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Rattigan

from The Virus by Jesse Jett

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I don’t need to say it at all, myself,
Cause now you can see it,
And I don’t want to say that I lost myself
Cause I didn’t need it

Whoever I was when this started,
I think that they’ll stay in the past
And if that’s all I’ve lost when it’s over
I’ll be happy with that.


I don’t have the inflection for commercial rap appeal
And I’m a little too subversive to be verified.
If, some day,
I reach 10k,
I’ll retract it, I’ll admit it, and I’ll clarify.

In the meantime, I’ll be underground where the air’s beyond rarified
Honestly, It’s barely there,
And, honestly, it’s paradise.

I don’t have a label that can tell me how my lyrics aren’t conducive to the royalties of parasites.

I’m just one man in an 05 GMC with an iPhone 8 and a low end mic tryna take down the DNC,
Stay up late and go into a rage and record all night and wake the next day like: “damn, that’s me?”

So trust when I tell you that your fury
will articulate the things you’re afraid to believe

You can tell cause I shake when I speak.

There is anger in the air that we breathe.
~~~

Liberally applied like the label of ‘Progressive’
slapped on every neoliberal spamming you their message
Slapped on every Buttigeiege who tells you cozy up to your oppressors
Pardon me if I don’t trust a word out of Rattigan The Lesser.

Don’t shut your eyes, love
The more you know the better
The worse you see, the sweeter
A peaceful revolution doesn’t really fill a theater
A flint will start a fire, and Flint water douses it, but if you think it’s safe to drink you must have skipped the kool-aid and gone for the ether.

Cause I think you’re fucking dreaming.
Are you?
No?
Good, me either.

Alright, let’s take a short breather.

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from The Virus, released May 30, 2020

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