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 say, "Good riddance, house" And rebuild from the bone, the structure's irredeemable Tryna stay away from the thought that it's undefeatable, yeah 'Cause that 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 and Hell guy, but like to think that there'd be consequences when you make all your money off of demons But it seems 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 Unless it lived somewhere where all the hospital beds was used Asked 'em 'bout a vaccine, they said, "My body, my choice" And Texas outlawed our women's rights, same dudes was lookin' like somebody bodied they voice Son, 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 got 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 Lookin' 'round 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 could stop it Average Joe getting fucked by Manchin while Biden watches Them student loans, the ropes around yo' 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 revolutionaries shooting off technology Act like you 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 e'rybody 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 us 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, dawg We ain't know then what we know now, dawg Don't even know you, focus on what you like yo' 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 pro's nouns, 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 better's", but a lot of "Get these checks first" Lot of attention-seeking disguised as hefty efforts Lot of 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 I'd 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 goin'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 chainsaw 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, muh'fucker, no Ain't a big God guy, but if She exists And was tryna teach us 'bout us, what more perfect than this? As we prioritize band-aids for ourselves and next of kin Instead of tryna heal world wounds that are generations in This COVID here to stay 'cause all we think about is "me" And can't envision "I" as one in 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 12th man's health And we been raping and pillaging our bench for centuries Welcome to the repercussions, possibly the ending We finger-pointing to avoid that we our own enemies What if, instead of pretending, we harnessed that fight and that fuel to be all that we pretend to be? You'll always be waiting if you wait until you ready, B I'm looking in the mirror like, "When you gon' set you free?"