R.A. The Rugged Man

Released: April 17, 2020

Featuring: The KickDrums

Songwriter: R.A. The Rugged Man

Producer: SHROOM Hughes Payen

All the flashin' lights, all the perfect lives
Focused on a screen, where everything is a lie
Help, don't just slip away
Am I still there?

[Verse 1]
Insomniac, I lie wide awake
I'm irate with blind hate, I'm doomed to my fate
How much can I take? My murder mind state
And when I'm dead gone, don't come to my wake
And you won't like me when I get angry
The Bill Bixby, original, not Ang Lee
Mechanical deity blow up the scenery
Robot, autonomous weapon machinery
The ache in the armor, they wanna break him in harder
They wanna make him a martyr, that's what the pain is a part of
We livin' life hypnotized with your eyes in the iPhone
Catalogue and the masters that I own
Skeleton play the drum with a thighbone
Bullet slide in your dome in the crime zone
Suck the budgets, construct the puppets
Obstruct the justice, corrupted judges, wicked
What will be the secret that's hidden from mankind?
Wisdom and inner vision religion can't find
Needed the operator to give me the landline
Diggin' in deeper, begin losin' my damn mind

And you're alone

[Chorus]
All the flashin' lights, all the perfect lives
Gazin' at a screen where everything is a lie
Bendin' how you think, holds you in its teeth
Focused on the screen, where everything is a lie
Livin' through a screen, where everything is a lie

[Verse 2]
Fallin' down, goin' deeper, and I'm hittin' the bottom
I'll be the Canaanite sinnin' in the city of Sodom
Until my mama see my name in the obituary column
And they still will be killin' me like I'm Bill and Hillary Rodham
Smoke and brimstones to molten rock
You wanna sell your soul? The devil's overstocked
Commit a crime, Instagram the photo
Feds'll be watchin' in every borough
Political rhetoric or Jim Crow
Somethin' wicked this way comin' below
Pictured by Richard Avedon
Is it Minister Farrakhan?
And inside of the Rotten Apple, we livin' in Babylon?
Need to fit in their narrative or they will remove you
When they try to rule you, ruin those who are truthful
They use you, they fool you, the voodoo, pazuzu
The Hollywood, Hollyweird, who's who and who's new
The zombie society, they never been alive
As they followin' the blind, walk into genocide
And another young one done when the gun blast
St. Louis, Detroit, Chi-town, bloodbath
Livin' in a wicked world, will it ever get better?
147 kids that were killed in Kenya
Paris and Brussels, Orlando, Aurora
The church in Charleston, the horror, the slaughter
Enforcin' the laws of the border wars
Bodies of migrants on the water shores
As we enter the Twilight Zone dimension
Where they're sure to shank ya, with no redemption
The Hollywood Terry Crews is molested in
In the era The Apprentice is President
LSD, mescaline, human experiment, American idiocracy evident
Leavin' a dream of the demon gene, is it an evil queen or Elohim

[Chorus]
All the flashin' lights, all the perfect lives
Gazin' at a screen, where everything is a lie
Bendin' how you think, holds you in its teeth
Focused on the screen, where everything is a lie
Livin' through a screen

And you're alone

R.A. Thorburn better known by his stage name R.A. the Rugged Man, is an American rapper, screenwriter, film director and film producer. He began his music career at age 12, building a reputation locally for his lyrical skills. R.A. signed to major label Jive Records at age 18, but his debut album, Night of the Bloody Apes, was never released.

Since then, he has worked with the likes of Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang Clan, Kool G Rap, and Notorious B.I.G., as well as producers Erick Sermon, Trackmasters, DJ Quik, The Alchemist, J-Zone, and Ayatollah.[citation needed] He was featured on all three of Rawkus’s Soundbombing albums, as well as the platinum-selling WWF Aggression album. After a brief stint on Capitol Records (during which he recorded another unreleased album, American Lowlife), R.A. signed with independent label Nature Sounds and released his official debut, Die, Rugged Man, Die.[4] In 2013, R.A. released his second album, Legends Never Die on Nature Sounds

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