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Writing Competition Winners!
Here are the verses along with the names of those who wrote them. Beside several names will be an asterisk, these are the verses chosen by the judges. An asterisk counts as 2 votes. The number beside each name represents the number of user votes. Percentage round-ups on user/participant votes listed below.
1 - classthe_king * 3 w/judge votes
I take a stroll down to speedway for a pack of smokes
A bag of dope or if I seem brave I’ll grab some coke
But as I saunter down this path of rueful memories
The storm cloud kisses me, soaking my new slender jeans
As it’s trickling I hide in seven eleven
When I notice that an angel from heaven was let in
The golden curls twist and spiral down your back
As I stare into your blue eyes and wish I’d drown in that
When I hear you speak your subtle whisper allows
My heart to be set free and hover into the clouds
As I start a conversation I dream of your beauty
And wish that you can soothe me in my heart till I awaken
In this darkness I am chasin I’m released from the slumber
I may not have got your love but I at least get a number
And I seem to discover than in this picture perfect lioness
The delusive fox waits for his turn inside her flesh
This is just another broken heart funeral
But I guess its good enough for me…
And I know you may not be the most beautiful
But you’re still good enough for me…
I ain’t the guy trying to fuck you like the usual
But I guess I ain’t good enough for you…
I realize as I put my heart in this musical
I’ll never be good enough for you…
So I hit you up on your celli, but I’m find-ing
That superstars ain’t got time for a guy like me
Your last boyfriend played football and the current is a rapper
Why waste your time with a loser flirtin with disaster
I tell you I’m a rapper too then things sorta change
You tell me about this party I can hit up down on 48
So I’m like fuck it, guess I’ll show her what I got
Put on some fresh kicks and head on over to the spot
Walk in and she greets me, stumblin all over, blushin
She says she’s fine but I think she did some coke or somethin
But I don’t care, I put the moves on but she ain’t all for it
Then her boyfriend comes and asks me what the problem is
But I did coke too and I’m feelin kinda reckless
So I stand up and tell him I ain’t the guy to try n mess with
But he ain’t havin that and tells me as he draws his gat
That if I’m seen again then his men will break my skull in half
This is just another broken heart funeral
But I guess its good enough for me…
And I know you may not be the most beautiful
But you’re still good enough for me…
I ain’t the guy trying to fuck you like the usual
But I guess I ain’t good enough for you…
I realize as I put my heart in this musical
I’ll never be good enough for you…
2 - Devil'sAdvocate
This my life story, im sorry,it maybe be boring
just picked up a pen,but my hand already soaring
but i gotta get this shit out,been sittin here in doubt
they say everybody born for a reason,then what am i about
fire in my heart,winter season,been already put the fuck out
im cold as ice,switch the shit up,better roll the dice
ima fuck life up,its none of the above,bitch betta cum twice
keep your head up,its already shattered,thats a lame thought
when ur neck is battered,what a big shame,distraught
this world is a mess,eyes are bluerry,syllables dissconnect
stay positive,the needle doesnt take too long to inject
gotta live up with the stress,gotta gain the respect
im too young,life still ahead of me,it aint all wrecked
but who am i to think,might die now,nothing will effect
aint gon rather with less,should i hope for the best?
This is the life
gotta go through the fight,till the end
we despise what we demise
why the hell should i pretend
Better not give up,a great man once told us not to give a fuck
They say you write you're own destiny,thats fucking dreadfully
then im stab destiney with a pen,so i can write it again
the mindstate that im in,is positive,im gonna change this situation
the weight i been carying heavily,made me need therapy
life is like a fag,a shame to a gender of men
ima stab it with a screw driver to tighten up the loose end
aint it a sin,when men do for a dose of nymphetamine
Dad's like "keep working or you will be a failure"
im like "why,does money mean that much to you"
im gettin tired of the pressure,guess ive reached the center
stay up dont let nothing bring you down,what goes around come around
Hook:
This is the life
gotta go through the fight,till the end
we despise what we demise
why the hell should i pretend
3 - Shadyfreak 1 w/judge votes
Let me tell you in my own lyrical words
About my time in this cold, cynical world
Been there for people all the fucking time
Saving their lives but no one's saving mine
Backstabbers actin' like they've got a fucking spine
You want a piece of me? You better get in line
My life is malfunctioning, I'd like to cancel
I'm fed up with this fake ass joy and laughter
Bitch left before I even got the chance to ask her
About how she felt about the cancer
That is my life, but I put it past her
Asking God every night but still no answer
So I pray my death comes even faster
I'm an hour glass and the sand is running out
Someone please tell me what it's all about
Before I lose my mind and start to shout
Wish I could change what I regret
Trying to decipher what's still in code
Feels like I will implode (impload...)
