[Verse 1]
I lie awake in my bed
Rinky-dink apartment where I'm staying, laying my head
It's all I can afford when neighbors paying a leg
And an arm to stay ahead of all they favorite trends
Occasionally kids is spraying the lead
Another body for the bobbies probably laying there dead
They kicking in my door to make a way with my bread
So I'm blazing up this eighth and taking Js to the head
Twenty one six, its heavy gun shit
Everybody shooting each other till spaghetti lungs quit
Till you confetti, done, split your head to a gelatin mix
In Megacity One the judges deadly and quick
It's only a matter of time
Already road to the gold littered, scattered with mines
The phone to your dome, little rats on your lines
Three days away from shit'll shatter your lives
[Chorus]
We stand face to face with a new era
The dangerous pace that we move nearer
Holding on to a glimmer of hope
But the road to dystopia a slippery slope
We stand face to face with a new era
The dangerous pace that we move nearer
Holding on to a glimmer of hope
But the road to dystopia a slippery slope
[Verse 2]
I lie awake in my bed
Rinky-dink apartment where I'm staying, laying my head
People on the corner they are anxious for bread
Something that making them fed when every state in the red
Twenty two six, it's twenty two six
I want a piece of the pie, ready the Reddi Cool Whip
The stronghold grip clinching cities in its fist
Citizenry on the fritz military in the midst
Numb to the new era, guns and the new terror
Funds for the blue bearers so run from the goon's slammer
Fun for the news cameras, we dumb for the newest damage
Glued to tube when loose cannons go Bruce Banner
Your home peaking dog, Peeping Tom for they secret arm
This hell, not Orwell could foresee the farm
Of data they eating on, panopticon with speech alarms
Don't speak no harm, they recon on to check on each of y’all
[Chorus]
We stand face to face with a new era
The dangerous pace that we move nearer
Holding on to a glimmer of hope
But the road to dystopia a slippery slope
We stand face to face with a new era
The dangerous pace that we move nearer
Holding on to a glimmer of hope
But the road to dystopia a slippery slope
[Verse 3]
I lie awake in my bed
Ratty-ass apartment where I'm staying, laying my head
The planet is on fire major waves of the dead
So the state been cracking down and cracking brains like they eggs
Our boots are laced with a dangerous thread
As we stepping over angels raising daemons instead
Flirting with cursed Earth, pain to get fed
Could have had hope, settled for chaos and dread
Twenty three six, it's twenty three six
The rich live in privilege while the city is pissed
Down the drain with the rain, the pain of shitty abyss
A jittery mist sit thick from city to sticks
Silencing free speech means violence in these streets
Wilding police beat while tyranny speak sweet
Can't read about it cause they banning the books
Scan us we panicked and shook, damaged, we managed by crooks
[Chorus]
We stand face to face with a new era
The dangerous pace that we move nearer
Holding on to a glimmer of hope
But the road to dystopia a slippery slope
We stand face to face with a new era
The dangerous pace that we move nearer
Holding on to a glimmer of hope
But the road to dystopia a slippery slope
credits
from New Era,
released March 16, 2017
Written by MADic
Produced by MADic for MAD Dope Productions
Recorded by Chris Gibney at Big Yellow Duck
Mixed by MADic & Brian Newell
Mastered by Brian Newell (benewmusic.com)
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