Consumption.

[Chorus:]
Yo it's funny how time flies,
Life has lows and highs,
And that's no surprise.
Come along for the ride,
Can you handle the drive?
Act on it, 'cause life can flash before your eyes.
Time flies, lows and highs, and that's no surprise,
Come along for the ride, can you handle the drive?
Act on it, 'cause life can flash before your eyes.

[Madchild:]
Before I'm laid to rest, I'ma do my best,
'Cause the biggest death threat is too many regrets.
And I ain't goin out like I wonder what woulda happened,
If I'd never given up,
Kept on rappin.
Been so many years of blood, sweat and tears,
Fears to overcome, so I'ma give it my all,
And when it's last call,
At least there'll be no questioning.
If I fall, I'll know it just wasn't my destiny.
Maybe it's not meant to be, but eventually,
I gaurantee I'll satisfy myself mentally.
I'm sick and tired of the position acquired,
I appreciate it, but I've seen visions in fire.
A premonition, spiritually awaken,
With doses and moments of magic to take in.
We'll keep it movin' and go at it whole-hearted,
Madchild works the hardest to finish what he started.

[Chorus:]
Yo it's funny how time flies,
Life has lows and highs,
And that's no surprise.
Come along for the ride,
Can you handle the drive?
Act on it, 'cause life can flash before your eyes.
Time flies, lows and highs, and that's no surprise,
Come along for the ride, can you handle the drive?
Act on it, 'cause life can flash before your eyes.

[(Madchild) Prevail:]
(There's no time to waste)
We move with grace,
(One life to embrace)
Though it feels like a race,
([Both:] Nameless faces in a dangerous place)
The strange and great,
(Rearrange your taste)
([Both:] From almost nothing,
To almost something)
From noone listening,
(To everybody jumpin)
([Both:] Kings on the mic, we got kings on production, f*ck fallin off, this is just and introduction)

[Chorus:]
Yo it's funny how time flies,
Life has lows and highs,
And that's no surprise.
Come along for the ride,
Can you handle the drive?
Act on it, 'cause life can flash before your eyes.
Time flies, lows and highs, and that's no surprise,
Come along for the ride, can you handle the drive?
Act on it, 'cause life can flash before your eyes.
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Long Way Down

[Chorus:]
And it's a long way down
It's a long way down
It's such a long way down
to the place where we started from

Yo, i'm still trying to figure out this Venus and mars thing
But everytime I see you all I hear is a harp string
We chilled last night
I had to record this
Listen to portishead
Makin love in the forest
Where not stuck in this orbit
Its gonna work out for us
So gorgeous like the voice of the woman gracing the chorus
A newborn in its pure form
Gentle and precious
We connect on more than just mental
Don't let this shit stress us
I'm okay if you're okay
I know it sounds cliché
But we built this whole relationship from sand and clay
Now we're so strong
We've got a concrete bond
And it completes so solid
I had to write this song

And it's a long way down
It's a long way down
It's such a long way down
to the place where we started

We met when we was young
Two hearts that beat as one
I knew it from the start
Not till death do us part
Nothing compares to you (keep blazin)
I'm a fine young cannibal
And you drive me crazy
I know your looks attracts guys
But that don't faze me
Soul mate, make me feel like they got nothing on me
Just to, taste your lips
Plus your voice is calming
I know its hard babe cause i'm always on tour
But my love is f*cking pure
And that's for sure
Been around the world
Feel like I've covered whole earth's surface
Stressed out to the point of askin if it's worth it
Sometimes it trips me out kid
Cause you're so perfect
I gotta keep working, striving and building
So we can get a house, have kids and grand children
Till then I'll make sure you don't regret
That you gave me another chance girl I won't forget!

