After a great interview, Lupe performed his new single, "The Words I Never Said," featuring Skylar Gray. During the interview, Lupe mentioned that he lives what he preaches and preaches what he lives. He said all his opinions are in his lyrics, and in this particular single, criticizes President Obama himself. I watched Skylar and Lupe perform, and felt a connection with the strength and passion of their sound. Immediately after their performance, I Googled the lyrics. They are incredible. And all this while, I've been trying to figure out what it is that I don't like about Obama. Lupe gave me my words: "Obama didn't say shit." EXACTLY. That is why I am disappointed in Obama. When he promised us change, I regarded him as the potential hero of our generation, the man who would come in, cut through the bullshit politics, and tell us the truth. I thought he would actually change things. Make the American society better. I thought he was a real dude who had the American people's best interest in mind.
But, I guess it's sort of hard to "cut through the bullshit politics" when you're trying to do so in the White House. It's obviously very difficult to try to peal away all the bureaucracy and formality from making change. I guess I didn't think Obama would be such a pussy. I thought he was a quiet badass who had good ideas and would make them happen diplomatically, by using the power of his voice. I didn't think he'd have such respect for American tradition and its power structure. I thought he would be the one to go into the White House and actually make something happen.
Unfortunately, Obama's own constituents act in ways that work against progress all the time. But, the definition of progress is relative to each person looking at it. What I think of as progress is certainly not what everyone thinks of it. I see progress as gay rights, finishing up in the Middle East, leaving each country better than it was when we entered it, an end to segregation and racism, guaranteed healthcare for the elderly and the mentally or physically incapable, a more balanced tax plan, and a reform of the education system.
Some would call me a liberal. Ok. I don't care what you call me, this is what I believe, and I came to those conclusions without the consideration for any specific political leanings.
I don't vote for a party, I vote for the people.
I wish people would wake up and realize that if they don't give up some of their luxuries during their own country's time of need, none of us will make it out alive with a clear conscious. I guess, maybe I should just start wishing people had consciouses. I wish everyone put the well-being of the world's inhabitants above the height of their money stacks. I wish people would take off all their blinders and filters and opinions, and just look at the TRUTH, and find the best, most reasonable, answer to our problems.
I WISH SOMEONE WOULD JUST CUT THE CRAP! Political leanings only bring more filters and frames into the equation that obscure the truth and mutilate the efficacy of the answer.
POLITICAL LEANINGS ARE NOT EFFICIENT.
When will a politician come in and actually do what they think is best without considering the next election? I thought Obama was our answer. Turned out he's not.
Who will be our answer?
One of my friends has already expressed interest in working for Obama's campaign. At the moment, given the potential presidential candidates, I think Obama is our best option. However, at this moment, I am not ready to declare for whom I'm supporting. My friend's admiration for Obama has become one without virtue. He's keeping score for Obama, trying to get Obama as many points as he can. When Osama Bin Laden was murdered on Obama's watch, he shouted out, "HELL YEAH," as loud as he could, as though it was a sports victory. His commitment to proving Obama's integrity and capability has marred his ability to look at all the candidates and judge them upon the same platforms. When you're always rooting for one guy, it's hard to see the positives of the other guys.
Whatever happens, it's not good to take politics personally. It's good to take politics objectively, and draw conclusions from the evidence like 1 + 1 + 1 = 3.
I wish there was no such thing as a frame.
I guess I thought Obama was as close to approaching problems without a frame as it got. Once again, I was wrong.
Here are the lyrics to the song that inspired all of this:
It’s so loud Inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said
I can’t take back the words I never said
I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullshit
Just a poor excuse for you to use up all your bullets
How much money does it take to really make a full clip
9/11 building 7 did they really pull it
Uhh, And a bunch of other cover ups
Your childs future was the first to go with budget cuts
If you think that hurts then, wait here comes the uppercut
The school was garbage in the first place, that's on the up and up
Keep you at the bottom but tease you with the uppercrust
You get it then they move you so you never keeping up enough
If you turn on TV all you see’s a bunch of “what the fucks”
Dude is dating so and so blabbering bout such and such
And that ain't Jersey Shore, homie that's the news
And these the same people that supposed to be telling us the truth
Limbaugh is a racist, Glenn Beck is a racist
Gaza strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say shit
That's why I ain't vote for him, next one either
I’ma part of the problem, my problem is I’m peaceful
And I believe in the people.
It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said
I can’t take back the words I never said
Now you can say it ain't our fault if we never heard it
But if we know better than we probably deserve it
Jihad is not a holy war, wheres that in the worship?
Murdering is not Islam!
And you are not observant
And you are not a muslim
Israel don’t take my side cause look how far you’ve pushed them
Walk with me into the ghetto, this where all the Kush went
Complain about the liquor store but what you drinking liquor for?
Complain about the gloom but when’d you pick a broom up?
Just listening to Pac ain't gone make it stop
A rebel in your thoughts, ain't gon make it halt
If you don’t become an actor you’ll never be a factor
Pills with million side effects
Take em when the pains felt
Wash them down with Diet soda!
Killin off your brain cells
Crooked banks around the World
Would gladly give a loan today
So if you ever miss payment
They can take your home away!
It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said, never said
I can’t take back the words I never said
I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence
Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it
We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth
So scared of what you think of me, I’m scared of even telling you
Sometimes I’m like the only person I feel safe to tell it to
I’m locked inside a cell in me, I know that there’s a jail in you
Consider this your bailing out, so take a breath, inhale a few
My screams is finally getting free, my thoughts is finally yelling through
It’s so loud Inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said
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