Blame Game

  



Song Title: Blame Game
Artist: ede (prodby Kaizen, Zosevv)

Lyrics


[INTRO]
Guys, it happened again
Apparently we can't (Shut up...)

We can't (Shut up!)

(ede's speaks to the eighty thousand pests)
Enough talking to ourselves guys
No more lists 
Today we're going to play the actual Blame Game
E, you've got 45 seconds to point a useless thought
And you mfs got 20 seconds to explain where's coming from
Let's do this quickly before we all get bored
(ouuu pomodoro!)


[VERSE]

Half drunk from mental rumination 
(Come alive, Come alive, 
Critics spill the abomination)

Slam dunk, the bin receives another paper

Half Drunk from mental rumination
(Come alive, Come alive 
Critics spill the abomination)

Thumbs up, the trash we tryna savour

(Verse)
E's inside the booth, trapped with tunes
From the boombox the ancestors preserved
I'm locked in this bitch with heavy fumes
I hear he's such a tool to other booths 
How nigga bleed, not that deep?
I'm scared to open up to tell the truth
I'm eating beef as food, made friends on April fools
Keeping my shit in like pastor's sins
Homies had no clue
I swear I want to lose, restart the game anew
What in the world is a nigga like me supposed to do?

Eighty thosand pests talk back

[VERSE]
At first, it was a light skinned Mrs.
Thick to the lips, the vocal fry when she hisses
Occam's Razor, some niggas create the fucking image
I got lied to on TV it was goddamm physics
Speaking of God, not sure the fuck is my religion
Abraham and all his sons done put this mind in prison
If I get out, I hope He say congrats you beat the system
I digress, admit this goddamm plot still thickens
2015 was my fault though (Yooo)
Should they have split I done go pro (pro)
In SHS I was warned though (Who your homies though?)
Look at me now I don't know (Yoo)
I blamed myself, no matter who's offense
I'm kinda woke now from a dream knowing sleep is the cousin of death
I survived in this climate, Loner many years
Yes, isolation to me now is no longer a threat

Eighty thousand pests talk inaudibly

(beat switch)

[VERSE]
I think it's not the chair, I think it's not the pen
I think it's not the book I'm writing in that's pushing tears
I think it's not the fear, I think it's beyond compare
I think it's the constant usage, black mirror's talking to ya
Echo chambers, conformation bias 
Now your hallelujah, they feeding to ya
Regurgitatin' shit handed effortlessly 
More than the average citizen know the fucking constitution 
And I'm a victim
That's why I wrote this record in a heavenly trance (trance)
Prophetic vision of families dancin'
I see a man, a sinner, stand up to take a stance
Nobody has time, they let him slip through they hands
Stand back! He walking to the man, slowly 
askin' why they gotta dance?
He said "it's for his pleasure", get back on the floor
Play your part and do break a leg, he refusing em 
DJ hand the mic and let me speak for a second

(The Sinner speakin')

[VERSE]
I blame the debilitation of passion
From jealous people in jokes
My Idols took without asking
Stuff that gave me some hope
Today, escaped a matrix
I'm now the villain, gone cold
Buzz words, trick the mass
To trade their dreams and they souls
I blame the parents we had
Knew the truth but they stalled
To share the truth with they lads
Alas, the cycle goes on, no sermons on that
Too busy praying God's blessings 
Yet hustling to the throne
Am I (You're unlucky)
A percent of loners, sheltered good in they homes
But feels he doesn't belong?
Turned to church for redemption, been a decade 
I turned a therapist for a song
More broken people it's awful
Guess we all pawns in a system
That covers pain with more debt 
With credit, with social media trends
Being real with pretence for validation from men
Who see opportunities and label these people as friends

About
In the literal sense of the name, Blame Game is a gamification of stress and overthinking mechanisms to improve clarity and anxiety. Consider it Gallows' humour. He agrees with himself and the eighty thousand pests to sort out his based on the emotional response and how it makes him think. We here the eighty thousand pests mock him at the intro till he decides to create the Blame Game.

He gives himself 45 seconds to talk freely and 20 seconds for the eighty thousand pests to explain where it's coming from. This happens twice till he realises his worries aren't entirely from him. 

[BEAT SWITCH]

Opens up with a statement in Twi translates as "If family embarrasses you, it's not as much" or "family will never embarrass you as much".

In the second part pf the Blame Game, Louis is awake to realise that the eighty thousand pests had active triggers which is the system he lives in. He describes everyone as a victim of the same predicament and it took deep thinking or a trance for him to realise. He narrates the trance of a "sinner" who refuses to dance with everyone else and wants to isolate. He concludes with how the system he lives in contributes to this.




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