(Recorded Voice)   You are listening to the heartbeat of the Sage   Sage posses the newest and most revolutionary advance in split second presentation   As well as split second calculation   To protect the future of America   The defense techniques of tomorrow had to be discovered now   But Sage needed more than this   New concepts, new tools, new weapons   By analyzing the past, Sage can project into the future      (Sage Francis)   I used to think that rappers had it figured out   Brass Monkey, St. Ides, Old English, and Guiness Stout   Once a man twice a boy with a choice of vice or voice of spite   Not enough poisons to pick to enjoy this life   Then I thought suicide was a suburban myth   I couldn't see my own hands being the ones I'm murdered with   That is until I traveled this world a bit   I understand now if I lose my nerve I'll get the girl to do it!   She heard the music but preferred the person, she's worth it   The only one I left behind the curtain to work with   Pushin' buttons and playin' with levers   We'll stay together as long as I'm honest in my songs   (Radio) Suckers never play this   Scared shitless of dismissing clear channel playlists   Poorly developed, yet highly advanced   The black music intertwined with the white man's line dance      (Recorded Voice)   Supersonic, super destructive, seemingly unresistable   On the job, around the clock, with 24 hour a day reliability   Constantly monitoring, pulse-taking, controlling   Into a continuous flow of interpretation, which could be understood at a glance      (Sage Francis)   It's not only a time I'm kept   Busy with shivers and cold shakes   Sitting on snow banks   Waiting to be delivered some soulmates   Or wait   Lift and tuck my fate for several levels   Fill my body till they send me an empty face with the head of devils   My breath resembles the smell of flowers   Yanked from life and placed in a vase   Sits and wilts and rots and dies in the name of grave mistakes   That we all make   Believe that we're getting by treating ourselves wrong   Throw me a reindeer John letter party   And ill be there with bells on   Hell spawn   So if he calls the city hall   They still got the gall   To blame the victory all on biggie smalls   From strip malls   To strip clubs   They slip drugs   Into the drinks that kids love   Tell us to drink up and get buzzed   This is the buzz kill, jump into the saddle   Emerge from the dust kicked up in the uphill battle   With my guns drawn and sword out   Pointed towards the couthouse   I sort out words from my war torn mouth   I disassociate the actions with their meanings   On some "ends justify the means" mentality   Plus I'm bleeding   Give me a bandaid a band that can't play   A fanbase with hearing aids and a voice like a hand grenade   I pull the wool over their vision   Pull the pin and push it in 'em   Using women as a pin cushion   A super villian   With some war paint and jokes done in poor taste   We'll see who laughs last all the way to foreign banks      (Recorded Voice)   Ready to take over in a matter of seconds   to protect the future of America   Sage also has protection too   (Come on come on, feel it feel it)   The protection which comes with the possesion weapons of retaliation   But is this protection enough?      (Sage Francis)   (I was) I was B-boyin' in my former body   Singing all the songs at parties   Now I'm like don't let nobody   Through the door in the hotel lobby   I'd wear Armani if they endorse me   So people who are poor can rob me   Then forcefully sex me up   Color me confused when they paint issues black and white   Resuscitate their grey matter right back to life   It's my destiny, she wants me she beckons   She left me for dead but death didnt want no sloppy seconds   I'm certified fresh   I freedom kiss the French for their political dissent   Like *mwah* I do it with tongue this time   And take that bovine blood out your wine   And take that statue back to the lab it was created at   Your huddled masses yearning to breath free   Take 'em back!   Your homeless tempest-tossed to me   Take 'em back!   The U-S-A has cracked      (Recorded Voice)   And as long as we're on guard   As long as we're ready to look ahead   To move ahead   The future of America is secure