shovel coal, keep the engine running
never let it slow, never lose your goal
plow the fucking field, bring the harvest in
that is our food, need I remind you
work the oil rig, never let it stop
if it's ever dry, we'll all fucking die
shovel coal... shovel coal...
I'm tripping off tradition, mind wired for routine, a product of production done with sugar and caffeine, pistons and pinwheels, oil and gasoline, Gods a bitch, I'm a dick, and money is Vaseline, I've known where I was headed since the classroom hallways, life's a shitty play because we typecast all day, work is your religion, yeah that's right retard pray, your lord's a little busy there's no time for a parley, Carpe Diem got me screaming absurd things, life's a little short to give a fuck how you word things, ad campaigns tell me suffer to serve kings, then pretend I'm winning while I'm spending that earned green, every single dollar pay the rent and feed your daughter, but she'll never be a scholar, cause they keep you on a collar, call her principals and preachers, understand they never see her, she's a barcode, she's a number, fuck her, this is what they teach her.
shovel coal, keep the engine running
never let it slow, never lose your goal
plow the fucking field, bring the harvest in
That is our food, need I remind you
work the oil rig, never let it stop
if it's ever dry, we'll all fucking die
shovel coal... shovel coal...
labor labor never sleep, learn to walk, your talk is cheap, turn a profit cut your loses down to what they ought to be, get your money right then purchase people like they're property, and tell them fear their mind cause independent thought is obsolete, failing hearts and rotting teeth, fuck em they're disposable, dying from exhaust and heat, must mean they're suppose to go, tell the reaper not to touch their souls any more, cause they owe those mother fuckers to the company store.
NO HARM WILL COME TO MAGGIE'S FARM
I'll put her crops before my life, before my friends, before my family
NO HARM WILL COME TO MAGGIE'S FARM
I'll kill to keep her cattle safe you fuckers understand me
NO HARM WILL COME TO MAGGIE'S FARM
see even if I wanted to I couldn't ever let it go
NO HARM WILL COME TO MAGGIE'S FARM
It provides the type of pride that I think every man should know
NO HARM WILL COME TO MAGGIE'S FARM
so I imitate the rest, my own thoughts ignored
NO HARM WILL COME TO MAGGIE'S FARM
if you sing while you slave you won't ever get bored
shovel coal, keep the engine running
never let it slow, never lose your goal
plow the fucking field, bring the harvest in
That is our food, need I remind you
work the oil rig, never let it stop
if it's ever dry, we'll all fucking die
shovel coal keep the engine running
never let it slow never lose your goal
credits
from Cancer,
released October 20, 2012
R. Baldon, J. Berg
Soul-searching hip-hop from this Florida rapper, with lyrics that dig deep and take an unflinching look at life’s questions. Bandcamp New & Notable May 1, 2023