Blue Scholars - Cinemetropolis lyrics

This is the scene you been
Seeing all your life the one inside a dream
You repeated every night
For 24 frames every second through the light
Projected through the screen you
Been paying for despite
What you see and what you hear
Contrary to your sight
Everything you ever learned that you
Never had to live
Might've heard from a story teller medium
Pictures, words, scriptures to cinema script
Writing a verse from this city emerges a
New generation of babies
Who came out of the womb, glued to the tube
With plans and aspirations to
Prove beyond doubt
We are stars too, even if it's just cartoons
My animated hands that I got from the
Genes of my island native fam
I could never not be
I'm here to make them scream
Like a Hitchcock dame
Whether analog, digital, shit is all the same
An American tradition
A narrative for fiction
A Hamilton for tickets
The public is addicted
Just think for a second how
Much we've been conditioned
To root for the Doughboys, the O-Dogs
The Bishops sided with them villains
In spite of what they heeded
He said she gotta have it
She said she didn't need it
And even if she see it
She will probably not believe it
If it ain't bein' projected in
A wide screen theatre
If it spins on a reel, it's gotta be real
But 'real' in real life just
Remind us of film
And now you saying something's like
A movie when it's real
Like a film's much realer
Than anything you feel

In a Cinemetropolis (in a Cinemetropolis)
In a Cinemetropolis (in a Cinemetropolis)
In a Cinemetropolis (in a Cinemetropolis)
In a Cinemetropolis (in a Cinemetropolis)
In a Cinemetropolis

They try to say we bad kids from the start
Grandchildren of Marx and Coca-Cola
Yet quoting Godard
And you saying that everything
Is cinema since
The moving pictures in the center of
Your living room telling you shit
Like you’ll never be shit
Walk away from all your dreams spark up
Drop a lighter on a trail of gasoline
Leading back to the vehicle you
Crashed before you came
Never looking back, cut, boom, end of scene
We’ve been gunning for that
Hundred and some change
The flicks and the flickering flames that
Been going the same length
Doing battle with the powers that be
That’ll be no longer in position
When the power’s getting seized
So cameras we got redirected from the poor
I directed for my people
Lino Brocka with the horn
When the brother yelled ‘action’ it
Wasn’t just for his act
‘Cause he wanted to see the masses
Get they asses out the door (get up)
My marvelous marksmanship is sharp
Shit is hard
But we make it look not, we auteurs
The Godfather poster on the wall, 14
With a movie in my head
Writing’s the next thing
So we shot y’all 35 millimeter rockstars
How about some hardcore senior
To your sophomores
Flyer than a Concorde landing
On your concourse rolling with the vanguard
Burning down your art house
If it’s spinning on a reel
It’s gotta be real
But 'real' in real life just
Remind you of film
And now you saying something's like
A movie when it's real
Blade running like a samurai, killing himself

In a Cinemetropolis (in a Cinemetropolis)
In a Cinemetropolis (in a Cinemetropolis)
In a Cinemetropolis (in a Cinemetropolis)
In a Cinemetropolis (in a Cinemetropolis)
In a Cinemetropolis