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This is only the beginning i say as i lay stone to build a foundation To rise our empire And lift our entire nation Turn off the world and use your imagination And listen to the shadowy voice of reason Am I the only spark yearning to ignite change This isn't a poem or a rap, no where on the vocal range No where on the map but I tell you this fights staged Realizing the same shit ends up on the front page Why are we so enveloped with crazy and deranged Why can't we get past our materialistic selfish ways See man down and our society leaves him where he lays Nobody needs a handout except those who can afford to pay Along with those who work the system and sit on their ass all day Contributing to nothing leaving no responsibility to be had The way I see it this system is a dead beat dad Who doesn't acknowledge he has a child Unless the child can support him and it makes the child mad, Then the child acts up and they say he's being bad So they put him in time out and make the other children hand over their lunches But when the child is hurt he has to mend his own crutches When the child is sick he has buy his own medicine And dads nowhere around to give discipline Clearly dad don't care Clearly something is wrong here I'm talkin to walls cuz I swear to god I see them breathin That rust stain I thought was were blood was seepin My world is alive but why is it dieing Am I the reason or am I just surviving While this place perishes And I find myself crying Are we not trying To save ourselves from drowning or are we to busy individually to notice our surroundings Living day to day as if there's no reason to pray for tomorrow We've been numbed to the pain and sorrow By blindly passing by the coldest of hollows Disregarding compassion in exchange for self growth Coincides with leaving the rest with no hope When there's nothing left to whom you gonna gloat When the lake is dry how the hell you gonna float This is only the beginning I say as I paddle the first stroke
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