Lyrics: Colors of Truth

COLORS OF TRUTH

I write a verse to describe all these vibes, how they hurt

Through a lifetime of dead skin shed from the earth

Now it quakes because we take what should have stayed beneath the dirt

Now manipulates reality and spins the net worth

It creeps into the food

It slips into the drinks

It changes how we look and how our minds think

You gotta vision but distractions push it out of sight

Now you’ve got prescription eyes priced too high why

Cause it’s a struggle to exist

We try to find ourselves in life but we buy too much s***

Stuck inside a matrix that pacifies consumers

Instead of staying on your grind you’re caught up in the rumors

Sucks to be in debt so what the f*** are we doing

Decoration is disguised to mask what it ruins

Extra layers on the skin that we spread too thin

And the paint we use to cover up the truth when we pretend now

We used to say we made the robots

And now we answer to machines like they’re all gods

And now it’s downhill facing all these tall odds

We’re placed because we’re outpaced until we’re out of space

 

We’re still here so far for how long

We pay to stay alive and waste money made working overtime

24 hours you decide

how much time within a day that you allow to die

(repeat)

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