Smoke And Mirrors

(album: New Strength - 2015)

Set it off

Early in my life
The act of hearing art
Kept me from falling apart
Craving to create
I couldn't be like them
I couldn't settle down then
Dry up and die

Why the fuck we survived
Is to my surprise
Six years of sweat and fear
That was all we ever had
It was just enough
But for what? Fast love
Fake fucks, bad luck
And all those impossible months

The best times imagined
We were broke and dragging
Our lives behind us laughing
The youth war passing
If I knew then
What I know now
I would have slept less
No memories to be missed

Everything has changed
Now it's a game of numbers
A competition, fucker
Know your place
Egos dominate and
Money discriminates and
I don't fit

I look at others and I see beneath
While others look my way to look down on me
I never had shit to prove
For myself to get the kids like me through

And that will never change no

You're the self-proclaimed heir to the industry
But this industry never meant shit to me
You're the self-proclaimed heir to the industry
But this industry never meant shit to me
Never blessed with the mind of a business man
Nor impressed with the depths of the feeders hands
Never blessed with the mind of a business man
Mind at rest with the heart of a simple man

I know it's never too late
That's why we choose to display
New strength