Lyrics & Memories: Intoxicated by SelfMan! When Fingaz showed me this beat, I tripped out. I was immediately attracted to it. It was real unorthodox just like me. It was an ill beat but it didn’t make sense why. I thought that it was also a welcomed change from the downwardly moody direction that most of the music on the PLAGUE album seemed to have been taking. So I snatched up the tape and skated home to start writing. The lyrical content is based around the chorus, which I thought up first. I personally liked the chorus, but I think alotta people thought it was too ‘deep’. It wasn’t anything that could be chanted on stage to get the people to ‘cut a rug’. It was a song that was seemingly hard to get across on stage. And because of that I think I only performed it a few times live. The idea of the name is pretty self explanatory. When you are not obedient to God, you are ‘drunk’ with your own desires. Your disobedience brews an intoxicating feeling of being in ‘control’ of yourself. You start to feel as if you don’t need God and you can take the wheel yourself. You get all big headed and self centered. That all just reminded me of a drunk person. There is the popular saying of ‘being drunk in the spirit’ used to explain someone who is deeply and intimately acting out in accordance to God moving in their life. I just thought the same could be said about a person who is not in accordance with God. They are not intoxicated in His spirit, but in the spirit of themselves. Intoxicated by self. This egocentrical concentration seems to always lead to very destructive consequences not only to others, but ourselves too. This was one of the songs that were recorded in the Hollywood session and later remixed in San Diego. INTOXICATED BY SELF
THE JOURNEY HAS BEGUN FIRST STEPS OF THE REVOLUTION INTOXICATE LIKE BOURBON DO NOT CUT THE STEM FROM THE FLOWER SEEDS TURN SOUR FACILITATE LIKE NINTH HOUR WITH SOUND WAVES THAT DESTROY THE TUNNELS OF PRISONS I RELEASE VISIONS OF DEMONS BEING PURGED FROM HUMANS THEY TALKIN' ONE MAN CLAN I TALK UNIFICATION NOURISHMENT FROM SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS BRINGS A GIANT TO THE GROUND........... GO YE FORTH TO ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH MOM HOOKED UP FIRST BUT GOD HOOKED SECOND BIRTH WICKED MEN- YOU TRANSCEND YOUR OWN LEVEL SITTING AT TABLES AND MAKING DEALS WITH DEVILS EVIL SEMEN IMPREGNATES AND TURNS TO DEMONS CHORUS INTOXICATED BY SELF- WHO'S AT HOME NOBODY- WE LEFT OUR CHILDREN ALONE WE BURNT DOWN OUR HOUSES WITH EVIL FLAME SEEKING AFTER JEWELS OF WHICH WE CAN'T OBTAIN -INTOXICATED BY SELF WHO LEAVES THE KNOWLEDGE ON THE SHELF AND SEEKS WORLDLY GAIN AND WORLDLY WEALTH WE PILLAGE OUR TOWN AND RAPE OUR WOMEN N' WHEN WISE MEN RISE AGAINST WE KILL THEM V.2 WE TAKE OUR TUMBLES IN THE JUNGLE WE RUMBLE IN THE GHETTO SEEING THE SILHOUETTE OF THE UNTRAINED WE NEED POWER AND FUEL LIKE METHANE A DULL AXE REQUIRES GREAT STRENGTH BE SEEKING WISDOM AND SHARPEN THE BLADE (ECLES. 10:10) BRINGING FORTH FELLOWSHIP BUT NO ONE OBEYED BURN THE TIP LIKE BIDIS START THAT HEART PUMPING LIKE 3 WEEK OLD FETUS WORLD THOUGHT DISENAGRATION MENTALLY SPARK FIRES- AND WATCH 'EM SMOKE FROM CRANIUM SHADOW MOVE LIKE MARINE SETTING STANDARDS- AND STIMULATE LIKE CAFFEINE OUR ENEMIES IN THE MIRROR ATTACK BACK WITH MEDITATION AND PRAYER CHORUS INTOXICATED BY SELF-WHO'S AT HOME NOBODY WE LEFT OUR CHILDREN ALONE WE BURNT DOWN OUR HOUSES WITH EVIL FLAME SEEKING AFTER JEWELS OF WHICH WE CAN'T OBTAIN -INTOXICATED BY SELF- I SEEN THEM PEOPLE BUILD UPON THEY HATE- STACK IT UP LIKE CRATE A NEW SEED IS IN THE CHAMBER THEY FILLED WITH ANGER- SINGING SONGS ENTICING ME TO COME ALONG V.3 SELF INTOXICATION UNHOLY GHOST CAPPING OFF MAD AMMUNITION AND I- CRY THROUGH MY THIRD EYE MY BODY'S TREMBLIN' THE JUNGLE'S BURNIN' UP SON GANGSTA'S GRAB YA' GUNS REAL HEADZ GRAB WISDOM E-NUFF TALK ABOUT COMBAT- COMBAT THAT OR GET DESTROYED IN THE AFTERMATH NO MORE FRUITS OF DECEPTION NO MORE DREAMS OF GRANDEUR OR MENTAL DELLUSIONS
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The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
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