Illogic, Slug - Stand lyrics

Hey Dad

Yeah what's up

Take a seat, we need to speak about your
Actions as of late
It seems you've lost yourself
And I now wanna search for fate
There's no debate
How can you equate happiness
To making ripples
In that lake of flames you create
Every time you search your mind you
Find ways to down my matriarch
Full of yourself just because
You're the patriarch?
I'm making art, and you're making a mess
Of the time this family has left in the flesh

Whoa, hold up, now let's wait a minute, son
From where is this coming from?
What are you saying? Are
You attacking my behavior?
What's done is done
And I've done what is what
I'm not trying to get defensive but
I don't understand the question

Well you're posing as a man of care and love
Held for years
Now I feel the tears that pierce my heart
As spears from my mom's eyes catapulted
My anger as taunted time flies
But time is iniquitous
It'll fall soon enough
Hopefully before that you'll wake up
And break from the mental makeup, handcuffs
This is no bluff, no game, I'm not playing
See the straight face?

Yeah I can read the straight face

Then I hope this makes you
See how blame tastes

Well wait, wait, let me get this straight
The child that I've created is debating the
Food I've got on my plate?
Have you had the chance to taste
The seasoning sprinkled about my thinking
And reasoning for how I keep on keeping on?

How you what? Keep on looking
Outside Mom for pleasure?
How you keep on behind life's
Beat by one measure?
Not caring that you're walking down
A path of endless laughs
Glad to be in last place
Encased in the lower moral class?
I don't see how you can be content
To be part of family history as an
Unsympathetic low-life of strife fueling you

I'm not hearing you: you're a man, I'm a man
Go find yourself a woman and a piece of land
Leave me to stand

"You feel like a man? Huh? Maybe you
Could stop hating me to bring
Your mother back? Maybe we can start
Being father and son again now, huh?"
"You ain't my father"

Yeah I'll leave you, but not to stand
Cause you're conceited
Thinking the planet revolves around
Your way of thinking
Sinking into the quicksand of
Drinking and fornicating
It's so amazing how many you
Love gets a plays in

Is that what this is about?
Yo, I love your mom
And I'll love her till the
Day the universe breaks
And the earthquakes take away
All the birthdays on top of that
I've broken my back and succeeded
And given my people everything
My people needed in fact
The only thing to suffer from
My selfishness was myself
And my own mental health
My bones, my heart, my pride
And my right to find my truth
And the mistakes I didn't get
To make as a youth

Yeah, you must be makin' up
For the mistakes now
Cause you're making a whole hell
Of a lot of them
Your pride needs to be swallowed down
To the pit's of digestion
I'm guessing on my little brothers you don't
Want to leave a good impression
So I'm stressin' that I take
Responsibility for my actions
And don't run from 'em
How can someone not respect a human
Prospect that comes from 'em

This is not a form of disrespect:
It is what it is
I'm just trying to find the shadows
That my travels happened to miss
I'll tell you what
When you've seen and smelled the
Scents I've been dealt
When you wear the pants and the belt
And when you finally find
The patterns to yourself
Maybe then and only then maybe then
You can pretend to help

But see, I've found my self-worth
I'm trying to help you find yours
I've trudged through this garden's marksman
And knee-high apple-cores parallel my
Face to the floor, day after day
Until I made up in my mind that I
Was going to have to find my way
I'm trying to say that I've
Been through a lot maybe not as much as you
But, I probably didn't take as much
For me to wake up
True indeed, you're my father
But fathers also need counsel
So take criticism, listen before givin'
And swallow that mouthful

Well the poison doesn't flow that
Far from the flower
You've got your own thorns to
Regret and be proud of
I understand your questions
Your skepticism and anger
But sometimes there's no right
Or wrong answer

Well of course not! Cause in this life
Change is the only constant
I'm just trying to understand why
You baby yourself in nonsense

Check the content
You're a man, and I'm a man
Go find a woman and a piece of land
Leave me to stand