released December 16, 2010

lyrics and vox by Devin Cohen
Recorded at Kawari Sound, Wyncote, Pa
Produced and mixed by Alex Daniels
with assistance from Devin Cohen,
except for Dead or Alive and 2-1-5,
which were produced by Zach Goldstein

cover photo by Yusuf Muhammad, edited by Devin Cohen




ALIEN ARCHITECT ALBUM LYRICS:
All lyrics written by Devin Cohen/Alien Architect/Cohen Asher

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SPARROW:

VERSE 1

a passional
bashful
massive tool
asking you
a million bagillion gazillion and one
questions
all at once
backing up the front
with lyrical content
self proclaimed lames calling themselves flawed
and so they are
far from the truth
and why is the unknown so mysterious
it is a silly goose
a gander
in it for the chase
young and running wild
attracted
compacted
and compiled
he tries to keep a straight face
whilst a smile
is shining through a bit
it takes two to fit
in a pair
vuala
knowledge
no ledge
i break it down
breaking down words
the obsurdist wordist
without a purpose
extremely nervous
under the surface
but you probably already knew that
unless you did not
big shot
don't you want me
nasty babies haunt me
asking yours truly
if i remember
december
some hours late of the day of venus
friday
ooooh
i don't know
more bars to fill up
and i'm sick of filling up bars with co workers
willed to drink
with friends in his hair
all is fair
in rigged games
share


VERSE 2:

the beat
grabbin it
wrappin it
nipping it in the bud
havin it
my way with standard hip hop fast balls
though not as good as i think, fun
nothing new under the sun
besides me
though planning
and out of this world
get it
Alien Architect
i am permissive
you have my permission
to walk beside me
granting you the privilage
gracing you with my presence
gaudy to the maximum you peasants

kids
i run on sentences
indenting paragraphs late
why me
hanging with hymie
from time to time he
performs for kids
who would have been thought out of his league when he was a young lad, great!
angsty teenage heaven
all apologies, i am sorry
sometimes i feel/find my self talking/acting like them
and i can feel it rubbing you the wrong way
whilst i don't feel quite my self
though apparently
it is easier
fore
when you are a somebody
such as my/thy self
you have
a lot of explaining to do
about nothing
accept the bad
except the good
only deep to the shallow
crowned narrow
skeletals crushing right down to the marrow
with flipped scripts, reciting lines upside down
flipped birds get high backwards
sparrow

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Coming Back:

VERSE 1:

god on the microphone
but i don't believe in my self
skeptical
critically massive
out of touch, wealth
expectancy
by the inner most power
invested in knowledge trees
smoked away with you
ambiguity
deprivation
believing is seeing
shadowing
in the darkened
foot
stepping
away from its self

i am not, never was, never will be
authoritive story telling
the highly widely most gifted
at lying to my self
about my grandiose
ideas of self grandeur
pan handler
rose tinted by greenery
why are being so nice to me
why are you being so mean to me

the scenery
looks very different
but its still the same first person perspective
with secondary characters
and i will carry her

in the place to be
the only one where you are


CHORUS

once upon a time we were together
but it was more important for me to be clever
like what i do will save the world
so i lost the most important gir.. person ever
who i'd ever known
now i sit at home alone
whispering and freestyling songs of the sad and depraved
wishing, hoping, waiting, wanting to be saved
but your not coming back


VERSE 2:

its never too late
until it is
labeled independent
dealing with contracting major committed agreements
issued as of late
and it is
but the kids
don't wanna hear that shhh....
said
the guy who was obviously totally misled
by the big deal
in his own right
to be a big deal
either real
or imagined
imaginary imagery
is real (israel)

senses senses sensations by sensing truth through illusion, allusion, delusion
my imagination growing
impatient
yet suffering more than ever
and i honestly believed that i was clever
even as i've pretended to doubt
though at times i do
yet taking pride in it
perpetuating lies
going to war over lies
loving and losing and loving again because of lies
(tired of lying) i will dream standing up


CHORUS


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CONTRARY TO POPULAR DEPICTION:

(attention, allow me to reintroduce my self,
image is respect, records come and go and get collected)


CHORUS

don't you wanna do your own thing
not what we did first


VERSE 1:

a man
living a double life
and the second
the one that came second
is soon to dominate the first
and he said
don't you wanna do your own thing
not what we did first
seconds coming
this is me
and this is what it is all about
specially educated
in the making
and developing
before your eyes
as your eyes do
making plays on tradition
like art
official art
everybody's business
like there is tomorrow
using clicks and cliques
and puns intended
and demonstratively saying so
to one's advantage
until the next step
to be continued
coming soon

engaging one's environment to the best of one's abilities
as to promote the greatest likelihood of success
be and do


CHORUS


VERSE 2

while you pose for pictures
i'm the invisible enigma
this industry'll make you lose intensity
if you don't know me by now
i doubt you'll ever know me
i won't win a grammy
i won't win a tony
but i'm not the only mc
keeping it real

simple and plain
non unique
simply extra ordinary
with paints to mix
and tools at my disposal
and still learning
and underneath
still hurting
and on top of that
the happiest i've ever been
flirting
herding
fresh meet to greet
to be eaten up by
popularized
generalizable
cultural subtlety
homogonizing
specificity

we speak specifics
as if they were generalizable
when in fact
they are only true at the levels at which they apply

why ask why
who asks what
when, where, and how do you do



CHORUS


VERSE 3:

while you pose for pictures
i'm the invisible enigma
this industry'll make you lose intensity
if you don't know me by now
i doubt you'll ever know me
i won't win a grammy
i won't win a tony

a collector
mic checker
don't cup the mic
or hold it too close to your mouth
contrary to popular depiction
and feeling
still healing
performing in places
wherein i can touch the ceiling
and some people are dicks, jerks,
there is no excuse
full throttle douche nozzle
be distant and unapproachable
make appearances
say less and be careful what you say
use what you once were, but no longer are to your advantage,
but whatever it is your are you ought be
if only possible
socialism
be and do


