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In my hour of need allow power and speed
to guide my hand through the ballad as I flower the seed.
This pain and plight kind 'have strained the life;
I move back slow like, the brave claim the fight.
But as history goes, I'll wear victory's robe;
and let time tell the story through epistles he wrote: Jove.
Who am I to tell of his wondrous blessing;
my skin rips and boils from the sun that has set in.
One rumble avails me of his thunderous lesson;
there is death in my eyes to those who come with aggression.
Each day I'm away is like a whip hit and rips slow;
strokes to the clit of the Nymph of Calypso.
Many omens, many nights, I fear the gods have cast.
Pioneer a giant spear out of your olive branch.

2x
In my hour of need allow power and speed
to guide my hand through the ballad as I flower the seed.

I'm just etching how I see it; possessed by power's demons.
Wrecked the Colosseum, collect the palladium.
Hear the rustle in the street, "the legend's fallen, bleeding";
clever brow, deceiving, epic valor, teeming.
Favored by Athens, this avenger emerged;
who will stalk his endeavors to the ends of the Earth.
Way past the sirens and the vast horizons;
when history is written, I'll be cast with giants.
Surrounded by scribes, imbibe illusions and myths.
Write to the tune of the mist and a lunar eclipse.
The most soulless of motes, alone with his ghost;
we ride in perfect stride on the Ionian coast.
Will I ever reach Ithaca? And tremble at the Temple?
Descending rings, everything's deadly that I stencil.
Thousand ton thoughts way heavy on my mental;
so I write this poem, prayer medley on my lintel.

chorus 2x

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from The Dioscuri, released January 3, 2011

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Louis Mackey Boston, Massachusetts

Born in the mid-80s in Akron, Ohio. Been and lived many places, brain has changed many times. In debt to the blues and to all music that came before upon whose bones we build. On a mission to make sincere, true, creative and sometimes funny psychedlic hop hop. ... more

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