DJ Shadow - Outsider Intro Lyrics
In the twilight of a timeThere emerges a need for man to comprehend his own bitter fateFinally resigned to the inevitable beyond, he searches the agesDesperate for stories of assurance, redemption and hopeSuch tales fill page upon page with enough inkTo flood a thousand valleys, and drown the tallest treeBut there is one tale that as yet been toldThe story of... The OutsiderDesolate and baron, humanities at a crossroadsThe people have retreated shuttering their once carefree livesFrom unseen enemies which seem to plague not only the physical formBut the innermost thoughtDriven by panic, compelled by dreadThe masses begin to devolveOnce dear neighbours turn wary foesBrother against brother, sister against sisterAchievement and ambition are dismissedAs heretical, or worse, treasonousEven nature itself is scornedChoked with suspicion and fearVoices do not dare to singNor fingers to playImminent defeat is all but assuredBut in the darkest hourWhispers begin to tell of a figure emerging from the darknessA being without a name, faceless and obscurePart presence, part idea they sayAs if the very force they describe has existed for eonsA dormant seed awaiting nourishmentWord of radical acts...Disobedience, non-compliance spread among the peopleAt first fearful, then defiant, as the legend growsWhispers turned to cries and the cries into screamsAnd tend to cower no more the fury of the peopleWhose talent behold as they exact revenge on their captorsSpare neither the repentant nor the boldNow the fire is lit, smouldering in the belly of humanityIt cannot be extinguished, for the stories The Outsider endureEven as evidence of its presence is debated with the passing yearsMessages, dictations, warningsStories, such as these...
