[Verse 1]

Some of my otherwise brilliant and productive friends

Take final refuge in

Character assassinations

They ignore the issue and deny the relation between

Our consumption and brutality

[Chorus 1]

So you can go ahead and roll your eyes, and marginalize me

Play on my insecurities, and

You can feign ignorance

But you’re not stupid, you’re just selfish

And you’re a slave to your impulse

[Verse 2]

And I kinda thought we all shared common threads

In that we gravitated here to challenge the conventions we’ve been fed

By cultures that treat creatures like machines

And if you buy that shit, then how long till it’s me?

Who serves as your commodity?

[Chorus 2]

Through institutionalized violence and oppression of workers

And women raped by sexism

Do you still insist on feigning indignance to reason?

To collective self-interest?

[Outro]

I’ll call you on your shit, please call me on mine

Then we can grow together, and make this shit-hole planet better in time

[Spoken]

Consider someone else...