Pharaohe Monch - The Grand Illusion lyrics

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Song: The Grand Illusion (Circa 1973)

Artist: Pharoahe Monch featuring Citizen Cope

Album: W.A.R. (We Are Renegades)

[chorus]

It doesn't take your eyes to see

what the pain won't take away

when they take that fear away

We're just caught up in the mass confusion

confused by the grand illusion

They're never gonna let you see it

'cause if they did, we'd all be free, yea

we're just caught up in the mass confusion

confused by the grand illusion

[verse 1]

We were told that the hell below was a firey inferno

I rediscovered my soul between the lines inside my journal

trapped in a pen state of mind yo paternal

external gratification is not happiness eternal

interject, intellect, intercept, internet

a slave majority where 5% benefit

PhotoShop amateurs, retouched photography

pornography, sodomy, child labor economy

put away your hope, same political policies

2010 only minus the Space Odyssey

it's gotta be a better way, we pray to hit the lottery

we all need a the-rapist...

for the robbery of our God and official public apology

an angel plotted to have organized confusion

you fell for the delusion, I'll expose the movement

Illusion...

[chorus]

It doesn't take your eyes to see

what the pain won't take away

when they take that fear away

We're just caught up in the mass confusion

confused by the grand illusion

They're never gonna let you see it

'cause if they did, we'd all be free, yea

we're just caught up in the mass confusion

confused by the grand illusion

[verse 2]

Professional analyst, rhetoric, ramblin'

Symbicort, Advair, Albuterol, Ambien

I change the channel on commercials when I'm channelin'

everybody's a star, lights, cameras

17,000 times a day the human eye blinks

making us even more subjectable to the hijinks

iPhone, iChat, who gives a fuck what iThink?

one world currency, doesn't matter where I bank

there is no pot of gold at the end of a mythical rainbow

we're uneducated contestants, life is the game show

your leader is the host, the results are painful

the judges weave a web in which we all get tangled

their only contribution to the world is a delusion

which has no physical power, I offer you a solution

Pharoahe Monch the antonym for translucent

lyrical revolution, I'll expose the movement

Illusion...

[chorus]

It doesn't take your eyes to see

what the pain won't take away

when they take that fear away

We're just caught up in the mass confusion

confused by the grand illusion

They're never gonna let you see it

'cause if they did, we'd all be free, yea

we're just caught up in the mass confusion

confused by the grand illusion

we're just caught up in the mass confusion

confused by the grand illusion

we're just caught up in the mass confusion

confused by the grand illusion<br />

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