I sit in this suburban house, tryna sneak through word of mouth
I'd love to get the message through but I can’t scratch the surface out
Or muster up the courage I'll just tumble over verbs and nouns
Offer up some positivity and feed some purpose now
We have our fun, our laughs, our ridiculous memes
To add a shade over the controvert political schemes
Continuously take for granted some of the simple things
With sick society interests and the image it brings
Adapt to an age where information’s in our hands
Abuse it for the wrong usage and portray a village dammed
What happens when the flood opens the gates to fill the land?
Our anthem becomes un-national and we're raised to sit not stand
This world is self-imploding largely on religious views
Minds and bombs exploding partly cause the figures used
Police and citizens are throwing shots at different hues
Media has been controlled to point you towards the hinted feuds
GMO’s in mass production to feed the growing crowd
The cancer in our cells to keep the system slowing down
The televisions static to confuse the knowing how
What, when, why and where manipulations going now
Buy this bigger better thing, get a bigger better you
Pay no attention to the curtain that veils the “never do”
Strap on your leather boots, sure to meet the weather soon
As it changes for the cleansing, then I’ll see you when it’s through
There was a simple time when we lived to 35
Technology and development trump that chosen life
Medication’s now a business, survival’s overpriced
Unless your credits endless, death will never close its eyes
Rivers running red from oxidized metals in our waste
New, improved, needed products reveled in our face
Dehumanizing all to come, unsettling our grace
Feed our malnutrition, then they left without a trace
“Somewhere over the rainbow…”
The bloody baby pictures posted up and down the street
The ringing of alarms is starting to really sound as sweet
As the chinging of the change that’s clangs all around our feet
Falling from the hands of children that had never found their seat
Just keep mixing up chemicals for new ways to get high
The future’s, a vision at least you have a few days to get by
The epidemic is astounding, the amount you’d pay you’d think why
Give them a second chance just to make a few survive
Western and eastern worlds in these civil wars
How many boys and girls must go and get awards
For the number of heads that they can stick on swords?
Post it on the internet and boast, about this shit, on boards
News is strictly negative or boring to our ears
Views are instant credit given for a lack of peers
We sit behind a keyboard preaching tips on living life
Then list all of reasons, teaching kids, what it isn’t like
I really hope there comes a time when we can see a change
Before the day we all are blind from screens that need arranged
Try to fix each other’s lives and speak one and the same
Language, not the dialect but understand me when I say
That I care too much to just watch the falling of our people
It’s sickening to know that we continue to breed this evil
Imagine a fuckin world that you were seen as equal
Pretty goddamn shitty that these are the heights that we would steep to
“Somewhere over the rainbow…”
credits
from When the Shade Changes Shape,
released January 8, 2017
Lyrics: Overdost
Beat: Hoops
Dorothy Sample: Overdost
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