My tomb is prepared and set
So many regrets...
Walking around like a blind man in this maze
Of thorns and I insist on finishing the race
But I don't think I can keep up with this pace
I don't feel like sitting in the drivers seat
'Cause my dried up soul can take no more heat
Please fast forward to two thousand and twelve
'Cause I can't wait for the world to end
So I've written this letter that I'll send
To my loved ones to thank them for the time spent
Feeling consumed by all the lies
The present me is someone I despise
So I will take my life with the knife
I'm no longer in the position to trust myself
Constantly feeling sick, so fuck my health
All my dreams and plans went up in smoke
What am I? Nothing but a fucking joke
4 - Lello
L for the Lack of faith and hope to survive
I for Indefinite will to stay alive
F for the word that in this case I wanna use
E for the Eternal and Un-Healing Wounds
Let's step into my eyes to discover what I suffer
then it'd be no surprise I'm eating double for supper
can you see the lies, in my smile, made of rubber?
soon witness my demise, though hear my words when i stutter
my light turned to darkness, my love turned to hate
my fright overcame my sharpness, so I learned to discriminate
My soul turned empty, while my stomach was full
material i got plenty, emotionally i'm dull
When life tryina castrate you
show her who the man
when life tryina erase you
exist as much as you can
when life tryina outdate you
race time and win the fight
when life tryina forget you
who rocked her world tonight?!
Isolated myself from the rest of humanity
I needed help, too late I reached insanity
I've always been told if life flips u upside down
learn to handstand or inevitably drown
I wasn't ready for what life will throw my way
things were goin steady when I was on the "Highway"
but as soon as i hit the main road, I was koncked on the floor
it's started to "rain" more, then it actually "poured"
the more the that pain's sore, the louder i roar
all that i had was plain gone, couldn't take it no more
so tick tock, tick tock, time is running out
ak47 on my thick cock, no more fuckin around
took it and aimed at my head with hope of no return
started chockin out cause THE ALARM CLOCK started to burn
When life tryina castrate you
show her who the man
when life tryina erase you
exist as much as you can
when life tryina outdate you
race time and win the fight
when life tryina forget you
who rocked her world tonight?!
5 - Master Chief * 3 w/judge votes
Is it a strange thing that I daydream of burning up in hell?
I'm in cuffs and celled up while earning cuts that swell
I'd love to yell, rush and tell somebody but I'm a general
My soul is something else and my courage is on a pedestal
I can handle, frightening scandels... I fight my battles
Still, life's a hassle, quite the task to try to pass through
Because where the fuck do go you from inside a capsule
I just wait for the day I can say "God, I'm flying at you"
But I became what I fuckin despise...I've become an asshole
There's nothing but blood in my eyes...my sun's a black hole
But, it's all my past's fault, when every night I had brawls
With my step-father, back when life was just a crash course,
I was defenseless, a tense kid against them clenched fists
I have bled and never vented, I have kept on jest pretending
But now, I'm live and I am blessed and it is time for me to fess
Although my life was just a mess, I survived it and he left...
It's going down, it's going down...
Give me a call if my soul is found
Til then I write and I flow a while
Life is hard but I'm known to smile
I find it tiring and difficult to cheat this loneliness
I miss my friends, I wish I got the sleep my homeys get
Now, we've grown apart, I need a female to sow my heart
I feel alone and dark, I sit in my room throwing darts
At the rolling target, bitter, cause yeah, I boast a lot
Yet I don't have a girl and let alone a load of broads
Sometimes I think, deep down I suffer from depression
Struggling, I'm stressing, I'm slumped up and regressing
Sometimes, I wish I was just snuffed up by a hessing
Or maybe I have to resolve this and shut up for a second
Cause I rather slit my genitals...open while I piss debris
Than be pissed in general, living pitiful in blisterin' misery
So I found a partner in hip hop and as I'm tasting her lips
These rappers claiming marriage still await a first kiss
She said, pick up that pen, make him your biggest of friend
After you finish, I know your pain so honey spit up that flem!
