I was working out today, trying to get back on schedule, hoping it would make me feel a bit better (it did), and my iPod randomly selected
He Got Game by Public Enemy. It is
freakishly applicable to this past campaign.
It's best if you can actually listen to the song, but here are the lyrics that really touched me:
Amongst the fiends
Controlled by the screens
What does it all mean
All this shit I'm seein
Human beings scream vocal javelins
Signs of a local nigga unravelin'
My wandering
Got my ass wondering
Where Christ is
In all this crisis
Hatin' Satan
Never knew what nice is
Check the papers
While I bet on Isis
More than your eye can see
And ears can hear
Year by year
All the sense disappears
Nonsense perseveres
Prayers laced with fear
Beware
2 triple 0 is near
...
Does it matter?
Thought of reperations
Got 'em playin' with the population
Nothing to lose
Everything's approved
People used
Even murder's excused
White men in suits
Don't have to jump
Still there's 1001 ways
To lose wit the shoes
God takes care of old folks and fools
While the devil takes care
Of makin' all the rules
Folks don't even own themselves
Payin mental rent
To corporate presidents
One out of one million residents
Being dissident
Who ain't kissin it
The politics of chains and whips
Got the sick
Missin' chips and all the championships
What's love got to do
With what you got
Don't let a win get to your head
Or a loss to your heart
Nonsense perseveres
Prayers laced wit fear
Beware
2 triple O is near
...
These are some serious times
That we livin' in, G
And our new world order
Is about to begin
You know what I'm sayin'?
Now the question is,
Are you ready for the real revolution
Which is the evolution of the mind?
If you seek than you shall find
That we all come from the divine
You dig what I'm sayin'?
Now if you take heed to the words of wisdom
That are written on the walls of life
Then universally we will stand
And divided we will fall
'Cause love conquers all
You understand what I'm sayin'?
This is a call to all you sleeping souls
Wake up and take control of your own cycle
And be on the lookout for those spirits tonight
Trying to steal your light
You know what I'm sayin'?
Look what's inside yourself and
Peace, give thanks, live life and believe
You dig me?
You got me?
(Fade out while background chorus continues with "Stop, whoa, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down...")
I dig him.