Hi Ren

Hi there Ren, it's been a little while, did you miss me?

You thought you'd buried me, didn't you? Risky

'Cause I always come back, deep down, you know that

Deep down, you know I'm always in the periphery

Ren, aren't you pleased to see me?

It's been weeks since we spoke bro, I know you need me

You're the sheep, I'm the shepherd, not your place to lead me

Not your place to be biting off the hand that feeds me

Hi Ren, I've been taking some time to be distant

I've been taking some time to be still

I've been taking some time to be by myself

Since my therapist told me I'm ill

And I've been making some progress lately

And I've learnt some new coping skills

So I haven't really needed you much, man

I think we need to just step back and chill

Ren, you sound more insane than I do

You think that those doctors are really there to guide you?

You've been through this a million times

Your civilian mind is so perfect at always being lied to

Okay, take another pill boy

Drown yourself in the sound of white noise

Follow this ten-step program, rejoice

All your problems will be gone! Fuckin' dumb boy

Nah, mate, this time it's different, man, trust me

I feel like things might be falling in place

And my music's been kinda doing bits too

Like I actually might do something great

And when I'm gone, maybe I'll be remembered

For doing something special with myself

That's why I don't think that we should talk, man

'Cause when you're with me, it never seems to help

You think that you can amputate me?

I am you, you are me, you are I, I am we

We are one, split in two that makes one, so you see

You got to kill you if you wanna kill me

I'm not left over dinner, I'm not scraps on the side

Oh, your music is thriving? Delusional guy

Where's your top ten hit? Where's your interview with Oprah?

Where are your Grammies, Ren? Nowhere!

Yeah but, my music's not commercial like that

I never chased numbers, statistics or stats

I never write hooks for the radio, they never even play me

So why would I concern myself with that?

But my music is really connecting

And the people who find it, respect it

And for me, that's enough 'cause this life's been tough

So it gives me a purpose I can rest in

Man, you sound so pretentious

Ren, your music is so self-centred

No one wants to hear another song about

How much you hate yourself, trust me

You should be so lucky, having me inside you to guide you

Remind you to manage expectations

Provide you perspective, that thing you neglected, I get it

You wanna be a big deal, next Jimi Hendrix? Forget it

Man, it's not like that

Man it's just like that, I'm inside you, you twat

No, it's not man, you're wrong, when I write, I belong

Let me break the fourth wall by acknowledging this song

Ren sits down, has a stroke of genius

He wants to write a song that was not done previous

A battle with his subconscious, Eminem did it

Played on guitar, Plan B did it

Man, you're not original, you criminal, rip-off artist

The pinnacle of your success is stealing other people's material

Ren, mate, we've heard it all before

Uh, "she sells seashells on the sea shore"

Fuck you, I don't need you, I don't need to hear this

'Cause I'm fine by myself, I'ma genius

And I will be great, and I will make waves

And I'll shake up the whole world beneath us

That's right, speak your truth, your fuckin' God complex leaks out of you

It's refreshing to actually hear you say it instead of downplay it

"Ugh, music Is all about the creative process and if people can find

Something to relate to within that, then that's just a bonus"

Fuck you, I'ma fuckin' kill you, Ren

Well fuckin' kill me then, let's fuckin' have you Ren

I'm a do it, watch me prove it, who are you to doubt my music?

'Cause I call the shots. I choose if you die

Yeah, I call the shots, and so I who choose who survives

I'll tie you up in knots when I'll lock you inside

News flash

I was created at the dawn of creation

I am temptation, I am the snake in Eden

I am the reason for treason, beheading all Kings

I am sin with no rhyme or reason

Sun of the morning, Lucifer, antichrist

Father of lies, Mestophilies

Truth in a blender, deceitful pretender

The banished avenger, the righteous surrender

When standing in-front of my solar eclipse

My name it is stitched to your lips, so, you see

I won't bow to the will of a mortal, feeble and normal

You wanna kill me? I'm eternal, immortal

I live in every decision that catalysed chaos

That causes division

I live inside death, the beginning of ends

I am you, you are me, I am you, Ren

Hi Ren, I've been taking some time to be distant

I've been taking some time to be still

I've been taking some time to be by myself

And I've spent half my life ill

But just as sure as the tide starts turning

Just as sure as the night has dawn

Just as sure as rainfall soon runs dry

When you stand in an eye of the storm

I was made to be tested and twisted

I was made to be broken and beat

I was made by His hand, it's all part of His plan

That I stand on my own two feet

And you know me, my will is eternal

And you know me, you've met me before

Face to with a beast, I will rise from the east

And I'll settle on the ocean floor

And I go by many names also

Some people know me as "hope"

Some people know me as the voice that you hear

When you loosen the noose on the rope

And you know how I know how I know that I'll prosper?

'Cause I stand here beside you today

I have stood in the flames that cremated my brain

And I didn't once flinch or shake

So cower at the man I've become, when I sing from the top of my lungs

That I won't retire, I'll stand in your fire, inspire the meek to be strong

And when I am gone, I will rise, in the music that I left behind

Ferocious persistent, immortal like you, we're a coin with two different sides

When I was 17 years old, I shouted out into an empty room

Into a blank canvas, that I would defeat the forces of evil

And for the next 10 years of my life, I suffered the consequences

With autoimmunity, illness, and psychosis

As I got older, I realised that there were no real winners

And there were no real losers in physiological warfare

But there were victims and there were students

It wasn't David versus Goliath, it was a pendulum

Eternally swayin' from the dark to the light

And the more intensely that the light shone, the darker the shadow it cast

It was never really a battle for me to win, it was an eternal dance

And like a dance, the more rigid I became, the harder it got

The more I cursed my clumsy footsteps, the more I struggled

So I got older and I learned to relax

And I learned to soften and that dance got easier

It is this eternal dance that separates human beings

From angels, from demons, from gods

And I must not forget, we must not forget

That we are human beings