Released on April 15, 2020

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[Chorus]

Talk like I’m Phineas Gage

With a stake through the front of my brain

Page turner, but still got more than a little ways

Bitter taste

Bit off more than I could chew

Ginger for the palette, creature of sheer habit

Smoke till I can’t avoid I’m an asthmatic

Always like I’m fighting the damage with more damage

On average I’m just picking my battles

Which is worse?


[Verse]

So much for fear and loathing in Las Vegas

And when I say this, don’t mean to come off as a sadist

But face it, suffering led me to creating

Though pain make me keep blazing

Leave a trail of ash whenever I’m cremating

Tryna pave my way to that C.R.E.A.M. making

Fuck pork, I don’t eat bacon

6 feet from anybody affiliated

With making sure that we ain’t a free nation

Reawaken from the nightmare, Wes Craven

They been setting up camps like Jason

Sick fuckers seeking power since the freemasons

Couldn’t count the number graves need urination

You turn 18 and get to sign away your freedom

To a corporation free of payment

Dream of what it mean to be a free agent

Age of information but still need my written statement

Yet too many helping make a databases of faces

Like why the hell would they want me under surveillance?

Already don’t take much to listen in

Hard to unify if you can’t have a conversation

Though I know I’m prolly preaching to the congregation

Too many still scoff at the implication

When every institution infiltrated since day one

Not hard to see the power of intimidation

Handing out brain damage from the top down

What kinda fruit growing out of stolen ground?

Mining the minds of the youth

With no mention of the truth anywhere to be found

Then throw em in a cage when they fuck up

Generations raised on tough love

Ain’t allowed to show the pain, let it bubble up

Then wonder why it turn rage when the trouble come

Blame all the troublesome

Now you in trouble, son

Mental doing double dutch

Men turned cold in the summer sun

And instead of finding how to get a tunnel dug

Putting up a buffer to the heart

All the while while it’s beating can’t muffle the drum

Only make it harder to recover from

More than stubbornness

Hard to huddle when you got a muzzle on what’s coming up

No escape than to face what you done

No matter what shaped, every part make the sum

Futile tryna cover up

Know firsthand only so long that it’s easier to run

Tougher than the fuckers showing muscle

Are the ones who taking aim at what’s under them

Better to shudder than to just keep suffering from

The same fit every day you been buttoning up

Gon be running amuck until you had enough


[Chorus]

Talk like I’m Phineas Gage

With a stake through the front of my brain

Page turner, but still got more than a little ways

Bitter taste

Bit off more than I could chew

Ginger for the palette, creature of sheer habit

Smoke till I can’t avoid i’m an asthmatic

Always like I’m fighting the damage with more damage

On average I'm just tryna pick battles