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Venetian Hotels
02:20
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God bless...
Cobblestone roads stamped on by a stencil.
Wallpapers patterned to look like an antique texture void of history.
Gated dead ends close off the side streets,
It all leads back to shopping centers, touchscreen skies.
I’m terrified that we’re in denial - but we love the lie.
Gucci’s got a take on an original thought!
Almost feels like one. The Venetian Hotel:
Can’t get lost or find a way out.
Blue-dyed channels, Coliseum slots, gift shops…shopping sprees for the meaning of life.
People in a maze tryna sell me “Outside”.
It all leads back to shopping centers, touchscreen skies.
I’m terrified that we’re in denial - but we love the lie.
Gucci’s gonna take on my hometown.
Gotta take to life in the Venetian Hotel
It feeds back to the same intersection on repeat
Meet delusion in the middle,
Buy myself in a marketing scheme
Spreading thin, fleeting thrills
Hush the dread that I live in a snowglobe.
Lie. Lie, like I lie. I’m terrified that we love the lie.
If I squint real hard the truth lets go; the ceiling gives way, and I can see the sky.
Let me live a lie, Venetian Hotels.
Let me live a lie, Venetian Hotels.
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2. |
Moon Song
02:41
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I’m gonna blow up the fucking moon with the money I saved for a rainy day.
I know a guy who knows Kim Jung Un,
Will ya trade some nukes for a Model 3?
I’m gonna blow up the fucking moon cuz feeding the poor can’t compensate.
My rocket’s so inadequate since Jeff and Dick both got to space.
What’s a jaded mogul to do?
I’m gonna blow up the fucking moon.
What’s an aging mortal to do?
I’m gonna blow up the fucking moon.
I got the idea from Tom Cruise when my cock went flat at Epstein’s place.
Inspired by his center-tooth, sometimes there’s just no saving face.
To have the drive of Zuckerberg…so full of cum and corrupting states.
While Myanmar feels the wrath of Mark, Grimes tells me my hair looks fake.
What’s a jaded mogul to do?
I’m gonna blow up the fucking moon.
What’s an aging mortal to do?
I’m gonna blow up the fucking moon.
Sinners.
Sinners in the hands of an angry god.
God…God of the new world.
God of the new world! (Sinners in the hands of - )
(- Elon).
What’s a jaded billionaire psychopath mogul to do?
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3. |
Billy Shitkick
02:03
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Billy Shitkick runs the town paper,
The only damn writer and a Facebook moderator on the city’s group page.
The boomers love ya, man!
How else they gonna learn the shit you read on 4chan?
It’s a neo-fash singalong:
Guns for the white kids.
But a black protagonist?
That’s much too dangerous!
Billy Shitkick’s gonna ban C.R.T.
Not like it’s a gun in the land of the free.
Unaware last piece of a propaganda line,
call your neighbors sheep while you speak in fed-lines,
Like a neo-fash singalong:
Guns for the white kids.
But a black protagonist?
That’s much too dangerous!
Billy Shitkick’s gonna ban C.R.T,
Nevermind the fact he don’t know what that means. Yeah,
Billy Shitkick’s gonna ban C.R.T!
Nevermind the fact he don’t know what that means.
(And the liberals call it a “backlash”?)
This is the status quo.
This is the status quo.
I wish this was the backlash.
A neo-fash singalong:
Guns for the white kids.
But a black protagonist?
That’s much too dangerous!
Guns for the white kids - this is the status quo.
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4. |
Man Up / Down
03:17
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I looked up to my cousin.
He beat me with a shovel and passed a bit of wisdom:
Stop being such a girl.
My best friend stopped talking to me in the sixth grade
Cuz I told him that I loved him.
Does that really make me gay?
Drawin’ your class with a gun to their head?
Wontcha save that love for your wife instead?
A man is a man that a man’s gotta reach for.
What happens to a man when he ain’t what he reached for?
A man is a man that a man’s gotta reach for,
Led by the blind toward impossible goals.
Picked a fight at lunch, slashed the neighbors tires,
Didn’t have an answer when my parents asked me “why?”
Went and found a teacher that would steer me straight,
it worked out great til his students got raped.
Another role model put his wife in a stretcher,
another predator safe-space of a concert,
another relative became a cop…
He used to have a klan member painted on his truck.
Drawin’ your class with a gun to their head?
Save that love for your wife instead.
A man is a man that a man’s gotta reach for.
What happens to a man when he ain’t what he reached for?
A man is a man that a man’s gotta reach for,
led by the blind toward impossible goals.
Counselor said he found my planner; drawing my class with a gun to their heads.
The counselor said…(guns to their heads).
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5. |
Paper Tigers
01:54
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I was the center of a carousel,
I was immune to the circumstance.
I felt the high of a sugar pill:
Styrofoam plates with American flags.
If difference isn’t danger, familiar isn’t safe.
What is going home to a place that’s been debased?
I’m debased, debased...
There’s no going home.
Aging pages, thinning people.
Chance free-will, molded motivations.
Conditioning that is standing on a crumbling foundation,
Stories telling people,
Stories telling people.
If difference isn’t danger, familiar isn’t safe.
What is going home to a place that’s been debased?
I’m debased, debased...
There’s no going home.
I hate me the sound of liars.
I hate me the paper tigers.
I hate the desperate cling of cowards passed down like religion,
Their stories whispered in my ear at night.
Blurry stripes - it’s overwhelming.
Let me live a lie…familiar isn’t safe.
No going home.
I hate this place.
I am this place.
There’s no going home.
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