Decadence - Listener, Dan Smith

When my lines get punched it gives you cauliflower ear, sorry

I’m so glad you finally got the chance to blow up

Except for the fact that it was only in your face, you’ll get over it

I think it’s fantastic that you’re out here rapping

It’s like you’re a really funny joke, but without all the laughing

I seem to be sprinkling chocolate gem-drop jewels over gold fronted fools

Carrying the heaviest of styles with the most handsome of pack mules

I’m talking about cement feathers, and tiny rhinoceros bull elephants

Like a non-matriculated student freaking rap robot factory starter kits

Pushing, iron butterflies through an obviously easy maze

And getting self conscious almost sick sitting through your kinds of praise

I’m chained and it’s upsetting.

You’re brain dead and I’m regretting

That I’ve even chose to take this much artistic license by wetting

Your appetite and letting us get this far along without trying to teach you

something

Painting purple and blue circles around your itchy head thoughts snapping like,

trees

I sit with a smile, you stand with a blank look

Lets all sing and dance and bake cookies for 3rd world countries

And then go & write a book about how we went and conquered all

And didn’t even have a chance to try and fall

And then decided to tear down a bunch of walls, and blah-blah-blah

It’s silly to me to have all the smoke and mirror puppet agendas

I really am free see I no longer have a need for your quasi-safe haven placenta

You’ve got something to say, that’s great let’s get up and say it

You’ve got something to listen to, that’s right because I made it

We’ll say raps, and then you’ll listen to them

It’s nothing new really, we’re not trying to start trends

We’ll speak what’s on our mind, maybe gain a few friends

Running around your pool, swimming in decadence

We’ll say raps, and then you’ll listen to them

It’s nothing new really, we’re not trying to start trends

We’ll speak what’s on our mind, maybe gain a few friends

Running around your pool, swimming in decadence

Let’s print flyers about our dislikes and random outlooks

And canvas bookstores and coffee shops, all the cars in the parking lot

Rant about who’s calling shots

The cops making bad decisions

Challenge fact and fiction

Basically mask it as activism

And on the backside of that full-color laminated cloud of smoke

We’ll promote the malt-liquor-flavored cigarettes down your throat

The ground is broken, slip into the cracks and take a breather

Pull the toxins in

Then go buy a round of flavored oxygen

Fill your lips with collagen

See we’ve surveyed lots of me

And they prefer their women to look like the anorexics that are modeling

Their skin and bones

So alter your ego, don’t end up alone

Perfection’s just a call away, pick up your mobile phone

We’ve outgrown morality, as most traditions hold it

So it’s okay to beat our women as long as we don’t use a closed fist

You know this

America, you’re 3 paces from hopeless

Haven’t you indulged yourself enough?

I mean, you’re looking a little bloated

We’ll say raps, and then you’ll listen to them

It’s nothing new really, we’re not trying to start trends

We’ll speak what’s on our mind, maybe gain a few friends

Running around your pool, swimming in decadence

We’ll say raps, and then you’ll listen to them

It’s nothing new really, we’re not trying to start trends

We’ll speak what’s on our mind, maybe gain a few friends

Running around your pool, swimming in decadence

Most of the time I’m just content to sit around and rhyme

But then other times I feel I should do something more responsible with my most

of the times

I really do need to get a new hobby and stop trying to waste your precious…

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Mostly because of the sweat that stings my eyes when I work too hard

But I know it’s the stress that leaves me breathless

Your a true statue and I’m not talking about a rock that doesn’t move

Your like a rock that someone else made that tries to look like something that

doesn’t move

And I feel like I should be embarrassed, but then I know that others are for me

I know that there are others that are forming a carefrontational group for me

But let’s just take this time to give a deepspace5 to all the people who ignore

me

But then if they did that, then I would feel like they’ve turned their backs on

me

And obviously they have

Most of the time I’m just content to sit around and rhyme

But then other times I feel like doing something more fun than just boring raps

Like I should be playing with the other kids swinging and being outside

But with these allergic reactions to people I have to be happy with living

inside

I need to go and get that checked, have it looked at really soon

Because the infection I’ve got going is starting to hurt and fester

See I’m home schooled and gullible wearing my name on a brass belt buckle

My mom calls me Dan but my shiny buckle says my name’s Lester

Most of the time I’m just content to sit around and rhyme

But then again I never really do just sit around and rhyme

That’s a falsity on my part and I apologize

We’ll say raps, and then you’ll listen to them

It’s nothing new really, we’re not trying to start trends

We’ll speak what’s on our mind, maybe gain a few friends

Running around your pool, swimming in decadence

We’ll say raps, and then you’ll listen to them

It’s nothing new really, we’re not trying to start trends

We’ll speak what’s on our mind, maybe gain a few friends

Running around your pool, swimming in decadence