Drown from 2020 Vision by Sir Andrew the Bard + Jeffo
Tracklist
| 4. | Drown | 3:38 |
Lyrics
VERSE 1
The heaviness settles somewhere deep down
Don’t even need rocks in your pockets to drown
These days are a haze of nonsense and crazed
Insane motherfuckers pushing people around
I want to fight it, but I’m so tired
This nation got jacked up and hot wired
By forefathers who sired the myth of American greatness
They shoulda retired
But here we are
When it’s all said and done
We ain’t get that far
When it’s all said and done
We shoulda been disbarred
A country on its knees being led by Jafar
So what now?
What’s the price of a life
When compared to the Dow?
What’s the price of a life
If it was thou?
Something’s gotta give
Somewhere, somehow
But it’s all about that gold, gold, gold
Spend your money quick, man
Go, go, go
Everyone wondering how we got so low
An empire’s fall is such a sight to behold
So predictable, yet so profound
Shot ourselves in the foot, round after round
As the heaviness settles somewhere deep down
Don’t even need rocks in your pockets to drown
VERSE 2
“Everybody’s welcome in the Land of the Free”
Is the greatest lie ever told indeed
This country was conceived
For and by a bunch a dudes who look just like me
And this is true no matter what you believe
A nation heisted by a bunch of thieves
Who believed in themselves and not much else
It’s staggering how much there is to grieve
And look at us today
Barely anything has changed
If anything our bigotry is more on display
For all to see
Like we’re proud of it
Wrap ourselves up in confederate
Flags like teflon with guns on each and every hip
Spitting hateful rhetoric that’s bigger than Everest
To rid us of our hatred you’d need a fucking exoricist
Goddamn
How do you reason with madness?
Coming at you from every direction in the vastness
Of this planet spinning on its axis
I don’t know what the answer is
But I hope that we find it soon
Otherwise we are surely doomed
Every country and every town
As the heaviness settles somewhere deep down
Don’t even need rocks in your pockets to drown
VERSE 3
Fuck rocks, don’t even need water
Another black body gets added to the slaughter
I think it’s time we ate pig knees for dinner (fuck the police)
And reeducated our sons and daughters
And everyone not on the binary
Need to fix what’s been done by Karen, Brett & Carrie
They all thought they down, but damn, y’all should be wary
Cuz your feet and your mouth be so contrary
and the cognitive dissonance that y’all flaunt is scary
realize that this tale is cautionary
And I’m fairly certain that you think you got it
But at the end of the day
Those are only rocks in your pockets
Just like the rest of us
You thought you were the best of us
But truth is something tested us
And we failed
