I Thought I’d make a difference
And before I knew the difference
I was played out
If thoughts and prayers would listen
We’ve been praying til we’re blistered
Now we’re prayed out.
Heroes only get up in our way, say what they think you wanna hear em say, til you wake up one day and they’re (played out)
You can take your heart and your passion to the hall,
But you’ll find too soon,
If you don’t play ball you’re (played out)
The senate won’t get it,
And the stocks won’t fall
They’ll bounce right back
Like your check dissolves
I checked the victrola,
the record wasn’t off,
It was (played out)
Look at us, worldwide leader of verified cases
A beacon of bullshit hailing itself as a case to be made for America’s greatness
Worldwide leader of hastily dug mass graves for neglected patients
Other world leaders can see us corralling our homeless from out in the streets into cramped stations, coax a little growth out of rights violations,
and spin it into something a bit more eugenic
that passes as policy and doesn’t seem to raise red flags at the old United Nations
Speaking of, folks, may I address you directly?
Our wellspring of hope is a month past empty
Our voting has been tainted, you can look at the discrepancies
I speak on behalf of a lot of us when I say ‘rescue me’
Send a coalition, please liberate our families
Topple the regime that can feed the banks and just leave us clamoring
Scrambling for scraps while they lap dance lobbyists, cash them out, and send them home with vouchers good for at least one future amnesty.
Madam Speaker, have a seat.
Would you take a moment to enlighten me and try to shed some light on why you opted to monopolize a tragedy? Grab a little capital like capital is all you see?
How to even fall asleep when all you hear are all the screams of parents at their wits end knowing they’re about to tell their child there’s no food to eat?
Does it take a lot of ice cream to doze off,
And god knows how many Xanax to guarantee you don’t dream?
So you can wake, well-rested, and start another day of just grinding the poor into chum to appease the machine?
Now we know you better, that you aren’t really human, no matter how human you seem
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