HiRen annotated transcription

HiRen.txt

my interpretation; in the sense that I'm labelling the `evil` voice the "critic" 

Note, transcript from Google/YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chr0eMNEatw ), with two or three minor corrections. (eg. break the "four-four")

Transcript
0:03 [Instrumental intro]

[ren?]
0:49 ♪ Oooh, oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooooh ♪
0:51 ♪ Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooooh ♪
0:54 ♪ Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh ♪
0:56 ♪ Oooooooh ♪
0:58 ♪ Oooh, oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooooh ♪
1:01 ♪ Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooooh ♪
1:03 ♪ Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh ♪
1:05 ♪ Oooooooh ♪

[critic]
1:12 Hi there Ren, it's been a little while
1:14 Did you miss me? You thought you'd buried me
1:16 Didn't you? Risky, 'cause I always come back
1:18 Deep down you know that
1:19 Deep down you know I'm always in periphery
1:21 Ren, aren't you pleased to see me?
1:23 It's been weeks since we spoke, bro, I know you need me
1:25 You're the sheep, I'm the shepherd
1:26 Not your place to lead me
1:27 Not your place to be biting off the hand that feeds me

[ren]
1:30 Hi Ren
1:31 I've been taking some time to be distant
1:33 I’ve been taking some time to be still
1:35 I've been taking some time to be by myself
1:38 Since my therapist told me I'm ill
1:40 And I've been making some progress lately
1:42 And I've learned some new coping skills
1:45 So I haven't really needed you much, man
1:47 I think we need to just step back and chill

[critic]
1:49 Ren, you sound more insane than I do
1:51 You think that those doctors are really there to guide you?
1:53 Been through this a million times, your civilian mind
1:56 Is so perfect at always being lied to
1:58 Okay, take another pill boy
1:59 Drown yourself in the sound of white noise
2:02 Follow this 10 step program, rejoice!
2:04 All your problems will be gone! Fucking dumb boy

[ren]
2:06 Nah mate, this time it's different man, trust me
2:09 I feel like things might be falling in place
2:12 And my music's been kinda doing bits, too
2:14 Like I actually might do something great
2:16 And when I'm gone maybe I'll be remembered
2:19 For doing something special with myself
2:21 That's why I don't think that we should talk, man
2:23 'Cause when your with me it never seems to help

[critic]
2:25 You think that you can amputate me?
2:26 I am you, you are me, you are I, I am we
2:29 We are one, split in two, that makes one so you see
2:31 You got to kill you if you wanna kill me
2:33 I'm not left over dinner, I'm not scraps on the side
2:36 Oh your music is thriving? Delusional guy!
2:38 Where's your Top Ten hit?
2:39 Where's your interview with Oprah?
2:41 Where are your Grammys Ren? Nowhere!

[ren]
2:43 Yeah but, my music's not commercial like that
2:46 I never chase numbers, statistics or stats
2:48 I never write hooks for the radio
2:50 They never even play me
2:51 So why would I concern myself with that?
2:53 But my music is really connecting
2:55 And the people who find it respect it
2:57 And for me that's enough ‘cause this life's been tough
3:00 So it gives me a purpose I can rest in

[critic]
3:02 Man, you sound so pretentious
3:03 Ren, your music is so self-centered
3:06 No one wants to hear another song about how much you hate yourself… trust me
3:09 You should be so lucky having me inside you to guide you
3:12 Remind you, to manage expectations, provide you perspective
3:15 That thing you neglected, I get it
3:17 You wanna be a big deal, next Jimi Hendrix?
3:19 Forget it, 

[ren] ...man it's not like that

[critic] 3:21 Man, it's just like that, I'm inside you you twat

[ren] 3:23 No, it's not man, you're wrong, when I write I belong

[critic]
3:26 Let me break the four-four by acknowledging this song
3:28 Ren sits down, has a stroke of genius
3:30 He wants to write a song that was not done previous
3:33 A battle with his subconscious 

[ren] - Eminem did it

[critic] 3:35 Played on guitar

[ren] 3:36 Plan B did it

[critic]
3:38 Man, you're not original you criminal, rip-off artist
3:40 The pinnacle of your success is stealing other people's material
3:42 Ren, mate, we've heard it all before
3:44 Ohh "She Sells Sea Shells on the Sea Shore"

[critic]
3:46 Fuck you! I don't need you, I don't need to hear this
3:49 'Cause I'm fine by myself, I'm a genius!
3:51 And I will be great, and I will make waves
3:53 And I'll shake up the whole world beneath us

