Performance Review 2020
Sly deSilva
GENRE
[Intro]
“A SARS-like virus which has infected hundreds in China has now reached the United States”
“Historic victory for President Trump in the impeachment trial, the Senate acquitting him on both charges”
“The richest one percent controls more wealth now than at any time in more than a half-century”
“100 000 lives lost to the Coronavirus pandemic”
“I can’t breathe, officer”
“Nationwide unrest following the death of George Floyd”
“Takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to say that”
“200 000 deaths from the virus”
“It is definitely not about Black Lives. And remember that when they come for you, and at this rate they will”
“Was seen firing into a crowd of protesters”
“Devastating wildfires”
“In the US, today’s unemployment numbers are the most grim in history”
“300 000 dead today”
“History made on Wall Street today; a huge rally! The Dow Jones Industrial climbing over the 30 000 point milestone for the first time in history”
[Verse 1]
From this top floor view I can see it all
On the precipice, everything in my palm
And all these people walk around like ants
It’s New Year’s Eve, Dom Pérignon in hand
It’s been a banner year for your boy, star-spangled
20/20 visions, dystopian from every angle
A celebration, toast to success
Gaze down upon my works and admire (Heh)
World’s on fire, I say we let that motherfucker burn
Burn, baby, burn
As the world turns, count up all the stacks that I earned with bloodshed
And that’s capitalism, I use the poor for the kindling
Crimson drips down a Star-Spangled pyre
What’s another few hundred thousand bodies on the pile?
With a foundation of millions?
It’s the American way, baby (Hahaha)
I make a killing
Racks on racks on racks, got that bloody gild
It’s money over everything, shit, you know the deal
You in a pandemic, I’m in bandemic (Heh)
We are not the same
Check the markets
Corporate America getting caked up
While every day 3000 people never wake up
The rich get richer, the poor catch COVID
They foreclosing homes and the small businesses boarded up
Behind them headlines, what do you see?
I see the greatest transfer of wealth in human history
Seems to me there’s big profits to be made off disease
That’s the disaster capitalism pathogenicity
Thoughts and prayers, bitch, tragedies happen
Ask civilians killed by drone strikes in Yemen
Ask the kids killed by ARs in Parkland
Ask George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Manuel Ellis
Ain’t nobody’s life matter to powers to that be
King stay king, are you pawns talking to me? (Ha)
Big ballin’ in this zero-sum game
Like ’98 Jordan got the Bulls on Parade
[Interlude]
“This is a fraud on the American public”
“The president doubling down on his unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud”
“And this is a case where they’re trying to steal an election, they’re trying to rig an election”
“The president again today would not commit to a peaceful transfer of power, he said he’s not sure the election can be honest”
“You’re seeing silence in most corners of the Republican Party right now”
“Precautions come after Trump supporters, some armed, have been gathering outside of election offices”
“70 percent of Republicans, they don’t believe this election was free, fair”
“Far-right groups like the Proud Boys, linked the white supremacy and violence, made themselves visible”
“Today the Electoral College cementing President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory”
“This is a rigged election”
[Verse 2]
Living off borrowed time, the clock tick faster
So said the masked rapper from his casket
What of this nation built upon and sustained by killing?
While the bosses sit up behind the desks, it costs billions
To blast humans in half, into calves and arms (heh)
Only one side is allowed to have bombs
Strange Ways, you can’t reform ‘em
The monster transforms and absorbs you with fear
Ask the Republicans
They freed the slaves, now fuel hatred the most
Remember that when you think about your “allies”
Are they really down to ride?
Would they make the sacrifices?
(Hahaha) It’s not likely
They don’t really hate the game they just hate the rival players
Cheering for the home team
Joe Biden got elected and all the liberals went back to brunch
Mimosas all around
We return to your regularly scheduled dystopia now
(Hahahah) I got a secret to tell
Those Democrats? (Heh)
They’re not gonna help you (No)
Too busy dancing for the puppeteer (Heh)
Trump’s gone, but I’m still here
Cotton thread twisted with American sin
New marionettes pulled by the same old strings
The Hollow Men and Women just averting their eyes (Heh)
While the Overton Window slides
Might overturn the right to abortion ‘cause it’s M.O.B
Roe v. Wade ain’t shit, ask ACB (Ha)
Supreme Court feelin’, walkin’ round like I’m 6-3
Voting rights next, VRA ‘bout to be history
Seems democracy comes apart at the seams
Just needed a spark, I been pouring the gasoline
Since 1863, this fading hegemony feeds
These dark fantasies of this Land of the Free
Pogroms, demagogues, autocratic regimes (Heh)
All of these are American Dreams…
A beast hungers, alurk in the midst
Then the president says the election was rigged
He won’t concede it (Heh)
Chaos is a ladder, my G
Look, culture flows from the source, politics is downstream
And a third of your population don’t believe in democracy
This levee ‘bout to break and that downpour is coming
Drowning in austerity and cultural passions
Got you staring down the barrel of American fascism (Heh)
The Brownshirts back, remember that (Yeah)
I told ya’ll
Smokin’ that democracy pack
Gettin’ the racks while the protests gassed
By violent cops, authoritarian backlash
Vicarious thrills for the public’s catharsis
Election results the next reactionary target (Heh)
Politicians capitulate to the fascists
A failed coup ain’t a failure, it’s just practice
Congrats, ya’ll flipped the White House blue
But all them Kyle Rittenhouses still gunning for you (Hahaha)
Feed the beast, everybody acts blind
While the hunger just builds, I see it all and I smile
As I watch my plot unfold from the top floor
Can’t wait ’til you motherfuckers see what I got in store
Through the bleak black sky, the full moon shines
Countdown from 10, it’s almost time
11:59, new year, same Sly
Now are you ready for them fireworks? (Hahahaha)
“A SARS-like virus which has infected hundreds in China has now reached the United States”
“Historic victory for President Trump in the impeachment trial, the Senate acquitting him on both charges”
“The richest one percent controls more wealth now than at any time in more than a half-century”
“100 000 lives lost to the Coronavirus pandemic”
“I can’t breathe, officer”
“Nationwide unrest following the death of George Floyd”
“Takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to say that”
“200 000 deaths from the virus”
“It is definitely not about Black Lives. And remember that when they come for you, and at this rate they will”
“Was seen firing into a crowd of protesters”
“Devastating wildfires”
“In the US, today’s unemployment numbers are the most grim in history”
“300 000 dead today”
“History made on Wall Street today; a huge rally! The Dow Jones Industrial climbing over the 30 000 point milestone for the first time in history”
[Verse 1]
From this top floor view I can see it all
On the precipice, everything in my palm
And all these people walk around like ants
It’s New Year’s Eve, Dom Pérignon in hand
It’s been a banner year for your boy, star-spangled
20/20 visions, dystopian from every angle
A celebration, toast to success
Gaze down upon my works and admire (Heh)
World’s on fire, I say we let that motherfucker burn
Burn, baby, burn
As the world turns, count up all the stacks that I earned with bloodshed
And that’s capitalism, I use the poor for the kindling
Crimson drips down a Star-Spangled pyre
What’s another few hundred thousand bodies on the pile?
