[Chorus]
It's all smoke screens and pipe dreams
To keep the dope fiends on opiates, taught ropes and chain gangs
It's all smoke screens and pipe dreams
To keep the dope fiends on opiates, deception is copious

It's all smoke screens and pipe dreams
To keep the dope fiends on opiates, taught ropes and chain gangs
It's all smoke screens and pipe dreams
To keep the dope fiends on opiates, deception is copious

[Verse 1]
The powerful and humanistically deficient, often elude conviction
Through a rude addiction, blowin the bugle to show depictions
Of the proletariat as do gooders workin for common good
I search the noggin good, bobbin for something Robin Hood

The patronizing is stabilizing like vaporizing
So as we labor, the man with the saber's paper's rising
Christmas bonuses, only a loan cause business owns us
See the onus is on us to show no one controls us

I'm boner pills to blue jeans, riddled with semen stains
Pop off the top, swallow and then I watch the demon drain
The subtle slight of hand, man behind the curtain
This is the real evil, backroom deals, smoke screens and serpents

Converging interests, nepotism is incest
Rapid rhythms of business cause palpitations in men's chests
Capitalism sins best after we happily invest
Trapped in an algorithm where the mathematics has been fixed

[Chorus]
It's all smoke screens and pipe dreams
To keep the dope fiends on opiates, taught ropes and chain gangs
It's all smoke screens and pipe dreams
To keep the dope fiends on opiates, deception is copious

It's all smoke screens and pipe dreams
To keep the dope fiends on opiates, taught ropes and chain gangs
It's all smoke screens and pipe dreams
To keep the dope fiends on opiates, deception is copious

[Verse 2]
We're deactivating unions and captivating the humans
With the crap factories make, detach realities and tune in
Approach singularity, businesses with the power, we
Fightin for workin hourly, letting a few in

And keep the rest out, while we beat breasts about
Being the best, eagle crest, but the nest is out
Of many people's reaches, ignore what Jesus teaches
Depart to places of poverty with the regal beaches

Rewarding greedy leeches, who steal when they reach us
With credit cards, we sit at bars and drink away the stress that slowly eats us
We take the sins and maladies of the seniority
Fuck it, I'm spinnin a vision, original tragedy, my story see

I'm solid gold, acknowledge boldly my influence
In a country that's stolen from the cousins of the Inuits
Some hangin by the boot straps, the noose cracks the neck
That's the true tax, this view has the youth packin techs

[Chorus]
It's all smoke screens and pipe dreams
To keep the dope fiends on opiates, taught ropes and chain gangs
It's all smoke screens and pipe dreams
To keep the dope fiends on opiates, deception is copious

It's all smoke screens and pipe dreams
To keep the dope fiends on opiates, taught ropes and chain gangs
It's all smoke screens and pipe dreams
To keep the dope fiends on opiates, deception is copious

[Verse 3]
A meritocracy is like Heaven, so hard to see
Cause bureaucracies tend to block vision in botched democracies
And our greed's simply like God risen with the power to build Byzantines
We say our mission's clean while we keep our prison's mean

Control with mortar, we order wars at the border
The drones touring and slaughtering children, oops, at the corner
Call it necessary casualties, we're less than fragile, see
We're blastin assholes east for everlasting peace

And everywhere I see a sedentary population
People controlled by the roles of Uncle Sam's narration
New Jim Crow, a throwback to those who
Told Blacks to go and don't act like you don't know

I got the focus, though, to see the hocus pocus go
A plague of locusts, no, it's just the age of hopeless so
On the stage my opus blows, under the dopest flows
As I retire to the pyre, catch fire and smoke