[critic]
3:55 That's right speak your truth
3:56 Your fucking god complex leaks out of you
3:59 It's refreshing to actually hear you say it
4:01 Instead of downplay it
4:02 “Oh, music is all about the creative process -
4:05 And if people can find something to relate to within that -
4:07 Then that's just a bonus”

4:09 Fuck you, I'mma fucking kill you Ren

[critic]
4:11 Fucking kill me then, let's fucking have you Ren

[ren]
4:13 I'mma do it, watch me prove it
4:14 Who are you to doubt my music?
4:15 ‘Cause I call the shots I choose if you die
4:17 Yeah, I call the shots and so I who choose who survives
4:19 I'll tie you up in knots when I lock you inside

[critic]
4:24 News flash

4:27 I was created at the dawn of creation
4:30 I am temptation
4:32 I am the snake in Eden
4:35 I am the reason for treason
4:36 Beheading all Kings, I am sin
4:39 With no rhyme or reason
4:40 Son of the Morning, Lucifer, Antichrist
4:43 Father of Lies, Mephistopheles, truth in a blender
4:46 Deceitful Pretender, The Banished Avenger, the righteous surrender
4:49 When standing in front of my solar eclipse
4:52 My name it is stitched to your lips so you see
4:54 I won't bow to the will of a mortal, feeble and normal
4:57 You wanna kill me? I'm eternal, immortal
5:00 I live in every decision that catalysed chaos
5:03 That causes division
5:04 I live inside death, the beginning of ends
5:07 I am you, you are me, I am you Ren!
5:10 [Intense guitar playing]

5:18 [Guitar softens]

[interlude]

[ren]
5:31 Hi Ren
5:32 I've been taking some time to be distant
5:34 I've been taking some time to be still
5:37 I've been taking some time to be by myself
5:39 And I've spent half my life ill
5:42 But just as sure as the tide starts turning
5:44 Just as sure as the night has dawn
5:47 Just as sure as rainfall soon runs dry
5:49 When you stand in an eye of a storm
5:52 I was made to be tested and twisted
5:54 And I was made to be broken and beat
5:57 I was made by his hand, it's all part of his plan
5:59 That I stand on my own two feet
6:01 And you know me my will is eternal
6:04 And you know me, you've met me before
6:06 Face to face with a beast I will rise from the east
6:08 And I'll settle on the ocean floor
6:11 And I go by many names also
6:13 Some people know me as Hope
6:16 Some people know me as the voice that you hear
6:18 When you loosen the noose on the rope
6:20 And you know how I know that I'll prosper?
6:23 'Cause I stand here beside you today
6:25 I have stood in the flames that cremated my brain
6:28 And I didn't once flinch or shake

[ren]
6:30 ♪ So cower at the man I've become ♪
6:32 ♪ When I sing from the top of my lungs ♪
6:35 ♪ That I won't retire I'll stand in your fire ♪
6:37 ♪ Inspire the meek to be strong ♪
6:40 ♪ And when I am gone I will rise ♪
6:42 ♪ In the music that I left behind ♪
6:45 ♪ Ferocious persistent, immortal like you ♪
6:47 ♪ We're a coin with two different sides ♪

6:52 ♪ Oooh, oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooooh ♪
6:54 ♪ Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooooh ♪
6:57 ♪ Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh ♪
6:59 ♪ Oooooooh ♪
7:03[♪ Vocalising continues ♪]


[ren]
7:18 When I was 17 years old
7:21 I shouted out into an empty room
7:25 Onto a blank canvas
7:26 That I would defeat the forces of evil
7:29 And for the next 10 years of my life
7:31 I suffered the consequences
7:33 With illness, psychosis, and autoimmunity
7:37 And as I got older
7:39 I realised there were no real winners
7:41 And there were no real losers
7:43 In psychological warfare
7:44 But there were victims
7:47 And there were students
7:49 And so it wasn't David verses Goliath
7:52 It was a pendulum
7:54 Eternally swaying from the dark to the light
7:57 And the more intensely that the light shone
8:00 The darker the shadow it cast
8:03 And so it was never really a battle for me to win
8:06 It was an eternal dance
8:08 And like a dance
8:09 The more rigid that I became
8:11 The harder it got
8:13 The more that I cursed my clumsy footsteps
8:16 The more I struggled
8:18 And so I got older
8:20 And I learned to relax
8:23 And I learned to soften
8:25 And that dance got easier

8:28 It is this eternal dance
8:31 That separates human beings
8:33 From angels, from demons, and from gods

8:39 And we must not forget
8:41 And I must not forget
8:44 That I am a human being
8:46 Thank you

8:46 [Applause]
8:49 Thank you
8:50 [Applause continues]