This Is Why - Phil Beaudreau, Dawaun Parker

AOE, we are!

Yeah, and tell me why would you do it?

You love it when you have it, but you cry when you lose it

This is my type of music

They say that you ain’t real till you die for the movement

I’d rather live for the moment

Dream vision and show it

You know it

You know they say you gotta live for yourself

Love kills and everything else is hell

Like the ones that the story seem to know it too well

They keep us broken so their lies can sell

Like stories of the walls coming down

Stories of fuse on the ground coming home to the prowl

And the loud shout, look up how we’ve come to now

Would you look at what we’ve done for the good of this town?

But is anybody seeing what I’m seeing

No heart, no pulse, but we’re bleeding

Go to sleep, keep American dreaming

We’re not just meat that a fat man’s biting

We should know about it now

Everything’s made so we can stay in the house sitting down

Like a good dog, and never come out

This is why we’re here

On the rock in the sky

In a world without wonder

And we’re wondering wild

This is how we are

Take the love out of life

When we take from another

We’re just left with the lie

Yeah

I just really wanna know what’s going on

See about who the men in black cars really are

We’re here to talk, take the black shades fully off

Look me in the eyes, then tell me that we’re better off

For putting kids in caskets, and all your bastards

Who’re giving guns for gain of the rich

With fat pockets in they’re wives fat asses

Have a good laugh and cling those glasses

'Cause the world is starting to feel

Something that’s wrong with the one at the wheel

And we’re coming down hard, bigger ideas

To let the rest of us down from under your heels

But you should know by now

Anything made so we can fly, gotta fall to the ground

Some day, and everyone does

This is why we’re here

On the rock in the sky

In a world without wonder

And we’re wondering wild

This is how we are

Take the love out of life

When we take from another

We’re just left with the lie

Yeah

Yeah, huh

It’s like a vision of RCA

A good doggy never leave

She just barks and plays

Obey what you’re told

You break the mold, then it’s over

You can be the good boy, I’ma be your soldier

This is why the country is still slipping

The vultures is still picking, the corpse is still living

Zombies sitting on the porch swing swinging

Democratic, Republican, what a fuck is the difference?

Posing for pictures and trying portraying images

Something you never will be and never was to begin with

You’re just a template, a cut-out

Do the wrong thing and get sniffed out

That’s when they put the cuffs out

They took the love out, we’re left with the lies

I have no disguise, no verdict, no alibis

I never wonder why, I just follow where I’m going through

Know who you are, follow what you know it’s true

It’s overdue when the game’s all screw face

Everybody talking out their neck or two face

Bootleg is the new real, no shoelace

Trapped underneath the boot heel, drinking Kool-Aid

And it’s only getting realer

Prescription the new crap, the doctor’s the new dealer

Absolute mix with something smooth that will kill ya

Sipping Molotovs, till I feel bust

And my mind is spinning

My eyes are glassy, drunk of these lies they pass me

Every rotation but they don’t ask me

And bullshit pain out of Tallahassee

No disrespect to the artist though

My calling is to say what we already know

It must come down if it’s up in the sky

And I ain’t saying how, I’m telling you this is why