i walk the streets of a wealthy metropolis
a toxic grease makes them overwhelmingly prosperous
they flaunt bentleys, never helping the profitless
a daunting disparity, you tell me the positives
broke just staying alive, look at the cost to live
ask for change but pennies are all these monsters give
oddly it's the closet which they're inside, where they hide
paralyzed, scared and blind and never care to find
the peril of the unsterilized barren side
of these careless times but everyone shares the lie
bare in mind, the rare sight when these worlds dare collide
like kinder egg surprise when milk over layers the white
they exist in parallel so never intersect
the moon was a small feat but this gap's a bigger step
such a height differential but no where to climb
'cause we're freezing, trying to reach ninety fehrenheit
white collars and no collar, but not many blue
around here there's a shortage of jobs to pursue
once in a blue moon, mercury begins to rise
and someone sparkles like a star seen in the skies
gifted with a ticket to get lifted up high
stripped of their innocence to be in the public eye
with a vision and a mission to get a better livin'
the lens and lid is sick since it's either red or itchin'
raised witnessing such vivid and distressing images
but never envisioned that business had less forgiveness
they return with scarred necks from cut throat tactics
the higher life restults in a bunch of broke addicts
blossoming dreams wilted and stuck with no cabbage
happen to you too, it will if you fuck with those facists
fantasizing that the streets are paved in gold
sacrifice the bravest soul to be raped and sold
it's funny though, i'm uncertain what i desire
rich comes and goes, i'm a person just reaching higher
