I'm a high plains drifter
And this old world done changed
Got a lot to give, much more to
Take from a rich man's plate
So i refuse to give it all to the game
Fallen epochs on my teeth but i aint atlas
Been in the game since we use hit the road with an atlas
I never read maps i just took the spliff when they passed it
Playing civilization on a broken down mac its
The performer life i lead like its all i knew
You can chop me down but you cant pull my roots
Indie venues shuttering, I saw that truth
Between that and streaming revenue bottoming through
We ride like its no tomorrow
Cuz there might be, living in the day after tomorrow
Fire and ice is all i see
Beats like this numb the sorrow
Beats like this come for your enemies
And fill the holos with hollows
Under the dodos nest i flew some
I value loyalty, so when the
Waters got high i knew id lose some
I never really sold weed but i grew some
Now its peach plum pear
I think im Joanna Newsom
You rappers confuse me
I hope I confuse you too
In this minotaur maze we fight to escape
Hot stepping through these bear traps
With busted ankles, they're stuck
At least I'm pulling my weight
No shade, but most rappers is all selling drugs and sex
Look at me funny cuz my songs
Is all capitalism is fucked & climate collapse
They wonder why i cant write shit like my old rhymes
I saw the smoke from the trade center with my own eyes
But these days the personal feels political
Parenting's a battlefield but
There's no med evac to carry you
Lets roll, 20 sided like D&D
I'm a ranger, chaotic good i must be anarchy
High plains drifter, wanderer, ghosting
I was a pirate then and the desert was like an ocean
Now the oceans like a cauldron
The cup overfloweth i guess yall like drowning
Don't fret we bringing the life preservers
We are diamonds drowned in dinosaur dungs
Modern life don't deserve us
My chipped teeth from busted mics the last thing they saw
Feral human, moving in silence you'll never hear me roar
Still wearing clothes from
I don't know way back
You time in the mirror, i spent mine in philosophy texts
You draw blanks, i draw on tanks succumbing to rust
You keep us under watch but when fema
Fails we'll see who's running to us
In the last world we had to show and prove
But mostly show
Cuz otherwise there was nothing to prove
What's anything worth? nobody knows
Set adrift you better learn the poem
You want the crown, people like me wanna burn the throne
Can't we all just get along
Can't we all just hit the reset and
Build a better world with our eyes closes?
Who am i kidding?
Entropy, these days the only
Mass movement that's hitting
I don't keep my motives hidden
Carry a new world on my sleeve
That's why I'm always digging
We were all babies once
The world fucked us up
That's why I'm never dissing
Except when these stupid motherfuckers never listen
We the ones the planets waiting for
The ones who tear the pipelines up
And declare an end to this single sided war
Till then I'll keep pushing that greed
From that surrounds us
Till cash no longer rules anything, around us
That's all i got
And that's a lot
One shovel and a pocket full of buckshots