Spare Thoughts from Spare Thoughts by Tom Swifty & Tha TruthTella

I put my thoughts onto paper or wax for you to read or hear 
I wanna staple these tracks to ya forehead till you heed me clear 
A politician's main and only goal is just to feed the fear 
While evangelists brainwash you in order to keep you near 
Now which one of these is a test of ya faith in Jesus 
And which one is merely just babblings from a heathen 
Or perhaps this world's suffering a lapse in reason 
And soon songs like this one might be considered treason 
There's a season for everything, or so they like to tell you 
Or at least there'll always be one for bullshit they wanna sell you 
They can smell you for miles if you're a sucker, so I delve through 
The mysteries of history, nearly drove myself to Bellevue 
Couldn't believe the inhumanity of which we're all capable 
No matter who you are, your inherent insanity's inescapable 
It's debatable whether I'll ever really be paid in full 
So I stay on the daily grind to feed my mind, it's insatiable! 
I rock mics in battles, bars, nightclubs, and in colleges 
I'll fuck up your shit like a Tourette's-ridden scatologist 
Let's abolish this wack nonsense from our acknowledgement 
Sucker, duck down if you don't wanna get hit with all this spit! 
I'm bombin it, dominant like the U.S. military 
They say it's to protect our people, but still, it's scary 
Cuz I don't believe in "our people" or "their people," I'm wary 
Of anyone with a gun in one hand and the Virgin Mary 
In the other, it's crazy, I say, please, peep this, brother: 
We keep on preaching freedom while conceding, peace we smother 
The army be recruitin poor kids under deepest cover, 
Which paves the way to a day of grief for another sleepless mother 
I don't believe that God ain't there, I just don't believe in prayer, 
And I would be naive to believe that life will always be fair 
On the eve of your destruction, count the few who really care, 
And among the three, count me as one of the ones who is aware 
I stay sharper than a razor blade refined a thousand times 
But I don't need to tell you that, man, just listen to these mounting rhymes 
Count the times I slip up when you hear me spouting lines 
And you'll see that it ain't many, as I constantly reroute my mind 
Devoutly time every single message that I give you 
Ask a lot of questions, answers come from what I live through 
Continue to filter out the nonsense like a sieve (true!) 
And got something to say about nearly every issue 
I wish you could see what I see, but where would that leave us? 
Without different opinions, the conformity would be grievous 
Assimilation doesn't work, society can't achieve this 
Peace and unity we preach without discarding the needless 
For those who don't know, I mean politicians who control 
Nearly every aspect of your life without getting ya say-so 
Take no prisoners, don't be afraid to explode 
In the face of all these fakes who wanna make you haul the next load 
Of bloody bodies murdered in the fight to get they life back 
So many strong black men weakened or dead from smoking white crack 
Like throwin rocks at caged people and claiming that they like that, 
We invade, take all the resources, and say, "Hey, we'll be right back!" 
First in words like "aardvark," shifty like a card shark, 
I be forsakin emcees, leave em quaking in they Carhartts 
Got to crawl, then walk, before you learn to make a car start, 
But learning to live without oil, that's gonna be the hard part 
Start smart and end that way, never gonna give up 
To your expectations I'll continually live up 
Cut you with my observations, sharper than a shiv, what? 
You got something to say? Then don't hesitate to get up! 

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