He’s acknowledging the fact that she’s a smart girl, and that he’s not breaking it off because he thinks she’s stupid. He’s doing it because the boot don’t fit.

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Just like in the opening lines, he states that it’s time to end things. The human element, though ambiguous, is the specification of why he’s breaking up with her. He means the human element to represent the course of human nature, as well as the idea of fortune, or rather misfortune.

The chance,

not this chance

in this “human element” is the possibility that things may, or may not happen to us. Since he claims that they are cursed by chance, he implies that they were doomed from the start.

They took a gamble by trying to make a relationship, but it didn’t work out.

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To be coming off the top of the dome is a slang phrase that means to freestyle. The definition of freestyle varies from artist to artist. Some consider it to be the act of reciting pre-memorized lines, but most consider it to be spontaneously rapping by creating the lyrics as you speak.

Wayne’s definition of off the top of the dome is unique in that he creates his lyrics as he records the song, but without the help of writing them down. This vid provides a better understanding of Wayne’s creative process:
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Wayne is stating that he is still creating his lyrics without a pen and pad, but if he decided to start writing, it would be on a tombstone; in other words, he would kill it.

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To prove that there is in fact no testing, Joey references the hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, adding ions to the end. Like Pro Era, ATCQ was NYC based and has been paid homage by very successful hip hop artists of following generations such as Kanye West, Kid Cudi and Consequence.

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He’s sarcastically stating that he always gives her the attention she wants, but really he’s thinking

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WHAT IT MEANS

The song is suppose to resemble a letter to her, and I almost titled it “A Goodbye Letter”, but Never Say No just sounded better and doesn’t give away the songs ending.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Wyatt and Aaron Mones and I created this song in under a week, completely organically. Aaron played the main riff on the verse while just messing around. I told him I loved it, to keep playing it, and I just started writing the first verse on a notepad. Wyatt was on drums figuring out a beat, and we then came up with the chorus. A few days later we worked on the second verse, adding the “One-two/run-through” scheme with the pauses, and then the arrangement for the outro. A few days after that we got into the studio and laid the track down in a few hours. Wyatt did drums, Aaron did bass and guitar, I wrote the lyrics, and Wyatt mainly mixed and mastered it, though we all contributed to that.

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Something to the effect of this:

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For those who don’t know what it means to break a girl off I’ll let The Roots explain.

This pic explains the rest.

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She was all

but now she’s all

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Blitz begins here to open up and explain how and why he “observes all angles of existence.” He claims to have seen 20 worlds, not including the one we currently live on. This is quite the achievement, considering Earth is the only planet we know of that supports forms of complex life.

Blitz’s vacation photo

It seems that space travel is such a common occurrence for Blitz that he has seen eight other dimensions, implying that it’s likely he has seen others, but just can’t seem to remember them all.

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