Marty McKay, Canibus - Left Brain Prisoners lyrics

Education, teachers are naked
Students are fully clothed in paper
Debt based we all owe the creator
For life on Liberty Row
Where the Red Wood pitchforks grow
Where the fast lane education is slow
Do you know? What you wanna
Be? Where you wanna go?
And how important it is for you
To know your learning curve goal
We academic hybrids bro
Private school enrolled
It's publicly known we were schooled at home
I hear you say, you wanna be free
But you can't be free
Until you learn just how to
Be non-mechanic and random, see
I use my thought to separate myself
From cogs in the wheel
They say the pen is mightier than the sword
That's how I'm dodging the steel


'Cause, what they pass for
Education ain't real
It's mind manipulation, they're clones
Sedated, they're drones, debate it
Complicated without complication
Counterfactual quantum communication
Necessity is the mother of all creation

They say there's only way
A single path to a gate
We're prisoners, they stand guard
And if you stray you may starve
Guess what, it's all been a lie
The curtains down, look inside
A rich man finds his own truth
So seek your own point of view

Hands chained in a war left-brain prisoner
Run you gotta run
Hands chained in a war left-brain prisoner
Run you gotta run

Paperback tablets
Dry eraser boards calculate mathematics
So attractive intellectual savage, performing
Arts metaphor mechanic
Less than 1% of the planet
It doesn't matter if my message is stranded
I will be found next to my
Favorite noun, levitate above ground
Meditating to my favorite sound
Debating simple issues, teachers
Are artificial
There must be a more clinical
Approach to being ethically civil
Is Hell on Earth a vacation for
Devils? or education for Rebels?
Will these polarized points of view
Ever settle? Is war normal?
Is peace special
Do we deserve extinction level? what does
Your guardian Angel tell you?
He says: "The end is a new
Beginning cycle, participation is vital
One persons departure is another's arrival
Collateral models
Android smartphone survival standing at
The chalkboard beside you"

They say there's only way
A single path to a gate
We're prisoners, they stand guard
And if you stray you may starve
Guess what, it's all been a lie
The curtains down, look inside
A rich man finds his own truth
So seek your own point of view

Hands chained in a war left-brain prisoner
Run you gotta run
Hands chained in a war left-brain prisoner
Run you gotta run

Common Core, either or, no promises y'all
Common sense gone, academia is dead wrong
One generation down the line is new shit
Two generations down the line it's bull shit
Three generation down the we're stupid
By fourth generation too lazy to do shit
Education is endangered
You need brain maintenance
To fly a 5th generation spaceship, education

They say there's only way
A single path to a gate and if you stray you

Hands chained in a war left-brain prisoner
(I'm not sure what I'm
Supposed to know anymore) run
You gotta run (The current model of learning
Takes too long) hands chained in a war
Left-brain prisoner (I'm not sure what I'm
Supposed to know anymore) run
You gotta run (The current model of learning
Takes too long) hands chained in a war
Left-brain prisoner
(Download your education from the matrix)
Run you gotta run
(That way no time is wasted)
Hands chained in a war
(Make an educated guess you can make it)
Left-brain prisoner
(Word of mouth information is sacred) run
(But it feels old school and antiquated)
You gotta run (The more I grow – the more
I recognize that I don't know)