[Intro – 4 bars] (Sound of a steady heartbeat that slowly morphs into a kick drum pattern. A deep inhale.) Some people need coffee. Some people need drugs. I just need the frequency. It’s not what I do. It’s who I am. [Verse 1 – 8 bars] I wake up to the rhythm in the middle of the chest I put the melody to test and I never let it rest It’s pumping in the artery, a part of me, the heart of me The start of me, the art of me, the smartest and the hard of me I don’t see the colors, I see audio waves I’m a master of the sound, but I’m one of its slaves It dictates the mood and the way that I walk It dictates the rude and the way that I talk. [Pre-Hook – 4 bars] Silence is the enemy, the vacuum of the soul Music is the energy that makes the broken whole It’s running through the veins like a chemical fire Taking me deeper and taking me higher. [Hook – 8 bars] Music is a lifestyle, it isn’t just a game It’s the reason for the pleasure and the reason for the pain It’s the first thing in the morning and the last thing in the night It’s the heavy-weight champion winning every fight Yeah, music is a lifestyle, embedded in the code It’s the highway and the skyway and the long and winding road If you cut me I will bleed out a symphony of sound Music is the lifestyle, keeping me unbound. [Verse 2 – 8 bars] I sacrificed the normal for the formal composition I traded in the boredom for the lyrical mission I lost a couple friends who didn't understand the grind But I found a million melodies inside of the mind I’m married to the studio, divorced from the sleep I’m making promises that I am intending to keep To the snare and the kick and the hi-hat roll To the jazz and the rock and the rap and the soul. [Verse 3 – 8 bars] It’s deeper than a paycheck, deeper than a hit It’s the holy-ass grail and the bottomless pit I’m drowning in the samples, I’m swimming in the bass I’m running a marathon at a sprinting-ass pace You listen to the song, I listen to the mix I’m looking for the flaws and the errors and the fix My brain is an equalizer, pushing up the high I’m living for the music until the day I die. [Hook – 8 bars] Music is a lifestyle, it isn’t just a game It’s the reason for the pleasure and the reason for the pain It’s the first thing in the morning and the last thing in the night It’s the heavy-weight champion winning every fight Yeah, music is a lifestyle, embedded in the code It’s the highway and the skyway and the long and winding road If you cut me I will bleed out a symphony of sound Music is the lifestyle, keeping me unbound. [Verse 4 – 8 bars] Every conversation is a lyric in the wait Every situation is a twist of the fate I’m documenting life on the magnetic tape There is no exit door, there is no escape And I don’t want to leave, I am happy in the cell I am happy in the heaven and I’m happy in the hell As long as there is rhythm, as long as there is beat I am standing on the solid and the musical concrete. [Verse 5 – 8 bars] It’s a compulsion, propulsion, a sonic revulsion Of silence, a violence, a chemical emulsion I’m eating and I’m breathing and I’m sleeping in the booth I’m searching for the ultimate and sonic-ass truth My DNA is helixes of treble and of clef I’m shouting at the world until everybody’s deaf It’s a sickness, a virus, but I don’t want the cure I want the distortion and I want it to be pure. [Hook – 8 bars] Music is a lifestyle, it isn’t just a game It’s the reason for the pleasure and the reason for the pain It’s the first thing in the morning and the last thing in the night It’s the heavy-weight champion winning every fight Yeah, music is a lifestyle, embedded in the code It’s the highway and the skyway and the long and winding road If you cut me I will bleed out a symphony of sound Music is the lifestyle, keeping me unbound. [Bridge – 12 bars] (Music swells to an orchestral crescendo, emotional and grand) Take my car. Take my clothes. Take the house. Take the prose. But leave me the music. Because without it... I am a ghost. It’s the air in the lung. It’s the song to be sung. It’s the ladder where the universe is hung. From the cradle to the grave. It’s the only thing that’s brave. It’s the master. I’m the slave. And I love it. [Hook – 8 bars] Music is a lifestyle, it isn’t just a game It’s the reason for the pleasure and the reason for the pain It’s the first thing in the morning and the last thing in the night It’s the heavy-weight champion winning every fight Yeah, music is a lifestyle, embedded in the code It’s the highway and the skyway and the long and winding road If you cut me I will bleed out a symphony of sound Music is the lifestyle, keeping me unbound. [Outro – 4 bars] (Music fades slowly into a single heartbeat again) It never stops. (Thump-thump) (Thump-thump) KB. R.C.W. Forever. (Flatline sound turns into a beautiful violin note)
