Tentative War

If the air doesn't say it all
The floods will

If the floods don't spell it out
The bugs will
And if the famine for you isn't loud

The drugs will still make a promise of the end that the lungs feel
They say the lungs feel grief and the heart sits between
They say trust will be built on the backs of vaccines
See, if history takes too long to repeat
The people forget and forgive the elites
Like the person there now doesn't fill the same seat
In the same vehicle on the very same street
With the same destination and same driving feet
On the pedals with ties to the lights so they're green
Green, green

Nah, the plan's still the same

If the plague doesn't say it all
The tongue will

If the tongue gets deplatformed
The rung bell will warn the spirits of all who the lights come for
Lights come forth

Now guide your streaming winding force to
Minds that feel destroyed before it starts
Meaning sleeping
Wake up people as they're dreaming
Shock the masses into believing that listening to
News is not as powerful as listening to source
Check the source
Check the motivation
Is it unity or hatred?
Division with a new face or something sacred?

I've been here before
I've been here a million times
I've been here before
I've been here a million lives
I've been here before
I'll be here a million more
I know what this is
It's tentative war

Tentative war
Tentative war
Tentative war
Tentative war
Tentative war
Tentative war

I've been here before
I've been here a million times
I've been here before
I've been here a million lives
I've been here before
I've been here a million times
I know what this is

It's tentative war
It's tentative war
Tentative war

Like sparks in the rain
We're on two different planes now
Oh so divisive
All sacrifices
Oh but oh can we see where we're headed?
Please oh can we see

Tentative war
Oh can we see where we're headed for?
It's tentative war
Tentative war
Tentative war
Tentative war
Tentative war
Tentative war

I've been here before
In the very same place
I've been here before
Seen it on their face

It's tentative war
Tentative war

Like sparks in the rain
Tentative war

I wish my words could reach you

I wish my path could teach you
I wish that I could reach inside your mind
And plant a seed that you could grow a tree to

I wanna build a stage with 20,000 seats for you
To host a play so everyone can really see you
I wanna make you see through
I wanna be the one to help you see through
Obstacles you didn't even know had reached you
I wanna take the pressure off and bring you to a
Beach to soak your toes in water that can cleanse
The hell that bubbled up from far beneath you
You're bigger than that
You're higher

I'm bigger than rap
I'm earth, wind, ether and fire
I'm bigger than art
I'm human being
You're bigger than me
You're bigger than he
Bigger than she
Bigger than ego
So I'll go to places unpaved and wild

I'll take fear by the reins and reign supreme
Over lands unseen, untamed and unknown

I'm equipped with the heart of a child
The stress is on me
The pressure's on me
And as I sit alone I realize the size it's grown to
And I wonder why I gave them any of my space to call home to
I'm on a new leaf now and I float down a river toward
A sea I've never seen but I believe that it exists
Because if this is not reality then

I have not a dog to throw a bone to
A house to throw a stone through
A child to leave a throne to
Nor a throne