[Beat Tag: Poetics]

Ayo Poetics, bring the drums in

[Verse 1: Abstract]

Who got next, who got now? (Gimme that)

Long overdue for crew to snatch crown

How many W's has dude done passed down?

Heard a mile in his shoes could cruise through scorched ground

The nomad

Only an idea to some

A construct of whatever box they pull from (Yeah)

Small minds try to crucify my shine

But I'll rise quite fine when the third day come

Godly in a world of hobbyists and mediocrity

Population corn-fed, online chronically

Minds closed, eyes glazed, servin' up lobotomies

I can see the angle, never studiеd trigonometry

Newsflash, whole world been dupеd and hoodwinked

Said the water's fine the second they let the ship sink

Don't blink, might just miss the sleight of hand (Yeah)

Death's kiss grippin' ahold of our last chance

Last man standin', thoughts for the famished

NPCs took control of the campus

Diverge from the herd, wolves deal damage

Narrative controlled by the makers of the madness

[Chorus: Abstract]

Peace don't sell; love a rock in a storefront

Paint it all hate if the facts shake the world up

Decrease the friction between fact and fiction

'Til most can't decide on the goddamn difference

[Verse 2: Abstract]

Hypocrisies so heavy that the now and then debate themselves

Pardon me for pinchin' parodies when jokes have wrote themselves

We dippin' toes to neo-soul? Should bury fists in neocons

We need people speakin' up, and that's the type of tip we on?

Privilege got y'all livin' really different than the common soul

Heard they pass you riches if agreed, you'll ditch a moral code

Honestly, I'm not the least surprised that I ain't stackin' gold

Last I checked, it's worth a fair bit more to not have turned as cold

Jig is up, tradin' in my piety for fisticuffs

Wolves been pullin' wool, so let's unravel what they've made of us

Arrogant and traitorous, tell me who they cater to?

I've been lookin' 'round, I'm fairly certain it ain't me and you

I smell foreign interests in the propaganda on the news

I have heard the silencing, how is it not loud to you?

Ringin' in my ears until I must investigate the truth

Now I've been down some rabbit holes, Alice finally found a clue

[Break: Andrew Kolvet & Megyn Kelly]

They're processing their guilt in the way that...

Their grief

Their, their grief, err, their grief, thank you

And their, their mourning

In a way that they know how

Exactly

And it's gonna come out in a thousand different ways

[Chorus: Abstract]

Peace don't sell; love a rock in a storefront

Paint it all hate if the facts shake the world up

Decrease the friction between fact and fiction

'Til most can't decide on the goddamn difference

[Verse 3: Abstract]

Now in the quagmire with the Cheshire Cat

What's amiss when the Hatter's less mad than the map?

When the contours were laid by prestige, they can bail

'Cause control of the tracks means a choke on the trail

I refuse to assist, I won't drown in the lie

Lobbyists, liars, and blackmail, oh my!

But we just gettin' started, stay up and stay tuned

I feel a shift comin', rise up and start new