A Wake

They say thirty is the new twenty
And twenty is the new thirty should I guess?
Makes sense, cause fifteen year olds seem twenty
And twenty five year olds seem ten.

I used to drink away my paycheck
Celebrate the mistakes I hadn’t made yet.
Our generation isn’t the best on safe sex
We forget the latex, and become a Planned Parenthood patient.

Synthetic heroin is the new basshead,
So much to escape, forget a straight edge.
Walk around looking through a fake lens
Apps this good, whose got time to make friends?

I wish I didn’t care,
Acynical hispters with long hair
Cocaine problems, like my music
It’s not my issue, I can’t solve it.

My flight has finally landed down,
And the ground has stopped moving all around.
Eyes open, awake for the very first time
We both forfeit this game of crime.

They say it’s so refreshing to hear somebody on records
No guns, no drugs, no sex, just truth.
The guns, that’s America, the drugs are what they gave to us
And sex sells itself, don’t judge until it’s you.

I’m not more or less cautious than
The rappers rapping about strippers up on the pole, popping it.
These interviews are obnoxious
Saying that it’s poetry it’s so well spoken, stop it.

I grew up during Reaganomics
When Ice T was out there on his killing cops shit.
& when Rodney King was getting beat on
And they let off every single officer
And Los Angeles went and lost it.

Now every month there is a new Rodney on Youtube,
It’s just something our generation is used to.
And neighbourhoods where you never see a news crew
Unless they’re gentrifying, white people don’t even cruise through.

And my subconcious telling me stop it
This is an issue that you shouldn’t get involved in.
Don’t even tweet, R.I.P Trayvon Martin
Don’t wanna be that white dude, million man marching.

Fighting for our freedom that my people stole,
Don’t wanna make all my white fans uncomfortable.
But you don’t even have a fucking song for radio,
Why you out here talking race, trying to save the fucking globe.

Don’t get involved if the cause ain’t mine?
White privilege, white guilt, at the same damn time.
So we just party like it’s nineteen ninty nine
Celebrate the ignorance while these kids keep dying.