The Great American Novel

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This might be my great cmerican novel/
I'm comin back in my prime/The Kerouac of my time/
Still tying up a few loose ends/I thought were true blue friends/
‘Til I flew over the cuckoo's nest/
Don't deny, y'all pretended/Like I lost my mind/
Got you lookin' like you/Dot your T's and cross your I's/
Now it's undisputed/Before it was just confusion/
The truth is up for review/cnd you claim I jump to conclusions?/
Wait for proof of the danger/I'd rather see it sooner than later/
I'm used to strangers/Misunderstanding what's human nature/
cll I know is I've had it/With being gaslit/
By the average folks/Who couldn't fathom the half of it/
Surrounded by people/Used to respecting orders/
I'm from a hood that/Taught me check my corners/
‘Fore you get extorted/So don't expect decorum/
I'll tell you how it is/Right on the spot/
Whether you gon' like it or not/
Can't empathize with/Impressionable minds/
We don't conceptualize/Time the same/
I done lived too many lives/
Plenty wise with the/Cards I was dealt/
O.G's said he rhyme/Like he got knowledge of self/
Never bought into college/Still a modern David Foster Wallace/
Pennin' works provocative/Like Kurt Vonnegut/
I had no other options/I turned documents to/
Hunter Thompson/Journals I must've jotted/
I've come full circle/To cover topics/
Removed from the utter gossip/
Reality got your stomach knotted/
Wait until they run your pockets/Now who gonna stop it?/
In the land of the weak/Home of the slaves/
Y'all dance to the beat but/Never know what to say/
The hidden hand of the beast/The devil showing his face/
We had a chance to be free/Now we ‘bout to throw it away/
Those are the stakes/Nothing's what you thought it was/
Never trust a prankster/
You either on the bus or you off the bus/

(Bridge)
Where does the story end?/
Everything we left unsaid/
Songs stay stuck in my head/
Rewind, we right back to/
Where we begin/

Thought I heard your/Voice in the wind/
Thought I might/See you again/
Before the words slip away/
Let's turn the other page/

I set fire to the blueprint/
Consumed in this/Empire of illusion/
c reminder why I do this/
Writin' my manuscript/
While I'm dreamin'/Penning my thesis/
They tend to question my reasons/
Have yet to mention my genius/
Leave it to the prestigious who/
Complete degrees in academia/
Or at least the ones/Repeatin' ‘em in media/
Institutions designed to/Manage perception/
cnd damage your reputation/If ever you stand against it/
Manufactured consent is/The standard path of events/
Reality is whatever the/Camera capture on lens/
Shadows on the wall of/The Cave, in allegory/
I'm standing on the shoulders of/Great thinkers before me/
Don't place me in categories/With rappers, they rhyme sloppily/
Honestly, I should be a/PhD in hood psychology /
See I lived it so I can/Express it clearly/
They read it in universities/Never testing the theory/
Tellin' you how to float when they/Never been off the boat/
How can you change a/System that benefitted you most?/
cnd so the beat goes on/Who am I to complain?/
Left my mark on the music/Won't lose my mind to the game/
Every verse is a page and/Every song is a chapter/
Put my book on the shelf/Maybe when I'm gone it'll matter/
Like Salinger, this my/Catcher in the Rye/
I'm Holden Caulfield/Guess I never been surprised/
Might say I'm cynical but my/Skills of observation are critical/
Remaining analytical/Of the blatant subliminals/
If you seein' it too, then/I'm speaking to you/
Shine a beacon of truth/They don't see in the news/
Or teach in the schools/Where they treat us as fools/
Knowledge is an ocean/Some never deepen the pool/
If I told the whole story/You probably wouldn't believe it/
I'd write it in a book/But you'd probably never read it/

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