Inside Story (Remix)

Lyrics

[Intro: Solo] It's like somethin' just Over the horizon Wanna take a walk, maybe See what we can find? Look long and hard Look near and far Above all things, remember Always look inside [Verse 1: Jimmy Nice] Listening to these words From a citizen of Earth's surface Let's try to rewire this circuit Surviving this circus Meanwhile, I'm striving for perfect But homie, perfect takes practice And I find in these days and times I'm always so damn distracted At this very moment in time There's an uncontacted tribe Following the footprints in the skies Out of sight of the oppressor On the other side of this rock Is a broker smoking rock Running credit card scams Hands-free inside a Tesla And it had me thinking 'bout the route From which I got my shoes and socks At a time when most of us are truly More concerned with who we not Who you got: Hyde or Jekyll Double-sided like a freckle Is she old? Then it's a mole Is she a cutie? Then it's a beauty spot Now, it's apparent I done lost my Parents, and that's pain, pain I don't see no point in pointing Fingers, no more blame game Hiding from my father while we Riding on the same train Even if he saw me He won't see me, and that's the strange thing So as I float upstream in hopes I'll one day reach the shore Only thing that I am sure of Is that we don't know no more From the ocean floor to the pyramid of Giza Living with a bit of synesthesia It's all by design; mankind on a quest For things to find; will we ever get what's inside? [Chorus: Solo] I wasn't there when they wrote the rules But I do my best to follow them In this world of machines We starvin' for oxygen All I can offer is these words that I write And I only give 'em what I know So I give 'em what's inside Said I wasn't there when they wrote the rules But I do my best to follow them In this world of machines We starvin' for oxygen Where were you the day that humanity died? Searchin' for signs of life To reconnect with what's inside [Verse 2: Solo] Watching on through these eyes of adenosine at this sanitized planet Analysing the patterns in our demise They bought the ad space in our minds Patented it then exchanged it For the strange trick of making us into the brands that we advertise Are we consumers or consumed? Are we doomed to be devoured By an insatiable appetite That can never be satisfied? To be entombed then exhumed Offered up as a sacrifice The data's making it harder and harder Not to catastrophize When somewhere there's a room full of Men in suits looking up at rows of screens Deep in discussion of pushing the button To blow us to smithereens Meanwhile, I'm trying to get inspired Instead, I just end up in a spiral Can't shake this discontent, things ain't been the same since the world went viral But we just tryna get by And occupy our spot on the timeline So we keep on scrolling the sex, drugs And violence up and down the timeline Right place at the wrong time or Wrong place at the right time Don't know what we hoping to find, said we can't let go, it's like we're looking for a lifeline Something really going wrong here Uh, what the fuck is going on here? Thought this would be the place that I'm from Found out that I'm lost and I really don't belong here, uh So I'm signing off from a spot in the same feed where we live-streaming a genocide So out of touch with what's inside [Chorus: Solo] I wasn't there when they wrote the rules But I do my best to follow them In this world of machines We starvin' for oxygen All I can offer is these words that I write And I only give 'em what I know So I give 'em what's inside Said I wasn't there when they wrote the rules But I do my best to follow them In this world of machines We starvin' for oxygen Where were you the day that humanity died? Searchin' for signs of life To reconnect with what's inside