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20:20
02:56
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2020 has been an unprecedented time in the gregorian calendar
My mind has shown an influx of unrest
Like so many people that have been tested and being put to the test
I catch myself saying
Nothing really matters... toooooo meeee
Because everything fucking matters to me.
If you been saying black lives don't matter maybe you don't fucking matter
If you been saying what's this civil unrest
Maybe you been knocked out your whole life filled with privilege?
If you been saying, when will the shut the fuck up
Maybe you need to simmer down and be locked up?
Nothing really matters is a philosophical decree
That there's too much insanity on the streets
And blocked off the four walls of my mental pedigree
Insanity in my mind
that why the fuck has nothing mattered for so long
that only riots seem to belong in this new decade of tragedy after tragedy
The final build up
Everyone on fire
Burning history
To rebuild a new infrastructure
Of what it means to compete
We all in this race war dividing up the streets
And i'm sitting at home watching the mentality of people
Still stuck in old white history
And they not burning.
They still in the lead of what is not leadership
But a captain abandoning the ship
Like a ratfink on the underbelly of everything that happens in reality
We all in mental explosion mode
Words can not be screamed off the top of our lungs any louder than when we proud to be this nationality
Fuck does nothing really matter?
We are not okay.
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R.A.C.ISM
03:06
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R to the A to the C to the ISM
This ain't just an anthem
This the situation
A to the N to the T to the I
Is the movement we moving towards
To unite the world schisms
Anti-racism is a plague that didn't just come to take us down
In the 21st Century
Didn't hit when Covid hit the streets
All nations seem to be born with this disease
Since history became herstory to stories of generations
Upon which we breed
We all seen it but never been it
Some of y'all don't know how it be
How it feels to be deemed as the other factor
A level above or below general matters
Take it for granted
Don't experience it til you be the minority
Don't gotta travel the world
Just travel different hoods
Across the street
All lives matter
Sure why not
Not so because all of them don't
Just the ones in danger
Whose house is on fire
While you burning wood over your wood top stove
I've been called racist names
And experienced the subtleties of how other races think
She she ni ni ho ma on the streets
The C word hindered me as a kid
I'd fight back with words of my own
But in the pleasure of company that say, no don't.
Now I stand behind those that say yes
Say it louder
because many of us have been oppressed.
Black lives matter more than you think
They've been marginalized like the aboriginals of these lands
No one has a home
We are all born on the same place
Why can't we have the same standards
And same race
Like saying oh yea, it's the human race
We see differences and similarities
But why hate?
Let's all grow up a little shall we please
To be more thoughtful
Of what's been regulated, police
Patrolling the streets to serve and protect
But inciting violence and hate speech instead
Not everyone like I said
Not everyone matters
But a lot of us do and that should be a big factor
Race religion pedigree politics
Just made up systems to fracture our mindsets
Let's really listen
And look outside
Maybe look inside
And reset our voices
Our mental landscape builds the real thing
Physicality ain't violence
It's a stance against
bigotry.
That's all I'm saying
WE already been delaying
Now it's time
And we all relaying the message
By playing this worldwide game of relay
RElease the race.
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Echo Chamber
03:51
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In light we born in a freedom manger
In dark we wake up in an echo chamber
No way out but the light in the tunnel
That's no way to live for the final
I hear my mind repeat in its patterns
Takes me years to go back and realize
My minds been filled with the same matters
And I'm surprised though I grow a bit each year
That I've been building upon my own lines of foundation
By what I hear in the echo chamber
They say music doesn't matter
Just there as the back soundtrack
But listen well and you'll be filled by what they rap or rat-a-tat
The words matter so much if you drill it
Into your subconcious
You unwillingly accept it.
Never been too hard for them rom-com issues
Bridgette Jones or Mister Darcy
High life I never been after
They say them books matter in fine lit
But doesn't light me on fire
Give me some asimov or bradbury
Better yet my fave some douglas Adams in numbers
I want my mind to expand and explore
Not be living in the world as in the real world of social disaster
I want to know what the world could be like
Is it adapted after art ever since the birth of a nation
Did futuristic telling and adapting come from art way before
When creators created envisions of the future
From which today we adapt to?
Does it take the vision of a school
To be leaders that make the physical factor
We are all built up in abilities
That most of us don't even chase after.
You gotta wonder
What is the purpose of birth if we dreaming about life after?
I hear ye- the voices in song, in pages, in film
I say heal-me from the dredgery of this reality
We chase after dreams
And they so individual that it becomes indivisible
That we all after one common goal in this echo chamber.
But the echoes are too loud and many
To really hone in on a zone you want to take after
I'm still tripping sometimes feeling trapped
But I'm still on this ride called life
There may not be so much movement in my physical
But the physics in my brain are all I chase after
To understand something, anything about what drives us apart
From each other
Collectively to come together
At moments of tragedy rather than joy and surprise of a life that matters.
In dark we die in a freedom manger
To release the light
we wake up in an echo chamber
No way out but the light in the tunnel
How to not go out like a sucka.
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