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Track 12 · Lyrics

Message Sent

From the album System Failure by Scottychams

Interlude

He’s a big man

Who’s used to handling big problems

Verse 1

They used to handling problems

But almost never solve em

The distractions and the whack shit

Is how they finna tap

The sands of time

And every day off your life

Realize

This is real life

I’m sending a message

The ones who cause the stressings

Yo it’s hectic

I get it

You aim for money and power

Repriotize

Charging by the hour

To all the souls you control

But shit, they getting told

Before they sold

Further into slavery

Like yeah, you got a name

But do you have a say

Cause life is freely given

Not a prison

Yet you owe it the country

Who’s always up to something

Can’t fish, can’t drive

Or even go hunting

Can’t leave, can’t stay

You can’t even complain

How the fuck were these ways

Ever allowed to play out

I’ma say now

Listen to the bullshit

And go cray about

The way we herding how

Did this even happen

I’ve been at home rapping

Working to start cracking away

I’m backpacking

I’m backing new tracks

With real shit

I’m spitting realness

And hope you feel this

Yeah, yo

I’m going to ignite the light

And light the night

I'm always bout to toke

But do you

understand what I’ve spoke?

Cause I’ve been broke

But 2017’s the year that I know

I have everything I wanted

Music is my life now

I’ll keep it a hunnet

The system’s a failure

Shit, they’d impale to leave a trail

To the truth

Cause everybody’s got dirt

And they got it on you

So when you break free from lies that you knew

You can free your mind

You can finally be you

That’s the vision

Free as many people from they mind

Where they imprisoned

To bad thoughts

And loud media

Street criteria

Rules and delirious

Bullshit

What’s really insane is kindly

Sticking to the script of everyday

It’s all the same

I came to hustle all the time

Not slave a nine to five

I want to change the tides

And leave the world better

Least I can try

Interlude

A moment when so many people

Are still struggling

If you are willing to work with me

If you are willing to work even harder

In this election

Then I promise you

Then I promise you

I promise you

Change will come

Verse 2

Yo

Old congress making legislation

For the youth of this nation

The dollar owns your soul

And you didn’t even know

That it was sold

We all slaves picking

Plucking for the masters

Given pleasures that we break our back for

So we don’t act up more

Different levels to this shit

Hunger games wasn’t that far off slick

Cause now and then they

Look into the dark eye

And join the dark side

But I will not conform

I’m trying to get a reform going

I figured all this shit

Could start a bigger motion

I’m just toking and devoted

While system gets imploded

And y’all should notice

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