Rats
from Mirrors (BBP52) by Elliot Fresh & Fish
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lyrics
RATS - Elliot Fresh & Fish
Wu-tang were bang on the money regarding Cream
Because we're all born addicted from the start we're fiends.
Everything's a scam in a market of thieves all marketing schemes
Like you can be part of this dream.
First pick a dream in this game of corporate debauchery
But if you pick your own you'll be reported to the thought police.
Silly pigs stop and search you with a sort of gormless glee
Painted on the their school bully victim face awkwardly.
Kids are taught to read at school but between the lines,
Which is necessary if big brother wants us to believe his lies.
The poor are nothing more than paupers and need to be demonised,
The rich act like they're exempt from the slice of the reaper's scythe.
It's all smoke and mirrors masking pyramid schemes,
Bankers act like economic growth is infinite "please",
Do the maths only to find that something isn't adding up
the extinction level event introduction had it sussed.
Go worship your CCTV gods
The recordings of which the rich and greedy watch,
Mapping out our lives in this Winston Smith britain
Wear that cage of rats mask and loosen up to double thinking.
Go worship your CCTV gods
The recordings of which the rich and greedy watch,
Mapping out our lives in this Winston Smith britain
Wear that cage of rats mask and loosen up to double thinking.
If The Wire taught me anything it's follow the money
And the moment the owners of that money clock on then hurry.
Coz being rich today means having had to stab a back or two,
Thus they're paranoid that we'll attack so they put tabs on you.
"Protecting investments" lesson 1 of it's ethics,
Fuck you pay me with your life we ain't extending your credit.
We've already 'lent' you what we knew you couldn't pay back
The debt collectors have been sent and need a head to take back.
Good business is very bad for humanity
And tears consciousness in two with it's fractured reality.
Companies advertise that their love for you's pure
But I'll hedge a bet you'd get a better response fucking a corpse.
They exploit your insecurities and bleed your dry
Yet we never question them too eager to believe their lies.
It's too easy to believe they're right
So spend your way out of this breakdown and everything'll be alright.
Wu-tang were bang on the money regarding Cream
Because we're all born addicted from the start we're fiends.
Everything's a scam in a market of thieves all marketing schemes
Like you can be part of this dream.
First pick a dream in this game of corporate debauchery
But if you pick your own you'll be reported to the thought police.
Silly pigs stop and search you with a sort of gormless glee
Painted on the their school bully victim face awkwardly.
Kids are taught to read at school but between the lines,
Which is necessary if big brother wants us to believe his lies.
The poor are nothing more than paupers and need to be demonised,
The rich act like they're exempt from the slice of the reaper's scythe.
It's all smoke and mirrors masking pyramid schemes,
Bankers act like economic growth is infinite "please",
Do the maths only to find that something isn't adding up
the extinction level event introduction had it sussed.
Go worship your CCTV gods
The recordings of which the rich and greedy watch,
Mapping out our lives in this Winston Smith britain
Wear that cage of rats mask and loosen up to double thinking.
Go worship your CCTV gods
The recordings of which the rich and greedy watch,
Mapping out our lives in this Winston Smith britain
Wear that cage of rats mask and loosen up to double thinking.
If The Wire taught me anything it's follow the money
And the moment the owners of that money clock on then hurry.
Coz being rich today means having had to stab a back or two,
Thus they're paranoid that we'll attack so they put tabs on you.
"Protecting investments" lesson 1 of it's ethics,
Fuck you pay me with your life we ain't extending your credit.
We've already 'lent' you what we knew you couldn't pay back
The debt collectors have been sent and need a head to take back.
Good business is very bad for humanity
And tears consciousness in two with it's fractured reality.
Companies advertise that their love for you's pure
But I'll hedge a bet you'd get a better response fucking a corpse.
They exploit your insecurities and bleed your dry
Yet we never question them too eager to believe their lies.
It's too easy to believe they're right
So spend your way out of this breakdown and everything'll be alright.
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from Mirrors (BBP52),
released October 12, 2016
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BBP is an independent record label specialising in grassroots hip hop. Birthed in the 90's, officially established in
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