DedicatedPoints of AuthorityA Place for My Head (Live in Taipei 2009)

Scene between the green hills,
Clouds pull away and the sunlight's revealed,
People don't talk about keeping it real,
It's understood that they actually will
And intoxicated and stimulated emcees
Staring into trees, paranoid, are gone in the breeze,
Watch them flee, hip-hop hits
Take a walk with me and what you'll see
Is a land where the sand's made of [bad word] up wax
And the sky beyond you is Krylon Blue
And everybody speaks in a dialect of rhyme,
Emcees have left materialism behind them,
Meanwhile I just grip my mic
And hope me and my team make it through all right
Because say what you will and say what you might
But don't ignore who it's for at the end of the night

Forfeit the game / Before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame / Puts your name to shame 
Cover up your face / You [bad word] the race 
The pace is too fast / You just won't last 

You love the way I look at you 
While taking pleasure in the awful things you put me through 
You take away if I give in 
My life 
My pride is broken 

You like to think you’re never wrong 
(You live what you’ve learned) 
You have to act like you’re someone 
(You live what you’ve learned) 
You want someone to hurt like you 
(You live what you’ve learned) 
You want to share what you’ve been through 
(You live what you’ve learned) 

You love the things I say I’ll do 
The way I’ll hurt myself again just to get back at you 
You take away when I give in / my life 
My pride is broken 

You like to think you’re never wrong 
(You live what you’ve learned) 
You want to act like you’re someone 
(You live what you’ve learned) 
You want someone to hurt like you 
(You live what you’ve learned) 
You want to share what you’ve been through 
(You live what you’ve learned) 

Forfeit the game / Before somebody else 
Takes you out of the frame / Puts your name to shame 
Cover up your face / You [bad word] the race 
The pace is too fast / You just won't last 

You like to think you’re never wrong 
(You live what you’ve learned) 
You want to act like you’re someone 
(You live what you’ve learned) 
You want someone to hurt like you 
(You live what you’ve learned) 
You want to share what you’ve been through 
(You live what you’ve learned) 

You like to think you’re never wrong / forfeit the game 
(You live what you’ve learned) 
You want to act like you’re someone / forfeit the game 
(You live what you’ve learned) 
You want someone to hurt like you / forfeit the game 
(You live what you’ve learned) 
You want to share what you’ve been through / forfeit the game 
(You live what you’ve learned)

I watch how the moon sits in the sky
On a dark night shining with the light from the sun 
The sun doesn't give light to the moon 
Assuming the moon's going to owe it one 
It makes me think of how you act to me 
You do favors and then rapidly 
You just turn around and start asking me about 
Things you want back from me 

I'm sick of the tension, sick of the hunger 
Sick of you acting like I owe you this 
Find another place to feed your greed 
While I find a place to rest