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Prophet$ Profit$

by Ty Lee

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1.
(((speech from the film Network))) rise and grind for that dime to shine gotta beat the time, so i can take what's mine steal from the blind, fuck with the kind drink a bit of coffee from a starbucks, get high - till i find another reason to live i'ma, make money, i got nothin to give gotta, get ugly, fight for my kids what a, sick country, i love this shit - love wakin up at the crack of dawn get dressed in my slacks, put my collar on cuz i might run away if the leash is too long so i keep my slave game locked down strong - fuck thinkin for myself its much easier when done by someone else gotta get that wealth even if it leads me down to hell - father forgive my hustle and flow i would stop if i had another place to go but i don't wanna be broke and alone i just want a little mansion and a boat - with a couple crocodiles for the bums and a safe full of money and guns that's really all i need to have a lot of fun please god, let me kill it till its done - like a drone strike blowin up a school little fuckers gotta learn to let freedom rule cuz all we really need is under their shoes gotta get that, black gold, drill thru - cuz i need my h3 full of fuel punk ass kids callin me a tool like i give a fuck about your hippie view i'ma take that carrot when i pay my dues - praise profit, i don't need your socialist bullshit never stoppin, till the whole entire motherfuckin world ends praise profit, over lives and skies and cries from the poor slime bodies droppin, if anybody tries to take what i call mine - prophet$ profit$
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$leep 03:40
sleep all day thru the night and the light no need to wake, cuz everything's all right got a smile to fake, and a life to fight then go home, get baked, eat cake and die - just kidding kids, have a sip of this kool-aid for your brain, ignorance is bliss with a twist, like sierra mist kinda citrus, but mostly chemicals - nah, i'm pretty full, but thanks red bull you keep me goin with your vitamins and minerals product place meant to meltify your mind cuz we gotta find a shelter for the lies to hide - have some cyanide, its the diet kind make ya feel fine, like some coffee grinds or a big pie, take a bigger slice you deserve it cuz you're so damn nice - like jesus on ice or a family that never fights white picket signs at a funeral for human rights elevator music set to bruise your third eye - mom and dad told me, don't as why so i keep my head down underneath the blue sky and i don't cry when the bad guys die - its just a game, right? whoa, outta sight, fake murder and stereotypes i love stereos, radios and gramaphones i love video's of kittens playin xylophones - distraction is a subtle art like a beautiful painting for sale at wal mart its a slow start, give up on your heart cuz we're not far, throw your soul in the cart - cuz its all on sale from the dirty dozen to organic kale while it wait for it all to fail the titanic already set sail - like planned obsolescence or unwillingness to learn some new lessons while the soft rock school is in session i'ma blow my load on a buttload of blessings - like a new xbox 1080 while i'm waiting for the people to play me i should plan for my future babies and remember to administer a shot for rabies - cuz the haters keep biting on my style and i know their mother lovin mouths can be a bit vile kinda like a steamin pile of well, you know what - nuts, momma taught me never to cuss so instead i say dang and shucks and i always keep my shame covered up cuz the good lord's watchin me doin my stuff - and the NSA, CIA patriots i feel so safe, like no one's gonna rape us cuz they hate us, you know its in their blood hatin on freedom like terrorists would - shhh, the babies are asleep lets say a prayer for jesus to keep our souls safe from the demons in the deep and if i die when i wake, baby don't you weep - cuz all it is, its like goin back to sleep go to sleep
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$toic 03:13
see this planet, through the damage, of my two eyes wonder who ran it, on the plan that it currently rides was it man or machines? who killed the wise? who ignored her cries? why'd you sit and watch her die? - me? i'm just a starving artist, doin my best, to sell my soul out all covered in flaws, all hidden in doubt all cursed by the law, can't find a way out devil's got me in his claws, gotta find another route - i'm the blood of the innocent, on a soldier's boot i'm the one to begin again, i'ma pull up these roots i'ma run till the winter's end, then spring back new i'ma fall till i'm buried in, six feet of tomb - i'ma kill all the undead, with my chainsaw flow i'ma pain the town red, when the starlight shows i'ma take it to the head, let it rattle in your bones like bullets in your bed, i'm the cold in your toes, whoa - i am not who you think i am, i am gone, to the brink of this damn universe, and i'm sure i'm not the first, but the pain still hurts and i think its getting worse, i just wanna be sure, i can break this curse, i just wanna be sure, that i don't make it worse - gonna dig into the dirt, gonna bury all the hurt so it don't get worse, gonna break this curse Sunburst, bring it back to the first, cuz the world's gonna turn and its all gonna burn, don't wait on the word, don't hate on the bird - just because he's free, don't mean he can't see inside your cage, i can feel his rage cuz he's gonna find a way, to get a key someday make a ladder of mistakes that shakes ablaze, till he shapes his fate in his own way
