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Society Bound


No I am not perfect, and I mean that shit sincerely

However my strengths be a lot greater than my fears be

Young, stupid, insecure, immature

I wanna be a man but my mental stature is too miniature

Are you surprised? I mean I was foolish enough to let social influence enter my interior

And force to me to believe that my way of life was inferior

Clothes, trends, and popularity.  I call it all scripted acting 

I tried, and tried to obtain but was told i was lacking

So fuck it I'm don't slacking

I'm wasting my life trying to be like them so I'm outta here lemme get the packing

Society's version of perfect is more than overrated

The minds of these cowards today are so saturated

Everybody wanna be Beyonce, everybody wants to be Lebron James

Everybody wants to be Mike Vick, everybody wants that Kim K. fame

With or without the ass shot

You'll be another mascot 

To pop culture's current fad

Damn it really makes me mad

But at the same time it makes me glad

That through my trials and tribulations I was able to find my greatest strength is the opposite of illiteracy

I found insight and wisedom after I broke from chains of pop culture society

Unpopular? Yea I might be

But I have the wisdom of a person about my age times three

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