artist: Zoetic Minds
song: And For What?
album: Persona Non Grata
track 9

Lyrics:  

[Verse 1: Ziggid]
Steady rock and it’s still illin’
Not in for your profits, your margins’ not filling
They can find my plot twists, I got this, mic villain
I’m speaking to the generations above us that caught stealing
Saying fuck your games, flags and flagrant racists
Happened through complacence put in a list of a million faces
Public domain of knowledge vanished without traces
I’ma make it by God’s will and God’s graces
Follow me check your spaces
While my king takes pawn in the game in the United Nations
And for what? The sake of the sacred economy
Monetary lobotomy tooling human monopoly
The same pressure put on top of me by forced philosophies
Conglomerates and monstrosities 
That’s why I’m asking these questions
When they call it justice but mean “just us”

[Hook: Ziggid]
And for what? I’m supposed to just trust in a system?
And for what? When I can hardly afford the cost of living?
And for what? When all I got is this pot to piss in?
And for what? When the output is less than they been given?
And for what? For the sake of American tradition
And for what? No accountability for politicians
And for what? An illusion of choice but no decision
Then so what? Open your eyes and pay attention

[Verse 2: Skepsys]
Alienated by the two-party system
Barely containing my frustration cuz the shoes hardly fit us
Come bare witness through this foolhardy prism
Where it’s nothing left to lose and spells doom for tradition
What ought to be medically treated
Is codified as crime so they can say what they just turned you into lends it credence
Before history we’re taught to pledge allegiance
Early stages is conditioning like work before the season
And for what? The second coming of The Inquisition?
Tests of conscience putting a halt to letting immigrants in
Coincidence with recession so this shit’s a given
And discipline is paving a pathway into prison
I wake up to the trend of a hashtag
Another name synonymous with “death of a Black man”
But yall don’t hear me like the duck yelling Aflac
But when these words stop…Think about what comes past that

[Hook: Skepsys]
And for what? Everyday we fight to make a living
And for what? For corporate bosses trying to make a killing
And for what? With every substance they make illicit
And for what? Another class they can take to prison
And for what? A system that’s built on contradictions
And for what? History replaced with revisions
And for what? Strategically placing all omissions
Then so what? Open your eyes and pay attention

[Verse 3: Ziggid]
I want a house with a white picket fence
In a good neighborhood, a place where you could raise kids
No bad influence, no apartment living, paying rent
It’s just a trap to hold you back from investment
I painted a pretty picture of pockets lined with presidents
Perpetuating what’s present, now it’s evidence
That nobody wanted to this settlement
But they control the food for 99% of them

[Hook]
And for what? 5% of the world’s population
And for what? 25% of the world’s prisoners
And for what? But what does the bottom look like?
And for what? Zip codes are trapped inside of cycles of poverty
And for what? They’re not protesting these specific instances
And for what? The police should be second-guessed, they’re public servants
And for what? And we’re the public
Then so what? Open your eyes and pay attention

Zoetic Minds - And For What?

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Another day another dollar
for this scholar to acknowledge what The Father has planned.
Planted in deep inside of the furthest reaches of my cerebrum, I speak
freedom in believing we preach it with hands.
Reversing the, seeds of hatred in my heart, recreating it to art
until, death do us part, I refrain to hit the fan.
A sense of destiny to empty out my energy
it was already written before the pen hit the pad..
This is where I'm at.

25 and alive I keep it moving
I got more problems than I do solutions
Stuck in my head
tugging at my heart
Tryna feel again..
See this never ends..
This is where I've been.

There's a war going on inside no man is safe from.
I'm chasing paper on this narrow path to save 'em.
and spend it with my day ones and education.
See I'm moving through these minutes wisely
tryna find peace, in getting my piece of the puzzle that defines me.
Cuz ain't no love in the streets but strange looks
at the rose of concrete who didn't walk the path they took.
Too ghetto for my class,
too classy for the ghetto.
These rappers is pinochhio, 
return 'em to Jepetto.
I leave behind something than L.O.,
cuz left overs rot, but not food for thought fellows.
Mellowed out, settled down when I push the pen around
when in doubt, pray about it, stuck among the lost and found.
I'm just another undiscovered flier on the wall.
Wearing my heart on my sleeve that's been afraid to fall.

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