What Is It???
What is it they’re not telling us?
What secrets do they keep?
What is it they’re not telling us—
Those who want to keep us asleep?
They have the truth, yet hold it tight.
They have the strength, yet reserve their might.
They keep the day and leave us the night.
They know it’s wrong but won’t do what’s right.
The teachers, the preachers, and other such creatures,
The poets all know it but simply won’t show it.
The politicians and pundits and other lying sh—
The CEOs and bankers and all the chain yankers.
What is it they’re not saying
Between the lies they keep spraying?
Black and white erased by graying—
Up is down, and left is right — no use praying.
Deny the facts. Kill the messenger. It’s science they’re slaying.
Reality no longer real. The edges are fraying.
Done with listening to their idiot braying.
Gotta get out of here. Sure ain’t staying.
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What is it…
Or is it…
That we just don’t want to know…
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