That lasered my third eye closed like LASIK Jay Electronica – Dimethyltryptamine

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Referring to the previous line that the pigs (government) closed the publics third eye – the pineal gland which is often interpreted as where people’s consciousness resides and is also where Dimethyltryptamine is naturally produced in the human body.

The government does this through two types of acid. Firstly, propaganda and ideology, and also through the fluoride our water is contaminated with. Fluoride is an element that agitates your pineal gland and can, and usually does over time calcifies the pineal gland, causing it to go dormant – therefore lasering your third eye/pineal gland closed.
LASIK is a type of laser eye surgery – a procedure that only rich people can usually afford to get.

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i think that pornhub calcified my pineal gland

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Then she says "I heard your song and I'm obsessed with the beat
I mean, the lyrics are good, but I'm obsessed with the beat
I love it when Voyce sings and the chorus is good
There's a couple things in the song that I suggest you repeat" Drake – Come Winter

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She just loves the beat of the song, she doesn’t care for the lyrics. She just loves the ‘mainstream’ part of the song, the catchy party, the part that makes her want to dance. This refers to her personality which is just fun, fun, fun. But Drake actually wants a relationship.

The girl is also hinting to the song “Special” ft. voyce in drakes debut mixtape Room For Improvement.

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I can drill a hole at the Earth's equator
Fill it with dynamite and make another Moon with craters
See you later Jay Electronica – Annakin's Prayer

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This is about the Nation of Islam doctrine that says the moon was created after a scientist drilled a hole deep in the earth and set off an explosion seperating a large chunk of earth creating the moon in the process. Jay has had some experience with the NOI.

Since he says “See you later,” this girl might be on the chunk of earth that becomes thrust into space to form the moon.

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Pi and Areas [work in progress] Math Genius – Understanding Trigonometry: The Basics

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Pi and Areas

Probably one of the most if not the most important mathematical constant in all of mathematics is the number Pi (symbol: π). In a nutshell it is the ratio between the circumference of a circle and the diameter of a circle. It is approximately equal to 3.14159.

Actually, Pi is equal to 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288
419716939937510582097494459230781640628…

And yet that’s only a small portion of the actual number (check here for a couple of more decimal places).

But I digress, let’s get more into this constant. Pi is used in a wide variety of branches. You’re probably here because you keep on using it in trigonometry. The question is, why 3.14, why not 3? Or any other number imaginable […]

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pi is an irrational number, which means it cannot be written as a ratio of two numbers, ever. For example 2/7 = 0.28571428571. Although it doesn’t seem like it can be written as a ratio, if you look at the numbers you can see a pattern, namely, 285714 repeats it self. This is not the case for pi.
Although it is not a rational number, it can be approximated by one by various ratios. 22/7 or 355/113 are two examples with 355/113 being the one closest to pi.
Piphilology is where people try to memorize the digits behind the decimal point. The record holder is Lu Chao, with 67,890 digits.

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# Pi and Areas

Probably one of the most if not *the* most important mathematical constant in all of mathematics is the number Pi (symbol: π). In a nutshell it is the ratio between the circumference of a circle and the diameter of a circle. It is approximately equal to 3.14159.

Actually, Pi is equal to 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288
419716939937510582097494459230781640628...

And yet that's only a small portion of the actual number (check [here](http://141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com/) for a couple of more decimal places).

But I digress, let's get more into this constant. Pi is used in a wide variety of branches. You're probably here because you keep on using it in trigonometry. The question is, why 3.14, why not 3? Or any other number imaginable [...]

Trivia:

- pi is an irrational number, which means it cannot be written as a ratio of two numbers, ever. For example 2/7 = 0.28571428571. Although it doesn't seem like it can be written as a ratio, if you look at the numbers you can see a pattern, namely, 285714 repeats it self. This is not the case for pi.

- Although it is not a rational number, it can be approximated by one by various ratios. 22/7 or 355/113 are two examples with 355/113 being the one closest to pi.

- Piphilology is where people try to memorize the digits behind the decimal point. The record holder is Lu Chao, with 67,890 digits.

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@dalmo here is one million pi digits

http://www.piday.org/million/

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New Town Burnout Animal Collective – New Town Burnout

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One of two songs where Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) takes the lead singing role.

Reminiscent of his previous solo LP Tomboy (2011) musically, the song is a type of motivational piece where he tries to counteract what he experiences as burnout, maybe from having live in Portugal or having a wife and family.

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this song touches on being physically exhausted, but more in a spiritual sense, referencing taking shoes and coat off like he got in from work
but by the second stanza its clear its all spiritual exhaustion, “no more at the wrong.. (place/time)” which is really him saying hes aligning himself with himself (leave my light on) so literally everything works out for him.
it gets even more in depth when he chants “out of my body out of my mind” ans sings it in a way that closely sounds like hes saying
“i taught my body how to fly right”
i think its freaky because both of these are references to astral projection.

this song is about being crippled by the daily routine of “reality”.

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Shields Shields

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The arrangements here are thunderous and billowing, sparse and punishing, rarely polite. The effect is to set the record’s emotional landscape in a desolate, barren space, one where its central characters are either negotiating the physical distance between them and another far away, wondering whether they can cope, or the emotional disconnect with a face staring directly into theirs.

That hopeless tundra you reach when you’re at the end of your tether, when you’ve argued into oblivion with no recollection of the original misgiving, and the only definite things that remain are the contrasts between elements: sky and earth, sun and wind. Shields is a magnificent record, where the lights are blazing, but nobody’s feeling very much at home.

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One evening, 1945
With just her sister at her side
And only weeks before the guns
All came and rained on everyone Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945

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By 1945, Anne Frank and her family were deported to the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland (then occupied by Nazi Germany).

