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Intoxicated by Self

from Plague by Jeremiah Dirt

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Artist(s): Dirt
Song: Intoxicated by Self
Word Count: 378
Producer: Fingaz
Recorded: Set Free sound
Album: Plague (Rescue rec. 1999)

Dirts favorite Line(s): ‘do not cut the stem from the flower’ (or it dies), ‘gangstas grab your guns, real heads grab wisdom’


Man! When Fingaz showed me this beat, I tripped out. I was immediately attracted to it. It was real unorthodox just like me. It was an ill beat but it didn’t make sense why. I thought that it was also a welcomed change from the downwardly moody direction that most of the music on the PLAGUE album seemed to have been taking.
So I snatched up the tape and skated home to start writing. The lyrical content is based around the chorus, which I thought up first. I personally liked the chorus, but I think alotta people thought it was too ‘deep’. It wasn’t anything that could be chanted on stage to get the people to ‘cut a rug’. It was a song that was seemingly hard to get across on stage. And because of that I think I only performed it a few times live.
The idea of the name is pretty self explanatory. When you are not obedient to God, you are ‘drunk’ with your own desires. Your disobedience brews an intoxicating feeling of being in ‘control’ of yourself. You start to feel as if you don’t need God and you can take the wheel yourself. You get all big headed and self centered. That all just reminded me of a drunk person.
There is the popular saying of ‘being drunk in the spirit’ used to explain someone who is deeply and intimately acting out in accordance to God moving in their life. I just thought the same could be said about a person who is not in accordance with God. They are not intoxicated in His spirit, but in the spirit of themselves. Intoxicated by self. This egocentrical concentration seems to always lead to very destructive consequences not only to others, but ourselves too.
This was one of the songs that were recorded in the Hollywood session and later remixed in San Diego.

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INTOXICATED BY SELF
THE JOURNEY HAS BEGUN FIRST STEPS OF THE REVOLUTION
INTOXICATE LIKE BOURBON
DO NOT CUT THE STEM FROM THE FLOWER
SEEDS TURN SOUR
FACILITATE LIKE NINTH HOUR
WITH SOUND WAVES THAT DESTROY THE TUNNELS OF PRISONS
I RELEASE VISIONS OF DEMONS
BEING PURGED FROM HUMANS
THEY TALKIN' ONE MAN CLAN
I TALK UNIFICATION
NOURISHMENT FROM SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS BRINGS A GIANT TO THE GROUND...........
GO YE FORTH TO ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH
MOM HOOKED UP FIRST BUT GOD HOOKED SECOND BIRTH
WICKED MEN- YOU TRANSCEND YOUR OWN LEVEL
SITTING AT TABLES AND MAKING DEALS WITH DEVILS
EVIL SEMEN
IMPREGNATES AND TURNS TO DEMONS

CHORUS
INTOXICATED BY SELF- WHO'S AT HOME
NOBODY- WE LEFT OUR CHILDREN ALONE
WE BURNT DOWN OUR HOUSES WITH EVIL FLAME
SEEKING AFTER JEWELS OF WHICH WE CAN'T OBTAIN
-INTOXICATED BY SELF WHO LEAVES THE KNOWLEDGE ON THE SHELF
AND SEEKS WORLDLY GAIN AND WORLDLY WEALTH
WE PILLAGE OUR TOWN AND RAPE OUR WOMEN
N' WHEN WISE MEN RISE AGAINST WE KILL THEM


V.2
WE TAKE OUR TUMBLES
IN THE JUNGLE WE RUMBLE
IN THE GHETTO
SEEING THE SILHOUETTE OF THE UNTRAINED
WE NEED POWER AND FUEL LIKE METHANE
A DULL AXE REQUIRES GREAT STRENGTH
BE SEEKING WISDOM AND SHARPEN THE BLADE (ECLES. 10:10)

BRINGING FORTH FELLOWSHIP BUT NO ONE OBEYED
BURN THE TIP LIKE BIDIS
START THAT HEART PUMPING LIKE 3 WEEK OLD FETUS
WORLD THOUGHT DISENAGRATION
MENTALLY SPARK FIRES- AND WATCH 'EM SMOKE FROM CRANIUM
SHADOW MOVE LIKE MARINE
SETTING STANDARDS- AND STIMULATE LIKE CAFFEINE
OUR ENEMIES IN THE MIRROR
ATTACK BACK WITH MEDITATION AND PRAYER

CHORUS
INTOXICATED BY SELF-WHO'S AT HOME
NOBODY WE LEFT OUR CHILDREN ALONE
WE BURNT DOWN OUR HOUSES WITH EVIL FLAME
SEEKING AFTER JEWELS OF WHICH WE CAN'T OBTAIN
-INTOXICATED BY SELF- I SEEN THEM PEOPLE BUILD UPON THEY HATE-
STACK IT UP LIKE CRATE
A NEW SEED IS IN THE CHAMBER
THEY FILLED WITH ANGER- SINGING SONGS
ENTICING ME TO COME ALONG

V.3
SELF INTOXICATION
UNHOLY GHOST CAPPING OFF MAD AMMUNITION
AND I-
CRY THROUGH MY THIRD EYE
MY BODY'S TREMBLIN'
THE JUNGLE'S BURNIN' UP SON
GANGSTA'S GRAB YA' GUNS REAL HEADZ GRAB WISDOM
E-NUFF TALK ABOUT COMBAT- COMBAT THAT
OR GET DESTROYED IN THE AFTERMATH
NO MORE FRUITS OF DECEPTION
NO MORE DREAMS OF GRANDEUR OR MENTAL DELLUSIONS

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from Plague, released October 15, 1997

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Beginning a career in 1999 with the acclaimed album, Plague, after years of touring with, then, labelmates POD, Dirt has kept and keeps his fans loaded up with his unique blend of creative, emotional, revealing lyrical ferocity and love for pure Hiphop.
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