When You Play God (The 2018 Copyright Blues) - L.A. Salami

Each season tries my patience

It’s the winter’s vote tomorrow

But this throne’s a game of nations

Which have summers past to borrow

Plu’s now past now meets rejection

New gods and new complexions

Soundbytes replaced their sections

And they say blind haste for our protection

Maybe Kanye West is insane

But maybe he’s not always wrong

But if you want to play it safe

And keep out of the view of the monster

It’s just best to play along

I recall the Soviet’s union

When a thug took the wheel in the confusion

A crowd lashed out, misread Rasputin

Now the chaos is reigned in by the one called Putin

A man you could say

Who likes to play god

And if you want to play it safe over there

I guess it’s best to just play along

I hear talk of revolution

‘Tween the memes and the noise pollution

Beneath the cracks of facts, confusion

The serf’s grown facts on restitution

And even if you’re not hungry anymore

They want you to play along

And even if you only eat when you really need to

They want you to play along

If a fool can paint your landscape

It’s not the paint that you should question

It’s his view, the strokes which mention

The solution spewed in all direction

The people take the painter’s lesson

But take her heed at our discretion

As earth’s leaves wilt beneath heaped depression

Every man knows that it’s rude

Not to hide an erection

But he does deserve an intervention

When he tries to play god

So the question isn’t the erection

It’s why the people try to play god

I sold my soul so they stole my image

The story and the vibe

In a hack job scrimmage

But I’m an ad in this game

So only god can witness

Even in the dark

One still gets shifted

But if you find that you are weak

Then you must become strong

But if your strength unshackles hatred in yourself and others

Then your strength is wrong

Maybe you treat hate with kindness

And an empath’s eye

Man can’t hate when at its wisest

The two worlds don’t comply

But maybe you need to practice forgiveness

If you want to get others to play along

Or maybe you should hide the seed that grew the apple

If you want to play god

Just go ahead and ignore the seed that grew the apple

If you really have to play god