Living Manual

I am automatic.

As in Autobots v. Decepticons?

Because deception is the only perception we can wrap our heads around,

As we get lead around like a Merry-Go-Round.

You have to be at least this tall to fall for all the lies that they have tried to shove down your throat until you choke on their second hand smoke.

There is no cure for deceit.

But it can be beat with beats off the street.

Stone hard flow. Watch me go. Silento only knows.

We can take arhythm from this beat in the streets to your feet make it sweet like honey and all the bees will come after.

We are not to be built of of hate and shame or who has all the fame because of how they play "The Game."

Single player mode only goes so far.

Maybe we are automatic.

Machines function with no perception.

Like a Merry-Go-Round at the fair.

But is it fair for them to ask of you to live in a life that you weren't made to?

Maybe they don't make you.

Maybe they just face you.

In the direction that they're expecting to geve them well do.

And maybe you can't fight it, with ignited you'll get burned. 

And maybe you can't face it, but how you take it shouts louder than words.

No need for the physical get whimsical and live it well do.

And maybe in time you'll go blind to the lies they show you. 

And maybe in time you'll go deaf and only hear when you need to.

And maybe in time you'll speak no matter what they put over you.

It's like fighting a battle in a losing war, lifting your max when you're too sore, singing when you don't know what for.

Switch your gears.

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