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money is the fruit of all evil payin for the wars that kill people greedy banks are motherfuckin lethal pedophiles hiding in the steeples - and all i wanna do is get free tho but the wolves are guarding all the keyholes not about to rally all the sheeple know they're still not ready for the red pill - so where my anarchists at i see you chokin on the dirt we gotta get back, lift that backpack full of hurt (+what else) - we got fists full of anger that burn like molotov cocktails on your shirt we are the ones that never were we also never liked the word sir - cuz i've been a fool i've been a slave i've been a rapist of the state yeah you heard that right i was itchin for a fight so i signed that line learned to line my sights up with a victim devil said, kill him but i never wanted to do what you gotta do i just wanna break you maybe i can fake it thru nope, gotta get loose cut this noose - don't shoot i am not a brute and i'm not a slave and i am not afraid - to burn down this charade organize a parade so we can dance on the graves of the pigs and the haters someday - like, fuck you all in the face we don't care what you say i never claimed to be a saint and you probly never saw me that way, but - we been watchin what you're droppin in the water and the looks that you've been givin to our daughters and the way that you've been pushin on our fathers makes me wanna turn into a fuckin martyr - like, Jesus Christ, what did he say just imagine your savior with thick braids instead of wavy blonde shit like my mom raised he was probably arabic and beige - whoa, you mean jesus was a terrorist damn straight, a terrorist to the state - (((+'s part))) its not that they don't believe you it just, that they don't believe x2 - but if i get drunk before i get the work done and don't call back and don't go for a run i should until i feel again the Sun - the things i feel the things i see are all inside of me - (((Ty Lee))) and i don't even know what flows inside of me sometimes i don't even remember how to breathe sometimes i wish i couldn't see all the forests, burning thru the trees - (((+))) sometimes the bible is the only thing i got and even that shit is the reason i'm a slave in the first place its okay to be cray cray no one makes sense, at this fuckin age - (((Ty Lee))) in this day and age, we're all full of rage some are gettin paid, but everybody's caged - (((+))) i ran into the arms of the one who does me harm - (((Ty Lee))) he was carrying a bomb, then he dropped it in the calm - (((+))) every day i, martyr smarter i, speak better work out harder forgive my lover - (((Ty Lee))) forgive the other - (((+))) cuz thats the point, right? - (((Ty Lee))) i think it just might - (((+))) be, we can be Ty i promise you, just breathe serenity is peace and its in our DNA merry in the streets till we see an a+ from God - (((Ty Lee))) or until we get robbed - (((+))) LOL, we're in hell kill yourself i'm just kiddin, keep the faith - (((Ty Lee))) so what happens when it breaks? (((+))) keep the faith but it just might fade (((+))) keep the faith and when it goes away?! (((+))) keep the faith and if i died today? (((+))) keep the faith? keep the faith (((+))) so what happens when it breaks? (((Ty Lee))) keep the faith but it just might fade (((Ty Lee))) keep the faith and when it goes away?! (((Ty Lee))) keep the faith and if i died today? (((Ty Lee))) keep the faith keep the faith
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callin out to the angels, like i need a little help here i picked a fight with the devil, and i know he don't fight fair had enough of betrayal, had enough of fear callin out to the rebels, revolution is here - learnin how to hold my breath as water levels rise burnin all my burdens till i reach the skies livin every moment like i know i'm gonna die cuz i will and so will you - fragile as we are i know we're made of star stuff that's tough, ya we came so far to understand the prisonspeak and break these bars apart, just don't wait for it to start - the art of liberation must awaken from within to challenge every enemy that's hiding in your skin but don't take it from me, i'm just a messenger from them who? infinite, and they told me i was limitless - told me not to let it get my ego swole focus on the consciousness inside my soul knowin this is all i need to keep me whole i know, i just gotta let go - flow across the universe in tune with my word speakin for the people that are broke and unheard listen to the messages in cages made for birds break em out, watch em fly into the clouds - fly away from all the rage and bathe in the storm feel the emptiness evacuate as grace takes form your excellence just doesn't fit inside the norm torn, then reborn - to be limitless, beyond