When some people talk about a ‘He’
They mean Christ
When I talk about a ‘He’,
then I really mean Biden,
And when I say ‘talk about’
I really mean ‘Scream like I’m trapped beneath the ice’
Scream like I woke up from a dream where the memory resurfaced that I voted for Obama twice.
And I Saw the ballot flash before my eyes like the futures of a couple thousand middle eastern children that Obama wiped out via drone strike
Took em out early so he wouldn’t have to wait until their wedding nights
This had been the only man you lauded as a decent moral president til we decided W was fine
Decided he was not the man who whittled down our privacy or stuck us in Iraq for the rest of time
Now we see him in a different light,
And all it took to whitewash the shame of his war crimes was snuggling Obama’s wife.
Nevermind our soldiers,
They should know a measly fuckin’ ‘thank you’ and discount at Applebee’s is fair trade for PTSD, and a life of lost sleep while they’re cuddling their trauma tight.
Nevermind a lost generation due to birth defects we buried in the soil so Iraqi kids are born without a way to shut their eyes
Or Born with half their organs hanging out their sides
And We won’t try to fix them, but we’ll doctor up the image of the man who firebombed them in the night
Cause, Fuck it, man, the Raytheon stock is out of sight!
And who’s got the time to do more for the poor outside when it’s warmer in here and there’s Dom on ice?
Meanwhile, half a mile down your drinking glass, there fizzles out a disappearing middle class, who never seems to surface, they just keep on taking water, but they never get to drown cause they can’t afford a service
So when I talk about a ‘He’
If I really mean Biden,
Then I’ll scream it with a spite that lights a fire in my central nervous
Scream it like I’m one of many millions in your Perignon ice bucket, begging you for scraps, scratching at the surface.
Who never seems to surface
Just keep on taking water
And never get to drown
Cause I can’t afford a service
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