When one group is elevated higher than the rest
and it happens at another's expense
the pretense
is making the situation tense
because the dividing separation (preverbal fence)
keeps the status quo in suspense.
You know you can't pretend
nothing is wrong unless you suspend
belief in the song
that you're taught to sing
reinforcing roles in society
taking no toll on rich piety
under the façade that we're all the same team
living the American dream.
Don't just individualize.
The problem lies
with stronger ties.
Excuses let abuses slide.
Institutions lose and victimize.
Hidden oppression suppresses confessional lessons and truth of the lessened suppressed.
Given a lesson just opens the brain, but to trying to change all the system's a mess.
and it happens at another's expense
the pretense
is making the situation tense
because the dividing separation (preverbal fence)
keeps the status quo in suspense.
You know you can't pretend
nothing is wrong unless you suspend
belief in the song
that you're taught to sing
reinforcing roles in society
taking no toll on rich piety
under the façade that we're all the same team
living the American dream.
Don't just individualize.
The problem lies
with stronger ties.
Excuses let abuses slide.
Institutions lose and victimize.
Hidden oppression suppresses confessional lessons and truth of the lessened suppressed.
Given a lesson just opens the brain, but to trying to change all the system's a mess.