[Spirits come come]

Sing to me my muses lost in hot cyclops anarchy possession, invention ... blood, blood spirits, spirits .... come, cum ... where will these visions lead? how far dare I go? where will this song take me? into the deep UNKNOWN!

SPIRITS SPIRITS COME COME!

I. all the prophets & the gods came prepared for theirs so we dined on the vine of the mind in pairs preaching werewolf prayers on our nightly flight gestating all we ate in the pale moonlight feel the urge of the power surge -- ignite the soul bringing kingdoms under siege with the words that I control got an arsenal, ganja blunts & such only love can set me free from this Patriarchal clutch speaking testaments in our secret dialogue while the drones begin to feast on the feces of the hog take a walk in the wilderness of your mind before your soul decides to die & leaves infinity behind

[chorus] POSSESSION INVENTION INVITE DISCOVERY SURRENDER TO PLEASURE LOST IN ECSTASY! SURVIVE ALIVE YOU ARE MY ENEMY YOU DIED FOR LIES SLAVES TO MISERY

II. down on the battleground laying waste to competition eye'm collecting intellects & exhaling solar systems eye decree mutiny .... its REVOLUTION US against the Patriarchy the assembler of souls full of knowledge untold while eye'm spinning webs of wisdom, prophecies unfold into attack mode to decipher the code of Babylon's terror spawn - tyranny reloads into the mental stasis - apathy erases the urgency of rage & its frightening little places prepare for warfare the afterbirth of knowledge is Americas nightmare

[chorus] [bridge] sometimes eye sit and ask myself ... WHAT HAVE EYE BECOME!!!??? something's taking over me ... POSSESSION FREE ME NOW ASHURA ISHTAR KALI AVENGE ME ... AVENGE ME.

Paint your face with the blood of the weak self sacrifice everyone you meet screaming demons in my veins voices of the dead nurturing my pain eye survived eye'm alive eye spread the fever to watch you burn killed your leaders to help you learn eye survived eye'm alive [lie.]


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Possession Lyrics as written by Sarah Mclachlan

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  • +2
    General Comment

    first of all this is a cool song, but there's one problem. THE LYRICS ARE WRONG!!!! And the song is called Possession, not Posession. If you want the right lyrics here they are FROM THE SITE WWW.OTEP.COM :

    [spirits come come]

    sing to me my muses lost in hot cyclops anarchy possession, invention ... blood, blood spirits, spirits .... come, cum ...

    where will these visions lead? how far dare i go? where will this song take me? into the deep UNKNOWN!

    SPIRITS SPIRITS COME COME!

    I.

    all the prophets & the gods came prepared for theirs so we dined on the vine of the mind in pairs

    preaching werewolf prayers on our nightly flight gestating all we ate in the pale moonlight

    feel the urge of the power surge -- ignite the soul bringing kingdoms under siege with the words that i control

    got an arsenal, ganja blunts & such only love can set me free from this Patriarchal clutch

    speaking testaments in our secret dialogue while the drones begin to feast on the feces of the hog

    take a walk in the wilderness of your mind before your soul decides to die & leaves infinity behind

    [chorus]

    POSSESSION INVENTION INVITE DISCOVERY

    SURRENDER TO PLEASURE LOST IN ECSTASY!

    SURVIVE ALIVE YOU ARE MY ENEMY

    YOU DIED FOR LIES SLAVES TO MISERY

    II.

    down on the battleground laying waste to competition eye'm collecting intellects & exhaling solar systems

    eye decree mutiny .... its REVOLUTION US against the Patriarchy

    the assembler of souls full of knowledge untold while eye'm spinning webs of wisdom, prophecies unfold

    into attack mode to decipher the code of Babylon's terror spawn - tyranny reloads

    into the mental stasis - apathy erases the urgency of rage & its frightening little places

    prepare for warfare the afterbirth of knowledge is Americas nightmare

    [chorus]

    [bridge]

    sometimes eye sit and ask myself ... WHAT HAVE EYE BECOME!!!???

    something's taking over me ...

    POSSESSION FREE ME NOW ASHURA ISHTAR KALI AVENGE ME ... AVENGE ME.

    paint your face with the blood of the weak self sacrifice everyone u meet screaming demons in my veins voices of the dead nurturing my pain

    eye survived eye'm alive

    eye spread the fever to watch u burn killed your leaders to help u learn

    eye survived eye'm alive

    [lie.]

    DJ DeathBloodon July 21, 2002   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    i love this song

    IgnoredFutility0on June 03, 2002   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    i hear slightly different lyrics in some spots in this song...for example, i thought it was "survived, alive, you are my enemy, you die with lies, slave to misery" and "self sacrifice everyone you meet, screaming demons in my veins." But i don't know. Don't really care either. This is a great song.

    kill.me.fasteron July 03, 2002   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    It's clear that the lyrics shown are lyrics of a different version of "Possesion". I only know of 3 versions("Jihad" version, "Sevas Tra" version & Demo version).

    LimpNJenon March 05, 2003   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    I dunno, I like otep's music and all, woman I think is a good vocalist. but I'll be damned if I'd give her credit as the "poet" she seems to have appointed herself as. she's more of a rapper as the style is more for the flow with the music as it is creatively written. She's as poetic as ICP's lyrics. just my opinion though, every one to their own I guess.

    SlipperyWhenWeton April 04, 2003   Link
  • 0
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    Man this song rocks! It's just cool that it seems that there is a ritual built into this song. As if each and every time she is singing this song she calls the spirits all around her.

    Oh and I'm too braindead today to decipher this song LOL. Battle Ready took all my energy. I'll come back...

    chino69on February 18, 2005   Link
  • 0
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    ummm .. Igot into a paralytptic trance when I tried to figure out this song @ ~ * @

    sheesh talk or is it about an attempt on getting possessed ...iono Slipknot Mudvayne Killswitch Engage DryKill Logic Rulz

    SlipMudSwitchLogicon February 27, 2006   Link
  • 0
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    WHAT ARE ALL OF YOU TALKING ABOUT, SHE IS OBVIOUSLY A SECRET LESBIAN. AND SHE WASN'T REALLY IN LOVE WITH HER LOVER, BECAUSE SHE IS A SECRET LESBIAN. SHE MURDER HER LOVER, DUE TO HER BEING A SECRET LESBIAN. BECAUSE SHE WAS A SECRET LESBIAN, SHE WAS IN AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP.

    "mental states decide for all races" OBVIOUSLY SHE IS A SECRET LESBIAN. DUE TO HER BEING A SECRET LESBIAN, SHE IS BECOMING A WOLF. LIKE AN ANAMAGEUS ON HP, BECAUSE SHE IS A SECRET LESBIAN. AND ALSO SHE THREW HER HUSBAND OFF OF A MINIVAN, REPRESENTED EVERYTIME SHE SCREAMS, AND DUE TO HER BEING A SECRET LESBIAN.

    LEZ OUT

    tetsco!on February 08, 2007   Link
  • 0
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    tetsco! i hope you were kidding when you assessed these lyrics, because everybody knows she's an out lesbian.

    NoLeafClover13on March 05, 2007   Link
  • 0
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    is sound like she talking about the demons in her head

    phenomenon2006on July 13, 2008   Link

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