Robert Browning - Heap cassia, sandal-buds and stripes

Heap cassia, sandal-buds and stripes Of labdanum, and aloe-balls, Smeared with dull nard an Indian wipes From out her hair: such balsam falls Down sea-side mountain pedestals, From tree-tops where tired winds are fain, Spent with the vast and howling main, To treasure half their island-gain. And strew faint sweetness from some old Egyptian's fine worm-eaten shroud Which breaks to dust when once unrolled; Or shredded perfume, like a cloud From closet long to quiet vowed, With mothed and dropping arras hung, Mouldering her lute and books among, As when a queen, long dead, was young.

Kanye West - New Slaves

My momma was raised in an era when, Clean water was only served to the fairer skin Doing clothes you would have thought I had help But they wasn't satisfied unless I picked the cotton myself. You see it's broke n***a racism That's that "Don't touch anything in the store" And there's rich n***a racism That's that "Come here, please buy more" What you want a Bentley, fur coat and diamond chain? All you blacks want all the same things Used to only be n***as now everybody playing Spending everything on Alexander Wang New Slaves. You see it's leaders and there's followers But I'd rather be a d**k than a swallower.

Kanye West - Blame Game

You weren't perfect but you made life worth it Stick around, real feelings might surface Been a long time since I spoke to you in a bathroom gripping you up f***in and choking you What the hell was I supposed to do I know you aint getting this type of d**k from that local dude And if you are I hope you are have a good time Cause I definitely be having mine And you aint finna see a mogul get emotional Every time I hear bout other n***a's stroking you Might say I hit you He sitting there consoling you Runnin my name through the mud Who's provoking you You should be grateful a n***a like me ever noticed you Now you noticeable and cant nobody can control you 1 A.M. and can't nobody get a hold of you I'm calling your brothers phone like what was I supposed to do Even though I knew, he never told the truth He was just gon say whatever you gon told him too At a certain point I had to stop asking questions Chuck dirt on eachother like mud wrestlers I heard he bought some coke with my money Dat aint right girl You getting blackmailed for that white girl You always said Yeezy I ain't you're right girl Probably find one of them "I like art" type girls All of the lights, she was caught in the hype girl And I was satisfied being in love with the lie And who to blame, you to blame, me to blame For the pain and it poured every time when it rained Let's play the blame game...

Kanye West - Welcome to Heartbreak

My friend showed me pictures of his kids And all I could show him was pictures of my cribs He said his daughter got a brand new report card (card) And all I got was a brand new sports car Dad cracked a joke all the kids laugh But I couldn't hear em all the way in first class Chased the good life my whole life long Look back on my life and my life gone Where did I go wrong? My god sister gettin' married by the lake But I couldn't figure out who I want to take Bad enough that I showed up late I had to leave 'fore they even cut the cake Welcome to Heartbreak

Robert Browning - A Wall

O the old wall here! How I could pass Life in a long midsummer day, My feet confined to a plot of grass, My eyes from a wall not once away! And lush and lithe do the creepers clothe Yon wall I watch, with a wealth of green: Its bald red bricks draped, nothing loath, In lappets of tangle they laugh between. Now, what is it makes pulsate the robe? Why tremble the sprays? What life o'erbrims The body,--the house no eye can probe,-- Divined, as beneath a robe, the limbs? And there again! But my heart may guess Who tripped behind; and she sang, perhaps: So the old wall throbbed, and its life's excess Died out and away in the leafy wraps. Wall upon wall are between us: life And song should away from heart to heart! I--prison-bird, with a ruddy strife At breast, and a lip whence storm-notes start-- Hold on, hope hard in the subtle thing That's spirit: tho' cloistered fast, soar free; Account as wood, brick, stone, this ring Of the rueful neighbours, and--forth to thee!

Kanye West - Amazing

It's amazing, I'm the reason Everybody fired up this evening I'm exhausted, barely breathing Holding on to what I believe in. I'm a monster, I'm a killer I know I'm wrong I'm a problem That'll never ever be solved. I'm a monster, I'm a maven I know this world is changing Never gave in, never gave up I'm the only thing I'm afraid of

Kanye West - Dark Fantasy

I fantasized 'bout this back in Chicago Mercy, mercy me, that Murcielago That's me, the first year that I blow How you say broke in Spanish? Me no hablo Me drown sorrow in that Diablo Me found bravery in my bravado DJ's need to listen to the models "You ain't got no f***in' Yeezy in your Serato?" (You ain't got no Yeezy, n***a?) Stupid, but what the hell do I know? I'm just a Chi-town n***a with a Nas flow And my chick in that new Phoebe Philo So much head, I woke up in Sleepy Hollow