[Hook]
What you gon' do in your sleep?
What you gon' do if awake?
Are you aware of what's happenin'?
Have you touched basis with reality?
I hope and pray we stay safe
There is sane, there's insane
I know what's real and what's not
There is fate, there is faith
There's nothing much I can say
[Post-Hook] (x4)
Oh, we're stuck in reality
[Verse 1]
What's this place?
What's this world that we've come to?
If we can't live by it's guidelines
Then what's the point of rules?
You need to know that the time you have's not long
You just wasted your time—it's gone
And I mean, you're not listening—you're gone
Indeed you ain't built for this—all 'long
I ain't gon' trip with this—headstrong
What's it to a murderer who tries to change up
But had the audacity to take one?
They took part of us, and'll never make up
Everything they've costed in a blink of an eye
Everybody's fighting for a piece of the pie
A gist of the prize, this world is a lie
Pent up by all the armory, that's draped wit' our irony
Spent up, can't win the lottery, some kids are starving, see
It's all in stereo; trends brainwashing the
Radio; same scenario
Take the good and then laugh, push that to back
Put bad in, the vast majority's rap?
We work when we young, to relax when we're old?
Bills and mortgages so what do we own?
People born with a silver spoon in their throat
Others scratch and claw to kick you off of your throne
Got us lookin' like savages, it's so disaterous
Knawed to bits, by lurkin' scavengers, limbs acheing, staggering
Put our bones in piles, like our souls don't matter
Heh, Our lives depend on things that do not matter
Heh, Riots rising, you can hear the clattering
Peace is a dying subject, do not ask why
Look around and what'chu see, huh?
You're awake, sink that in, ah
I always cringe while y'all binge nah, I
Do not feel at home, who's those people next door?
Generation of violence, feel like I'm destined for war
These are hitting words, that'll knock out
You're playing yourself when you're gambling
You better back out!
You're playing with d**h when you blaze it
Put that cigar out!
If you want to end it that way, then that's a fast route
If your life's worth the while, then you can cash out
Yeah, it's our finality, normality
Had to be this way, 'cause we are stuck in reality!
[Hook]
What you gon' do in your sleep?
What you gon' do if awake?
Are you aware of what's happenin'?
Have you touched basis with reality?
I hope and pray we stay safe
There is sane, there's insane
I know what's real and what's not
There is fate, there is faith
There's nothing much I can say
[Post-Hook] (x4)
Oh, we're stuck in reality
[Verse 2]
We're all cornered in the likes of this cell
Cannot escape from this prison
Cannot escape in this jail
You can't trust anybody, seems you'll never make bail
The people that got a smile on their
Face
Are the same people wearing a mask, and pathologically feint
Catastrophically indulged with no sight of
Restraint
Gain the enjoyment when you blown out your
Brains
The same people who'll end their lives because of a text that you sent
The same person that cries right after you leave
Because they feel they don't belong here, like how do they vent?
I don't know what else could I rant
About
Without starting fires, with need to stomp it
Out
We plant the seed, we plant the seed
And yank and reap, their own growth
Go to sleep every night and wake up; that's called "hope"
I'm down to teach
But, sounding like I'm bound to preach
Hate overpowers hate, love over powers love
But does love overpower hate? I hate the fact love is questioned
Guns don't k** people, people k** people
People kneel 'neath you, need you feel equal?
Change won't come, until you make a change
Don't let the fear of what could happen make nothing happen
Don't you wish you had more time?
But we take it, waste it, face it
Our times late
Don't plan a future with someone with no future plans after
Don't you wish you lost nobody?
Ever wondered what it'd be like if you could
Control everything?
Don't drink another bottle, before you feint
You're gonna pa** out!
You're playing with health, thinking it helps you
With all them d** now
You're playing yourself, messing with women
You let your guard down
Yeah, in this place things aren't what they appear to be
But this reality, everything's what it seems
Yeah, congratulations you awake in reality?
Welcome to the edge of reality