Name: Plight (the machine)
Duration: P00H03M36S
Description: The machine is very efficient, it keeps producing what we allow it to produce. We're either victims or victors.

Plight (the machine)

from The Straw Man by Taelor Gray

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The machine is very efficient, it keeps producing what we allow it to produce. We're either victims or victors.

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I'm at a loss for words, but I'm sure I'll find some...
Rummage through these thoughts,
Digging up salt, I can smell the wounds- I can tell its dark, cuz I can feel the apathy of a people torn apart
Listen to the meadowlark, but the song kinda sad, the kids need a better park
Cuz them shots rang, now it's blood stained, another tombstone
In a place where fairy tales are two parent homes
And the street lights make all the little kids roam
Till they've grown to a social workers problem
Fathers been gone ever since they been a toddler
Up in group home till momma kick her habit
It doesn't help the schools are academically ravaged
A neighborhood is rib shacks and check cashers
Grocery store has bruised grapes and browned over cabbage
Don't understand wealth cuz they don't have it
Medicate kids till they turn addicts
Keep a Planned parenthood posted
Like a symbol for why the families are broken
The legacy of Margaret Sanger
Murder black babies, where's the anger?
Ain't tryna hear Jesse, or the black caucus
I don't wanna hear Sharpton, we need to be sharpened
And we be tryna deify Obama
He's got a huge part to play with in this whole saga
Abortion is genocide of Biblical proportions
And hip hop music's a napalm bomb
Im just stating the obvious
106 and park's got kids in the audience
Teaching the young girls on how to be a diva
Twerkin like their favorite RnB singer
Fellas tryna die for that cash
Break hearts first, keep commitments last
A kid with a hoodie got popped
by a cat on neighborhood watch
And it's on, we on that racial profiling
Hard pill to swallow watching Bill O' Reilly
Someone took away our dream
When streets in the hood is named for Dr. King

If I don't care, is this the coldest I can get?
The suns out, what's the polar opposite
Its on display like its own art gallery
Sad thing is its reality, and I'm like-
Where's truth on the inward?
Have we been too lax with the n word?
Waste...like Plaxico gun
Im gon give the saxophone some

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from The Straw Man, released November 28, 2013
Prod. by OSYM Beats

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