Smoke - The Filthy Politicians feat. Zack de la Rouda
Channel: Zack de la Rouda
Date: 27/12/2011

The Filthy Politicians:

I'm going crazy out here on my own.
The fire keeps on burning but the problem is the smoke.

And I'm walking downtown through the middle of it all.
The choir keeps on singing, "such a long, long way to fall."

You hear it in whispers and corners, the broken wings of every nervous joke.
The jaws are wide open but we'd never know it, cause we can't see past the smoke.

Zack de la Rouda:

there's fire where the smoke is
and you could find it if you focus
cause i be spitting flames, sick like the civic games,
still online cause the signal ain't broken yet
but now i gotta couple stalwart comrades,
making sure we never miss the trees for the forest
and if they ever gotta ask whose song is it?
it's de la rouda and the filthy politicians

this is so sick
but it don't seem it
because the system is invisible,
you don't see it
we're under god, indivisible, a whole sea of fishes all caught up by the same damn 
soul-stealing vessel, our culture is a killer boat, sinking ship, 
feel it cause the images are visceral,
everybody smelling something rotten but we never see the problem
cause our hoping is a smoke-screen.
we are focused on forgetting for the moment that we'll ever hit the wall that we are speeding towards, 
the cliff that we teeter on.
everything we ever had is threatened by the way we live but we never face the facts
cause we read 'em wrong
we just breathe in smoke   
never stop if we cough cause the high is unbeatable
say, "i ain't getting off of the ride, no joke
i don't a mind if we die, this is beautiful
i'll be at the funeral
sharp in my uniform laying in the coffin with a smile on my face
blowing out a horn like a unicorn, 
eulogy in cuneiform,
i won't even cry about the lives that we waste
i was just doing what i'm ordered to,
i ain't put my life on the line or my body in a grave
i'm a liar, put me in the fire, i'll finally be erased
save the smoke"