What's it all really mean? Authentic aspirations conflated with silly dreams You don't really love her Billie Jean but the kid is ours cause the inequity, ineptitude and the prisons ours Reapin' what we sow as I get deeper in these flows Truth watered down as you feel that you deeper in the know Livin' for the yes's but feel deeper in the no's There's value in solitude, but it's cheaper with the bros Voice of a generation, I'm a sleeper, you should know Shhhhh You hear that creakin' in the door? That's me creepin' in the door While the flood of all the feelings you been harborin' start leakin' on the floor We all gon be cast to sea whether you actually see all the travesty Why be a student to be abandoned by the faculty? So all the best pupils turn to oligarchs I'm from where schools of minnows get minused if you are not a shark The manhood fragile The plans push cattle The judgment that come from our hostile often made by the clan hood's gavel Appointed by the masters of the masses What's a celebrity really but a distraction? Pledge to a constitution of captions Idles I aspired to back then is all collapsin' Off of the traction I'm feelin' trapped in Every verse I ever did was meta so I'm prepared for whatever My greatness ain't defined by the space that occupies How can I be optimist when I gotta optimize? Success is limited, how can I nine out for mines? It was the best and the worst of times Directionless as I ascend, while the world declines Searchin' for a purpose, I am tryin' do essential work where artists just nurse the blind