A typhus epidemic had spread throughout the camp of Bergen-Belsen in 1945 which claimed both the lives of Anne and her sister Margot, just weeks before the camp was liberated in April 1945.

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per wiki’s Anne Frank entry, under the section titled “Deportation and death”
New evidence was published in 2015:
“ It was long thought that their deaths occurred only a few weeks before British soldiers liberated the camp on 15 April 1945, but research in 2015 indicated that they may have died as early as February. Among other evidence, witnesses recalled that the Franks displayed typhus symptoms by 7 February, and Dutch health authorities reported that most untreated typhus victims died within 12 days of their first symptoms.”

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But now we must pack up every piece
Of the life we used to love
Just to keep ourselves
At least enough to carry on Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland, 1945

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Anne Frank and her family moved to Holland from Germany in 1933 when the Nazis gained power. They had to remain in hiding for two years starting from 1942 until they were betrayed and sent to concentration camps.

The diary she wrote was dated until August 1st 1944, the month she was found, and she died in March 1945 of typhus, along with her sister. However, her father survived and was given her diary by Miep Gies and Bos Voskuijl, who helped harbor her and her family, when he returned to Amsterdam.

To “pick up every piece of the life we used to love” refers to one’s mind longing for their early life through a lens of nostalgic daydreams – clinging onto those memories and using them as a means to continue to live, for the beauty of those little moments is a gift in life.

This is not only a song about Anne Frank, but also about reincarnation. The chorus is referring to trying to keep enough of you and your spirit so that you can carry it on with you after death and subsequent reincarnation.

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To "pick up every piece of the life we used to love" refers to one's mind longing for their early life through a lens of nostalgic daydreams - clinging onto those memories and using them as a means to continue to live, for the beauty of those little moments is a gift in life.

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Tomorrow Never Knows The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows

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The final track of the classic album Revolver by The Beatles is sung by John Lennon and primarily written by him, although it’s credited as Lennon-McCartney, like all other songs written by Paul or John.

The song is considered revolutionary with the use of reversed sounds, tape loops as well as the experimental instrumentation and recording. This is the first pop song which contains reversed sounds (even though “Rain” came out earlier, it was recorded after “Tomorrow Never Knows”). Typical for The Beatles, the drums are highly compressed. The Indian influence is apparent, as it contains modified sounds of Sitar and Tanpura.

To create the rich vocal sound, instead of a second vocal take, Automatic Double Tracking was used. In one vocal take, a second tape is recorded with a delay. Furthermore, some of Lennon’s vocals were recorded while played by a Leslie speaker, which modifies the sound by rotating the loudspeakers. This effect can be heard after the reversed guitar solo in the middle of the song.

The working title of this song was “The Void,” a title which Lennon ultimately rejected because he felt that it would sound too pretentious, especially since it was the album’s final track.

As an alternative, he gave the song a throwaway title, based on one of Ringo Starr’s malapropisms. Starr uttered the title while being interviewed about their visit to the US where someone apparently cut a bit of his hair:

The song’s origins find themselves in Lennon tripping on LSD while listening to his own spoken-word recording of passages from The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

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The final track of the classic album *Revolver* by The Beatles is sung by John Lennon and primarily written by him, although it's credited as Lennon-McCartney, like all other songs written by Paul or John.

The song is considered revolutionary with the use of reversed sounds, tape loops as well as the experimental instrumentation and recording. This is the first pop song which contains reversed sounds (even though ["Rain"](https://genius.com/The-beatles-rain-lyrics) came out earlier, it was recorded after "Tomorrow Never Knows"). Typical for The Beatles, the drums are highly compressed. The Indian influence is apparent, as it contains modified sounds of Sitar and Tanpura.

To create the rich vocal sound, instead of a second vocal take, Automatic Double Tracking was used. In one vocal take, a second tape is recorded with a delay. Furthermore, some of Lennon's vocals were recorded while played by a Leslie speaker, which modifies the sound by rotating the loudspeakers. This effect can be heard after the reversed guitar solo in the middle of the song.

The working title of this song was "The Void," a title which Lennon ultimately rejected because he felt that it would sound too pretentious, especially since it was the album's final track.

As an alternative, he gave the song a throwaway title, based on one of Ringo Starr's malapropisms. Starr uttered the title while being interviewed about their visit to the US where someone apparently cut a bit of his hair:

https://youtu.be/dRE-yfiOq9Y?t=1m13s

The song's origins find themselves in Lennon tripping on LSD while listening to his own spoken-word recording of passages from *The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead*.

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Maybe I’m wrong but it seems like Kendrick Lamar samples the Seagull sounds on the tracks: The Hard Part IV, PRIDE. and FEAR. where he also uses reversed sounds.

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but it’s not a seagull but laughter? “According to Ian MacDonald’s Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records & The Sixties, there are five …” —@Genius

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The first song to have a looping drum track done without a machine

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You Still Believe in Me The Beach Boys – You Still Believe in Me

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A dream-like introduction to this song is produced by Brian and Asher. One person was on the keys while someone was holding the strings in the piano, creating the unique sound heard here.

We were trying to do something that would sound sort of, I guess, like a harpsichord but a little more ethereal than that. I am plucking the strings by leaning inside the piano and Brian is holding down the notes on the keyboard so they will ring when I pluck them. I plucked the strings with paper clips, hairpins, bobby pins and several others things until Brian got the sound he wanted

– liner notes

It was one of the first songs Brian started on and had a childhood theme, until Tony Asher came. This is evident from the bicycle horn heard throughout the song.

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I try hard to be more
What you want me to be
But I can’t help how I act
When you’re not here with me
I try hard to be strong
But sometimes I fail myself
And after all I’ve promised you
So faithfully

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