Aoe

You see, see, these, these kids, these young adults, they, they're asleep right now
They don't, they don't understand the world around them
They aren't enlightened, they are brainwashed
We live in a world of imagination, in a world of fairy tale

Black lives matter
Black lives matter
Black lives matter
Black lives matter
Black lives matter
Black lives matter
Black lives matter
Black lives matter

Where do we go from here?
How do we know where "here" is?
And do you actually care?
On the other side of the mirror
I know just who you are
I know who you are
I think you're scared of the outside
Scared of just lettin go
Scared of what people may think of you when you finally know
Scared on the inside
Scared of the fuckin truth
Scared that you're actually wrong
Scared of becoming you
Torn between the two, knowledge or just believe
While we're fighting the real battle, you're blindfolded on your knees
Praying to some figure that the fuckin Romans gave you
But you think that this Constantine bout to really save you?
Nah, nah, you need to open yo eyes
And see through all of disguises
But, but, but, you just don't recognize
It's just cognitive dissonance
I guess ignorance is just bliss
We're living in the

Age of Enlightenment
Age of Enlightenment

I'm gonna be honest witchu, I'm kinda depressed
My hands are fucking shaking while I'm writing this mess
This is the longest issue we been fighting to address
No more hiding from death through your prayers and the lies in ya head
Yo, they murdered George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery
We hold the burden 400 years of chaotic odyssey
I feel like Detroit Red and the King
I want peace, but I wanna destroy everything
I have a dream, what? You thought it wasn't a nightmare?
The Karens are screaming, our people are bleeding
Statistically speaking you're saying it's quite fair?
Where? Where the fuck have you been?
Where were you when the coast guard made fun of us for the color of our skin?
I was only a child when this happened to me
I was just a fucking child when this happened to me
I was just child when racism made me believe
That the difference between you and me is that I'm hated to breathe
We in the

Age of Enlightenment
Age of Enlightenment

I'm not here to uplift your emotions
I'm here to just challenge your intellect
I'm not here to give you some closure
I'm here to just balance your mental checks
I'm not here to tell you go poppin some Mollies or Percocets
And act like a circus act
I'm here to remind you that
Beautiful started with black
And just know that we all part of that
And that doesn't invalidate others
To all of my sisters and brothers
You gotta stand up, gotta stand up
Nigga we gotta stop killin each other
Fuck
But on another note
You can't tell a nigga in the hood not to believe in God
When they dealing with all this pain and that's their only way to defeat the odds

Yo, stop! Listen to me! We gotta do better man
These mothafuckas been killing us forever
We gotta be better men
For our children, for our women, we gotta stand up for them
We gotta be better parents, we gotta be better friends
I'm trying to be a better person for those I love
In the worst weather, I'm the umbrella for those I hug
My resolve? Unshakable I'll never budge
I'm just waiting for you to show up
We living in the

Age of Enlightenment
Age of Enlightenment