6 - ChristinaE12
Tired of walking down this same old road aimlessly.
Tired of just sitting around so patiently.
My life is so full of shit, so why is it, from the outside all you see is this vacancy?
Why is it always just my mistakes you see?
Well fuck you and I say that shit shamelessly.
Tired of being stared at so fuckin' crazily...
Cause I don't believe, fully in your faith and see
God the way you see. So, I must be ill fatally..
Which that must mean I'm just an Atheist
and that mainly only makes me greatly pissed.
Cause I'm a bit different, I'm on Hell's Maybe List?
How come the good is always overlooked and strangely missed?
Sick of this.. Life.. Fuck. It's just a shady bitch.
And Society..Lately it makes me wanna lamely quit
Cause when in it, you don't fit, your plainly kicked
down and told you'll only ever amount to basically shit..
(So?)
If you were to die and leave this world today
Would there be any regrets,
Do you have things left to say
Would you have reason to be upset.
Or, did you leave a message for all to convey
Would you have left a mark or just a debt??
(Take my advice although this may sound a bit cliche
Always live your life to its fullest every single day....)
I was always told to not take life for granted
but damnit..how when bad shit is all your handed
in my life.. I cant stand it..or just sit stranded.
Why I'm about ready to give in, Quit gambling
but cant..Got a kid who needs my feet planted.
Have to get control of my life.. I demand it.
Get a hold of it all and finally command it.
Grab the world as if it's mine and leave it branded.
And damnit. I know it's, almost too late and I acknowledge it.
That is why I need to go to college quick
but only if I can get some grants and scholarships.
Instead I always have to worry bout how the next dollars spent
especially yesterday and all the talk and what the doctors meant
They don't know the problem or the cause of it
Just that the headache pain is only augmented.
Rest of my life take Norco's? Huh..Now pause a minute...
If you were to die and leave this world today
Would there be any regrets,
Do you have things left to say..
Would you have reason to be upset.
Or, did you leave a message for all to convey..
Would you have left a mark or just a debt??
(Take my advice although this may sound a bit cliche
Always live your life to its fullest every single day....)
(Outro)
..And if you think this only applies to me
there are millions of others who can relate and agree
Who probably feel the same and understandably
This fits them to a tee..
Cause there are millions of others just like me...
7 - Hesky * 5 w/judge votes
He woke up on a slave ship, battered and bruised
Attack was cruel, left with lack of food, shackled, confused
Wondering how he got there, bound in chains
Slouched against the wall on the ground in pain
Back in Africa he was chief of his tribe
But in this land the white man was keeping his pride
Locked away, isolated, holding it prisoner
Thrown into a cabin and was told to live in there
Amongst the other slaves, about twenty or so
Unforgiving whip marks; plenty to show
This is where they stayed with no option to leave
Forgotten dreams, chopping trees, picking cotton in fields
Years went by filled with menial tasks
Feeling the effects with every season that passed
Why they were there he felt no reason to ask
Enslaved on foreign soil knowing these were the facts
Can't take the hardships of labour
Don't want to live life enslaved here -
But you came on our ships for labour!
