Lyrics
What’s inside an apple, you might have to cut it.
Speculation, imagination, how far do we take it?
What about inside us: cogs, blips and sleep.
Yukio Mishima: hara-kiri, go figure.
Hang on wait a second, how far do we take this?
Icarus who chased the sun and lost all his feathers.
Socrates and the poison, than renounce who he is.
“Words are imitation at best.” They say
“Words are imitation at best.” They say
Short sighted to realise, realise to atone.
What is our raw state; alone or in a group?
“United we stand and divided we fall,”
Or “Divided we stand and united we fall.”
It’s Hobbes vs Rousseau, are we brutes or are we good?
Apparently the first fence, the one to divide us all.
The population is climbing, and so are the fences,
And social cooperation: just who really believes it?
Self-interest comes first and we can’t really help it.
Well the very first step is to just wait a second,
loosen life’s grip on your very own shoulders.
Capitalism, Communism, trying to find the answers.
Fleeting shots of meaning if it’s just for the people,
Or drowning in Epicurus, the dollar in the wallet.
Humbled by the old and wise, damn I’ve been thinking,
Socrates the critic, or Plato of the abstract
pulled towards Aristotle, moderate of the both.
Coming to my own conclusion, something that I preach.
Modernity and tradition; then the problem’s half solved.
Sovereignty and hierarchy; inevitable they may seem:
Still gotta be kind: find ourselves in the piece.
Don’t take too long, here I quote Roots Manuva
“The cold truth makes way for the warm lies.”
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Hold up, Speak to everyone's level.
Don’t reveal your strengths but show your weaknesses.
Don’t sound smart, put it under the rug!
If success is attracted by the person you become, just be anyone who is part of the equation.
(Beat: Nujabes - City Lights)
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