It's a long way down
It's a long way down
It's a long way down
It's a long way down
[WITH MAD CHILD IN BACKROUND]
Listen to me man, make sure you love what you do
Cause it's gonna take a time for anyone to get to the ultimate goal
And As long as you love what your doing
Doesn't matter how long it takes
And when it finally does happen
Try to remember how hard you worked to get there
And appreciate that's shit
Keep climbing
BATTLEAXE

I'm shark where you swim
Sharp as a dart in your skin
We've been given a title that's not hard to defend
Not just my partners my friends
See this from start till the end
With words that alter the wind
Cause we assault with a pen
And hit with the song
No problems here we getting along
Take turns from learnin from our mistakes
Admit when we wrong
And everybody knows how to fight
To shows that are tight
Appropriate strikes
Nobody's sober tonight

Take a walk on the wild side
Give me beats and I'll never die
Ill hold your mind like a hypnotist
Swing the watch into overdrive
There's no rabbit or wand
My habits are rippin a song
The magic comes from the act of people waving their arms
I'm as sane as I was
Given and receiving the love
Livin and breathing this stuff
[With Rob the Viking on drums]
Battleaxe warriors - mad child prevail
This is music for ya'll bars notes and scales

And it's a long way down
It's a long way down
It's such a long way down
to the place where we started
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Temptation

[Madchild]
Yo, I'm talking about
Temptation things that run through your head
Like I wonder what my friend's girlfriends like in bed
Yo, I bet sometimes she thinks of me instead
Greed, That has to do with more than you need
Sin, That's usually where temptation leads
Turning into an addiction in an instant, take heed
Feeding off your ego, cash confusion and sex
That's why, like, every eight months
You end up back with your ex
For a couple days, and then remember
Why it wasn't meant to be
Go your separate ways and think
I wonder what got into me
You're done, but then another
Eight months comes around eventually
Vicious circle, I've done some things
That aren't worth mentioning
Temptation, made me do some things I regret
Easy to fall into, but hard to forget
Use to put the blame on others
But that's a bunch of nonsense
Now I try to focus and
Just listen to my conscience

[Prevail]
Yo, I'm talking about
Temptation and its relation to the human nation
The obvious, money, drugs, sexual frustration
How else can you explain public funding drain
The escalating murder rate and the climb to fame
It makes men touch parts that are not to be
It makes women clutch parts that are a part of me
So all that surface level services a day-to-day
An ongoing basis in desire and display
The first sensation recognized by script
We can't detach ourselves from it once we get into it
And why would we it feels better with the shadows closer
Comfortable feeling of comparing yours to overdose
Sometimes innocent and other times consequential
9 out of the ten times dun it's purely confidential
Harder to handle when your crews talking in your ear
Until you learn to abstain it draws near
Temptation
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The Capitol

[Prevail:]
Arabian nights, abrasions and spikes, slaves to the mic
In the tomb of no daylight, we consume when it sounds right
Explode through pipe and pressure, pay the piper
Play the record, stay undetected, paint the leopard
If it ain't worth the effort-quit
We've been in effect, thrown back in the pit, scarred and nicked
Stereo stardom, the kingdom of nuclear bombin'
The return of burgundy autumn is here in Eve's garden
Mirages, novices over my shoulder like harvest
Wild jaw crushes the shell of the scarab
The sacred marriage of the tribes of Hared, lies for carob
When we arrive on dark horse and carriage
You ride with the pride and the knowledge of Era
Mummification through alliteration an' bomb the calm
Arm and leg, I drag a common man through the sand while he begs for rain
You see, the things that have been poppin' in my brain, are made for stoppin trains
Oxygen boxed up in hexagonal frames
Hard to breathe? It ain't all that hard to believe, it's part of my breed
Jackals an' hounds, maximum rounds
Trackin' 'em down is fun, my name is Prev Won,
Disaster fund, mudslide the blind and dumb
A dime a dozen look alikes with frozen tongues
The chosen ones who came to tame the poison sons

[Mad Child & Prevail:]
They say good things come to those who wait
But didn't tell us how long it's gonna take
But who are they, anyway?
Some can't relate, we gonna say what we wanna say
An' we gonna say what we wanna say
Some can't relate, we gonna say what we wanna say
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Crunch