their control beyond borders, overthrow limitless, uncontrollable bliss ecstasy, you know you can't resist - (hook) - this life is storm, but we are the calm this life was born, in the middle of a bomb and the time is ticking, and the fog is thickening as the end grows closer, the beginning might show up - and the system might blow up, and the livin might get rough but i know that we'll have enough, as long as we got us as long as we got trust, in our collective blood we'll keep peeling away the rust, we'll keep crawling through the mud - don't ever be afraid to scream, don't ever let em clip your wings and if they try to crush your dreams, then you let your rage sing cuz we send in the rain to free us, and we revel in the pain of knees cut and if they send death to greet us, we'll be comin back, like Je$u$
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Ri$e - psychopathic capitalists fuckin with my head pushin me to follow where the other sheep are led but i would rather bite upon the hand that keeps me fed than surrender what is left of me to eat upon some bread - they can kill me till i'm dead, and i'll still fight back as a zombie fuckin unicorn with laser beams attached they can shoot me in the bed, Fred Hampton style i'm not really worried how i run my last mile - i'm not really scared of all these dungeons full of filth i accept it as my punishment for all the ones i killed with a microphone of violent tones and speakers full of rage as i ripped apart the pieces of my self-inflicted cage - blaze through waves of twitchy bliss and pain praise all the rain as it falls down the drain wake up and slave, you got a spine to maintain fuck the grave, through the flames, try not to go insane - rise (this place is gonna forcefeed you lies) rise (on a golden platter shining in the light) rise (while they silence and restrain the wise) rise (filling you with apathy from birth until you die) rise (and then they're gonna come for you kids) rise (and make em wanna slit their wrists) rise (this planet's so fucking sick) rise (and we gotta make her better) rise (or get ready for the weather) - (get up) like a kid throwin rocks at a tank (get up) cuz we ain't got time to be fake (get up) like the moon when the Sunlight sank (get up) get up, like you wanna rob a bank (get up) cuz this system's got us all by the nuts (get up) give blood, give love, give guts (get up) give it all, till you fall into a rut, then (get up) brush it off, hit the wall till its dust (get up) when the man tries to take your ground (get up) motherfucker i ain't tryin to drown (get up) right now, its about to get loud (get up) get up, cuz we gotta tear it down (get up) from the mess we made along the way (get up) this is not a test, this is not for play (get up) cuz i can't wait another fucking day (get up) take back what they made us pay - take back all the dreams they stole from us, so we can get free from the sludge and the rust, gotta take back our empathy and trust, so we can get clean, get back whats just - get back to the One, we once called home, so we can get free from the shit we own, gotta get back to feelin in my bones, so i can get free, get clean, get grown - get up, when the world's got you bloody in the face get up, you are not a rat, this is not a race get up, when the cops got you sprayed with mace get up, get up through the grime and the grace - through the loss and the shame i will maintain flow though the fear tries to drain, make my brain say no they can come all day to detain this glow cuz at the end of it all, they ain't stoppin our show - rise
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feelin everything and nothin at the same time till i tear apart the limits of my small mind nothin quite as comforting as big lies sleepin on a screamin bed of silent cries - from the mother of another dead soldier or an artist in Palestine, so alone feelin like my feet keep sinkin lower i just want this fuckin game to be over - but i can't stop, won't stop the body rot play in the decay until worms eat my sweet slop chokin on the bones, they don't know who they got like, "this mother fucker? ya he used to complain a lot" - death and taxes, corporation starfuck champagne glasses, bourgeois soul suck trailer park trashin, thunder struck stock market crashin, under my nuts - what?! gotta hit the ground runnin make sure the moneys comin Love, give and take a little somethin drugs, keep me seekin out the next one - guns, get me thinkin revolution won, wish i knew the solution run, underground with the movement Sun, what i missed when the moon hit - now i get my shine from the stars all this swag's never been ours wanna be bad but never got far cities so mad, got me covered in scars - guards surround my heart with bars pullin this ace till i run outta cards king's too soft, so joker goes hard gotta let em know who the fuck we are - why?! cuz its all an illusion deny, keep swimmin in confusion cry, till you break on thru then die again, rebirth, unhinge - get up on the next new shit everybody arguing what the truth is government monitoring all our kids i just wanna find some place to exist - beyond all the bullshit and plastic fish there must be a place better than this is