State Of The Union, Pt. II

They say don't throw stones if you live in a glass home
But America is Ritten's house, time we said, "Good riddance, house"
And rebuilt from the bone, the structure's irredeemable
Try and stay away from the thought that it's undefeatable
Yeah, 'cause that's what evil do
Choke you to the point where shit so bad it don't seem real to you
Create the pain and profit from its relievers
The pills, violence, the pursuit of money and achievement
Ain't a heaven or hell, God, but like to think that there'll be consequences
When you make all of your money off of demons
But it seem in this land that's what gets the most applause
Manipulating each other just to get the most of flaws
Our empathy rarely extend beyond what we can see
On that "it ain't real if it ain't happen to me"
If passion could breathe, it'd be in the ICU
'Less it lives somewhere where all the hospital beds was used
Asked 'em 'bout a vaccine, they said, "My body, my choice"
And Texas outlawed all women's rights, same dudes is looking like
Somebody bodied they voice, so now I ain't hear a peep
Every time them wolves come around, I ain't hear a sheep
And every so-called progressive treat Democratic presidencies
Like eight years of sleep, I'm just saying, shit's weak
It's like this shit is just a movie, want your good guy to win
But he get in, couldn't name the good your good guy done did
They say you know who someone really is, you get 'em near the edge, well
Look at our border, you'll find our country's soul there
Look around at people determined to keep control
When they ain't ever even had it in a place that's never known fair
Body cams serve as proof of the audacity
Mass shooting casualties, accepted mad casually
Civilian deaths don't matter at home or abroad
So 'tween us and the machines, who the drones really are?
It ain't a system if one guy can stop it
Average Joe getting fucked by Manchin while Biden watches
Them student loans the ropes around your and I's pockets
Pay to learn to be in debt while the wealthy guys profit
Yeah, hypocrisy, monotony
Every race judge each other, but all agree on misogyny
Internet revolutionary, shooting off technology
Act like a fraud soon as you try to affect policy
Yeah, whole generation
Of "look at me, I read Marx, but work for a corporation"
Everything performative, I ain't different
I sit on the left, but got way more to give, 'stead I'm taking my first
"I'm not broke" checks to buy throwback jerseys that we just couldn't
Afford as kids, my inner child tryna be glorious, too
Just like you, my trauma hurts, we all damaged goods
But I'm just saying there's a lot that if we can, we should
Got us to conflate mass production with quality
And fame with validation, they like, "If everybody ain't love it
They wouldn't make it," nah, it's they know, love it or not
That you gonna take it, 'cause only ego is sacred to you
Live on its flimsy branches, but don't really know all of the roots
Of your behavior, do you? And most is corporate spokespeople
They just say shit through you, people lying
On toxic shit they ain't do to influence you and get paper through you
Yeah, underneath the hatred, who you?
It ain't so hard to pronounce a pronoun, dog
We ain't know then what we know now, dog
Don't even know you, focus on what you like your ass called
At the same time acting like them changes gon' be profound
When ain't a verb in sight, 'cause it's amateur night
And only shit that's turning [?] more things, more things
More stars, more rings, lotta empty gestures
You had some values when you's young, lotta empty nesters
Lotta let's-be-betters, but a lotta get-these-checks-first
Lot of attention-seeking disguised as hefty efforts
Lotta diamond chains disguised as hefty net worths
Lotta big chested dudes behind desks who forgot
The leg work, we all gon' be revealed eventually
Little time to fix it all, we in need of centuries
Rather smile in the fire than languish in levity
Acceptance not the enemy, fighting is longevity
Win or lose for skeptics B, we just can't be letting we go
Try and be the version of me that's for us
'Cause living in them shallow waters lead to a deepening mistrust
Yeah, healing's not a feeling, it's a process
Progress not an object, it's a concept
Humanity's a conscience, not a contest
It's time we confess, 'cause they been putting on a show
And we been on set from the onset
But smiling in the face of woe and keep going's all we gon' get
For catharsis, and that's enough, trust me
To make it underneath all of the fear where the love be
That's where I'm tryna go, and I'd love company
So whatever feel inevitable in this young country
We still got a choice, you still got a voice
Time to change all them trophies that they still tryna hoist
Going down swinging don't mean you can't go down living
So I'ma live it to the end
Even if I got no say in when, I got the how and you won't find that
On the fence, you won't find that on the fence, motherfucker, no
Ain't a big God guy, but if She exists
And was tryna teach us 'bout us, we're more perfect than this
As we prioritize BAND-AIDs for ourselves and next of kin
Instead of tryna heal world wounds that our generation's in
This COVID here to stay 'cause all we think about is "me"
And can't envisionize wanting a global community
Our demise will be that failure, thinking we can hoard science
Our inaction is action, thinking we can ignore violence
A team only as good as its twelfth man's health
And we been raping and pillaging our bench for centuries
Welcome to the repercussions, possibly the end, and we
Finger-pointing to avoid that we are all enemies
What if instead of pretending
We harnessed that fight and that fuel to be all that we pretend to be
There'll always be waiting if you waiting till you ready, B
I'm looking in the mirror like, "When you gon' set you free?"