Levi The Poet, JGivens - Big Business lyrics

What began in the spirit, I
Fleshed out in analytics
And mimicked his voice until I wasn't
Sure I could hear it
The comparisons were subtle pivots compared
To more pivotal problems
(but that was the problem
And the comparisons didn't solve them)
I missed the trees
For the forest that dominated my vision –
Shifted pyramidal positions into a schema
That fit my religion each
Schism was a small price to
Pay for the mission
But, I just couldn't convince
The critics to listen

Listen, every decision is infinite
Compounding incisions thickens
The cut that started it when I
Started tip-toeing with the lusts of the
Flesh, I thought it was love
And it became exactly that hand in hand
Dancing in the way of the
Dragon, heart of man still convinced it
Was the way of the lamb
And I didn't realize that I
Had abandoned the path until
I finally glanced down at my own two feet

And had the thought that even wolves
Can learn to bleat like sheep

Of course it's all selfish ambition
And vain conceit of course
I want you to raise your hands and worship me
Of course notoriety became the centerpiece
As my pride continues
To believe it'self to be the praise of God

Behind liturgy like a smoke
Screen we bow down
To money and the powers that be and
Treat one another like competing
Teams functioning hierarchically and
Calling the winnings gospel
And Jesus, indeed
Seems to read like a sword
That cuts through the family
(but he still brings peace
To the wealthy though)
It's dismissible – I can simply close my
Eyes to the way that
Salvation became so closely
Tied to domination like the way that

God became a literal trump card okay

So we joined the ranks of
A disenfranchised generation the counselor
Called it a combination of coming
Of age and brainwashing
That repeatedly capitulates it'self to a
Posture of self hate
And blame and spirals inward
On it's own cliche

There

The naïveté is so easy to
Manipulate: you simply call
Power "blessing" and excommunicate whomever
Stands in the way

What changed?

I've seen things just stay the same, man
They'll find a way in
One day men will use insurance claims
To get paid off entertainment
Don't take even one of the laymen
Send a raven, now empty your savings
Keep donating in payments to build a
Shelter in time of storm
No one can clap back if
Noah didn't open them doors
I guess you can have that but
Hurricane hashtag
Sow seed proceed Osteen shelters before
Ain't that where the tax at?
A year in Morgan is more than just
A metaphor of all-black in a uniform
Never to war with random fact that
The black invented a gas mask
I bet that color matters to
A bank account getting fatter
When it's red to the black on the cash app
A hypocritical separation of church
And the state
Look there's pastors posing with
Opposing politicians on Facebook
And I heard worst gotta put
A curse in a verse, still get past that
When they realize their worship's working
Perfect to back that ASCAP