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Enough Praying (prod. Travis Austin)

from End Civilization (2011) by Zack de la Rouda

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This is my go-to song when I want to explain The Whole Message to folks I haven't met before. Shame about that snare.

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this the realest shit i ever wrote:

my buddies say that peoples' nature is to blame for the problems of our system, but i disagree.
my studies lead me to believe we been deceived by our politics and history. just listen, please.
when i'm speaking i'm pleading for equality and happiness and harmony and partying,
but also i am praying to god that what i'm saying aloud will make sense,
and some of y'all will grok it.
acknowledge knowledge that ain't taught in any colleges,
you try to talk about this but they call it inappropriate and
really it just boggles my mind how we all follow the lines,
we're caught up living in a culture of lies.
it's shocking me how often we fight,
if we're wrong or we're right,
we are all either deaf, dumb or blind,
just rest all the time, like, "let's go get high and fucked up,"
that's what's up when you stressed from the grind.
we have messed up our lives. i'm depressed because i think
i'm better than a god damn 7 to 9.
i'm fed up with signing my name by the fine print and
i ain't even ever been offered a dime for my music.
i do this for the truth like a prophet. what we got's a problem and we really got to stop it now,
knock it down and get out alive.
it could not stand the test of the process of time.

look, civilization is unsustainable
'cause it requires exploitation in order to maintain
a crop-space; perpetual growth that it needs to float, murder we wrote,
what this means is we're all slaves.
with your shocked face maybe you're trying to say that this is our fate,
that we been following these steps to space because we got faith.
i'm saying, please, man, we must stop sleep, enough praying.

we've existed for 2 million years healthier than any superfluous modern doctor could imagine,
we had no vaccines, no IVs, no cancer, no diabetes, no lie, man.
now we're chilling with 10 thousand years of illness getting worse from the moment we embarked along this path
what we eat, how we live, how we teach our kids to compete, and hold heat, it's bad, fam
and these machines have only been here for a minute. imagine the damage they already inflicted.
try to fathom what happens when you sacrifice a planet on the altar of progress and privilege...
and it looks a lot like this
an audience filled with lots of lost kids
what i'm talking to you about is often hushed up
we ain't even wanna know what the cost is
still, we are pawns for a price
we feel small but we say it's all right
like we ain't wanted this but we got it now
and it's all just "struggle or die"
but we must realize what the real lies are
feel my bars, they were built by god
captured on film to reveal my thoughts
saying, honestly, the system is the problem.

look, civilization is unsustainable
'cause it requires exploitation in order to maintain
a crop-space; perpetual growth that it needs to float, murder we wrote,
what this means is we're all slaves.
with your shocked face maybe you're trying to say that this is our fate,
that we been following these steps to space because we got faith.
i'm saying, please, man, we must stop sleep, enough praying.

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from End Civilization (2011), track released April 22, 2011
produced by Travis Austin

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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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