Subliminal Messages

An excerpt from the book entitled "Lyrically Speaking (Ghetto Games)" by Michael Barham.

Subliminal Messages

Subliminal messages in speeches

Comin' from teachers and preachers

Mentally bleach us into believin'

We ain't all Gods’ creatures

Look out for devils

With angelic features

The types to holler help us

Hopin’ the Lord can't reach us

Like it ain't just us

They're brainwashin' us

Tamin', trainin', watchin’ us

Decades of fadin' in and out

Of consciousness

Wake up long enough

For them to aim the cops at us

And then it’s back to boxin' us

Like we're a bunch of hostages

Preposterous or not

We're still falling for the obstacles

State, Fed or pronounced dead

At the hospital

Act like bein' logical's impossible

Too busy bein' mobsters

To be responsible

So we give in to crime

Imprison the mind

Till vision is blind

And then we're just

Livin' a lie

But till we can find

The will to survive

We're really just

Livin' to die...

Reviews

[wordman]

well this is certainly informative and creative

[Ed Fagan]

now there's a harsh reality laid down as it should have been. well done.