Can I?

Truthfully, I only do good to reap the returns

Tongue and cheek like between two ferns

I tell you how I feel but lace it in jokes

Without esteem fight replace all your hopes

Since young we've had routine concerns

There's drug addicted pain inflicting

Friends who need me to be grounded

But what about my health seems I'm less and less surrounded by joy

Don't mean to be coy, it's search and destroy

This industry malicious which is why I'm always annoyed

I'm really tired of these people

Complaining about the way things changing

'Cause evolution's gonna happen anyway

And you could die on any given day

So try to shut the fuck up for a minute, watch these kittens play

The only white dude who's in the room 99% of the time

So why people on the internet who barely know somebody that

Doesn't look like them that I'm committing a crime

'Cause I don't share your whistle

Blowing posts that's skewed or refined

With false perceptions that you seek but

If a black man walks down the street, you cross to the other side

But only if it's dark and no one's around

And when it's heavy population, you go kneel on the ground

And put your fist up

I only know this 'cause these people confide in me in a smaller circle

They see the red of my beard and assume

That I fear the same things, it's really hurtful

I know this shit sucks, that's why I think of turning purple

Every now and then I can't escape the vortex

Shame like poor sex, drained out my left ear

With every memory I kept near and it torments

Me so enormous, strained on my cortex

There's a lot of pain going 'round, who wants a cup

You'll deny it but then drink it all in private

All I really want is a little peace and quiet

And I struggle with the fact that I can't go and buy it

I really struggle with that shit, man

Fuck