The Day Before Tomorrow (Prod. By R&S)
Heroin Heroine
In wake of 'Originality Pays', Chicago's Master 3 drops two very cleverly written tracks. I have enclosed the lyrics and the concepts after the jump.Master 3:
This is Master 3 from Chicago, back from a long hiatus with new music. These joints are from my upcoming album, Light Up The Darkness, loosely based on the events of Will Smith's 2007 epic, I Am Legend. The first song, The Day Before Tomorrow, is an R&B-tinged reflection on how we'd react if the world was ending in a day. Heroin Heroine is a decidedly darker track, spit over Atmosphere's The Woman With The Tattooed Hands, and it chronicles the destruction caused by an unhealthy addiction to the fairer sex."The Day Before Tomorrow"
The Day Before Tomorrow
[Chorus]
I feel as if my time is borrowed, I see the end’s in sight,
Wherever I go, my pain follows, I’m scared to look inside,
But before all my pride is swallowed, I’ll turn the darkness into light,
If I’m going to change the sorrow, I gotta do it The Day Before Tomorrow…
[Verse]
Sitting up on this rooftop,
Wondering what would happen to it all if it just stopped,
Picture an asteroid, flying through the atmosphere,
Would we fight it or be paralyzed, trapped in fear?
Would you make the greatest music that you could before you left?
Tell the woman you love that you dreamt of her while you slept,
And hold her while you wept? And ask God if he’s known
This whole time that you were coming back home?
And if He had, would that be something you took solace in?
Did you believe before? Would you start or stop it then?
Would you see the gateway to the Promised Land,
Or would you simply fade to black at loss of oxygen?
The answers to these, you’ll need to consider,
Cuz in time, a time will come when you are no longer living,
But, don’t go quietly into that goodnight,
You gotta fight, keep your life and brighten the night,
It goes…
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Contemplation of the end of days will make us realize,
Who we are, who we’ll become before we go,
What will you do when life is gone away and you have no more time?
If you gon’ change, don’t wait, we ain’t promised tomorrow, no…
[Verse]
My only aim, before I’m laid in a grave,
Is to do something worth remembering; if my memory fades,
Help me remember me, tell me bout the things that I changed,
Lie if you have to, but tell me of the difference I made,
Cuz I ain’t leaving this planet without believing that maybe,
There’s a reason I’m talented with this music he gave me,
And if I touch one soul, change one mind, change one life
Through rhymes I wrote, then I’m alright,
I never sought to be thought a prophet or leader
But honestly, if I got something on my mind, I’ma speak it,
Cuz God ain’t give me this gift just to see me sit on my hands,
Intelligent, plus a penchant for music, you do the math,
That equals dope lyrics I spit without clapping a gun,
That equals hope that I’m able to make my parents proud of their son,
That equals fear, that I won’t be able to make myself clear before my time’s gone,
But my songs exist so that my light can shine on…
[Chorus]
"Heroin Heroine"
Heroin Heroine
[Verse 1]
The way they talked about you, I’d have thought you was an angel,
Hearing people rave how the high that you gave was the greatest,
We was introduced by 2,
Of my then-close friends, I saw what you could do,
You cast spells with your allure, it was like they weren’t themselves with you around,
One hit, and any semblance of a frown
Disappeared, a spur of the moment thing, I grabbed a packet,
I don’t know what happened, all of the sudden, I had to have it,
I’d been told I shouldn’t mess with it,
I’d heard horror stories of people who brought themselves to death with it,
But still the attraction remained on maximum,
After a half a second, I was ripping open the packaging,
Heated it up and for a moment, I cringed,
As I tied up my arm and pressed in the syringe,
It was my first time, awkward and strange,
As I pushed your love deep down into my veins,
[Hook 1]
My Heroin Heroine, my Heroin Heroine,
I knew you would kill me, my mind told me beware of it,
It just got harder and harder
To deny the love you gave me, my lady,
My Heroin Heroine, my Heroin Heroine,
I put you inside me and I could feel you spread within,
And now you’re in my heart, sweet goddess,
I know this must sound crazy, my lady…
[Verse 2]
I went insane off the very first hit,
Unidentified bliss, dreaming of the next fix,
Developed a junkie itch, it was my need,
I felt like I was driving full speed through residential streets
Just to breathe, but the rush was worth it,
You can judge me all you want, fuck it, no one’s perfect,
And no one hurt the way that I did, private, powerful and silent,
A negative pressure I couldn’t even start describing,
Her fire, her caress was better than sex,
All I needed was her presence to settle the stress,
My parents and friends could never understand,
That without her inside me, I was lesser than a man,
She made me full, she made me whole,
She owned my body, she owned my soul,
My mistress addiction, I pray you stay,
The only one who could ever take this pain away…
[Hook 2]
My Heroin Heroine, my Heroin Heroine,
When I was at rock bottom, I just turned to my medicine,
I never had to barter for honor,
Cuz I knew she’d never betray me, my lady,
My Heroin Heroine, my Heroin Heroine,
I’d die for this marriage, and I hope that it never ends,
I’d rather drift off into darkness,
Than witness our love fading, my lady…
[Verse 3]
I woke up in a pool of my own sour vomit,
Feeling as if death had come to live inside my body,
A walking zombie in a dirty bathroom stall,
With my head against the wall, forcing her into my arm,
Just to get me back to normal, necessary damage,
To make this life bearable, to keep this pain managed,
But someone divine decided it couldn’t continue,
And dragged me away from the only one I was a friend to,
The only one who accepted me the way I was,
My only love, the motherly duchess of my blood,
The one that kept me from jumping off of the edge of this cliff
To my death instead of just balancing on the precipice,
She was my Pegasus, my lone companion, she was taken,
When I was placed in rehabilitation to clean me up,
Laying on a cold floor, shaking, seizing and throwing up,
Lonely months, spent drifting away from my lover’s touch,
I threw away all the rusty spoons, and all of my needles,
But no matter how I try, it doesn’t matter, I need her,
I can kick the habit, but I’ll always be an addict,
And I’ll always be attracted to her, always be imagining
What could’ve happened, looking back at it, admiring,
Desiring her, stroking the tracks in my arms and smiling,
Because as much as she made me struggle and suffer,
In the most fucked up way, I still love her…
[Hook 3]
My Heroin Heroine, my Heroin Heroine,
My first time was beautiful, who knew I would marry it,
And who’d have thought if I fought this wanting,
That she would be the one to pain me, my lady,
My Heroin Heroine, my Heroin Heroine,
My burdens were so heavy, she helped me carry them,
And I swore I heard my conscience calling,
But it wasn’t loud enough to save me, from my lady,
My Heroin Heroine, my Heroin Heroine,
Now, I’m sitting here, and sticking the needle in again,
I miss you too much to go on,
Without having just one more taste, my lady,
My Heroin Heroine, my Heroin Heroine,
My curtains are closing, and I feel myself perishing,
My body’s alive, my heart was the martyr,
This is what you made me…I hate me…
[Outro]
This is love, this is love, this is love,
This is love, this is love, this is love,
Is this love, is this love, is this love,
Is this love, is this love, is this love...
