Just Dream

I think

Therefore I am?

Hmm

I think
Too much
Therefore I am
Often depressed
Cuz my mind is so free
But my soul is so stressed

Try'n'a survive
In a sick
Society
Without becoming a vic-
-tim
To anxiety
And a host of other mental symp-
-toms
That stay tryin' me

Tying me to the ground
While I'm dying to fly
Feels like I'm dying inside
I really think that I
Need another change of pace
Something dif-fer-ent
To shake things up
When life be deliverin'
Slaps to the face
As if to break things up
Deep inside my mental space
Where files are corrupt
And misplaced
What the fuck

I duck
Then tuck and roll
Away
In a controlled
Manner
To survive another day
Fighting under another soul's banner
Working to make THEIR dreams a reality
While ignoring the screams of agony
All around me, practically

From people being crushed to death
By the gravity
Of progress
Sustained by a corrupted process
Where corporate personhood
Hordes all the freedoms
And we've only got what's left
But it ain't enough

And don't blame it on the right or the left
Cuz they all got ill-ionaires
Who ain't ready to take the steps
That prove they really care
So i sentence them all to death
They. should. be. really scared

I tared the scale then set out to make it even
But the weight of the world
Under their schemin'
Was heavier than i could believe in
So i deeply breathed in
Then i heaved 'n'
Hoed as one does
Even-toed
While i tried to support my load
But the ground was slick
From all the bullshit
Rainin down from satellites in the sky
Threatening to short-circuit our brains
Try'n to convince us to close our eyes
And ears, and mind
And don't mind the years spent stumblin' blindly
You'll finally
Make it one day
Sure as the sun shines, see
You just gotta be
Optimistic
Despite the unrealistic
Prospects you've been gifted
Just dream for a minute

Just dream for a minute

Just dream
And if you awake to screams
Then just suspend
Your disbelief and pretend
Like TV
That it's all PG
And eventually you'll see
What they want you
To, until it's too late
And that thing that haunts you
Is your misguided fate
But wait

There's always other options
So don't stop shoppin
Around
Just yet
Don't forget to take stock when
Making your decisions
Gotta account for all the variables with precision
If you want to multiply our resistance to the division
That they making their mission
Cuz one-on-one-on-one-on-one's
Better than one-on-three
Yeah, cuz you and them, and me
Could grab our victory
So easily
But we stay in our bubbles
Trapped for all to see
Tapped out and tiredly
Tryna be
Like the ones at the top
But the irony
Is, it was designed for us to flop
Then place blame on each other
Hold an entire generation responsible for the past
But knowing most of us today don't have any kinda grasp
To steer the course
Of this trash dumpster fire
Will alone won't allow you a way to retire
Cuz in capitalism cash always trumps desire
And the more you get, the less it's worth
That ain't inflation
That's just a way to exponentially expand the rate in
Which they make their cake
Which is always faster than you and I
Can catch a break
So they stay screwin' i
And you

So what you plan to do?