Lupe Fiasco - Atomic Misphilosophy lyrics

War gives value to life by showing
It can be taken away and in a perverted way
Those who wage war delude themselves
Into thinking they create life
Or at least make it meaningful
Thus, using that as a basis
For grandiose notions of supremacy
Falsely giving themselves the title of
Masters of the universe
And gatekeepers of morality

Peace trials and living power
Pleasure over pain
Geiger counters check amounts of
Radiation in the rain
Biochemical nuke, gas masks and rubber boots
Inhale your last gasp without a Hazmat suit
Terrible, unbearable miracle of
The modern scientific
Arms race, chase for the horrific
Manhattan project, man cancelling concept
Catastrophic bomb
A fabric-shattering context
A little boy falling from a metal bird
Followed by a fat man who
Left behind a leveled earth
Imbalanced challenge to survival of
The whole piece
Have seeked to staff the whole
Planet with their own peeps
A zone beeps of contaminated contents
Atomically activated, saturated beyond it's
Limit's, to live within it's
Boundaries with conscience
To cancer cells, I'm not totally unresponsive

Cause in the future shock
There where everything's storied
I don't feel like there's anything for me
I hope they put this out
Cause in the future shock
There where everything's storied
I don't feel like there's anything for me
I hope they figure out
This atomic misphilosophy

Uninhabitable avenues
Third wars in southern latitudes
Mutually assured that it all happens to
International violence leaves us
Black and blue
Blast us back into the past if attack ensues
A pack-approved tactic fully practiced
On the evil of the axis back in World War Two
The melted lunchbox of a disintegrated girl
Dogs on fire, the mosquitoes
Flies and squirrels
Men, women and children have their
Bones cooked to ash
And their shadows burning to the
Ground from the flash
And if they didn't pass what's the future
Hibakusha? You say you need a job
But they won't give it to ya
In the era where they said the
Greatest evil was that white man
From the reich land
But this was coming from the same people
Who thought that Jim Crow was all 'ight then'
Same thing that kept Colonel Tibbets
On his flight plan

Nuclear stockpile's America's second largest
The world's most destructive and
The world's most heartless
Under the auspices that war
Will be rendered harmless
And everlasting peace will be in reach
If we just bomb shit
Technologically fanatic racial socio-
Economic faux-intellectual fucking nonsense
Dripping with political interludes
Typical of a system
Stark raving mad and operating unconscious
Now how do we proceed?
Knowing through the man's fatalism
And probably you'll never leave
A disease trying to cure it's
Own symptoms with disease
Creating an epidemic just to see if it can be
Genuine mistrust of everything but us
Based on artificial evidence
But mostly racists at the crux
Let's pray they throw 'em all out
And I hope I don't see you
Through the foggy field of vision
In the fall out