State of the Union, Pt. II - Marlon Craft

They say don’t throw stones if you live in a glass home

But America is house, time we

And rebuilt from the bone, destruction’s irredeemable

Try and stay away from the thought that it’s undefeatable

Yeah, 'cause that’s what evil do

Choke you to the point where shit so bad it don’t seem real to you

Create the pain and profit from its relieveance

The pills violence, the pursuit of money and achievement

Ain’t a Heaven and Hell guy, but like to think that there be

Consequences when you make all of your money off of demons

But it seem in this land that’s what gets the most applause

Manipulating each other just to get the most of flaws

Our empathy rarely extend beyond what we can see

On that, «it ain’t real if it ain’t happen to me»

If passion could breathe, it be in the ICU

'Less it live somewhere where all the hospital beds was used

Asked 'em 'bout a vaccine, they said, «My body, my choice»

And Texas outlawed our women’s rights, same dudes lookin' like

Somebody bodied they voice, soon I ain’t hear a peep

Every time them wolves come around I ain’t hear a sheep

And every so called progressive treat Democratic presidencies

Like eight years asleep, I’m just saying shit’s weak

It’s like this shit is just a movie, want your good guy to win

But he got in, couldn’t name the good your good guy done did

They say you know who someone really is you get 'em near the edge, well

Look at our border, you’ll find our countries soul there

Look around at people determined to keep control

When they ain’t ever even had it in a place that’s never known fair

Body cams serve as proof of the audacity

Mass shooting casualties, accepted mad casually

Civilian deaths don’t matter at home or abroad

machines, who the drones really are

It ain’t a system if one guy can stop it

Average Joe getting fucked by while Biden watches

Them student loans the ropes around pockets

Pay to learn to be in debt while the wealthy guys profit

Yeah, hypocrisy, monotony

Every race judge each other, but all agree on misogyny

Internet revolutionary, shooting off technology

Act like a fraud soon as you try to affect policy

Yeah, whole generation

Of look at me, I read Marx, but work for a corporation

Everything performative, I ain’t different

I sit on the left, but got way more to give, 'stead I’m taking my first

«I'm not broke» checks to buy throwback jerseys that we just couldn’t

Afford as kids, my inner child tryna be glorious, too

Just like you, my trauma hurts, we all damaged goods

But I’m just saying there’s a lot that if we can, we should

Got us to conflate mass production with quality

And fame with validation, they like, «If e’rybody ain’t

Love it, they wouldn’t make it,» nah, it’s that they know

Love it or not that you gonna take it, 'cause only ego is sacred to you

Live on its flimsy branches, but don’t really know all of the

Roots of your behaviour, do you?

And most is corporate

Spokespeople, they just say shit through you

People lying on toxic shit they ain’t do to influence you and get paper through

you

Yeah, underneath the hatred, who you?

It ain’t so hard to pronounce a pronoun, dawg

We ain’t know then what we know now, dawg

focus on what you like yo' ass called

At the same time acting like them changes gon' be profound

When ain’t a verb in sight, 'cause it’s amateur night

And only shit that’s turning pros now is more things, more things

More stars, more rings, lot of empty gestures

You had some values when youse young, lot of empty nesters

Lot of 'let's be better’s,' but a lot of 'let's get these checks first'

Lot of attention seeking disguised as hefty efforts

Lot of diamond chains disguised as hefty net worths

Lot of big chested dudes behind desks who forgot the leg work

We all gon' be revealed eventually

Little time to fix it all, we in need of centuries

Rather smile in the fire than languish in levity

Acceptance not the enemy, fighting is longevity

Win or lose for skeptics, we just be letting we go

Try and be the version of me that’s for us

'Cause living in them shallow waters lead to a mistrust

Yeah, healing’s not a feeling, it’s a process

Progress not an object, it’s a concept

Humanity’s a conscience, not a contest

It’s time we confess, 'cause they been putting

On a show and we been on set from the onset

But smiling in the face of woe and keep going’s all we gon'

Get for catharsis, and that’s enough, trust me

To make it underneath all of the fear where the love be

That’s where I’m tryna go, and I’d love company

So whatever feel inevitable in this young country

We still got a choice, you still got a voice

Time to change them trophies that they still tryna hoist

Going down swinging on me, and you can’t go down living

So I’ma live until the end

Even if I got no say in when, I got the how and you won’t find that

On the fence, you won’t find that on the fence, ma’fucker, no

Ain’t a big God guy, but if she exists

And was tryna teach us 'bout us, we’re more perfect than this

As we prioritise BAND-AIDs for ourselves and next of kin

Instead of tryna heal world wounds that a generation’s in

This COVID here to stay, 'cause all we think about is me

And can’t envision global community

Our demise will be that failure, thinking we can hoard science

Our inaction is action, thinking we can ignore violence

A team only as good as it’s twelfth man’s health

And we been raping and pillaging our bench for centuries

Welcome to the repercussions, possibly the one, and we

Finger-pointing to avoid that we are all enemies

What if instead of pretending, we

Harnessed that fight and that fuel to be all that we pretend to be

There’ll always be waiting if you waiting 'til you ready, B

I’m looking in the mirror like, «When you gon' set you free?»