Amnesia

Lyrics

[Hook]

Everybody swear they want the truth, but can you take it
Everybody swear they want the truth, but can you take it
Everybody swear they want the truth, but can you take it
Everybody swear they want the truth, but can you take it

[Verse 1]

So what exactly are we fighting?
Is it the president, a parliament, a face they printed
A painted image for the papers while the game stay scripted?
Is it the vampires in office watching a country bleeding
Stacking mula while they preach about achievement?
How many stolen futures 'fore a man look God in the face?
How many children gotta vanish 'fore we call this a disgrace?
They talk about the world is watchin
The world been watchin

Watched ships leave the coast packed tight with bodies
Watched profits get extracted while they talked about discoveries
Watched strangers draw lines on maps they couldn't even read
Then call the aftermath democracy and label it relief
Watched blood hit the dirt and get relabeled prosperity
Turn a tragedy to strategy, then market it as charity

Every time they talk of Africa like it fractured naturally
Tell me who built the factory, who drafted the machinery?
Who picked the managers?
Who stamped the passages?
Who kept shakin' hands with thieves long as the minerals kept travelin?
Everybody swear they want the truth

[Hook]

Everybody swear they want the truth, but can you take it
Everybody swear they want the truth, but can you take it
Everybody swear they want the truth, but can you take it
Everybody swear they want the truth, but can you take it

[Verse 2]

Everybody swear they different till they sittin' in the seat
Then they feed the same machine and call the cycle bittersweet
Now I'm watchin' people that invaded half the planet get dramatic
'Bout people coming legally like they ain't map and draft it
Some days it feel like we ain't fightin' oppression
What we really fightin' is amnesia
History swap the names around and somehow still defeat us

What good is information when attention goin' to auction?
Highest bidder buy your focus then resell your fear for profit
It's how you wake up scrollin' before you sit with your reflection
Know an IG baddie better than your own direction
Know the drama, know the headlines
Know the numbers and the timelines
And nobody gotta force dependence if they package it as freedom
Put a logo on the chain and watch the people say they need 'em

So what exactly are we fighting?
That's the piece I keep forgetting

[Hook]

Everybody swear they want the truth, but can you take it
Everybody swear they want the truth, but can you take it
Everybody swear they want the truth, but can you take it
Everybody swear they want the truth, but can you take it