CHORUS

(attention)


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Inherently Flawed:

VERSE 1:

everybody's failed but we're doing the best we can
because we're still alive
and your gone
and the reason your gone
is because of the thing that i wanted to do
that also failed
and is also gone
and he wanted me to be another thing
and by the time i finally did it
he became what i was
everybody's having so much fun
and i used to
until i realized
i was trying to be somebody else
and your having so much fun
but i know that your trying to be somebody else
from who i ever knew

and everybody want to have fun
and everybody wants to smoke
and everybody wants to drink
and everybody wants to get fucked up dude
and everybody wants to fuck
and everybody wants to fuck
or have really cheezy families
that feel really awkward to be around
and i'm living the high life
the revolution will not be televised
yet alone happen at all
outside of catering to conscious fantasy land
everyone has failed
and it is all a sham
nobody really cares about anything
but their own lives and the way that they look

(limited altruism
competitive altruism
look at me now
with all of my flaws)


CHORUS

my sad sad face
would like to smile again
but im so hurt ill never laugh again


VERSE 2

all schisms, isms, dogmas, and religions are flawed,
including atheism,
this one,
and my own judgmental mind

its curtains for me
i have no right to rhyme
yet alone exist on this planet
the alien architect
thriving
surviving
off of your whim
everywhere he goes
isn't good enough for him
for each discounts that which it isn't
in and out groups
in and out of the loops
self vs. other
he laughs and smiles on cue
and everyone finds a mate within their class and range
physical attributes
compatibility
and so forth
for reasons
why
cognitions are dissonant
she the first cut
deep to the shallow
nothing ever lasts
until you become boring and decide that that is what you want
and i've spent years trying to make what i wanted as a teenager come true
and i am not a teenager anymore
and where are they now
if it comes across as insincere
that's because it is
i wonder how
many concerns
we would bring up
if we didn't have people
that hold power over us
in our lives


CHORUS

VERSE 3

speaking in doubles
double O Devin
undercover spy
p-h-i double l-y

"do you hate her cus she's pieces of you?"

nope

i have no idea what your talking about
and its best that way
manning up and away
from those he loves
for that big promotion
sometimes
i feel the vibe
that you guys
hate the shit out of me
and it hurts my feelings
i wasn't feeling the vibe
but it was time to perform
so i did it anyway
and felt shitty afterwards
everything about it felt hoaky and stupid
sometimes you have to suck a lot of dicks
that you don't wanna suck
to get to the pussy that you wanna fuck
is the way i see it
curse cursing
don't be so eager
you don't have to do that to please him
cus you are too beautiful
i liked what you were saying but not how, no why, you said it
cus it defeats its purpose
and he thinks that thats the way to do it

what you enjoy kills me
and i hate it here
and i know you do too
night life or art
what did i originally want from the start

and death did us apart


CHORUS



VERSE 4:

i don't belong to this world
switch it up
depending on where you are
whilst dodging cameras
unless you so choose to hold on to your
cohesive
identifiable
identity
identical to those remembered
and most likely in the future
keep it together
conserve
laughing and smiling on cue
occasioned by you
setting social scripts with regard to where we find our selves
redundant as to clarify
is to foreshadow
what has already developed ahead of your time
you make me sick
vomiting stupidly
with idiotic and moronic tendencies
and they say i'm a fuck and they're right
feed the buzz
plus who can you trust
when there's
too many mc's
not enough mics
is the belief
which is believable and fun et al
amidst your own i.e.
that there are plenty of mics to go around
but that money
and/or
connects
bring differing qualities of mics and prestige
affiliations
affirmations
as proof of what so ever and ever you already are
an ideal self
proven or actualized
by ways of evidence
to those who don't believe in you

CHORUS


(catering requests, relationship, this is pschoanalysis, inherently flawed, confabulating truths and distorting them, i see what i saw, he died and she died and he died......)

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The Origin:


INTRO:
written freestyles
freestyled writtens
middle man upped
by the time it hits you
it is what it isn't
and you feel no pain
bitten from the origin


VERSE 1:

who knows what i was thinking
you see you get what you got from it
and either liked it or didn't
aside from that
i am what i am
and it is what it is
behind the scenes
you shmooz you lose
your integration of
creative drive
positive work ethic
and craftsmanship
that lie or lay
and derive outside
of the shmooz and mingle dimension
and vices make the pain lessen
comfortably numb
lovably scum
show biz legends
in the building
building buildings to heaven
that fall
in love
claiming baggage
a menagerie
of managed
damaged
goods
once for nothing
that now require something
in return
of the other cheek
turned and kissed
freely willed prowess
styled for ones allowance



CHORUS

ends meeting to meaning
written freestyles
freestyled writtens
bitten from the source
the origin




VERSE 2:

ok
i'll laugh at your joke
though on a level
beyond your experience
it is also more serious than what you make of it
but its nothing
no worries
not worth my time
or yours
and spending too much time with you is a chore
and its all too much for me to take
half baked pyramid schemes
rarities going fast
limited availability
band wagons
and it is what it seems
though i don't want it to be
my ego says
take down the man with the power
but i don't think i'd be a good figure head (scape goat)
lets do something about our
socio-economics
that umbrella what so ever we are
and be what so ever we are
the stars going to war
to be so high above you
in the relationship
taken it
to a higher level
we co-conspire clever conspiracies
and admire, never non-fearingly
soldiers for hire, whether we're nearing the
end of war as we know it or not


CHORUS

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The rest of the song lyrics are on the Alien Architect Mix tape.