{"sf1_id":555125,"sf2_id":"0mvbg3Xm","title":"Ignorance","author":"Riverweasel","words":838,"posted_at":"2013-06-24T15:08:00.000Z","tags":["Cover","Other","Poem","rap"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/555125-ignorance","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/0mvbg3Xm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/47/68/47681c00-de74-44b3-9cb8-8e45720ecc3e","description":"#14 of Poems\n\nThis is a written cover of a wonderful song by Lupe Fiasco called Around My Way. The verses aren't precisely in line and those of you who don't have good rhythm would be better off simply reading it like a poem. Otherwise, this is my response to this godforsaken latest string of scandals by the glorious United States.","content":" **Verse 1**\n\nLive it, learn it, love it, then promptly forget\n\nThat anyone ever told you not to know\n\nRemain unaware of its existence, even though\n\nEvery day you're professing its presence\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nWorld politics, the government and funded greed\n\nAren't subjects that the mass should be discussing\n\nDigesting, progressing, realizing this shit is disgusting\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nJust feed on the entertaining food that they feed\n\nYou, and everyone else that you know\n\nOr at least think you did, until they surprise you\n\nRecognize you, for who you really are\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nNot just another brainwashed sheep been molested\n\nBy those liars who profess to represent them\n\nSee the nonexistent lines of separation\n\nLack of clarification, motivation; the uninspiring  \nrewiring\n\nOf our tiring minds that they're buying\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd selling, to any corporation willing to pay\n\nPennies to nickel and dime us\n\nThrowing shiny quarters out to blind us\n\nReminding us of our place on the lowly ground\n\nWhile we're counting bills, they're out counting pounds\n\nLaughing at all the clowns wallowing and indifferent\n\nClimaxing to the sounds of our blissful ignorance\n\n**Chorus**\n\nHere I am looking up at the sky\n\nAsking myself the all-encompassing \"why\"\n\nDid we allow this to pass by\n\nIs it too late to even try\n\nNow I'm here looking down at the dirt\n\nAmazed by the success of their diabolic work\n\nPounding on doors, spreading the truth to fight the fake\n\nCyber defibulator in hand just to shock them awake\n\n**Verse 2**\n\nMinutes, hours, days and many years\n\nPrecious time to turn this country into the enemy\n\nTaxes, snooping, lack of constitutional integrity\n\nThis place now analogous to our forefathers' fears\n\nYet we sit back, kick back, kick rocks, skip rocks\n\nNever taking the time to turn our attention to what  \nmatters\n\nWhen shit splatters we don't matter, but so few observe\n\nLaws rewritten to undermine the masses\n\nEducation curriculumized to subvert school classes\n\nIndividualism expiring as the inspiration of creation  \ndies\n\nSubverting everyone there to a mouthful of lies\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nWe have to realize that history not learned\n\nIs history repeated, the dead mistreated\n\nThose that spilled blood to teach us\n\nWhat to fight for and what to avoid\n\nTheir lives they paid crapped on and scorned\n\nYet what matters most to us is not what should\n\nThe American government yet again up to no good\n\nSpying, leeching, bugging hundreds of millions\n\nTeachers barely above the poverty line\n\nWhile \"National Security\" rakes in hundreds of billions\n\nTo feed the craving feelings of paranoid villains\n\nMy spine chilling as I realize we're dealing\n\nWith a whole new breed of criminalized righteousness\n\nEnslave us all and tell us where to go\n\nEagerly blindfolded and deafened to live in a world of  \nignorance\n\n**Chorus**\n\nHere I am looking to the left and right\n\nSeeing nothing but dumb sheep to the edges of sight\n\nIs the wolf really evil if his goal is to inform\n\nAm I really a terrorist if I refuse to conform\n\nNow I just sit here, trying to figure it out\n\nSeizing all the info available so I won't doubt\n\nEven for a second that we're in a world rife with evil\n\nToo many sinister demons in this population of people\n\n**Verse 3**\n\nThis ain't sass smack, this ain't a rap track\n\nThis is nothing more than an educated class act\n\nYears of what I was sure was being done now fact\n\nSo I'll address it all with all the tact of a pissed off  \ncat\n\nAmerica was built on privacy, built on freedom, built on  \ngood\n\nYet you trash it with brazen intrusions, creating more  \ntragedy\n\nFreedom becoming less reality and more misguided  \nphilosophy\n\nThe positives so tainted, so rotten that they're like  \nfive year old food\n\nI will not stand here and be taken from the back\n\nI refuse to cut them slack, they're all hacks driven by  \nthe dollars\n\nDriven by the greed of the paper that they print so  \nfreely\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nIt's time to stand up, to buck up, to raise hell and  \nrealize what's up\n\nNo more getting dimed out for a cheap buck\n\nNo more staying clueless to reality\n\nNo more staying oblivious to the poverty racing around  \nthis nation\n\nNo more\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd I'll say this loudly, say this proudly, resoundingly\n\nYour time is coming to an end, no more can you pretend\n\nThat you can keep us grounded, keep on pounding the nails\n\nInto our coffins, sending us to our grave before we even  \ntake our first breath\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nOf what's left\n\nI won't let our American ignorance starve us to death\n\n**Chorus (Actual Chorus of Song)**\n\nComing live from the other side of what you see\n\nA bunch of nonsense on my tv\n\nHeaven on earth is what I need\n\nBut I feel I'm in Hell every time I breathe\n\nReporting live from the other side of what you hear\n\nA bunch of nonsense all in my ear\n\nRich man, poor man, we all gotta pay\n\nCuz Freedom ain't free, 'specially around our way\n\n\u0026nbsp;  \n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Poems","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/537059-finding-my-purpose.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/810422-countdown-to-a-new-chapter.json"}}