[Moka Only]
I'm the durable mammal, Moka Only the complete
Abnormality, fatality mega, don't you sleep
It's dephtrimental that you set your mental clock right
So you can catch the prime example of those who rock right
I talk tight, my mic's made of alabaster
Cast a shadow beside of mount shout before I smash ya
I promise to be the bonus, I gotta say that
You want to die, well you can be accomodated
To be honest, you sock like Homnus
To be on another plateau you gotta rap pro or become sawdust
I husk a bone on that ass with no exceptions
Been ill since my conception, I've come for the collection
Same old cash respecting bitches, I can't front yo
Busy Bee went back to the hotel and spelt his name in dough
I'm hella pro, a rappers work is never done
I like necks, I think I'm about to sever one

[Prevail]
I put my pressure on the corner to cave the box in
This time I sawed in my breath and rhymed circles of sin
See, if I don't reanimate the meat-grinder's brain
In the A-Wing, we're grey things, petrude from my grey rings
My collection of strange things include
A barrel delivering like a Winchester in a pool full of crude
Oil in my turmoil, ridden block of ill rythem-wear
Cracken cockroaches, talk about class divisionsy
I'm not stuck-in-the strucken function
I adapt to the place I hear the bass pumping
Keep every rhyme different, that's a sign of affection
Keep a bag of Buc Fifty's of my cabinet of men

[Mad Child]
Make sure the door's locked, and the dead-bolts fastened
Your worst nightmare that shares no compassion
Acid flashbacks, get hacked up into fractions
Seargeant Roadkill, still missing in action
An unaffectionate day, I'm section A
Let's play, you be the bride of death and decay
Do you stay awake at night thinking of the things you should worry about
Follow this bloodtrail and hurdle through the forest of doubt
Till I'm out in the wide open plains hoping to maintain
The same yield, but the field's littered with corpses
Death is my departure, till then I'm explosive
An overdose of death, spare me no grill
I'm rare, send me on ill will, I'm there
The last man standing, never call a truce
Apoligize, nah, strength needs no excuse
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Northern Lights

[Madchild:]
You're advised to stand back, I attack at the crack of dawn
Beware the lash of the savage, a fact you act upon
As the weak seek shelter, this is something sacred
Poetry of wolves, dreaded on treaded acreage
Cause of I, who enjoys poisoning boys and girls minds
Just for the fun of it, runnin' with pain and punishment
Mad Child's astonishing, Battleaxe reconnaissence
I give you my word we won't sleep, I keep my promises
I'm a suspicious looking character, don't trust 'em
Cops wanna bust 'em, gettin' harassed by customs
Yo, cause I'm diamond studded and budded
Yeah we partially responsible for L.A. gettin' flooded
With the vinyl, finally we made it stick
Set a strong foundation, plus we laid it thick
Now pick a flock of your finest assassins
As we take you on the ride of your life, unsafely fastened
I can't seem to slow this thing down, it's too fast
See we dealin' with the future through the magic of the past
Super charged turbo ultra culture preservation
Unlock the vault, mind altering concentration

[Chorus:]
Wherever we cool out we ignite
Rhymes like we, come blastin' on site
We shine but we're much more than bright
Gettin' the world high off these northern lights
Gettin' the world high, then I shed some light
Gettin' the world high off these northern lights
Gettin' the world high, then I shed some light
Gettin' the world high off these northern lights

[Prevail:]
I'm approaching a time where bombin' is obsolete
Don't wait til there's a bullet in to post a police bulletin
I host a ricochet where it's discreet as chamber spray
That dance around, romance the siren sound

[Madchild:]
Not from a violent town, once lost but now found
Drinking clear creek water near the mountains that surround
Glacial scapes, streams of evergreens
The great northwest, beauty most have never seen

[Prevail:]
Centered on high are majestic ravines
Connected together, select and sevre
Unfortunate soldiers with bolder vendettas
Pullover [?] don't take in this weather
In a media beaten by my accord
The unfallen melancholy house that ushers out your vocal chord

[Chorus]

