Modern Day Folk

Yeah, yeah

We the modern day folk singers

Even if the old folk singers think we all dope slingers

Ode to the idiom and the flow Gideon

My ear a melody net yet there's no singer (No way)

Some are not kiddin'

They puzzled at how we talk, I tell 'em it's not talk

Like cheese and chalk and we walk

Without fear in the ground we tread, it's flawed

'Cause you're hearin' all the thoughts goin' round my head

We're paradox and respect wed

And I work on my catalogue, not my nest egg

And the wordplay's direct and unashamed

Taken in all the frame with a ridiculous name

So many of us made a claim, some soared so high

Plenty fell off like a shot down plane

The wind blowin' your bridge over troubled waters down

But don't worry, we'll sort it out

And you've got to be engaged

You're not just listening to your mates

We're tryna save the world, a brave new world

I love that bitter taste

And you've got to be engaged

It's not a grudge match every day

It's the necessary phases

'Cause no folk song ever saved us (Save that now)

Like A Tribe Called Quest said, it's all expected

Things'll get hectic, change is a threat

Like when Dylan went electric 'cause we all affected

Directed, defected, in puffy chested but they're now dejected

No massage for every bad back

It isn't Hollywood, it's just Mad Max

They didn't have serum to get rid of your anthrax

And Mother Theresa, it's just the beat of a damn track, huh

I don't really care for half of these MCs

But some of them are like the path of a set piece

All of it and more, we can't let you get sleep

No relationship was started on a wet dream

So we knock down doors and we rock out jaws

And we don't turn our back if it's not our cause

Stand and stare upward from the ground floor

Get up, what you down for?

And you've got to be engaged

You're not just listening to your mates

We're tryna save the world, a brave new world

I love that bitter taste

And you've got to be engaged

It's not a grudge match every day (No way)

It's the necessary phases

'Cause no folk song ever saved us

And you've got to be engaged

You're not just listening to your mates

We're tryna save the world, a brave new world

I love that bitter taste (I love that taste)

And you've got to be engaged (Yeah)

It's not a grudge match every day (Ha-ha)

It's the necessary phases

'Cause no folk song ever saved us

It's really not that profound, the way a phrase knocks you down

To others it's nothing more than a background

But some are weak at the knees at that sound and

I rewind the song and sit down now

Constantly flip between the FM stations

The jocks spook the next sensation but

I care little for the next sensation

I'm sorry that I left you waiting (Left you waiting, ha)

Ha-ha, keep it engaged, yeah

Yeah, yeah

Ain't that fun? Folk song tradition

Tryna save the world

Just happy if

Anybody just listens

Ha-ha

(You've got to be engaged) I feel like strummin' the guitar right now

(You've got to be engaged) Oh, I guess we

Gotta get some earnest singing on right now

(You've got to be engaged)

I like that