Behan the Scene - Reality Lyrics

What you gon' do in your sleep
What you gon' do if awake
Are you aware of what's happenin'
Have you touched bases with reality? (Ha!)
I hope and pray we stay safe
There is "sane," there's "insane"
I know what's real and what's not
There is "fate," there is "faith"
There's nothin' much I can say
Oh, we're stuck in reality
Oh, we're stuck in reality
Oh, we're stuck in reality
Oh, we're stuck in reality
What's this place
What's the world that we've come to
If we can't live by its guidelines, then what's the point of the rules
You need to know that the time you got's not long
You just wasted your time-it's gone
And I mean, you're not listening-you're gone
Indeed, you ain't built for this all along
I ain't gon' trip with this, headstrong
What's it to a murderer who tries to change up but had the audacity to take one
They took parts of us and'll never make up everything they've cost in a blink of an eye
Everybody's fightin' for a piece of the pie, a gist of the prize, this world is a lie
Pent up by all the armory that's draped wit' our irony
Spent up, can't win the lottery, some kids are starving
See, it's all in stereo: trends brainwashing, the mainstream
It's the radio, same scenario
Take the good and then laugh, push that to the back
Put bad in, the vast majority's rap
We work when we young just to relax when we're old
Bills and mortgages, so what do we own
People born with a silver spoon in their throat, others scratch and claw to kick you off of your throne
Got us looking like savages, it's so disastrous
Gnawed to bits by lurkin' scavengers
Limbs ache, I'm staggerin'
Put our bones in piles like our souls don't matter (Hah)
Our lives depend on things that do not matter (Hah)
Riots risin', you can hear the clatterin'
Peace is a dyin' subject, do not ask why
Look around, what you see, huh
You're awake, sink that in (Ahh)
I do not cringe when y'all binge? Nah
I do not feel at home, who's those people next door
Generation of violence, feel like I'm destined for war
These are hard hittin' words that'll knock out
You're playin' yourself when you're gamblin', you better back out
You're playin' with death when you blaze it, put that cigar out
If you want to end it that way, then that's the fast route
If your life's worth the while, then you can cash out
Yeah, it's our finality, normality
Had to be this way 'cause we are stuck in reality
Oh, we're stuck in reality
Oh, we're stuck in reality
Oh, we're stuck in reality
Oh, we're stuck in reality
We're all cornered in the likes of this cell
Cannot escape from this prison, cannot escape in this jail
You can't trust anybody, seems you'll never make bail
The people that got a smile on they face are the same people wearin' a mask, and pathologically feint
Catastrophically indulged with no sight of restraint
Gain the enjoyment when you're blown out your brains
The same people who would end their lives because of a text that you sent
The same person that cries right after you leave because they feel they don't belong here, like how do they vent
I don't know what else I could rant about without startin' fires with need to stomp it out
We plant the seed
We plan the seed and yank and reap their own growth
Go to sleep every night and wake up-that's called "hope"
I'm down to teach, but soundin' like I'm bound to preach
Hate over-powers hate, love over-powers love
But does love over-power hate? I hate the fact love is questioned
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people"
People kneel 'neath you, need you feel equal
"Change won't come until you make a change"
"Don't let the fear of what could happen make nothing happen"
Don't you wish you had more time
But we take it, waste it
Faced it-our times late
Don't plan a future with someone with no future plans after
Don't you wish you lost nobody
Ever wondered what it'd be like if you could control everything
Yeah, don't drink another bottle before you pass out
You're playin' with health thinkin' it helps you with all them drugs
Now, you're playing yourself messin' wit' women, you let your guard down
Yeah, in this place things aren't what they appear to be, but this reality, everything's what it seems
Yeah, congratulations, you awake in reality
Welcome to the edge of reality, yeah