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Cutting up the subtlety, who needs it anyways?
My logic will keep me safe until the end of days
I cut em up, ripped out its eyes, prepared me to be crucified
If everything turns out my way then we just might survive

Oh you're a big strong man: a thinker and a saint
You've got big, big plans to justify your hate
You're a phony and a pessimist, a far cry from a scientist
You’ll jump through hoops to justify the loss of human life.

You got a new trolley problem that'll put us to the test
and a modern day interpretation of the fate of Sisyphus
Your blood is formed from your echo chamber corner of the internet
a walking frankensteined amalgam human Ship of Theseus
Exceptions to everything on the list
You can't be yourself, c'mon think of the kids!
Accessories born to a life of war crimes
Through logic we’ll find you should take your own life

You're not playing devil's advocate you're simply just
an attention starved contrarian that's overwhelmed with lust
I get your not an evil person just misunderstood
and all the poverty and misery is for the greater good
Its nihilism/stoicism that controls your thoughts
well it would be if you understood the concepts that you flaunt
I don't think I'm making progress I don't think I’ll change your mind
so by your own logic it'd be better if you died.

You got a new trolley problem that was never really fair
its not subjective analytics that you never really cared about
You're an idiot, a liar, a stupid fuckin loser
and the poster boy test subject for the likes of Dunning-Krueger
You claim it’s possible not probable to get under your skin
well that's because you see communities as just a game to win
The means of production can't be seized through automatics
I don't need a lecture on the benefits of new eugenics

If morality is subjective by its own definition
guess it's fine that we shoot at any sign of opposition
“Please don't blame me. I was just following orders
I was told to kill and maim anyone looking at the border”
Someday you’ll reap the seeds you sow when you find yourself alone
clean the glass walls of your home then go back to throwing stones When the world begins to shatter, find your rhetoric doesn't matter
hold the tongue of empty chatter, as we reconstruct the ladder
does that fit into your planner?


Through the uncanny valley standing on a box of soap
and a cliff hanging finale complete with 50 feet of rope
You're debating undergrads who are just scared of being shot
Your little questions aren't that clever you’re just an annoying little fuck.

You claim it's a free country citing freedom of speech
Yet complain the game is rigged when you even hear the word impeach
If your crusade is so righteous and you can put me in my place
prove to me you're not a coward and just say it to my face.

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from Self Sufficient, released September 13, 2024

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