[Prevail:]
Impersonate an' I'll renovate Eh yo, rap like me could attack for free Disassemble when you hear the rebel Watch it all or you could watch it fall
Unify in the unit's eye, because once you're potent it becomes important Characterism is parallelism I've regurgitated like a murder rate
Burn with the phoenix up to the zenith Ostracized, not fossilized Persecution is the worst solution And this attempt is a main event
A cornucopia of verbal phobia State your name before you make your claim Lock my bases in homeostasis Mix my plasma with the global magma Test in pieces to RIP Your spinal column is losing volume Shift your focus, follow the neurosis Fly with the navigator, die with the avitor I create to devastate Observe and serve So you don't want it when I drop the gauntlet

[Chorus]
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Rockapella

As ten thousand maniacs emerge form an oasis that's everclear
My soundgarden was invented to blind melons and smash pumpkins
How could a whole nation of crash test dummies hope to release the grapes
of wrath
On the day of Sabbath knowing it'll be black
Especially when they might be giants and they take to the air with stone
temple pilots
I'm in a parachute club with the motley crew
My b-52, fires nine inch nails
Radiohead, I cause phonetic quiet riots
My tragically hip fight with the spirit of the west
Society's no f*cking use to where white zombies have nofx
Now cowboys are turning into junkies
Hanging themselves with lasso's, singing blues about rodeo's that once
stood true
Have no time to fight with those fools
Alice's in chains and cold hearted iron maidens claim the have the ministry
of sound for U2
While everyone's raging against the machines
Their watching us on satellites form Georgia
But there's more in my set than Atlantis and it won't crash into Vegas
cause my man smith has the arrow
The moral to this peril is Hades have no fury and mc's scorn
And I would continue this verse but nothing rhymes with orange!!
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Freak Fantastic

[Mad Child and Prevail]

Rock for the masses
Rock for the masses
Plastic explosives, ferocious
Flashbacks and overdoses
Rock for the masses
Rock for the masses

[Mad Child]

Yo, fire and anger, barbarians bang
We're furious things, we take this as a serious thing
You curious man? Then follow along
I'm outta control, the music seems
At times I act intolerable
Don't try to swallow it whole, take it piece by piece
I rip you limb by limb
Cuz I'm a beast that feasts on the weak minded
You'll find that I'm a basket case
One step ahead because my heart pumps at a faster pace
Assasins, rapidly whippin' up a masterpiece
Iron jaws, I'm causin' a catastrophe
Has to be disasterous for us to care
I'm openin' the door for the mentally prepared
Come on in an' try this on for size
We don't act surprised, we don't sympathize
We just maintain the stature as we ransack the weak
Drastic changes from a fantastic freak

[HOOK X2]

[Mad Child and Prevail]

Freak fantastic
Rock for the masses
Rock for the masses
Plastic explosives, ferocious
Flashbacks and overdoses
Rock for the masses
Rock for the masses

[Prevail]

Down to the wire, we take it down to the fibre
A pilot, a fighter, or anything in my range of fire
Is considered over, I dip a victim deeper than bossanova
When in the shoulder, makes it hard to steer, I want in again
We hunt more than deer my friend, the fearless defend
The only real place we know, the balance of 'yes' and 'no'
Is a festival of freaks that pledge to pull the weak from the edge of sweet success
Seek and destroy is a test, I enjoy when they pour from the hornet's nest
The headquarters for the out of order
I can drop you out front, or I can save you the quarter
Any way you look at it you're down for the count
Drowned by the Count, for the last red ounce

[HOOK X2]

[Mad Child]

Rock for the masses, Prev rock glasses
Used to drop acid, Coke not a classic
Peace to Dilated, Arsonists and Jurassic
I'm a f*ckin' freak, so I'mma freak fantastic
Can't get past it, Mad Child is spastic
Bite worse than bark, I'm a caine corso mastiff
Shit get drastic, f*ck gettin' your ass kicked
Kids get blasted, frozen closed caskets

[HOOK X2]
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New Details

"I Excel, They All Fail"
[Prevail]
New Details
[Mad Child]
Mad Child
[Prevail]
Prevail

"I Excel, They All Fail"
[Prevail]
New Details
[Mad Child]
Mad Child
[Prevail]
Prevail

