Legion sent me this track and we worked on it over the course of a couple years. Every time I added a verse, it reflected a change in my writing. So it's a great 'timeline' piece.
It's also about the creepy Everfree Forest. Well, at least when it's BEING creepy.
Verse 1:
Are you afraid of the dark?
Demonic hands reach from the shadows and rip into your heart.
Feel the cold stares from the unknown beyond.
And know that - if you stray from the path, you get drawn.
To the crevice - and deep into the mouth of the beast.
The Everfree forest is ever ready to feast.
And there's never any peace in this place.
The noise of the agonized voices rejoice within the maze.
And I tell any traveler - whose courage is called on.
Take a trip to the forest you get mauled on.
Any strength in your hearts? Believe it's all gone.
Otherwise you'll fall by the appalled spawn.
In the forest the world runs on it's own time.
All the predators pray for your alone time.
In no time they prey upon your own mind.
Better believe me your flesh is where they go'n dine.
Define courage? An original skill - Because
courage is just fear with a bit of a will.
And that will makes you move when you body cannot.
An autonomic response, something that cannot be taught.
Cause when you caught in the clutches of the trees.
The dead stares of the trunks amongst the rush of the breeze
Just seize all - your muscles and it buckles your knees
Tough luck, Everfree just put another to sleep.
Another victim in the quick sand of the vile forest.
A reviled force that forces ponies to be defiled for
the time that they spend in this dark zone.
And you better start home, otherwise you will be marked, owned-
By the bark of the timberwolf, in a full moon.
Or a basilisk stare where you gonna fall soon.
And it's all doom, Everfree, when in fact you're never free.
Soon as your in, the light is what you'll never see.
Verse 2:
You need to listen, to need to hear.
You need adrenaline, you need the fear.
You need the heart
At a level to pump the blood straight
through the core of your skeleton.
Militant and intelligent
Is the only chance you have to make it past all the elements.
Poison is a joke here, are you tellin me you'll survive
With all these ghosts near?
And the paralytic stares of vile mytical monsters?
Now aware - that your presence is lost here?
Tossed here in the thick of it.
Constantly walking in circles, aw you must be sick of it.
But think of it, take a minute to rest - and in less
than a minute, you can get venom into your chest.
Reasses, your systems
Cause if you keep on your feet it leaves death far in the distance.
Assistance for your defenses,
is a mystical zebra with a penchance
For chemical combinations of herbs and her word choice.
In pentameter bursts - her - disturbed voice
Serves riddles and rhymes to ruminate in
But if you can unwind 'em you'll find, illumination
Ancient fables, words of the wise
There ain't no tales that'll swerve your demise
and it serves as a guide, in the Everfree lives
are as fleeting as a fly in the fangs of a centipede.
Let it be, it you fall it was meant to be.
The Many Creatures of the Forest will begin to eat.
Dinner meat,
it was bittersweet. Cause you could've made it out,
if you were a little better on your feet.
Now you're just a complete part of their breakfast.
Now they wait for who's part of the next list.
Outro:
Better be ever ready
Never leave anybody
Enemies, ever hunting
The disease it is coming
In the breeze it is something
When it sees, start running
suddenly, hearts gunning
Gonna be dark, cunning
Peace - Harmony
Never be targeted
Whether we started it.
Let us eat part of it
Now let it be.
Souls will submit to me
Tolls that are fit to be
Stroll through the Everfree
credits
from FLOWNY2013,
track released May 24, 2013
Produced by Legion, Vocals by Rhyme Flow
I'm a hip-hop artist from San Diego with roots from the MLP:FIM Fan Music Community since 2012. I love meeting new people and collaborating with new talented musicians.
