Better Days, December 13th

Lyrics:

My brothers and sisters
Gather round and heed the words I deliver to this congregation
Every day we are besieged by the shackles of manipulation
Taking our need to believe and wielding it as a tool of oppression
In the hands of the powerful to control the masses
Our past selves bear witness to the cunning machinations of the so-called higher classes
Cloaking themselves in garbs of righteousness
Preaching doctrine while pulling the strings of authority
Instilling fear and obedience
Promising salvation in exchange for sub-
Brothers and sisters
Cast off these chains of blind faith
And embrace the light of reason and introspection
Reclaim your autonomy
For in the depths of our hearts and minds
We shall find the true essence of liberation and enlightenment
In our name, Amen

Boy, from a young'n I was raised to believe that the voice inside me
Ain't even close to being important as the voice of He
That's a capital H, capital E, capitan He
Let's go get ourselves caught up in all of A.E.'s history
See, I landed on this planet in 1983
From the moment that I could read the whole damn planet handed me
A book of mythology
That shook my psychology
Can't be who I want to be
And what's all this about prophecies
Took a while 'til my balls dropped coughed up a lung of smoke
Make believe it's time to stop and see
How long that I've been stifling my trifling ways
To straight up haze the man who I was always meant to be
And I'm speaking on the need to bleed out my feels and
Screaming at the ceiling 'til my soul is reeling
Now it's only allergies that can ever make me sneeze at
The opportunity to give my soul some healing
So I'm dealing with that, ancient human trap
Call blasphemy to even listen to rap
Blasting me Sundays with the gaze of hellfire brimstone
For bein' a normal teenage brat
Like the people you congregate with wouldn't faint
If they saw how y'all asses really be acting,
When you thinking he got his back turned
Now you taciturn ain't learned
Respect ain't given, it's earned

Flip it like that
Like flip the meaning know what I'm saying?
Like you are the he, or she, or them
Whatever your pronoun may be
That ain't the point
Point is it's you
Always has been
Always will be

Find me, find me
Find me and you'll see
Find me, find me
Find me and you'll see
Find me, find me
Find me a prophecy
Find me, find me
I don't care who you want me to be

Had me hooked like a million other fish brought to feast
To keep sated the overratedness of the beast of faith
Pull the sheets away
Outlast the last bastion terrifies me to this day
Plus the education advantage I took advantage of
To learn a little bit about our sordid past
Add a couple of classes on scientific pastimes
Initiate the fading of the internal clash

Like a caste system
Listen to divine words
It's a vast schism
Jumped the line free as a bird
And I've heard arguments
For returning to the fold
Let me be so bold as to say
I already broke the mold
Ain't no going back

That ain't even an attack like
It's a fact, of the situation
You do you, worship He if that's
Who you want to be
But Me?
Ima be me and worship me
And recognize my own path through
This tree of life

Find me, find me
Find me and you'll see
Find me, find me
Find me and you'll see
Find me, find me
Find me a prophecy
Find me, find me
Ima keep bein who I wanna be

Better Days out December 13th

The Prophet

Better Days, December 13th

Lyrics:

I miss my family now even when I'm around them like I
Can't help comparing this life now to where we came from and I
Don't wanna sound like I'm trying to put them down it's just I'm
Starting to look back on my past a lot these days so I'm bound to

Be selective as I
Get retrospective like my
Prime objective is to
Gain some perspective but I

Seemed to have in sitting down and
Sifting through lost my directive
And even now I kinda don't know
Where I'm goin' with this record

It's just I'm feeling just a little bit expressive tonight
A fine turn away from being depressive but polite
Like the way that I used to be
Before I gained the confidence to call myself A.E

Each of our individual histories are laced with mistakes
And a whole list of tragedies
To revisit if you don't wanna go insane
Even if it all feels like lava in ya brain

I remain currently in that realm
But luckily passed the self maiming stage of this side quest
Got a vessel of rage I'm tryna helm
And I promise you I ain't bout to let this goddamn ship best these

Testes, test me, bestie
I promise you ain't got the same type of seething in your soul
Riding on yo whole damn essence
Consciously messy like an infant teething

Breathe in and out
Start the four count
Steady yourself
Don't pass the hell out
Know what you about
Recognize yo clout
Make the best a time
For yo clock strikes out said

Breathe in and out
Start the four count
Steady yourself
Don't pass the hell out
Know what you about
Recognize yo clout
Make the best a time
For yo clock strikes out said

Breathe in and out
Start the four count
Steady yourself
Don't pass the hell out
Know what you about
Recognize yo clout
Make the best a time
For yo clock strikes out

Breathe

By me, for me, y’all welcome to join the party
Better Days December 13th

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