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Born To Die

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Born To Die

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Not a human, not afraid

I will not comply, I will not obey

See the plan is to depopulate

But the body can overcome anything, fuck what a doctor say

Fans shaking me like Bobby wake up

Chip on my shoulder, I was holdin' a grudge

I wanted to be loved more than I wanted to love

But hey, what can I say, fame's a hell of a drug

Born a slave to a tyrant

It's goin' take more than just petitions and riots

Are we headed for a future of being indebted to credit

Hopin' the next leader elected will trump the one we beheaded

Words the wealthiest rappers will never utter

'Them checks they throwin' to niggas a motherfucker'

Seems like the future was brighter when I was younger

(Seems like the future was brighter when I was younger)

I'm torn between performing and rewriting the norm

Am I born to transform or just to die and move on

Be the life that people mourn while reciting all my songs

To the battle I am sworn

Beaten down to the pulp for being different

You question old tradition they just say you superstitious

Like a snake that eats its own tail, the economic system

Public schools the babysitter, health care is the modern day Adolf Hitler

Fact check, ever since the internet

Molestation multiplied by a million percent

Your aunts and uncles, niece and nephews all align with the shit

History shows for speaking up my whole life is at risk

Yeah I'm cocky, kamikaze, who gon' stop me?

Illuminati? Neo-Nazis? They do me how they do Cosby

When you winnin' they gon' love you till you lose like Ronda Rousey

Every revolutionary they execute 'em proudly

It go JFK, nope, MLK, nope

Since Lennon got smoked, it's clear they don't want us to have hope

They tore down our houses, replaced it with dope

And say that it's our fault, false!

You wanted to fight

So you wanna be brave

So you found the line and you've seen the truth and you feel betrayed

Well it comes with cost

A price too large

Cause if we're really just born to die

I'd rather never been born at all

Stay in school they said, use your tools they said

But being on TV looks pretty cool I said

That's true I said, must I remind myself

These corporations aren't your friends, you should've signed yourself

They, they, who are they? They are us

We are they, the pyramids started at the top, we just mimic and behave

The same way, Babylon brainwaves

Human incarceration's the modern day slave trade

Cost of college, cost of living so high you can't maintain

All you can do is sell pills, drink tea

Struggle to make mortgage and re-up by payday

And the wealthiest families split it up eight ways

You wanted to fight

So you wanna be brave

So you found the line and you've seen the truth and you feel betrayed

Well it comes with cost

A price too large

Cause if we're really just born to die

I'd rather never been born at all

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