Song: Explode
Artist: Rationale aka James Crawford
Album: Metaphysiks
Year: 2003

(chorus)
My thoughts travel/
From my mind to the pen to the paper to the mic like an arrow/
Pull the pin, I'm ready to let go/
Connect flows, release the trigger and explode
My thoughts travel/
From my mind to the pen to the paper to the mic like an arrow/
Pull the pin, I'm ready to let go/
Connect flows, release the trigger and explode

(verse one)
Yo, in my life there's a driving force/
That keeps me focused when at times I'm lost/
Realigned on course in a steady progression/
Collected and calm in a corrected direction/
Upon reflection it's my adopted philosophy/
Don't give a fuck, live it up like nobody's stoppin me/
Mix it up, have fun wit it, run wit it/
Keep it ill, keep it real when I come wit it/
These are the thoughts that go through my brain/
Plus it's the blood that flows through my vein/
When things are erratic and going insane/
Music is what takes hold of the reins/
If you know of the pain then you know what I'm sayin/
You know of my aim, you know I'm ain't playin/
There's gold to be made in all serious/
Just a lyricist speakin from experience

(chorus)

(verse two)
One of the times I fulfill my potential's/
When I'm gettin down over raw instrumentals/
I rip like I meant to, when I get biz/
Try to fathom the heart I give when I spit this/
And feel like so many are trying to end me/
But the gift to express is lyin within me/
I'll be the man, and rise to the occasion/
With the time that I'm takin and the rhymes that I'm makin/
There's no time to be fakin, or wastin time/
Not tryin to be the senior dreamer chasin mine/
There's goals to achieve, to flow like the breeze/
Grow old with my queen with a home fulla seeds/
With the gold and the green, lift my mind state/
Like Com said, I ain't in this just to rhyme great/
I do it for my sake, that's the load on top of me/
That's why it means a lot to me to rip it properly

(chorus)

(verse three)
when I'm chosen, I catch the beat and I'm flowin/
Hold the microphone until it's broken/
I kick it unlike some other emcees/
Cause what I give really means somethin to me/
I spit it raw, over the track, give it all/
Put my heart forth, mic check, set it off/
Not for the hell of it, this in my element/
Rap with intelligence, never irrelevant/
Rationale, the base of my style/
With my own flavor, you're tastin it now/
People anticipate and wait for this now/
Guess I'm not just another face in the crowd/
Feel the heart meaning and pain in my rap/
Cause this is my life that I paint on the track/
At the end of the day, when it's lights out/
I'm still the man that you hear right now

(chorus x2)