Guante - Crisis of Conscience lyrics

[Verse 1 - Guante] Little boy buy a truck, eat a steak, get paid Don't give a f**, take what you want, no delay No apologies, buy the right outfit or you will be doubted Buy the right cologne or you'll always be alone To be a real man there is only one option And it involves a lot of shopping ' cause it's not just products they sell They're trying to sell you yourself So which brand of disposable razor will you use To cut yourself open when you're trying to prove That that's blood in there and not gasoline Which preset supermodel is your fantasy Which lite beer will delay your unraveling Which identity will you cut from that magazine Which truck has the towing capacity To handle all your baggage You see a man cave, I see a dark basement I see the pervasive influence of a media who wants us to fit in little boxes And what if you don't fit in? What if you don't fit in? They tell little girls how to be real women And tell little boys how to be real men But when you ask them that "real" means They throw the same bullsh** back at you again And there's a reason for that, it's the reason I'm mad It's so ingenious what they feed us here but these are the facts Gender is a construct There's no real man no real woman only us Ladies and gentlemen, friends of all identities Let's stand up and be who we were meant to be And if they order me to man up, i'll tell em I ain't buying what your selling [Verse 2 - Sammy Warm Hands] I can't say what I'm trying to say I'm overwhelmed just trying to fill the lines on the page Cause its so much more than just another song It's more that you and me It's more that right or wrong And I know cause I'm on both ends of the equation I can see both sides of the situation My heart and my mind both know that it's f**ed up To hold ourselves up to these images that are touched up And an idea that the man is the strong one You either choose to be a dick, or be on one If you'll ever get ahead, it seams You've gotta swallow the sh** 'til you burst at the seams I'm not buying it for a minute The materialism isn't pulling me in, but im still falling for the gimmick My biology is unaffected by my mindset It makes the ideology a lot harder to digest I see the posters and magazine covers The images liken women to inanimate lovers "Just shut the f** up and look good!" Pretty's not enough, titties gotta touch Gotta look as good as the girl on the cover of the book would But we all know that she don't even look right Without the makeup and the airbrush So stop singing to your hairbrush Quit dreamin' start cookin' and cleanin' And count those calories like Veronica and Valerie Stay away from heavy food Say you have an allergy Drop those LBs like needles and LP's They sold you an idea, but now you can tell these Fat cat, prick, manipulating motherf**ers That their daughters are growing up as some mean co*ks**ers They get validation from the adoration of men And they're raising a generation more troubled than them So stop the bullsh**, reject the lies You gonna grab the wheel or just close your eyes? [Bridge - Ben Polonsky] And my higher brain is looking down on me We have everything, and yet it sounds to me That there's a vacancy There is complacency And my higher brain is coming down on me [Verse 3 - Sammy Warm Hands] I'm having a crises of conscience Why am I attracted to fabricated garbage? Instinctual versus intellectual It's so complicated when it comes to s**ual issues and content And we're not running a convent But I'm at a disadvantage from the onset I'm the target market demographic So its harder to tune out the static Yeah, I'm no hero This isn't Skynet, this is f**ing Channel Zero Why can't I compliment my beautiful wife Without a self-depricating reply to ruin the night? Cause advertisers wanna sell thousands more copies So they promote the same faces, the same bodies Until even the stars themselves are insecure And the tabloids tally every calorie incurred To an adolescent mind, it isn't easy to accept That these images subliminally have an effect So kids skip dinner, so they can feel a bit thinner And girls worship anti-intellectual women This isn't the beginning, its been a problem for decades But the pervasive nature of this situation is threatening And in an act of defiance, it was hastily decided That to level the playing field, the best way to fight it A short-sighted reaction to a long term problem Making advertisers rich isn't a great way to stop them So I'll say a little something that's long overdue I won't contribute to the problem, and neither should you To all my mothers and my sisters and my wives and my friends I want to offer my love and respect, the end