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humbled numbskullz

from Can't Wait 4 The 80's To Be Over Again by Tread

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cooking the numbers inside of my humbled numb-skull of a head,

so far ahead of the rest, stuck on red at the intersection's bend,

waiting for the gas light to light up and gas-light my sense of modernity,

which excludes the possibility we'll burst into eternity,

like it's a New Age tutelage worthy of nothing more than reductive rage,

as if from an old book on an old page and the written word can't turn itself over,

so opaque in its acceptance of this friendly takeover, like a brainwashed slave trying

to behave for his owner as he replaces the printer's emptied ink toner,

empty so the soul can come and learn to start Bowling for Columbine,

sans any dopamine dressed in dollar signs and earned in excess thru

signing on the dotted line, shit, you so rich you can afford a concubine,

basically a slave wrapped in dollar chains as you sip on marsala wine and chant,

"bitch, you better dance, and god help you if ya can't cus that's what I paid for,

and if it's what I paid for, it must be what you're made for," from your superficial

skin tone straight down to your claimed core, must the master really say more

or implore the world for a change of face just to change the pace and phase the body from

the mind into a maze, where the cave ain't big enough for either of us tigers,

so we fight til we survivors dangling alone among the wires,

if there's escape from this sad sorrow it'll make me a better writer,

say with time it'll make my rhymes a lot tighter with less purged exertion required

on the part of my inner fire (x2)

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from Can't Wait 4 The 80's To Be Over Again, released January 26, 2019
Instrumental: "Angels" prod. by J Roes.

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