Music by Flash Poetry - https://www.instagram.com/_flashpoetry_/
Filmed by Alex Zakon - https://www.instagram.com/alex__zakon/
Listen on Spoitfy: https://open.spotify.com/track/2B7U3AyYBDc6Fzkdj2NkDO?si=25f9fd5a0d0c4148
Lyrics:
Sick of these isms and schisms inside this city, I’m simply too busy for the labels of the sixties, the commies and the hippies, the people in the movies, these cliches we’ve been using to draw all our conclusions
And really, it’s tricky, to be all that you might be , when the movies and newsfeeds keep giving you the breezy option, to believe these leads, that just are just too easy, please but you must believe me, we can handle complexity,
Actually we were made for it, have you read the instruction book, not the one from the government but the one from the Darwinists, sure we can be the tribalist, lying, cheating, conniving, but really for the conscious hominid, nothing’s obvious
Homo sapiens, we’re the creature that nature freed, we’re the diaspora forgers that are more than a war for genes, and it seems we’ve been designed with a need to find a tribe, but the black and white of these lines can blind us to the bigger scheme
Sick of these isms and schisms inside this city, I’m simply too busy for the labels of the sixties, the commies and the hippies, the people in the movies, these cliches we’ve been using to draw all our conclusions
Zoomers, boomers, hippies, doomers, youths & suits & loopy truthers
Normies, yuppies, gypsies, junkies, boojies, screws & 4 Chan users
Home investors, homeless vagrants, ravers, pagans, smokers, snowflakes
Stoners, shills and trolls and grifters, coders, bogans, marxist hipsters
Bankers, boozers, winners, losers, monks and punks and preachers, workers, twerkers, big flat earthers, ain’t it nice to feel so certain
Nazis, allies, socialistas, seekers, tweakers, born agains,
alt right, far left, new age fruit cakes, pick a side it’s us or them!
Sick of these isms, and schisms inside this city, hip to all the myths and the systems that feel so itchy, and really we clearly only got one ark, so I’m flipping the script and saying the rift is just a place to start
But you know the isms and the labels, they're not going anywhere, and in some ways we need them, the problem is that too often they end up being the last word on the matter, instead of the first
And we could talk capitalism, socialism, communism, Buddhism, nihilism
but no matter what you believe, one thing can be said
The universe desires complexity and the richness of the world and of our lives depends on our ability to be with that complexity and to support life in its perennial pushing of the envelope, or something like that
Living in a mind of tribal condition, trying not to be, so tied to the prison, of the mind's intuition fighting from our genes, but hidden from the vision is a critic wid a mission in a prison of the times and the lines we see, till we’re given back a vision of the spirit of the times and the light in the distance trying to be, so
Re-up the dream, free up the scene, beyond the memes, beyond the teams beyond the schemes, of neon belief, and the screenshot tweets of these epoch dreams
beyond the streams, beyond the screens, feet on the streets,
as we seek that we see, past the same old scenes and the age old creeds that will keep us weak till we free the dream!
Cops and cogs and market moguls, politicians, pentecostals, greedy landlords, seedy renters, Jesus freaks and doomsday preppers
Nihilistic, tribalistic, whiny rich kids, high on Xanax,
Bible bashing, anti-vaxxing, crypto, tech bro, cellphone addicts
Geezers, actors, tin-foil hatter Trumpists drain the swamp
alphas, betas, vegans, heathens, LGBTQAnons
Blue collar, white collar, old money, new money, northside, southside, your side, my side, red pill, blue pill, high life, low life, oh my, showtime, pick a side!
---
Single of upcoming Flash Poetry album 'Reality Now'.
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_flashpoetry_/
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/track/2B7U3AyYBDc6Fzkdj2NkDO?si=6ccb2361b9dd4c83
Linktree - https://linktr.ee/flashpoetry
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@_flashpoetry
Subtack: https://flashpoetryproject.substack.com/
Filmed by Alex Zakon - https://www.instagram.com/alex__zakon/
Listen on Spoitfy: https://open.spotify.com/track/2B7U3AyYBDc6Fzkdj2NkDO?si=25f9fd5a0d0c4148
Lyrics:
Sick of these isms and schisms inside this city, I’m simply too busy for the labels of the sixties, the commies and the hippies, the people in the movies, these cliches we’ve been using to draw all our conclusions
And really, it’s tricky, to be all that you might be , when the movies and newsfeeds keep giving you the breezy option, to believe these leads, that just are just too easy, please but you must believe me, we can handle complexity,
Actually we were made for it, have you read the instruction book, not the one from the government but the one from the Darwinists, sure we can be the tribalist, lying, cheating, conniving, but really for the conscious hominid, nothing’s obvious
Homo sapiens, we’re the creature that nature freed, we’re the diaspora forgers that are more than a war for genes, and it seems we’ve been designed with a need to find a tribe, but the black and white of these lines can blind us to the bigger scheme
Sick of these isms and schisms inside this city, I’m simply too busy for the labels of the sixties, the commies and the hippies, the people in the movies, these cliches we’ve been using to draw all our conclusions
Zoomers, boomers, hippies, doomers, youths & suits & loopy truthers
Normies, yuppies, gypsies, junkies, boojies, screws & 4 Chan users
Home investors, homeless vagrants, ravers, pagans, smokers, snowflakes
Stoners, shills and trolls and grifters, coders, bogans, marxist hipsters
Bankers, boozers, winners, losers, monks and punks and preachers, workers, twerkers, big flat earthers, ain’t it nice to feel so certain
Nazis, allies, socialistas, seekers, tweakers, born agains,
alt right, far left, new age fruit cakes, pick a side it’s us or them!
Sick of these isms, and schisms inside this city, hip to all the myths and the systems that feel so itchy, and really we clearly only got one ark, so I’m flipping the script and saying the rift is just a place to start
But you know the isms and the labels, they're not going anywhere, and in some ways we need them, the problem is that too often they end up being the last word on the matter, instead of the first
And we could talk capitalism, socialism, communism, Buddhism, nihilism
but no matter what you believe, one thing can be said
The universe desires complexity and the richness of the world and of our lives depends on our ability to be with that complexity and to support life in its perennial pushing of the envelope, or something like that
Living in a mind of tribal condition, trying not to be, so tied to the prison, of the mind's intuition fighting from our genes, but hidden from the vision is a critic wid a mission in a prison of the times and the lines we see, till we’re given back a vision of the spirit of the times and the light in the distance trying to be, so
Re-up the dream, free up the scene, beyond the memes, beyond the teams beyond the schemes, of neon belief, and the screenshot tweets of these epoch dreams
beyond the streams, beyond the screens, feet on the streets,
as we seek that we see, past the same old scenes and the age old creeds that will keep us weak till we free the dream!
Cops and cogs and market moguls, politicians, pentecostals, greedy landlords, seedy renters, Jesus freaks and doomsday preppers
Nihilistic, tribalistic, whiny rich kids, high on Xanax,
Bible bashing, anti-vaxxing, crypto, tech bro, cellphone addicts
Geezers, actors, tin-foil hatter Trumpists drain the swamp
alphas, betas, vegans, heathens, LGBTQAnons
Blue collar, white collar, old money, new money, northside, southside, your side, my side, red pill, blue pill, high life, low life, oh my, showtime, pick a side!
---
Single of upcoming Flash Poetry album 'Reality Now'.
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_flashpoetry_/
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/track/2B7U3AyYBDc6Fzkdj2NkDO?si=6ccb2361b9dd4c83
Linktree - https://linktr.ee/flashpoetry
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@_flashpoetry
Subtack: https://flashpoetryproject.substack.com/