[Prevail]
Who needs witnesses when my tag's all over the body bag
I took prodigy protraction, never the flow with action
Shot words like George Jackson, spit rings like Danny Saturn
Uncanny pattern is irregular, king's suffocation
Cannibal crush and rush a competitor through the radiator
Generation accelerator, critical movement
My mic is an armored tank, you can draw your own conclusion
One spike per person, swing when you wish
Of course you'll miss and thrust it through your own asophogus
I'll dump a building on it's windows, carry the elevator
Compare us to someone else, I'll bury the escavator
You'll need a brigade of spades, a deck full of jacks
Not to turn the perephiful terminal Diamondbacks
My mind's with pompay as my mouth is with the bomb bayers
Watch out, my powerhouse, watch these systems generate

"I Excel, They All Fail"
[Prevail]
New Details
[Mad Child]
Mad Child
[Prevail]
Prevail

"I Excel, They All Fail"
[Prevail]
New Details
[Mad Child]
Mad Child
[Prevail]
Prevail

[Mad Child]
Don't tamper with this template, it's definately different
Twists and turns, burning a permanent imprint
Scarred for life, I'm rifling through this verse
The last one to disperse, the first to cast a curse
Take full form, we swarm, abnormally hot
Undergrounding surround sound, that's how we rock
Fully loaded and cocked, devoted to exploding
It's been told I showed you how to break the mold and fold the knot
Alot of tension within, afraid to unlatch it
I might get carried away and bury the hatchet
A basket case, get carried away in the casket
[Prevail]
Man, are you a bastard
[Mad Child]
No, I'm very inventive
Demented I can sense the undead just past the entrance
I'm sick with every sentence but it's not that simple
I'm simply complicated, we shine experimental
Energy derived from the center of this temple

"I Excel, They All Fail"
[Prevail]
New Details
[Mad Child]
Mad Child
[Prevail]
Prevail

"I Excel, They All Fail"
[Prevail]
New Details
[Mad Child]
Mad Child
[Prevail]
Prevail

[Mad Child]
Excel as I'm prepelling and my element yelling
Full of adrenalin and I tell them I'm a felon and a gentleman
I've been along the wrong road, old habits die hard
Now I chose a righter path but I'm left mentally scarred
[Prevail]
Prevail in sleet and hail, who beats them down like nails
Heals the pale, Scorpions wail, drink fire water ale
Inhale the meal of steel rails
Then I swing my back tail and dent your detail
[Mad Child]
While I'm cracking with a emmaculate tactics acting up
Respectable form, perfected an electrical storm
Expect that I'm exceptional, full blown profession
We reserve the right to conserve while in progression

"I Excel, They All Fail"
[Prevail]
New Details
[Mad Child]
Mad Child
[Prevail]
Prevail

"I Excel, They All Fail"
[Prevail]
New Details
[Mad Child]
Mad Child
[Prevail]
Prevail

"I Excel, They All Fail"
[Prevail]
New Details
[Mad Child]
Mad Child
[Prevail]
Prevail

"I Excel, They All Fail"
[Prevail]
New Details
[Mad Child]
Mad Child
[Prevail]
Prevail

"Mad Child.... Prevail"
"Mad Child.... Prevail"
"Mad Child.... Prevail"
"Mad Child.... Prevail"
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Monsters in the Closet is Swollen Members' third studio album released on Battleaxe Records. Monsters in the Closet is a collection of B-sides, rarities and unreleased tracks from the groups back catalog. In order to properly promote the record however, three brand new songs were created, two of which became popular singles. "Steppin Thru" led the way, continuing their streak of successful singles. "Breath" was the next one, featuring one of their best known videos courtesy of Todd McFarlane, a Canadian artist primarily known for comic books like Spawn, also the music video ended up reaching #1 MuchMusic's Top 30 Countdown.

Both singles did exceptionally well with videos that topped the MuchMusic Countdown and helped the record reach Gold Status almost immediately. Notable guest appearances include Canadian artists Nelly Furtado and Saukrates. The album was certified gold by the CRIA with sales of over 70,000 copies across Canada.
Performed By: Swollen Members
Genre(s): Hip hop
Released: November 12th, 2002
Year: 2002

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