What can I say, we had a good run
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
What I think awakening really involves
Is a reexamination of our common sense
Our common sense has been rigged
Aye, aye
What can I say? We had a good run
Plenty fun along the way
We just never saw the problems in our ways until we Looked Up
It was too late
Too busy runnin for change, really just runnin in place, unh
Some of us did it for the right reasons
Some let the money change us
Everyone accepted the Deception of the funny paper
It was like leading a flock; too easy to not
No Spike Lee in the plot
Doin the Right Thing was a concept, not a genuine conquest
But we used it in the Constitution to constitute the American Conscience
Savior (Save your) Complex
We don't take signs serious as the fakest bomb threats
Maybe I should save my breath and try to get comfortable
As we lay in this hotbed of fatal progress
But despite it all, still not fatalistic
You ain't got hope you ain't got shit, and I know every day's a blessing
Take it a step at a time
My only weapon is my mind
Brushes and pens is the only line of defense that corruption can never divide
Product of my environment; feelin really shitty yet resilient
Penning every written willin that the ripple effect is a positive influence
I cannot make people change- their mind or their ways
Realized all I can change is me
Daily attempt to be better and hope I inspire the same
It ain't the pride that I blame
Though the devil wear Prada
It's the collective surrender of power
Til we all take individual responsibility
We'll still be helpless to stop what we started
That's why I'm startin a discussion
I don't know what art is
I do know it's not for nothin
Not for nothin
Finally at peace with the thought of death
And if it all just ends, well at least I believe it was all a test
So what's passin but the right answers to the questions that we're tasked with
And this life damn sure is a bad bitch
She ain't askin for respect, kid, she commands it
And the average man can't manage
That's why the whole planet treated as bottomless pot of gold
By a sick prodigal family called humanity
That manically pretends to be panacea for the cancer we are in reality
It's amateur theatre, and this amphitheater is a damn no deeper
Than the plan to keep up with the rising waters of the angry seas
I seen a scary scene and I was barely dreamin
Think a nightmare might merely mean
You should be warier where you sleep
Don't mean to panic people, but the clock's a notch from dodecahedron
And when midnight strikes, the insight might finally sink in the end is nigh
And by then the time is too spent for science to indemnify all the damage we done
Most would say they won't stand for it
But moreso display they can't stand to see it
So we manufactured a fantasy, and sit on pampered asses, Bystander Effect
Bidin (Biden) time we don't have for recess
By the time we get Sanders elected, man'll be dead
And everybody gonna Feel the Burn with no atmosphere left
And even if we had a president fit to lead, we led on
Believin in the White Saviorism, sayin, Yeah, what he said
America need a vanity check
No, I know it's not the people's fault that we fell so far
It's the Elite that call all the evil shots
But the people are all the people got
So what we cannot do is nothing
I don't have the answers or Sway to be frontin like I could solve it
I'm just startin a discussion
I can't speak for other individuals
I can only really speak for myself, so I can just tell you
I'm now a person that's resolved to get things done
I'm moving forward
Til we all take individual responsibility
We'll still be helpless to stop what we started
And then maybe if that happens
We shall be in a position to handle our technology with more sense
With love instead of with hate
For our environment