"1C4RU5" (icarus; "Too Close To The Sun")
Verse 1:
"Stand up for the flag," they say
"All lives matter more," insead
"How dare you protest here?!"
"Go back to your country!"
"You people should be shot" they say
Another tone-deaf ear
Verse 2:
"Playing stupid games," they say
"Winning stupid prizes,"
"Those Blacks deserve to die"
"Very fine people on both sides"
Will call us "thugs" while planting drugs
Blindly insisting we "should just comply"
Pre-Chorus:
Your anger; it masks the pain from the racism around you
Chorus:
Icarus, you're flying too close to the sun
You have just been trying to balance work with fun
If you keep on buying the lies they feed to some
Then you will end up dying like every other one
Verse 3:
"Things have gone too far," they say
"You should be like MLK"
As they ignore you again
"One man can change the world," they say
While soaking you with pepper spray
And kneeling on your neck
[Pre-Chorus + Chorus]
Bridge:
They make the decisions to fill PROFIT PRISONS
With modern-day slaves for the labor they loot
And then they ignore their own power and privilege
Like swine trampling pearls of equality too
They weaponize phone calls to klansmen with badges
Enforcing supremacy's false legacy
They loot other cultures then burn them to ashes
By rewriting crimes of their own history
[Chorus / END]
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icarus.EARTH.eth
TyronePost.eth
P.S. Less than 160 years ago (less than TWO healthy
lifetimes ago), it was tolerated and highly profitable
to own PEOPLE as property in the United States of America,
and we have a complicated history as a result of
those evils. We have had tremendous progress in a short
amount of time, but equality continues to elude us
because of how emotionally disconnected we allow
superficial connections to make us.
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