An Ode to America
Crazy times.
Call for crazy rhymes.
Up is down down is up.
Hello hi, yo wassup,
are just blankets of sanity.
Masks of humanity.
When shit hits the storm,
Madness is the norm.
Pinched noses, closed eyes,
We are drowning, time flies.
Trapped in your mind,
A thousand of a kind.
Expose the veiled.
It comes out when it's hailed.
A little mad but good people!
A little sad in the hood, people.
When you lose your mind,
The truth is what you find.
Just listen, just listen.
Our rules, our cages, the keys are missin'.
Task assigned. Go. Mission!
Locked up in some fantasies.
Our world of fallacies.
Turned away to normalcy.
When turned back see hypocrisy.
Employees only, toys only.
Locker room: boys only.
See red? There's danger.
Go in. It's stranger.
Our rules, our traditions.
Our thoughts, our conditions.
The matrix's illusion,
Logic is a delusion.
Trance of the opium,
Fly through the continuum.
Hear me out,
No need to shout.
Conditioned, it dont matter.
Sit down, get fatter.
Don't climb the ladder,
Everyone, gather.
A new drug is found,
A brand new compound.
Be lazy, be crazy,
Sleep in, eyes hazy.
Served on a plate,
No need to wait.
No need to sow,
No need to grow.
Wait. Is it a show?
Yes, yes. No, no.
Oh! Oh!
When all you do is wrong and all you do is right.
When paranoia strikes you, what will you fight?
Is this a tunnel? At the end do you see a light?
Or are you in a pit?
To the core taken a hit.
Falling apart, bit by bit.
No hate, no fears?
Oh baby, no more tears?
Yeah live like you're eight.
Leave it all to fate.
Forget the hate.
It's so easy mate!
There is no easy answer.
Life lives but spreads like cancer.
It ignites,
It fights.
It grows,
It knows.
It comes,
It goes.
But can we just hit pause?
Come together for a cause?
Retract the claws.
Agreement, no clause.
Crazy times, call for crazy rhymes.
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Submitted on January 09, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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