Loyalty in Loneliness
Sankofa
So stuck on a side we can’t see what our team does
Rose colored blinders with the sign that we need us
Anything squad does is perfectly fine
And don’t you dare question faith with a person in line
Don’t you understand what people think they become
Skin growing thinner as we’re drinking the punch
So don’t ask, just wink and succumb
Take the truck to the bank for the brink of the month
Rolling out the carpet with a twinkle it comes
questions only chain us with a link to the glum
Stressing all the vagueness that we seek to escape
Speaking code to each other like the secret is safe
Never listen when arises an allegiance to state
So bear in mind the people meeting are not needing to wait
They got you in a pigeonhole and that is where you’re gonna stay
They’d rather plug their ears, grab a gun or even runaway
Menace smile curved from the cheshire’s grin
Feather in the claws and the rest climb in
Finding leverage of loyalty in loneliness
The price of belonging, times is changing so we sit
World keeps spinning and we try to be still
Backed into a corner where it’s fight or be killed
And the victims of it all are the ones who we scapegoat
Put them out pasture where the grasses of blades grow
Looking at them bleeding on the Massacre graves so
Conscience cleaner than a Pontius on immaculate ways home
A brush made of judgment painted them so well
That some bristle at the mere suggestion that we know hell
That’s something for the other folks to burn inside of
Never us, the true believers who occurred it might have
The golden rule diamonds, rubies, and a certain Midas
Lock and load embraced, wasted may the Purge unite us
Cause I got more raps than Obama drone strikes
Fool me once but then I voted for him twice
Had an XT deck, Caballero Bonite
And even Stevie Cab went found his own Christ
Everyone got find a thing that they believe in
For some people, that has got to be the whole reason
I wander on with wondering and follow my conscience
See what’s happening around me then I’m falling despondent
Wishing I would do more, but only doing so much
To the point I need to step away before I go nuts
I recognize my limits, and try to do my best with it
But plenty times I can find renewed the pessimist
And what does that do but get me feeling stuck
Then I remember that the remedy is us
So I’m penning penance to beats in the song for us all
Running after walking only walking after crawl
After all
