As An Artist

[Verse 1: Greydon Square] I bet you Glenn Beck's magical underwear That religion exists to take advantage of someone's fears They still in my ear, like how you dissin Jesus is the only man I know who can get nailed by men and be loved by radical Christians In the lab, trying to lyrically get better While your local churches send me out cease and desist letters Your pastor warned you about me, the free thinker The heat seeker, aiming at several weak preachers I just want to leave my hand print They call me repetitive and pedantic When i'm the only one looking for answers As a believer, I conceded there were evil and spells Demons, I was fascinated with the end of the world Even fascinated by the deepest regions of hell Imagination can be crippled if you leave it to dwell Hell they told me they took lies mixed it with Darwin I used to watch Jack Van Impe and listen to Carmen Holy cigarette companies act like I'm crook The first bible I ever had was written like a comic book That's no coincidence an easy target in the system Wondering where the hell his family is cause he missed them I prayed faithfully, as a soulless social worker Showed up to snatched my only older sister away from me Claiming she was crazy My group home people stand up My mother gave birth to me while wearing a pair of handcuffs [Chorus] You love my music until you listen to what I'm saying, see You had my attention until you said you're gonna pray for me So I might as well keep provoking and question everything (People are tired of seeing faith used as a tool of attack) [Verse 2] This is underground, this ain't front page paper And contrary to what you think you ain't safer And there's a few Christians I respect like Frank Schaeffer He might actually be able to save your late savior Fear tactics to death panels in euthanasia No wonder our kids are surpassed by the youth in Asia Most of those kids have the education of 8th graders No knowledgist information to be regurgitated It hurts to say it, cause I really value education But we must really want a stupid nation And it's the same old story they kick With two wars schools just ain't that high on the priority list And it's the same war glory depicts Stay stuck on the end of the world and we'll find a way to blow it to bits Or am I the only one noticing it Im tryna find somewhere besides the pulpit to sit Compared to me you're a vegetable, you're susceptible To faulty logic, while we make music for intellectuals Today hip hop is a spectacle, a bunch of wrestlers Workin ? ? with no testicles Where's the knowledge at, the challenging of ideas The arguments better be good you wanna challenge my peers You wanna run with me don't get caught up with knee pain Im chasin Canibus lyrics you chasin T-Pain And it's sad the way our communities treat gays Is the same way they treated the newly released slaves Check these lyrics that you'll get scorched with From Dawkins, Harris, Dennet to Hitchens I'm the 5th horsemen Information addict so I spit eloquent Until you can prove absolute right it's all relative You keep saying hail Mary's and our fathers But the world is waking up to the con-job of dogma Wanna talk problems, shit don't even bother Nuclear stockpiles still armed to launch all of em And i'll tell you why people don't relate We don't think deeply enough about the positions we take We just believe whatever they say and take it on faith And if you don't then you're betraying your race, what a waste I salute the scientific method, verify it so there's no question, no guessin (Chorus)