Sawed Off Mentality

The system falsely claims

Life is a giant game, and

The rule is, no pain, no gain

Stained, with too much blood,

Too much death, too much anti-love

We’re deranged, with frozen hearts

Strain, a little, to get ahead,

Try to feign, try to fake the part

Stacking meaningless figures,

Just aimless goals, aimless souls

Time to take back,

All the shit, they stole

Fingers scraping, down the money hole

The credit, oil, and ore,

Rules the fucking world

The puppet masters,

order us, “to do what yer told”

The poor peoples lay,

shivering, and cold

It’s same shit, different day

Another black man died today,

They killed him right in the open

Murdered by the state, locked up with hate

The whole fucking pen is broken

Where are your tears,

Where is your anger?

All you got is fear,

And a sense of danger

Claim you hate to see people suffer

But steady avoid the news,

and use bullshit as a buffer

Life doesn’t get better, it gets tougher

The youth are dyin,

Everybody poor,

Is on the grind,

Stuck on this ladder with no rungs,

Nowhere to climb,

No fucking breath in our lungs

Plastic smiles,

telling me everything is fine

Surviving off tiny crumbs,

survived all the crimes that we’ve done

In this quicksand, we claw and we twitch,

find a niche that ain’t there

Pay a fare for blank stares

I gotta, sawed off mentality

our souls, cast off in perpetuity

Feels like the end, but it might be the beginning
We may hate our lives, but we still love living