THE MESSAGE 3: Blood (see page 39, 179, and Bye)

No matter how hard you try, you can't stop me now
No matter how hard you try, you can't stop me now (Stop me now!)
No matter how hard you try, you can't stop me now
No matter how hard you try, you can't stop me now (Stop me now)

No matter how hard you try, nothing seemed to work
World still turns
And I tried and I tried, man
But my world still burned

My world, I seen
I lost it all

In skin, in flesh, in bones
Ash to dust, cold to the touch
Fire to drugs, skin to sun
Iron to rust, power to trust
Atlas shrugged
World's eclipsed, Saturn scoffed
Jupiter adrift, red eye to L.A.
Causer of fate, like figure eights
Like hurricane to water or rain
Cycles to blame, perpetuate the pain
Watch it rotate
Past leave a stain, in a carbon trace til the west erased
Shavings on page, shapes engraved
Drawing a phantom, spiritually paid
Fly to the hood, David displayed
Specters of place, run to Samothrace
Haunted by days, as the sun go away
Darkness my face, body of clay
Mountains, shoulders, rivers like veins
Sisyphus boulder
High when I'm stoned, low when I'm sober
As I get older
I try and resist, but it persists
Absurd as it is, hand in a fist
In the sky, false sense of pride
In my skin, in my flesh, in my bones