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Slither In The Grass (feat. No Good Neighbors)

from A New Age by Christopher Michael Jensen

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Track 11

lyrics

[Christopher Michael Jensen]
Heightened stakes in the United States, I'm sick o' this
Things are hard to swallow like cement mix and I'ma shit a brick
Incredulous what we can digest and it's insidious
Ridiculous hypocritical idiots with ill intent
Got me thinkin' militant, like how can someone live with it
Millions actin' like they don't even give a shit
The public doesn't follow politics like it isn't significant
Well, maybe you'd think it is if you lived in Flint, Michigan
Where they're more concerned with penny-pinchin' than their own citizens
Corrosive pipelines are poisonin' sinks with lead
Killin' men, women, and children when they go drink from them
Literal political toxicity's imminent
These ideologues are cogs destroyin' the innocent
Sycophants to a machine feeding off ignorance
You can spell it out, but if we're just kept illiterate
The rich get richer while pissing on their constituents

[Christopher Michael Jensen]
Ain't no tellin' what these people might do
Ain't no tellin' what these people might do
Slither in the grass with their fingers in the cash
You can look me in the eyes but I see right through
Ain't no tellin' what these people might do
Ain't no tellin' what these people might do
Slither in the grass with their fingers in the cash
You can look me in the eyes but I see right through

[Seiler]
Your broken system of tokenism, throw 'em in prison
Make a million off 'em, never offer 'em ways to do it different
It's supervision, or pseudo visions of hoop commitments
Or blue and crimson, illuminatin' the room you live in
No room for livin', the air is thick with arrogance
Perilous for the parentless derelicts that ain't scared o' shit
America's but a plea bargain while we starvin'
Elephants enter the room, hee-hawin'
Keep talkin' out your culo, cool, bro
You'll get exposed faster than Janet Jack' at the Sup' Bowl
I can look in your pupils and tell that you can't be trusted
I ain't one to be fucked with
Call 'em out when they're bluffin'
We ballin' without a budget
Your budget's out, now you're ballin'
Pardon me for my mouth, but right now you're part of the problem
Had falling-outs with the law, corrupted, cuff 'em, and box 'em
Right when you think you know 'em, you really don't know shit about 'em

[Christopher Michael Jensen]
Ain't no tellin' what these people might do
Ain't no tellin' what these people might do
Slither in the grass with their fingers in the cash
You can look me in the eyes but I see right through
Ain't no tellin' what these people might do
Ain't no tellin' what these people might do
Slither in the grass with their fingers in the cash
You can look me in the eyes but I see right through

[North Star Wisdom]
Cruise blacked out and never back down
I bring the crack sound of black crowns fallin' fast, often passed down
I pass out and wake up to the snakes in the grass
And if you can't swallow the pain, then you ain't blazin' the path
Or baptizing that silence, chastising that ego
Blindsided by the underground, they pop pop and reload
On some fuck cops and blood offerings to cop a kilo
I'd rather jump off a bridge than be caught up in that disease, though
After we go rock a show, I'm watchin' Zeitgeist with cats with nine lives
Still smack a wise guy for downing black lives
I've been the scapegoat, the black sheep, the whiskey, and the rye
I've seen the war outside and never been so unafraid to die
They sanctify the flag and crucify your martyrs
We break the silence, pray for quiet, euthanize the market
Stock prices fall, interest rates rise into the atmosphere
It's make-or-break, so cover the bones up under the carpet

[Christopher Michael Jensen]
Ain't no tellin' what these people might do
Ain't no tellin' what these people might do
Slither in the grass with their fingers in the cash
You can look me in the eyes but I see right through
Ain't no tellin' what these people might do
Ain't no tellin' what these people might do
Slither in the grass with their fingers in the cash
You can look me in the eyes but I see right through

credits

from A New Age, released April 26, 2017
Written and performed by Christopher Michael Jensen, Matt Seiler, and Jake Pfaff

Produced by North Star Wisdom

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