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25. Compassion Fatigue

from Collage Radio by My Rap Name is Alex

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25. Compassion Fatigue (fmb/ Jerome L)

Well it's year 10 on this stupid war
and I'm not sure I can care any more
the rich are richer than they've EVER been
and the poor are now even more poor
and I feel like I got a divorce
from what I was ever even opposing it for
sometimes it's too raw, down here on the floor it just never seems to quit
and I feel like I should be fit to spit and break shit and just smack you with an oven mit
but instead I just sit... stew for a while, maybe grit my teeth a little bit
I guess if they bomb babies often enough I eventually do get used to it
Now there's a million goopy fish? belly up? in an oil slick?
Well I still gotta go to work.
I mean I hate to be a jerk
But I still got bills to pay
and besides that was yesterday
Today there was some senseless violence?
Well. Wake me after the moment of silence
File that next to how many Iraqis died
Or died worldwide. The media lied???
Wait! What again?
Well maybe next year that'll end.
Maybe the year 2012 will be better than 2010
Let's take the whole year off
because man I can't give a toss

I got compassion fatigue like fuck man I dunno what!
I believe the world sucks so much we're just fucked
I feel like I've fallen and I can't get up. I feel stuck.
Like they got us blocked at every turn, and we don't never ever learn

All the plankton died when the tides rised another .5 degrees?
Geez. I hate it when that happens. I guess I better get to rappin
flocks of birds fell out of the sky and nobody seems to know why?
Maybe they got sick of signing petitions and they all left to go fishin
There's a brand new rampant deadly disease, and an epedemic outbreak of fleas
and I need somebody else to give a shit, somebody tag in instead of me
The got CORRECTIVE RAPE overseas??? No thanks! None for me please.
I mean sure I feel awful about all the dirt the world does do to young ladies
but I've felt awful about EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE since like the 80s

I got compassion fatigue like fuck man I dunno what!
I believe the world sucks so much we're just fucked
I feel like I've fallen and I can't get up. I feel stuck.
Like they got us blocked at every turn, and we don't never ever learn

You say the powers that be finally finished buying congress the other day?
Paid off all the ones they could pay. And made the rest just go away?
You don't say! HEY! I learned to edit video today.
Wait. They did WHAT to the constitution?
(was that evenanything we were still usin?)
And then the FBI rounded up the last defenders of the Earth to charge em with crimes.
And I'm like MAN why they always gotta do 20,000 bad things at the same time???
Here take ALL the power. I'm takin a nap. Have fun abusin it
And even when I wake up, just clicking around on the internet, lost in it, loosin it
Even had thoughts of tryin ta fix my tv. Start watchin Glee or some shit
Dumb shit. Gum shit. Bad beer breath on a bumb shit.
Um. Shit. I don't know. I need to get my head back in the game again.
Remind myself that we gon' win. I need to get my second wind. Man!

Gimme a minute. I'll be alright

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from Collage Radio, released May 1, 2015
lyrics by My Rap Name is Alex
music by Jerome Lindberg

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My Rap Name is Alex Buffalo, New York

My Rap Name is Alex. I'm a story teller from Buffalo, New York in North America. These days I tend to focus on stories having to do with how we can treat ourselves, the beings around us, and our environment much better than we have been.

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