who s world is this to tell you the truth i m not sure feeling more and more like we fighting for a lost cause my jaw drops as i watch on the box see the planes shot out of the sky and wonder what for we can do better now more than ever hear the cries out in tahrir square we want more but there s war going on across the seas blood flowing in the streets over power and greed i guess it s just human nature tryna intervene gaza strip auschwitz kosovo hiroshima i picture these moments like what if it was me but i m home safe and sounds just watching it on the screen stuck between a horror movie and a disney scene right and wrong and everything in between so i write these songs my therapy s in these beats when the mic is on my enemies see defeat but time ticks on and everything will repeat what a wise man once said to me my reply was needless still i kept gathering the pieces to help me as i m writing out my thesis on the most curious of creatures students and teachers sinners and preachers tycoons and street sweepers engineers in hard hats presidents and ministers made from the very same bone flesh and ligaments crooks and thieves in pursuit of some crooked beliefs who do some things that you wouldn t believe thought about it too long what i wouldn t achieve now i rock a bye a baby tryna put em to sleep i had a subway conversation with an angel who had killed a man explained to me that we re each part of a bigger plan we sat and kicked it he talked and i listened tryna soak up his wisdom in that instant i understood this twisted system we all so complicit in it just components in the same mechanism each taking turns playing out the rhythm don t know any different though we never gave permission ain t a lot on this rock i can call my own but the space around my head is a no fly zone in this cold barren land that i call my home a king amongst many s waiting on a throne so what have we learned whats the lesson for today for all the never ending days and restless nights that morality is transient that to be honest is to be flawed the story is simple the who and the why is the complex part the human the only part worth knowing peace