Trying to ditch this inhibited limited mindset
Before I end up an invalid beset by regret
Not yet still seconds on the shot clock left
So I attempt to step deftly every test that I get
Architecture of aggression progressively gets blessed
While investment men pick the best tenants to divest
Just so you notice before you head west
Young man that the plan is to demand what is best

For the fam when the lambs get led to the slaughter
The children get thoughts plopped in their noggin from their father
Gotta prop against the bother for all your sons and daughters
Before they get dropped into the hopper as the fodder
We oughtta be ashamed of the way we go on
Drawn into conflicts far too long
From the dawn of existence it’s been the winners that are fittest
We’ve witnessed enough kids getting murdered we’re scared shitless

Fitness of our out of touch officials called to doubt
Pissing away the clout that being wishful’s all about
While the scouts report back that the enemy is advancing
Generals caught glancing at the suits from financing
The boil needs lancing cuz chances are the pus
Will start running for office cuz it’s always been thus
Fuck us for believing that these hucksters could be trusted
To govern without adjusting where their nut gets busted

Just dusted for prints at the scene of the crime
Found out they’re diddling youngsters on the public’s trusted dime
Can’t rhyme enough words to make it all matter
Flushing down the turds before our asses get splattered
They shattered all our modestly middle class dreams
Fillin money bags already bursting at the seams
Rated R foul language and totally adult themes
Can’t see why the team isn’t always what it seems

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I’m unnaturally passive as the massive star burns
Come to terms being worms churning Earth as it turns
My aggression is a lesson I can never seem to learn
So I yearn to give the bird the indigestion that he earns
When he slurps up my squirmy wormy body from the dirt
And handed my abandoned annelid family such hurt
I spurt these words urgently as if they’ll save my spirit
This hungry fucking bird’s the only one who’ll ever hear it

The time of my digestion draws nearer I can feel it
Too weak against the beak so I speak my spell to seal it
‘I may be just a worm churning earth since birth
But the method of my death does not determine my worth’
My energy gets consumed and reused by Mother Nature
No man fully understands the celestial nomenclature
Legislature passes laws to protect us from the birds
But what do winged warriors care for worms’ words?

I firmly believe that no matter what the scale
Of consciousness on a ranking from plankton up to whale
There’s value to be derived from every life’s tale
It’s not a test that we can take make or break pass or fail
While we wail our tragic songs upward out in to the heavens
Harvested the wheat now we wait for the bread to leaven
Six or seven times now I believed I’ve seen the light
Like a candle burning bright in the deep dark night

What a sight getting a glimpse of a galactic perspective
Makes everything we experience here on Earth subjective
Can’t follow when you can’t find the prime directive
So try and fill the time on your schedule with electives
Defective to the core and still perfect all the same
Tiny pieces of a puzzle in an infinite game
Reciting trite rites in a desperate grasp for fame
Tryin’ in vain to explain why you’ll remember my name