Spose, Renee Coolbrith - Why Am I So Happy? lyrics
[Spose, Renee Coolbrith - Why Am I So Happy? lyrics]
You should see these Nike SB’s
That I copped online
I turned the AC on then I wrote a hot rhyme
The girl who made my sneakers
Sobbin’ all the time
Indonesian sweatshop makin’ pennies
And she’s nine
I took a clean towel out the closet
Showered half an hour took a
Sip up out the faucet
A mother in Nigeria, I wouldn’t wanna be ya
No clean water
So her daughter died of diarrhea
I typed a post about my government
Was critical and they didn’t arrest me even
Though it sounded liberal in Russia
Punishment for that isn’t reciprocal
You question ‘bout the man
Then your lifespan’s minimal when I was six
My biggest worry if I can reminisce
Was that I’d have a Super
Nintendo but not a Genesis
Six year old in Rwanda
Blood what he’s wearin’
They cut his arm off when
He wouldn’t kill his parents
I made babies out of wedlock
I read Ladybug Girl then get stoned
In the basement by the bedrock
She defied arranged marriage
Her betrayed parents
Stoned her to death on the
Terrace with the cleric
I took a bite of pizza told them
"Give the chef my accolades"
I eat a couple slices then I
Threw the other half away
A child stomach squealing, begging
He ain’t eat in days
He collapsed with a thud, sounded like a 808
I don’t go to church or the mosque
Or the synagogue
If there is a God, he isn’t in my thoughts
A Kurd didn’t fit their
Definition of religion
Got beheaded in front of his
Children who lay in prison
I saw a tweet a girl wrote
It said, "I hate school, I’d rather
Skip it, party, take body shots
And break rules"
School girl got her body shot by the Taliban
Women die to be educated out in Pakistan
If I know how it’s goin’ down
Why am I so happy now? I don’t know
I just filmed a video with Bosch
He just bought a drone, flew over a
Soccer game, we looked at it
Looked fuckin’ dope
Iraqi kids playin’ soccer live
A humble home life
Mom screams as they got killed
By a drone strike
Although neither represent my section
I voted the lesser of two
Evils in the last election
Some countries only got one candidate
Question them and you can pick
Which limb they’re gonna amputate
I got police protecting my township
Dial up the number, Crown Vic
Come around quick
In Mexico, cops crooked east of Buena Vista
Juan had to join the cartel
Just to protect his sister
I love my daughter and the smile on her face
I told her she gotta be thirty-five
Before she start to date
Syrian girls abducted by the caliphate
They’re fourteen
Sold as sex slaves in the Islamic state
I feel so alive bumpin’ dead rappers
Life could be like lice
It’s a head scratcher "Why am I so happy?"
I don’t gotta answer that
"Why are you so miserable?" Is the
Question that I need to ask
If I know how it’s goin’ down
Why am I so happy now? I don’t know
That I copped online
I turned the AC on then I wrote a hot rhyme
The girl who made my sneakers
Sobbin’ all the time
Indonesian sweatshop makin’ pennies
And she’s nine
I took a clean towel out the closet
Showered half an hour took a
Sip up out the faucet
A mother in Nigeria, I wouldn’t wanna be ya
No clean water
So her daughter died of diarrhea
I typed a post about my government
Was critical and they didn’t arrest me even
Though it sounded liberal in Russia
Punishment for that isn’t reciprocal
You question ‘bout the man
Then your lifespan’s minimal when I was six
My biggest worry if I can reminisce
Was that I’d have a Super
Nintendo but not a Genesis
Six year old in Rwanda
Blood what he’s wearin’
They cut his arm off when
He wouldn’t kill his parents
I made babies out of wedlock
I read Ladybug Girl then get stoned
In the basement by the bedrock
She defied arranged marriage
Her betrayed parents
Stoned her to death on the
Terrace with the cleric
I took a bite of pizza told them
"Give the chef my accolades"
I eat a couple slices then I
Threw the other half away
A child stomach squealing, begging
He ain’t eat in days
He collapsed with a thud, sounded like a 808
I don’t go to church or the mosque
Or the synagogue
If there is a God, he isn’t in my thoughts
A Kurd didn’t fit their
Definition of religion
Got beheaded in front of his
Children who lay in prison
I saw a tweet a girl wrote
It said, "I hate school, I’d rather
Skip it, party, take body shots
And break rules"
School girl got her body shot by the Taliban
Women die to be educated out in Pakistan
If I know how it’s goin’ down
Why am I so happy now? I don’t know
I just filmed a video with Bosch
He just bought a drone, flew over a
Soccer game, we looked at it
Looked fuckin’ dope
Iraqi kids playin’ soccer live
A humble home life
Mom screams as they got killed
By a drone strike
Although neither represent my section
I voted the lesser of two
Evils in the last election
Some countries only got one candidate
Question them and you can pick
Which limb they’re gonna amputate
I got police protecting my township
Dial up the number, Crown Vic
Come around quick
In Mexico, cops crooked east of Buena Vista
Juan had to join the cartel
Just to protect his sister
I love my daughter and the smile on her face
I told her she gotta be thirty-five
Before she start to date
Syrian girls abducted by the caliphate
They’re fourteen
Sold as sex slaves in the Islamic state
I feel so alive bumpin’ dead rappers
Life could be like lice
It’s a head scratcher "Why am I so happy?"
I don’t gotta answer that
"Why are you so miserable?" Is the
Question that I need to ask
If I know how it’s goin’ down
Why am I so happy now? I don’t know