CHORUS:
I’m an alarm clock,
tryna wake you up.
You could tell me to quit,
but you don’t want me to stop.
I’m an alarm clock.
I gotta wake you up.
I get so turned off.
It’s a labor of love.

I couldn’t stop rapping even if I wanted to,
enough slacking I could see I got a job to do.
I try to stay humble even though it’s obvious,
god brought me down to earth to be an oracle.
a fortune teller talking bout the future like i’m doc,
my delorean parked around the block with marty in it.
hardly written i’ve been handed these lyrics from down on high.
i been tryna write the chronicle of we’re gonna rise
to the challenge, i see it coming like a calendar
my people bout to rally like the calvary of camelot round babylon
i spy the finish like a marathon or sweden
we won’t be defeated like sinise in forrest gump
you thought i’d given up? i just evolved like us all
became an eagle from a scorpion
now i’m talking to the audience, tryna wake ‘em up
nobody wanna hear it like alarm clocks going off

CHORUS

i’m so loud they tell me to tone it down
i tell ‘em no one gon listen if i whisper so i shout
i have to talk about it, it actually is accurate factually like gravity
apple to the ground, let me ask around
what do we think that we have figured out?
we’re better than everybody cause cities let us live like crowned kings?
that’s astounding. we wanna conquer the galaxy but i’m doubting it
we gotta stay grounded, let’s go back to equality
when we lived in harmony in the garden of eden
and move onward. make our modern knowledge ecological
i’m not pol pot but cities are the problem plain and simple.
i paint a picture of a sinking ship.
before we’re swimming in the drink, think we should reconsider civilization…
i can’t be fake. to escape from the land of the snakes
we gotta get awake

CHORUS

try to take it one day at a time
gotta stay sane while ya playing the game, it’s a grind
yeah i feel pain but they ask me, i say that i’m fine
cause it’s choice that i made like a frame of mind
to quote werner herzog the poet musn’t avert their eyes
mines wide bearing witness to the worst of crimes
i fertilize seeds planted verbally
move you vertically in other words i could get you high
what you dreaming bout? speak about it
tell me every scene
realize it we should make it real in reality
stop sleeping
like the princess and the pea
you know we’re all slaves till each prisoner is free
and if that seems like a tall order from the top office
know if you not a part of the solution it’s a problem
i acknowledge hard work is nature of the job
i’m an alarm clock
i gotta wake y’all up

CHORUS