The Rubric - Verbal Kent, Chris Orrick

So what are you defined by?

What is it that makes you?

Is it what who your clothes are designed by?

Or is it in the way that you look at your neighbor reaching out for help with a

blind eye?

It’s easier to give and you shouldn’t feel too bad

Everybody’s born with their bootstraps

And fuck 'em anyways, right?

Everybody out here’s got the same goddamn daylight

But it’s not that simple

The life you’re born in, the same box you’re built into

While you’re breakin' through it

They’re waitin' outside to tell you they changed the rubric

And they paint the Rubik’s cube, it’s rigged to make sure you lose

So when you play the game, if it’s all the same, try to play for you

And every time you play their rules

Either play dead or play the fool

Try your best tryin' to play it cool

Play for them and you play to lose

And every time you play their rules

Either play dead or play the fool

Try your best tryin' play it cool

Play for them and you play to lose

Is everything I’ve worked for worth more

Then what has fallen in my lap?

What I’ve searched for

Is found to be the curse more than the blessing, learn more

From the wounds and the stitches, I put that on my firstborn

What you think I roam the Earth for?

Dealin' with life, that’s what the liquor and the herb for

Feel it at night, I’m kinda knockin' with the search warrant

Tryna find a self to describe and the words for it

Huh, maybe it’s been dormant, waitin' within torment

Taken an enormous amount of patience to relate what this world is about

I guess it’s best to pick a side that feels fully in heart

Testify to test your pride instead of just testing a product

Rest the gas pedal 'stead of perpetually steppin' on it

Emphasis on effortlessness

Been dishonest to myself for too long

I think it’s time I made a promise to me, yeah

And every time you play their rules

Either play dead or play the fool

Try your best tryin' to play it cool

Play for them and you play to lose

And every time you play their rules

Either play dead or play the fool

Try your best tryin' play it cool

Play for them and you play to lose