A Few Words Before We Go
Carl Christensen
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Now do you take pride in your constant state of sadness? Do you think that it's romantic? Do you find it grand and tragic? You better find a snappy way to make sure you stand out on a shelf Any Renaissance man will tell you that your art wont sell itself So I been watching my words make sure I'm posting on brand Know that everything is scripted it just never sounds planed An actor and a singer and a liar and a stripper to the same jobs wearing different clothes But I was given this body it's filled with blemishes and flaws And an asymmetric face that no designer shirt could solve So I'm not gonna sell no records based on my sex appeal So I better make sure every fucking word I write is real Why not make something easy? Just get tossed into a playlist Make some spotify cash by going totally unnoticed The thought has crossed my mind and I ain't too proud to admit it You gotta take anything that you can get But I'm not gonna take it just yet. I dreamt of a baby it was choking on single use plastic And a congress man was claiming that's not a cause for panic Then he opened up his coat and out spilled oil covered bills And he tried to use them to clean the blood out from his finger nails So I asked him what's your plan for when the water rises up? Mine's to fashion a raft out of Chick-Fa-Ley Styrofoam cups That old man's gonna die along with his degenerate ideals But these cups are gonna out live all of us So what profit do you turn when you ignore the science? And what prophet live or dead would be maintaining silence? Do you sleep well at night with all these deaths on your conscience? Is your fortune 500 keeping you warm? And I think the biggest lie we tell ourselves is you can't buy an election Just try and swallow that pill down when you see how much the winners spend And Our fearless leaders only serve the highest bidders They're not the heroes that they'd have you to believe They'd be nothing if not for greed Now how do you tell a child that this world is gonna kill him? Either slowly and surly or in a sudden cataclysm? And how badly I wish that I had all the answers for him To live a guilt-free life and leave 0 carbon foot print But I got stars and stripes in my accent, my birthplace always shows You can take the boy out of America but you know how the rest of the phrase goes And who would I be serving if I disserted my home? You can only run so far from your bloodline And I was born and raised on land that was stolen By my grandfather's father and his father before him I'm a side effect of genocide and I'm probably gonna spend the rest of my life Attempting to empathize without ever being patronizing What a fool I am to task myself with fixing the world When the only thing I'm good for are these chords and my words As if screaming into microphones could solve anything But at least I'm doing something This is all that I know how to do I'm just trying to speak some fucking truth
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