Pharoahe Monch, Citizen Cope - The Grand Illusion lyrics

It doesn't take your eyes to see
What the pain won't take away
When they take that veil away
You're just caught up in the mass confusion
Confused by the grand illusion
They're never gonna let you see it
'Cause if they did, we'd all be free, yeah
You're just caught up in the mass confusion
Confused by the grand illusion

We were told that the Hell
Below was a fiery inferno
I rediscovered my soul between the
Lines inside my journal
Trapped within a Penn State of mind
Joe Paterno external gratification is not
Happiness eternal
Interject, intellect, intercept, internet
A slave majority where five percent benefit
Photoshopped images, re-touched photography
Pornography, sodomy, child labor economy
Put away your hope, same political policies
Two-thousand and ten
Only minus the space odyssey
There's gotta be a better way
We pray to hit the lottery
We all need of the rapist
(The rapist, the rapist)
For the robbery of our God
An official public apology
An angel plotted to have Organized Konfusion
You fell for the delusion
I'll expose the movement illusion

It doesn't take your eyes to see
What the pain won't take away
When they take that veil away
You're just caught up in the mass confusion
Confused by the grand illusion
They're never gonna let you see it
'Cause if they did, we'd all be free, yeah
You're just caught up in the mass confusion
Confused by the grand illusion

Professional analysts, rhetoric, rambling
Symbicort, Advair, Albuterol, ambient
I change the channel on
Commercials when I'm channeling
Everybody's a star, lights, cameras
Seventeen-thousand times a day
The human eye blinks
Making us even more subjectable
To the hijinks
IPhone, iChat, who gives a fuck what I think?
One world currency
Doesn't matter where I bank
There is no pot of gold at
The end of a mythical rainbow
We're uneducated contestants
Life is the game show
Your leader is the host
The results are painful
The judges weave a web in
Which we all get tangled
Their only contribution to the
World is a delusion
Which has no physical power
I offer you a solution
Pharoahe Monch, the antonym for translucent
Lyrical revolution
I'll expose the movement illusion

It doesn't take your eyes to see
What the pain won't take away
When they take that veil away
You're just caught up in the mass confusion
Confused by the grand illusion
You're just caught up in the mass confusion
Confused by the grand illusion
You're just caught up in the mass confusion
Confused by the grand illusion