One Up by Araless

Verse 1:
People wanna act
Like they apart from the pack
Like they ain't part of the bunch
Ain't no shouting em back
No matter how hard you can punch
They're still loud and wack
And weirdly proud of that
You're allowed to do whatever
But I ain't down with that
We all one in the same
Why you running this game
Where you claim
That you so different than the other
Who put this one in your Gullible brain
Whatever God you pray to
Must hate you sullyin their name
You ain't superior
From your center
To your exterior
You ain't special for your genetic material
How you appear or your
Thoughts it's all barriers
You raise
To maintain
Misanthropic
Disdain
Or to protect
Profits ill-gotten
Gains
This universe is secretive
Everybody deserves a seat in it
Love takes work but there's perks in seeking it
We ain't perfect or peak
Just people equal in worth
Working inside a system we die or compete in it

Hook:
One Up
Everybody one Up
You tryna
One Up
Everybody one Up

Verse 2:
We all eat n shit
Fuck sleep and piss
Poor in a ditch
Or moraless rich
We die in this bitch
All the science you can acquire
Won't stymie the sitch
Your piety won't guide you
Out the wide river Styx
So why divide us up
As items we can buy or just pitch
Into a fire I'm so tired
Of these blind hypocrites
Hierarchies maintained by gun fire
And fists
Through the glass darkly
See escape from empires like this
Liars write myths
To get us to admire the system
Which then makes us pistons to fire and assist
Acceleration to the basement
In bottomless pits
As odd and as sick
We fighting to finally not exist
The problems worsen
longer we go workin to install these
Walls around our egos
feel a little more godly
Better than those peasants
Or even your peeps and colleagues
we all keepin busy
Tryna one up everybody

Hook

Outro:
Hey
Oowee
Aay
I'm seeing villains in the mirrors
Oowee
Aay
I'm seeing villains in the mirrors

• Hip-Hop/Rap
• acoustic
• alternative
• hip hop
• trip rock
• Seattle