With a foundation of millions?
It’s the American way, baby (Hahaha)
I make a killing
Racks on racks on racks, got that bloody gild
It’s money over everything, shit, you know the deal
You in a pandemic, I’m in bandemic (Heh)
We are not the same
Check the markets
Corporate America getting caked up
While every day 3000 people never wake up
The rich get richer, the poor catch COVID
They foreclosing homes and the small businesses boarded up
Behind them headlines, what do you see?
I see the greatest transfer of wealth in human history
Seems to me there’s big profits to be made off disease
That’s the disaster capitalism pathogenicity
Thoughts and prayers, bitch, tragedies happen
Ask civilians killed by drone strikes in Yemen
Ask the kids killed by ARs in Parkland
Ask George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Manuel Ellis
Ain’t nobody’s life matter to powers to that be
King stay king, are you pawns talking to me? (Ha)
Big ballin’ in this zero-sum game
Like ’98 Jordan got the Bulls on Parade
[Interlude]
“This is a fraud on the American public”
“The president doubling down on his unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud”
“And this is a case where they’re trying to steal an election, they’re trying to rig an election”
“The president again today would not commit to a peaceful transfer of power, he said he’s not sure the election can be honest”
“You’re seeing silence in most corners of the Republican Party right now”
“Precautions come after Trump supporters, some armed, have been gathering outside of election offices”
“70 percent of Republicans, they don’t believe this election was free, fair”
“Far-right groups like the Proud Boys, linked the white supremacy and violence, made themselves visible”
“Today the Electoral College cementing President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory”
“This is a rigged election”
[Verse 2]
Living off borrowed time, the clock tick faster
So said the masked rapper from his casket
What of this nation built upon and sustained by killing?
While the bosses sit up behind the desks, it costs billions
To blast humans in half, into calves and arms (heh)
Only one side is allowed to have bombs
Strange Ways, you can’t reform ‘em
The monster transforms and absorbs you with fear
Ask the Republicans
They freed the slaves, now fuel hatred the most
Remember that when you think about your “allies”
Are they really down to ride?
Would they make the sacrifices?
(Hahaha) It’s not likely
They don’t really hate the game they just hate the rival players
Cheering for the home team
Joe Biden got elected and all the liberals went back to brunch
Mimosas all around
We return to your regularly scheduled dystopia now
(Hahahah) I got a secret to tell
Those Democrats? (Heh)
They’re not gonna help you (No)
Too busy dancing for the puppeteer (Heh)
Trump’s gone, but I’m still here
Cotton thread twisted with American sin
New marionettes pulled by the same old strings
The Hollow Men and Women just averting their eyes (Heh)
While the Overton Window slides
Might overturn the right to abortion ‘cause it’s M.O.B
Roe v. Wade ain’t shit, ask ACB (Ha)
Supreme Court feelin’, walkin’ round like I’m 6-3
Voting rights next, VRA ‘bout to be history
Seems democracy comes apart at the seams
Just needed a spark, I been pouring the gasoline
Since 1863, this fading hegemony feeds
These dark fantasies of this Land of the Free
Pogroms, demagogues, autocratic regimes (Heh)
All of these are American Dreams…
A beast hungers, alurk in the midst
Then the president says the election was rigged
He won’t concede it (Heh)
Chaos is a ladder, my G
Look, culture flows from the source, politics is downstream
And a third of your population don’t believe in democracy
This levee ‘bout to break and that downpour is coming
Drowning in austerity and cultural passions
Got you staring down the barrel of American fascism (Heh)
The Brownshirts back, remember that (Yeah)
I told ya’ll
Smokin’ that democracy pack
Gettin’ the racks while the protests gassed
By violent cops, authoritarian backlash
Vicarious thrills for the public’s catharsis
Election results the next reactionary target (Heh)
Politicians capitulate to the fascists
A failed coup ain’t a failure, it’s just practice
Congrats, ya’ll flipped the White House blue
But all them Kyle Rittenhouses still gunning for you (Hahaha)
Feed the beast, everybody acts blind
While the hunger just builds, I see it all and I smile
As I watch my plot unfold from the top floor
Can’t wait ’til you motherfuckers see what I got in store
Through the bleak black sky, the full moon shines
Countdown from 10, it’s almost time
11:59, new year, same Sly
Now are you ready for them fireworks? (Hahahaha)
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