[video=youtube;KMcqG-2g2o4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMcqG-2g2o4[/video] This generation of apathy Suffocating the movements impassioning me We dont know, dont see, dont care cuz The passing day comes in this land of opportunity No need to acknowledge those who wont see it through with me Were so arrogant we think we made this life for ourselves When our starting position leads some into riches and others to cells You get one experience, one life to understand but the harder part is put yourself in the plights of another man But not even the individual but the context in which he lives Society is about the masses and the systems in which it gives Back to the kids who didnt have the same experience With the same capabilities but not the tools to use it wit Free education is only a step on the ladder When we see povertys effects and the places in which it scatters Between health, teen pregnancy, drug abuse and social capital Concentrated in masses to only cycle and most of all Keep the distributions of wealth to those who influence the laws Rags to riches stories are turned into fantasies When the aggregate statistics turn these into systemic fallacies But the consumerism in us all will keep us from fulfilling The system of equality in which we all wish to be living Year after year well watch as it comes to collapse As if the reoccurring story of recessions dont call for an adjusted path Each time we reach a gap as large as it was in the last And the same elite voices say decline in the market wont come to pass But the real failure is our faith in the market To assume self-interest will lead to a collective justice We fail to see the conflicting interests just dont judge us Correctly on what truly our universal values can be Its obvious to see that outside our economic and cultural system We wouldn't question caring for the environment, the working class and women Like when you hear of nations with females beaten Threatened to conform to a system that assumes their inferior existence Or at home bashing millions not for their choices but their sexualitys natural persistence to love who they love, or simply desire in bed we get stuck in our head judgments we made before the world hit us no need for rational argument or data, just give up take the opinion and ride to the sunset Assume Im wrong before were even done, yet This is going on at the massive scale Allowing dominance from the matrix of every characteristic that we currently avail Wealth, race, gender, and all the rest Re-installing the policies that maintain their status the best But as the world turns the demographics will tip And well see the lies of the powerful will continue to slip With no help from the media outlets decreasing in numbers All to push agendas but not to educate their viewers We rarely hear a study ever taken for what it states But manipulated to make petty points to the politically irate And its only to perpetuate the driving extremism in thought Making gains from the rest of us being fed up, forgotten and bought But what will it take to turn this country around An investment from the people that is hard to be found Because sometimes an illusion is easier than the reality With all the same dissonance that those with religious texts see When a comfort of belief overcomes the passion to change There is really no boundary to where apathy will continue to range We pass theocratic oppression off as reasonable multiculturalism The gender expectations of boys and girls as the natural order of em And when all is said and done we know this to be wrong But our apathy and burden to care turns us to the long Path. Until we change the foundations.