Ain't nobody out here to save ya'
His wife and daughter also part of slave expansion
They were made to work too as maids in the mansion
Faced with the fact of no escape, they were trapped in
Put on a brave face as if rape wasn't happening
The first time they gathered round, mobbed her with ignorance
Threw her down onto the ground and robbed her of innocence
An uncalled for display of sickness profusely
He refused to stand back and witness the cruelty
And ran up to the mansion where he fought his masters
Knowing that he'd have to go through torture afterwards
Too useful to be hung he was whipped with no mercy
Then slung into an outhouse, conditions so dirty
Trapped in complete darkness amongst bodily waste
Then finally let out from what he'd horribly faced
Escorted back to work under the heat of the sun
Just hoping that one day all of their freedom would come
8 - Amadeo * 3 w/judge votes
Andrew got a new job, he got a new boss
But Andrew's new life came at a huge cost
He was just a lap dog, being treated like dirt
But he kept his crap job, 'cause he needed the work
The thing is he's alone, worked his fingers to the bone
And his boss is to a chair as a king is to a throne
Always yelling orders at him, he was given no pay
Expected to accept it and submit and obey
He's a rat in the race, they're a cat and they chase
And they chased him 'till he tripped and fell flat on his face
After work he'd hit the bars just to go drink rum
Lit cigars to distract him from his low income
But then the next day he would have to climb on
Andy had a job that you can't resign from
His heart kept beating like a ticking time bomb
His muscles were weak, yeah, but his mind's strong
You ever feel like you've climbed up the tallest peak?
Like you wanna collapse, you wanna fall asleep?
But there's nowhere you can rest all those aching joints
...And you feel like you've just reached breaking point
You ever feel like you've climbed up the tallest peak?
Like you wanna collapse, you wanna fall asleep?
But there's nowhere you can rest all those aching joints
...And you feel like you've just reached breaking point
He'd stay in his environment, not going outdoors
While he's praying for retirement, doing house chores
All the blood and the sweat, that was from the late shifts
He was scrubbin' the deck, while he's on a slave ship
But was never paid shit so he's jumping overboard
Just to drown his sorrows, working hard for no reward
Feeling so distraught but he stayed motivated
Mainly cuz of what his boss and him had co-created
So even though he'd hate it, he'd pray for better days
And pray he'd get away, pray he'd get a raise
But it never came, so he figured that's the last straw
He'd fucking done everything his boss had asked for
So he made a protest, it was worth a try
No pay and no rest really hurts your pride
It was finally time to wave work goodbye
So he started getting dressed in his shirt and tie
He grabbed the car keys, it was time to drive
To see his real family from nine to five
And leave this job where he works five to nine
He went to his boss and said "I resign"
Then he signed and he gave his wife divorce papers
Exchanged for the painful life of forced labor
And once he did that, he gave his wedding ring
A gift to the woman who'd taken everything
You ever feel like you've climbed up the tallest peak?
Like you wanna collapse, you wanna fall asleep?
But there's nowhere you can rest all those aching joints
And you feel like you've just reached breaking point
You ever feel like you've climbed up the tallest peak?
Like you wanna collapse, you wanna fall asleep?
But there's nowhere you can rest all those aching joints
And you feel like you've just reached breaking point
9 - Block * 4 w/judge votes
she was a struggling nurse, he had the cancer..
she'd prance in to his room and find it filling up with laughter
and she couldn't understand it.. how's he so attracted
to, everything that life has to offer him, she asked him
"I don't mean to interupt you but I can't help but noticing
the way you seem alive and well but I could tell your hope is dim",
Motioning her charts, she begins to name his symptoms off,
(cancer of the brain that was shifting to a different spot)..
It was not long before she guessed that she had over-stepped..
no regrets in asking why or how he could have coped with death,
a copacetic grin smiled down as he was looking up,
he looked up, caught her by surprise with a greeting
said, "I don't know your life but I think you miss the meaning of it"
he was nothing like the way that she had visioned death to look,
it's best to look both ways when crossing that street again..
speaking in a low daze, he choked another quote.. he said...
Life is what you make of it
you take from it or give..
Life is what you make of it
it's made for you to live..
Give a mile, take a smile
(live a little bit)
Give a smile, take a smile
(give it to the kids)
the chemo therapy had gone & taken most his hair away
but there had lay a man with a willingness to share the day..
Baring all he had just to make the world a better place,
never tasting bitterness or feeling he was second-rate
for hating life's instances..
Never blaming others for the way he might be living it..
Giving in has never proven prudent,
It is useless.. something that he's never doing..
best to move it through the struggle,
learn another lesson through it..
He takes what he can steal from life,
the laughter and the tears alike..
Cancer isn't stearing life, it's merely just a mirror, right?
a reflection of him beating it, (a conquest, a hero's might)..
