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we be trapped in a human zoo
if you read more d. morris you'd see too
they just feed more greed for us, who eats food?
we are fiend-whores, sleep more than QE2

we ain't awake to the deeds we do,
the dudes we doom
with kids wearing BDUs
TV tube defeats thinking, we leak drool
we're left numb, dumbstuck with the greasy gruel

the truth is we ain't even people, shoot
i'm a beast, so are you, are we free or fools?
we've completely fused our freak gene pool
with machines.
what a dumb thing to do.

robots ain't got nothing different
we're just got cogs and gears in the system
and y'all don't want to hear what i'm spitting
but that's all right
y'all feeling the rhythm, dance.

(i change shapes just to hide in this place but i'm still animal.
nobody knows it but me, when i slip, yeah, i'm still an animal.)

it's so sick how we stick with the dominance
we're so thick we insist we are commoners
we won't admit we could fix what is wrong with us
we exist amidst broke promises

y'all should be so pissed cause they conquered us
y'all just sit smoke drink watching monitors
i been thinking we'd escape from this holocaust
i been thinking if we can't maybe all is lost

i been worried for a while cause these people
lie and be deceitful, why they gotta be so violent and evil?
how we gonna beat colonizers if we're weak, though?
tiger's gonna eat us

i could be a hero, i could be a quake
i could be asleep or i could awake
fight like a snake, run away like an antelope
i change shapes like a goddamn animal

we're animals, raised by demons, touched by angels
praised by heathens, caught by slaves, shamed for speaking
i change shapes but i can't help being an animal
you are too. this here: the human zoo
no fear, we'll pull through
them gold fields for my own tooth.
we were free but we been caged
force-fed grains, domesticated
we're in pain. and don't you hate it?
we gotta face it. we're all crazy.
we ain't fight back? we ain't leave?
man, what are we, beasts or fiends?
an animal. thats all i am.
not a god. not a goddamn businessman.

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from Awake (2010), released June 1, 2010
produced by Miike Snow

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Zack de la Rouda Portland, Maine

i write songs and rap about weird stuff like love self-actualization civilization depression anarchism and taoism i like to eat from the garbage even though it's kinda hard to find organic stuff there i spend a lot of time alone somehow i am still releasing music ... more

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