Jaze Matteo - Joy and Resistance (feat. Tommy Yoder)

All I see are freak shows and circus acts
The kinds of motherfuckers who step on cracks
Intact is how they found it
In pieces is how they'll leave it
Playing fetch with our lives
With not dog to retrieve it
Sinking
Teeth in
When they do come
Instructions to spill red rum
Who will be spared
Noone
Unless you have a trust fund
How am i supposed to give a fuck about DOW JONES
When thousands in my city don't even have homes
Science won't
And god won't help you
To figure out what kind of trap door you fell through
You can't believe blindly in either
Cus at the top of every game lies thieves and liars

Maybe you'd know
Why the kids aren't gonna be alright
If you didn't fall asleep to the TV at night
Maybe your optimism wouldn't be so hot
If you actually had to confront your thought

And these same harbingers of depravity
Have the gall
To call out our morality
Hey Mr. senator, come up off of it
I'm not the one reeling in the profit
I Didn't send noah down the river
In order to get a bigger pie sliver
I'm not the one that took the atmosphere and put more sut in
Just to increase my home's square footage
POint your fucking finger at all these teens
As if for fifty years we've been shaping all the policy
As if for fifty years we fucked our own future
Well for fifty more, I'll give you two words: Fuck you
In that sequence
Before our stories were conceived
You already wrote the end
In America, we believe in self determination
Except when it comes the succeeding generation

In the face of all this shit
Both protest and joy are acts of resistance

Written by:
Jaze Wharton

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