Here tonight he sits, another patient in another room
wading through the pages in a book slated 'nothing new',
some who knew him knew it was a chapter he would save
for the story of his ages,
with a smile on his face that is more than just contagious
he begins to hum a poem, and I think I heard him say this..
Life is what you make of it
you take from it or give..
Life is what you make of it
it's made for you to live..
Give a mile, take a smile
(live a little bit)
Give a smile, take a smile
(give it to the kids)
10 - Cosh * 3 w/judge votes
God if you're listening, show me a sign
Drowning in my own thoughts, throw me a line
An overload of struggle, is it gonna be alright?
God I beg, please... let me see the light.
Hurricanes, Suicide, Tsunamis and Homicide
Children weep as their mothers and their fathers die
A plague of unemployment, an epidemic of homelessness
We see it as annoyment, we brush it off as hokiness
Ignoring all around us, and it seems that God has done the same
We push it out our minds, from the problems we just run away
D.U.I's and O.D's, R.I.P's we know these
Something to eliminate, something that will grow peace
Love is a faltering chemistry hanging on a balance beam
Humans beat each other down, counting up their falacies
Waiting on the day to say, they moved up in society
But lost their soul to the world, and their rights of propriety
God if you're listening, show me a sign
Drowning in my own thoughts, throw me a line
An overload of struggle, is it gonna be alright?
God I beg, please... let me see the light.
My heart aches, time will never slow down
Missing all around me, it seems like there is no sound
Fuck moving on, I miss how it used to be
I've got new friends but it seems like they're using me
They Talk about me... behind my back
I'm ashamed to say, it's something that I'm crying at
(Why is that?) It piles on top of everything else
I drown in depression as I wait for the heavenly realm
(Or do I?) Because it doesn't seems like a God wouldn't let this happen
There's no one left to talk to, so I just confess it rapping.
Pouring out my soul, using a pen to paint the canvas
To forget all that's good, stand up and face the madness
God if you're listening, show me a sign
Drowning in my own thoughts, throw me a line
An overload of struggle, is it gonna be alright?
God I beg, please... let me see the light.
11 - MikeNUFC * 9 w/judge votes
Tired of being one of many, where no-one rates me
Hate being stuck in a maze with no way to escape free
And it ain't a maze of poverty, turmoil or gangwar
It's a maze of irratation, what the fuck do I stand for?
I need to raise a flag or see from a birds eye view
Because the hurt I rue could seem absurd to you
With the words I choose, like I'm against the tide
Cus this ain't a song moaning that my rents too high
This ain't a song moaning about the fucking hood
And you wont hear me saying that my luck's no good
You won't hear me saying I've been given a bad draw
Been given four Jacks, so what the fuck am I sad for?
Should I count my blessings? Not at the bottom of the pack
In the middle playing joker, tryna stand out from the jacks
And I've got no heart to be an ace in this game of cards
The jokers swept aside, ignored, no name thus far
I'm feeling like this life keeps holding me back
I'm feeling like this life gives no time to relax
And although you might feel I'm better of than you
It's impossible to see from anothers point of view
I've applied for Uni, but shit, do I really wanna go?
"So what? Can't feed my kid, waiting for my songs to blow"
I'm gunna do a Copy, we've got our own personal hell
From your view my life's great, couldn't be further from jail
But from mine, it's stagnant, I'm worried and nervous as well
Could be a King In Heaven, but feel like a Servant In Hell
And I'm struggling to break through this surface, this shell
Only close ones hear me, like I'm shouting words in a well
{change of flow}
I try and better myself (things seem to move more slowly)
Try to build relationships (foundations break below me)
Safe and cosy life... (NOT what I'm striving to reach)
Myself recognised... (is what I'm trying to see)
Turn up to class late (wish this life was a dream)
I really can't wait (for this Mike to be seen)
This shit's a rat race (in this cycle that's been)
A lack of fast pace (need to die to be seen?)
I'm feeling like this life keeps holding me back
I'm feeling like this life gives no time to relax
And although you might feel I'm better of than you
It's impossible to see from anothers point of view
12 - Yah-hah * 5 w/judge votes
I'm supposed to write about my life and hardships,
In an instant life goes from light to darkness, Jesus Christ I'm starvin,
But I'd rather let my family eat then let charity just hand me things,
Keepin a straight smile takes awhile when dealin with insanity,
With bloody knuckles I wipe the sweat off my brow,
Try to make tomorrow better cuz it could never be now,
Feelin so pitiful, lookin cynical at the verse he writes,
This moneys leavin quicker than she did the 1st 3 times,
Like damn I spent how much on that engagement ring?
