Rules Of The Game

The world's on fire but I've seen it before
Every time I see the smoke burn a little bit more
At the cost of everybody who had nothing to lose
Just to save the higher ups from inhaling the fumes
We've been playing to lose
I heard change is coming soon and I'm praying it's true
I don't know about an afterlife but maybe this proof
That we in it already and we just stuck in the loop
Man I cut to the news, like
Close my eyes and cover my ears
I don't like what I see and I don't want none of it here, nah
Driving off but I'm stuck in the gear
Look in the rear-view, something is near
Got me wondering

How can
I be
Something?
When I see
My world
Crumbling?
Can't turn a blind eye
Time and time and time again
Wiping down the tears to cry again
And dry again, I
No I can't go much more
My soul's been drained
From playing by the rules of this game

Look
Aye
It's hard to care about celebrity gossip
When the blood up on their hands is spillin' on the red carpet
Take it up the chain that's where it really gets the darkest
They'll place a couple targets and sell it to the market
In and out of every other country for a profit
Not really an activist but active for the causes
Always saw the line but I was never scared to cross it
Always paid the price and never cared bout what it costed
I heard a CEO just caught a bullet to the chest
I almost wish he would've lived to feel the fullest of effects
And see the world celebrate what could've been addressed
If he had looked out for the people instead of putting em in debt
Crazy how that works, I think it's crazier to hurt
A couple hundred million people tryna pay for what it's worth
But never see the greatest perk of tryna make the paper work
Cause by the time they fill the paperwork they laying in the dirt, man

How can
I be
Something?
When I see
My world
Crumbling?
Can't turn a blind eye
Time and time and time again
Wiping down the tears to cry again
And dry again, I
No I can't go much more
My soul's been drained
From playing by the rules of this game

Aye
The burnt, burnt, burnt tapes