Inside Story (Explicit)

It's like somethin' just over the horizon

Wanna take a walk

Maybe see what we can find

Look long and hard

Look near and far

Above all things

Remember always look inside

Listen in to these words from a citizen of Earth's surface

Let's try and rewire the circuits

Determine a purpose

Meanwhile I'm strivin' for perfect

But homie perfect takes practice

And I find in these days and times I'm always

So d**n distracted they hit you like：

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So much to know

And so many things to own

TV in your home and your mobile phone

Make sure that you're never really alone

And it's pathetic like a global epidemic

Attention span so fragmented

So addicted to bein' connected we now gettin' updates by the second

Got us all time wastin' up on MySpace and Facebook

Prime for the takin'

Got the whole world hooked gettin' high on information

Post generation Y babies

They call 'em the digital natives

Hide behind their monitors as technology kills imagination

Excuse my cynicism

But a world where every kid's best friend is a computer

Is a system failure headed for an apathetic future

Just a few centuries back

They made maps of a flat world by candlelight

Now the whole world's at your fingertips

Mapped down to your street by satellite

So advanced from where we started

It's all so complexified

Brand names buy ad space in your mind

But they'll never get what's inside

I wasn't there when they wrote the rules

But I do my best to follow them

In this world of machines

We starvin' for oxygen

All I can offer is these words that I write

And I only give 'em what I know so I give 'em what's inside

Said I wasn't there when they wrote the rules

But I do my best to follow them

In this world of machines

We starvin' for oxygen

Where were you the day the humanity died

Searchin' for signs of life to reconnect with what's inside

Somewhere there's a room full of men

With suits lookin' up at rows of numbers

Terrified by the red in their eyes as arrows

Point down from the pressure they're under

They're sayin' we might drown in our own greediness

Livin' beyond our means

Chasin' dreams that we learnt off MTV Cribs

Look at what we did

Smog fills the sky and the cars line up at the servo

And I can't help but think to myself this

Can't be the way it was supposed to go

On the nightly news

Floods and bushfires

Earthquakes and tidal waves

Temperature's risin'

Armies fightin'

Bombs go off and sirens blaze

But we just tryna get by and occupy our spot on the timeline

So we change the channel to s*x

D**gs and violence programmed for prime time

Sit back in our chairs for some livin' room voyeurism

As reality TV turns all of life into a competition

Airbrushed magazine pages give us false idols to worship

Got us all so depressed that we can't live up to picture perfect

Sometimes I just wanna unplug and go back to basics

And I wonder what my story might'a

Been like somewhere else in history's pages

But here we stand

The sons and daughters of colonialism

Crossed over water just to be makin' our homes on stolen land

And me

I don't know the plan

I'm just here to play my part

Do my thing

Walk my path

Talk my s**t

Make my mark

I swear I wanna make a difference from the bottom of my heart

But I don't know how to fix it

Man

I wouldn't know where to start

So advanced from where we started

Images off the production line

We outta touch with what's inside

I wasn't there when they wrote the rules

But I do my best to follow them

In this world of machines

We starvin' for oxygen

All I can offer is these words that I write

And I only give 'em what I know so I give 'em what's inside

Said I wasn't there when they wrote the rules

But I do my best to follow them

In this world of machines

We starvin' for oxygen

Where were you the day the humanity died

Searchin' for signs of life to reconnect with what's inside