[Verse 1]
A lot of foul shit’s happening
In the world today
You blink and miss a massacre
Try to act, it’s too late
For some, their story’s over
Book's closed, and put away
For others just
Makin’ it through the day’s
The day-to-day
It could be poverty
Or somethin’ you can’t see
Keepin ‘em down, brave-faced
Facing the world
Takes more muscles to frown
Than to smile, but sometimes
Yo, life takes work
One day, you’re doing the hurting
The next day, you’re getting hurt
External pressures, internal stressors
Making you lose track
Of what’s important
And what’s not, difficult to bounce back
When you’ve been let down
Easy or hard, don’t matter
Illusions got me disillusioned
Am I, sadder, or madder?
That world’s not the place that maybe I
Thought it was
Guess all I can really do is be there
For the people I love
But I need that love back
In this world, it's so whack
When “Good News” just means
“No Bad News,”
We gotta get back on track...

[Hook]
Sometimes the truth hurts
Even though it might set you free
Or get you locked up, locked down
Physically or mentally, you gotta be
Ready for the pain, before the gain
Sometimes the truth hurts
When it swings back your way… (X2)

[Verse 2]
Man it’s hard to just be
Never mind, be positive
When it seems like everybody’s straight
Tryna tell us how to live
They tell us not to hate, unless
Directed at this or that
As long as it helps the bottom line
Helps us get our enemies back
And then regimes change
Enemies and allegiances shift
Then it happens over and over
Til there’s no making sense of it
Blood on everybody’s hands
Yo, pass the sanitizer
Man I’m, prayin’ for knowledge
But we’re getting no wiser
As a people, gotta fight hard
Against the fake facts
Ask questions, stay curious
WATCH YOUR BACK!
It’s all, schemes and scams
Try to, not take, the phisher’s bait
Everybody’s tryna get you for your money
So don’t, fall for the fake
It’s wolves in sheep’s clothing everywhere
Tryna take you off the trail
The noise is louder than the signal
But no one’s too big to fail
We’ve got to stay headstrong
Because, we’re not here for long
So don’t let a bad note
Ruin your whole damn song…

[Hook]

[Verse 3]
I sit back
Get a little buzzed on a couple levels
Feels like, it’s all I can do
To keep my mind on the level
Sorta settled, I guess, I mean
Kinda like a little; our society’s
Got me feeling doped up
Numb, brittle
It's like: violence and corruption
And corruption and violence
Misdirection, misinformation
Interference for your silence
Anonymous sources
Are claiming a bit of this
Some of that; meanwhile
Reps for the accused
Have no, comments to add…
Now they’re talking bout allegations
They’ve been sitting on, waiting
Tryna distract us enough
That they can pay away court dates
And get back to
Working-between-the-rules
They’re meant for us anyway
Got us lookin’ left
Smack us with the right
That’s how it goes today…
I guess all’s fair in love and war
And the pursuit of money
Unless you’re part of the 99 percent
Then it’s not funny
They take from the “Doing Okay,”
To better the rich
Ignore the poor
Can’t they just rely
On their fellow citizens more?
It’s time to stand up
To the few that’s in power
And demand some truth, now
Cuz the time is ours!

[Hook]