The Devil's Playground

Verse 1:
Should I challenge the system, with truth, balance and wisdom
Or laugh at the fact we stack ballots but lack vision
Should I pass criticism on the foulness we live in
All the violent condition, all the talent imprisoned
Not malice conviction, I just know what I see
I see addiction, racism, destruction, disease
Somehow powers that be say to trust that we're free (please)
Injustice anywheres a threat to all justice and peace
Back against the wall, constricted, restricted, and barred
make people feel insignificant, depicting their flaws
till they accept oppression, and resist who they are
only redemption thru narrow-minded descriptions of god
Want you to give up ya smarts, for that flash and shine
Capitalistic masterminds with that crafty design
Hope to subdue you to servitude, and capture minds
Can't just stand idly bye, gotta take back our pride

Hook x 2:
We Gotta Stand Up, We Gotta Take Life Back
Get Mad, Take A Stand, Not Get Played Like That
We Gotta Stand Up, Take Back Our Life's Design
Speak up and Reach Out, Not Sit Idly Bye

Verse 2:
Better fight for betterment, better yet, fight for power
Gotta get mad, stand up for ourself, the right is ours
Many hands malight work, lets unite then devour
Strike outward, make a change, demand life be empowered
We need to request changes, working more at less wages
While corporations , take home checks are outrages
Overworked underpaid, hope one day we get to make it
But they've stacked the deck to offset and then enslave us
Give us just enough to shut up, not enough to matter
Disillusion you with politics, keep ya sucking up the data
That the media feed to ya, to keep ya fucking scatter
Divide us over nonsense, and send justice backward
Prevent us from gathering, our main strength in numbers
Pumping us full of drugs, make bank off our blunders
There no profit in confidence, only anguish and slumber
So they rather see us sleeping, famished or hungered

Hook x 2

Verse 3:
They prefer to keep you down, physically, emotionally
We shouldn't fear government, they should fear us socially
Cause we hold all the power, but we're quick to give it up
Consumerism, we're imprisoned by religion and drugs
They'll say I'm a problem drinker, and conspiracy theorist
I'll say I'm a conscious thinker, and I'm lyrically fearless
The face of a revolution mirrored in my lyrics
We shouldn't condemn our poor we need to revere their spirits
Quote how Ghandi said it, a nations greatness measured,
how it treats its weakest members, so I speak on these endeavors
We the people need to question, and challenge authority
Refute social control, and balance the anarchy
not let oligopolies, start telling me how to think
So I fight the propaganda they sell me on the screen
We need to think critically, rebel against the same sounds
Break it down idle minds are the devils play ground