Forum for the People Lyrics

What can I say? We had a good run

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What I think awakening really involves

Is a reexamination of our common sense

Our common sense has been rigged

Aye, aye

What can I say? We had a good run

Plenty fun along the way

We just never saw the problems in our ways until we Looked Up

It was too late

Too busy running for change, really just running in place

Some of us did it for the right reasons

Some let the money change us

Everyone accepted the Deception of the funny paper

It was like leading a flock

Too easy to not

No Spike Lee in the plot

Doing the Right Thing was a concept, not a genuine conquest

But we used it in the Constitution to constitute the American conscience

Save your (Savior) complex

We don't take signs serious as the fakest bomb threats

Maybe I should save my breath and try to get comfortable

As we lay in this hotbed of fatal progress

But despite it all, still not fatalistic

You ain't got hope you ain't got shit

And I know every day's a blessing

Take it a step at a time

My only weapon is my mind

Brushes and pens is the only line of defense that corruption can never divide

Product of my environment

Feeling really shitty, yet resilient

Penning every written willing that the ripple effect is a positive influence

I cannot make people change- their mind or their ways

Realized all I can change is me

Daily attempt to be better and hope I inspire the same

It ain't the pride that I blame

Though the devil wear Prada

It's the collective surrender of power

Til we all take individual responsibility

We'll still be helpless to stop what we started

That's why I'm starting a discussion

I don't know what art is

I do know it's not for nothin

Not for nothin

Finally at peace with the thought of death

And if it all just ends, well at least I believe it was all a test

So what's passing but the right answers to the questions that we're tasked with

And this life damn sure is a bad bitch

She ain't asking for respect kid, she commands it

And the average man can't manage

That's why the whole planet treated as bottomless pot of gold

By a sick prodigal family called Humanity

That manically pretends to be panacea for the cancer we are in reality

It's amateur theatre, and this amphitheater is a damn no deeper

Than the plan to keep up with the rising waters of the angry seas

I seen a scary scene and I was barely dreaming

Think a nightmare might merely mean

You should be warier where you sleep

Don't mean to panic people, but the clock's a notch from dodecahedron

And when midnight strikes, the insight might finally sink in the end is nigh

And by then the time is too spent for science to indemnify all the damage we done

Most would say they won't stand for it

But moreso display they can't stand to see it

So we manufactured a fantasy and sit on pampered asses- Bystander Effect

Bidin' (Biden) time we don't have for recess

By the time we get Sanders elected, man'll be dead

And everybody gonna Feel the Burn with no atmosphere left

And even if we had a president fit to lead

We led on believing in the White Saviorism

Saying 'Yeah, what he said'

America need a vanity check

No, I know it's not the people's fault that we fell so far

It's the Elite that call all the evil shots

But the people are all the people got

So what we cannot do is nothing

I don't have the answers or Sway to be frontin like I could solve it

I'm just starting a discussion

I can't speak for other individuals

I can only really speak for myself, so I can just tell you

I'm now a person that's resolved to get things done

I'm moving forward

Til we all take individual responsibility

We'll still be helpless to stop what we started

And then maybe if that happens

We shall be in a position to handle our technology with more sense

With love instead of with hate

For our environment