Marlon Craft - State of the Union, Pt. II lyrics

They say, "Don’t throw stones if you live
In a glass home"
But America is Ritten's house, time
We say, "Good riddance, house"
And rebuild from the bone
The structure's irredeemable
Tryna stay away from the
Thought that it’s undefeatable
Yeah, ‘cause that’s what evil do
Choke you to the point where shit so
Bad it don’t seem real to you
Create the pain and profit
From it's relievers the pills violence
The pursuit of money and achievеment
Ain’t a Heaven and Hеll guy
But like to think that there'd
Be consequences when you
Make all of your money off of demons
But it seems in this land that’s
What gets the most applause
Manipulating each other just to get
The most of flaws
Our empathy rarely extends beyond
What we can see on that
"It ain't real if it ain’t happen to me!"
If passion could breathe, it'd be in the ICU
Unless it lived somewhere where all
The hospital beds was used
Asked 'em 'bout a vaccine
They said, "My body, my choice"
And Texas outlawed our women’s rights
Same dudes was lookin' like
Somebody bodied they voice
Son, I ain't hear a peep
Every time them wolves come around
I ain’t hear a sheep
And every so-called progressive
Treat Democratic presidencies
Like eight years of sleep
I’m just saying shit's weak
It’s like this shit is just a movie
Want your good guy to win but he got in
Couldn't name the good your good guy done did
They say you know who someone really is
You get 'em near the edge
Well, look at our border
You'll find our country's soul there
Lookin' round at people determined
To keep control
When they ain't ever even had it in
A place that's never known fair
Body cams serve as proof of the audacity
Mass shooting casualties accepted
Mad casually civilian deaths don't matter at
Home or abroad
So 'tween us and the machines
Who the drones really are?
It ain't a system if one guy could stop it
Average Joe getting fucked by
Manchin while Biden watches
Them student loans the ropes around
Yo' and I's pockets
Pay to learn to be in debt
While the wealthy guys profit
Yeah, hypocrisy, monotony
Every race judge each other
But all agree on misogyny
Internet revolutionaries shooting
Off technology act like you a fraud soon as
You try to affect policy
Yeah, whole generation of "Look at
Me, I read Marx
But work for a corporation!"
Everything performative
I ain't different: I sit on the left
But got way more to give
'Stead I'm taking my first "I’m
Not-broke" checks to buy
Throwback jerseys that we just
Couldn’t afford as kids
My inner child tryna be glorious, too
Just like you, my trauma hurts
We all damaged goods
But I’m just saying, there’s a
Lot that if we can, we should
Got us to conflate mass
Production with quality
And fame with validation
They like, "If e'rybody ain’t love it
They wouldn’t make it!"
Nah, it’s that they know, love it or
Not, that you gonna take it
'cause only ego is sacred to you
Live on it's flimsy branches
But don’t really know
All of the roots of your behavior, do you?
And most us corporate spokespeople
They just say shit through you
People lying on toxic shit they ain't do to
Influence you and get paper through you
Yeah, underneath the hatred, who you?
It ain’t so hard to pronounce a pronoun, dawg
We ain't know, then what we know now, dawg?
Don't even know you
Focus on what you like yo' ass called
At the same time
Acting like them changes gon' be profound
When ain't a verb in sight
'cause it’s amateur night
And only shit that’s turning
Pro's nouns, more things, more things
More stars, more rings, lotta empty gestures
You had some values when you's young
Lotta empty nesters
Lotta "Let's be better's
" but a lot of "Get these checks first"
Lot of attention-seeking disguised
As hefty efforts
Lot of diamond chains disguised
As hefty net worths
Lotta big-chested dudes behind desks who
Forgot the leg work
We all gon' be revealed eventually
Little time to fix it all
We in need of centuries
I'd rather smile in the fire
Than languish in levity
Acceptance not the enemy
Fighting is longevity
Win or lose for skeptics, B
We just can't be letting we go
Try and be the version of me that's for us
'Cause living in them shallow waters
Lead to a deepening mistrust
Yeah, healing's not a feeling, it’s a process
Progress not an object, it’s a concept
Humanity’s a conscience, not a contest
It’s time we confess
'cause they been putting on a show
And we been on set from the onset
But smiling in the face of woe and keep
Goin's all we gon' get for catharsis
And that’s enough, trust me
To make it underneath all of the
Fear where the love be
That’s where I’m tryna go
And I'd love company
So whatever feel inevitable in
This young country
We still got a choice, you still got a voice
Time to chainsaw them trophies that
They still tryin' to hoist
Going down swinging don't mean you
Can’t go down living
So I’ma live it to the end
Even if I got no say in when
I got the how and you won’t
Find that on the fence
You won’t find that on the fence, ma'fucker
No ain't a big God guy, but if She exists
And was tryna teach us 'bout us
What more perfect than this?
As we prioritise Band-Aids for ourselves
And next of kin
Instead of tryna heal world wounds
That are generations in
This COVID here to stay 'cause all
We think about is "me"
And can't envision "I" as one
In a global community
Our demise will be that failure
Thinking we can hoard science
Our inaction is action
Thinking we can ignore violence
A team only as good as
It's twelfth man’s health
And we been raping and pillaging
Our bench for centuries
Welcome to the repercussions
Possibly the ending
We finger-pointing to avoid that
We our own enemies
What if, instead of pretending
We harnessed that fight and that fuel to
Be all that we pretend to be?
You'll always be waiting if you
Wait until you ready, b
I’m looking in the mirror like
"When you gon' set you free?"