Message from 2022 - Intellectual

Hey me, it's future you calling from 2022

Life is pretty cool, our dreams are generally coming true

Making many moves, penning many grooves, found a baddie boo

But I'm getting ahead of myself and I don't wanna spoil too much for you, so, anywho...

I'm dropping you this line through space and through time

And I wanna calm your mind and let you know that it's all gonna be fine

'Cause I know, for you in your now, some things aren't the best

Mostly lonely nights, inner fights, anxiety and stress, but I digress...

Spoiler alert:

COVID ain't the main infection;

It's fear and apprehension fed by political misdirection

Diverting people's attention away from societal reinvention

And the only correction is intervention through art and human connection, so...

Don't let corona ever get in the way of your daily yoga

Just stay in the zone and out of the way of your own and own it

Just play and ignore the haters, stay motivated and flaunt it

I swear that your future bae is around the corner

She's on a similar road of her own because that's the way it go don't it

You're on a collision course, so just look around and enjoy it

Because I wish I would have savored it more

But that ain't even the main reason that I'm paging you for

But before I launch right into that, there's a lot to unpack that you might wanna write down

Through weeks of bleak quarantine, weak, people's egos finally pipe down

As they breathed deeply, and cooked good food to eat, and savored sights, sounds, and the "right now"

Which indeed for Earth's rebirth was rather ripe ground

But alas we humans do not learn our lessons when we first should

When life resumed, we soon returned to acts against the earth's good

Emissions of carbon like burning and harvesting earth's lungs for our hearths' wood

Despite all the memes, died all of the dreams we had when still the earth stood

How messed up is it our citizens are conditioned

To listen to politicians’ opinions instead of statisticians?

And so I’m giving you a mission the gist of which is

Get the people’s attention then enlist them in them in the expedition

You must be thinking "man, I'm just a musician" but, trust me, that us be them ones who need step up and press on the ignition and dress up aesthetically the critical thinking necessary to wrestle the complexity of society sinking

And if we can balance it with hope, make it dope, make it slap

Make 'em clap, then we’ll maximally reduce the friction

Because cynicism isn't an indication of wisdom but rather calcification of one’s imagination and our nation displaces saneness with endless waves of sensation and streams of cheap entertainment that are over-saturated, but rarely nourishing

So how can we expect the children to flourish when we keep feeding them buzz and all but encourage it?

But what if instead we led with love?

And fed 'em evidence, and built up trust?

This epidemic, it could be enough to progress in the sense we collectively address our messy actions and fess up and aggressively execute on the best recipes for cleaning up

'Cause WE ARE COVID

Humanity is nature's corona

Deep down we know this

Now it's time that we face it and own up and demand our leaders be grown-ups who act with reason and total social cohesion and both locally and globally show love

And blow up, the pre-existing system, construct it from the floor-up, this time with what was missing

Possibly one in which a wealthy economy is synonymous with a healthy ecology, not just acknowledging science, but honoring it

We trust scientists with technology and virology

So, why not, perhaps, with the fact of the collapse of the environment?

I promise you’re not the only one who's tired of this

We just gotta find 'em and inspire them

To rebuild

To make art

To spread hope

To support those who do

To teach those who will

To counteract the loudest, most hateful voices by speaking up

And to consistently show up for humanity, for nature, and for all life, everywhere

Because I can tell you, if you don’t step up, not enough of us will

So, don’t let corona ever get in the way of your daily yoga