Wanted to Cooperate - McEnroe, Birdapres

Battle the beast’s brain addled by Strata-East

Wanted to cooperate, had to compete

They forced my hand, why you hitting yourself?

Hidden for years now you’re admitting your wealth?

I plan to amass cash like a miser

Where the world goes round is none the wiser

One of my many love’s loves to hate me

We don’t kiss no more yet she continues to date me

I cram to get it, can’t handle women

Turned to cheap drugs and vandalism

When the revolution comes I’ll grow my hair out

Bust shots through your goose, let the air out

Spirits at war, did you hear it before?

The godliest tomb clearing the floor

They want to dance to death and disaster

Master your high till they sweat on the plaster

The sickest witness, innocent bystander

Witless, gutless, toughness bypasser

Cars smashed in, ground to dust

'Fore most of y’all ever get round to us

The radio dial don’t go that far left

The concept of public access, far fetched

I’m the fuel for the fire that kills me

Look into the flames and amazed to still see

I’ll be a witness when the clock stops ticking

And the well runs dry and the baby stops kicking

And it may be soon that the worker stops picking

That cotton in return for the pain inflicted

You laughed all day, you called him a «dumb jock»

Now he’s the man who checks your punched clock

You changed and learned to love the taste

Of the blood in your mouth when you’re kicked in the face

My DJ cuts like a master physician

I’m the bastard corruption of an African rhythm

But I hold these drums like they contain oil

In the part of the desert that makes your brain boil

Western way run thick, the gunslinger

Out here everything is done bigger

Art is the landscape, can’t you see now?

The reason we had to cut these trees down

Rob a barren, subjugate and stack cash

'Til my soul found tune in the grooves of black jazz

The key of life

The freedom of jet streams

The fallen and dead leaves onto the next scene

A tendency to ignore the faceless

Dependency on the poor and tasteless

Basic forms conform to shapesless

Encased in the warmth of four track tape discs

I have a, fascination with abandoned gas stations

That scar the landscape and litter the nation

A monument to modern transportation

That’s ever less efficient for the me generation

You seem free now you’re caught in the talon

Of security fees and miles to the gallon

Well would ever want to live in a small town

We’ll start from scratch and burn it all down

Keep the speakers large and the playlist current

Make the walls thick and equipped with turrets

The best defense is a good offense

Simple way to win the public over with nonsense

Could be you unless you do nothing

Except be counted in approval ratings

I’m confounded, would you mind explaining

What two men on the same side are debating?

The negative Utopia described in my story… man will be subordinated to his own

.

Desire, technology, social organization… these things will cease to serve

man.

They have become his master.

A quarter of a century has past since the

book was published.

In that time… our world has taken so many steps in the

wrong direction, that if I were writing today, I would date my story not 600

years into the future, but at the most, two hundred

Wanted to cooperate