it even possible to live in bliss? do you think it would last, or would we turn it into shit? - hint, i think we already did twist, the top off this lid missed, opportunities hid kissed, goodbye kid - (((Carla Starla))) run, run, run, run x3 run to somethin better you don't have to stay where you are your bones are made from stars keep on runnin, i know you'll get far - runnin off the edge of this cliff cuz i don't know if better exists i just wanna get a grip but i know this world is stuffed full of tricks - this world is full of glitch and i wanna see it fixed i don't wanna watch it twitch rather build it up, brick by brick - wanna set it off, like a molotov gotta get involved, gotta break laws gotta bend bars, gotta break walls gotta go hard, gotta stay strong - gotta do it all, all except fall do it for the small, no time to crawl no time to stall, gotta run far gotta run till i make it to the stars - and if they all fall down then i'll join em on the ground hope we never get found keep my fire spinnin round - keep my wings unbound hope i never sell out lemme keep my sound and you can have my doubt - i'ma keep whats true as we find a great escape into the blue cuz we ain't got time to be fools and we ain't got nothin left to lose - ya we might be battered and bruised but we're still gonna hijack the cruise all we gotta do is choose which one of these tools to use - get a gun and steal the king's jewels or, knock a few bro's off bar stools then, challenge em to duels tell em, that we're both about to lose - the truth, becomes harder to see as the youth, falls further from the tree bruised, broken, skinned up knees move gates open, lets get free - till we make it to the sea in a world without police cuz we made sure the thieves could eat so we can all breathe - not just me, and not just you but the ones behind, and the under too cuz its not just mine, but that's not so true it belongs to us all, now i give it back to you
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release the greed from the eyes of the thieves release the excess from those who don't need release the dreams of those who can't breathe release the agony of those who aren't free - release, you release, me release, the truth release, and breathe - see me swimmin in distortion like i'm Jimi Hendrix watch me break apart your walls, your ceilings, all your limits as the water starts to rise, see me goin fishin someone get me back to shore so i can finish missions - cuz i got a lot to do with this life of mine long as i'm up on the groove, i'll be doin fine all i need is a room, carved in space and time maybe somewhere on the moon, watchin stars shine - take a dip in the ocean, float away witness poetry in motion, every day in the eyes of the broken, elevate from the gutter to the heavens, get saved - from the rubber to the realness, feel some bliss weather fuckin or forgiving, send a kiss cuz the lessons that we're livin are hard to miss you can't keep away the driven, don't get it twisted - let me murder all the masks hiding on my face gonna put em on blast, get me back to grace just a snake in the grass watching rats race till i break thru the glass, rock a steady pace - run up in the shade, when the Sun burns find another way, when the road turns watch signs lay, and you might learn what the sages say, when their souls yearn - for eternity, where the echoes end and inside of me, where it all begins gotta set it free, till it fades again i just let it be, let the waves blend - with the energy i'm gonna leave behind when i'm ready to release all i call mine when i'm done sharpening my soul on the grind i'ma dive into infinity as time dies
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(((Carla and Brandon sing 'Wade in the Water'))) - prophets/profits rise, and profits/prophets fall heroes die, sometimes lose it all but the ones who survive, despite the loss might learn how to fly, when the nightmare's gone - but how long, till the revolution comes? and how strong can we really be, without guns? and i might be wrong, when i say that its not all love but even when hope is gone, we still gotta get up - rise with the tides when the ocean cries as the water level threatens us to compromise or die are we gonna stay alive? or just sit around and wait for the lake to run dry - not in my time i'm not the desert kind sorry tank girl but your future's not mine - cuz we're taking down the power with some water tonight so you'd better suit up and get ready for a fight comin with the drummin under cover of night with the pigs and undercover motherfuckers in sight - hit em with the light and don't be nice just ride on fire, till we break thru the lies - killin all the villains, till i'm feelin somethin safe resurrect a million prophets from their ashes and graves rip apart machinery with nothin but the brave consciousness is limitless just ride up on this wave - don't sit on your ass and wait to be saved if you wanna make it last we gotta fight the depraved - don't believe what they say you are far from insane tell em bring all the rain shove it down the fuckin drain

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released June 13, 2015

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