A whole year later it's almost like I didnt say a thing,
I love you baby won't you just say it please,
At first you were beggin now somehow you're makin me?
So we finally got shit straightened up and figured out,
Moved out of that shithole and bought us a little house,
I say I'll never give up on my son It's lookin like I will though,
1 more month till my he's here and shit I'm still broke
Sayin fuck god and fuck satan I'm done waitin,
So I duck down as I start escaping from the basement,
And God damn it's hot in here but hell it's no problem,
We really won't watch him get attacked by 50 stone goblins,
These demons cant hurt me but at least they can write for me,
They seem to be the only ones who can describe my life story
And I'm naming my son wolf heart so he can be my strongest part,
But now I'm at my weakest and he can see it start to fall apart
Dropped out of college for a full time job to get up out this shit,
Gettin turned down after they fire up that background check,
Because I did heroin when I was 13 now apparently thats a sure thing,
That I'm still usin, I feel stupid I will lose it can't deal with all this hurting,
So now I'm out here working in the snow till my warm blood is swept over,
Till every word I've saids colder than dead soldiers with kevlar souls and lead shoulders
Speakin of dead soldiers my brother still over in Iraq,
Fightin for his life with his semi packed please lord give him back,
So now I'm left as a broke poet and we both know so one'll fuck with you,
Badass fighter but keep gettin robbed after 3 rounds so now I'm 1-2,
Bloody noses and buised cheeks like why the fuck am I doing this,
I stuck not knowing who the main character of this movie is,
I keep tryin but life is hard and mine's an uncut diamond,
You couldn't walk 10 steps in the dirty chucks that I'm in
Sayin fuck god and fuck satan I'm done waitin,
So I duck down as I start escaping from the basement,
And God damn it's hot in here but hell it's no problem,
We really won't watch him get attacked by 50 stone goblins,
These demons cant hurt me but at least they can write for me,
They seem to be the only ones who can describe my life story
13 - FreeSpeech
Life’s hard but somehow I’m still here
It’s a sunny day, there’s still children’s tears
The right road, oh it’s always the farthest
Should I take it? It’s always the hardest…
Whenever my confidence sagging
I get pompous and bragging
How I’m accomplished and dashing
But still my self-conscious is nagging
Life’s a contest, I’m lagging in my eyes
But in reality that’s-
A fallacy, fact is life is a balancing act
But I’m galloping fast
Sprinting towards a gallon of ‘yak (Cognac)
When I’m in a wicked place-
Liquid grace helps me drown in the black
My calendar’s scratched
Screw plans, see I got some Crown in a flask
My dude hands me the shots and I’m pounding em back
Life’s hard but somehow I’m still here
It’s a sunny day, there’s still children’s tears
The right road, oh it’s always the farthest
Should I take it? It’s always the hardest…
Those last lines ain’t reality, but a possible path
If I’m tossing my potential and get lost in the past
If you got foes, be Tupac’s rose (poem about a rose that grew from concrete)
But no two glocks, no I got a shoebox stowed
With sheets of paper, stress therapy through scribbles and ink
If you believe a hater, best guarantee: you’d be miserable, think-
What if Rosa had sat down and been quiet?
What if rebel soldiers were never down for a riot?
Change can only come
When emboldened ones
Withhold the ones
Who told em they would fold, and none-
Of us can afford to back down from the pain
Surrounded by rain, still proud, hear the crowd as they say:
Life’s hard but somehow we still here
It’s a sunny day, there’s still children’s tears
The right road, oh it’s always the farthest
But we gon’ take it, yeah we gon’ make it, yeahhh…
The following participants advance to the next round:
MikeNUFC - Winner
Yah-hah
Hesky
Block
Amadeo
classthe_king
Master Chief
Cosh
As winner, MikeNUFC, you will receive an honorary dark blue (black) lettering whether you win or lose. unless you win the competition (which would make your name red).