Inside Story

[Solo] It's like something 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 Listen in to these words from a citizen of Earth's surface Let's try and rewire the circuits, determine a purpose 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 - they hit you like Shop here, wear this, want this, love this, be this, buy this, buy that Log in, sign up, tune in, click here, watch this, read up, write back So much to know, and so many things to own TV in your home and your mobile phone make sure that you're never really alone And it's pathetic like a global epidemic, attention span so fragmented So addicted to being connected we now getting updates by the second Got us all time wasting up on MySpace and Facebook, prime for the taking Got the whole world hooked getting high on information Post-generation Y babies, they call 'em the digital natives Hide behind their monitors as technology kills imagination Excuse my cynicism, but a world where every kid's best friend is a computer Is a system failure headed for an apathetic future Just a few centuries back, they made maps of a flat world by candle light Now the whole world's at your fingertips, mapped down to your street by satellite So advanced from where we started, it's all so complexified Brand names buy ad space in your mind but they'll never get what's inside [Hook] I wasn't there when they wrote the rules but I do my best to follow 'em In this world of machines we starving 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 'em In this world of machines we starving for oxygen Where were you the day the humanity died? Searching for signs of life to reconnect with what's inside [Solo] Somewhere there's a room full of men with suits looking up at rows of numbers Terrified by the red in their eyes as arrows point down from the pressure they're under They're saying we might drown in our own greediness Living beyond our means, chasing dreams that we learnt off MTV cribs Look at what we did, smog fills the sky and the cars line up at the servo And I can't help but think to myself this can't be the way it was supposed to go On the nightly news, floods and bushfires, earthquakes and tidal waves Temperature's rising, armies fighting, bombs go off and sirens blaze But we just tryna get by and occupy our spot on the timeline So we change the channel to sex, drugs and violence programmed for prime time Sit back in our chairs for some living room voyeurism As reality TV turns all of life into a competition Airbrushed magazine pages give us false idols to worship Got us all so depressed that we can't live up to picture perfect Sometimes I just wanna unplug and go back to basics And I wonder what my story might have been like somewhere else in history's pages But here we stand, the sons and daughters of colonialism Crossed over water just to be making our homes on stolen land And me, I don't know the plan, I'm just here to play my part Do my thing, walk my path, talk my shit, make my mark I swear I wanna make a difference from the bottom of my heart But I don't how to fix it man, I wouldn't know where to start So advanced from where we started, images off the production line We outta touch with what's inside [Hook]