Your Playlist: Ren

Just caught a listen of Money Game by Ren. I thought these lyrics–verse 2–were particularly interesting. This verse starts at 1:59 in the video below.

Dear Mr. President, it’s evident
That everyone’s a resident of fear when they support these ideas that keep us separate
When they make us believe that everybody is coming to terrorize you in the streets
They say proudly through gritted teeth “It’s my right to hate, that’s freedom of speech”
A way to justify a racial slur or insult we make
There’s an irony in freedom, ’cause us in the west
We have pillaged and plundered and murdered like savages
Colonized all of the rest, that’s called hypocrisy
Preach a certain value that you’d never keep yourselves
If your country was in flames you’d emigrate yourselves in a second
Still, you spit your venom
Demonising immigrants, when really you’re an immigrant
‘Cause all of us are immigrants, or descended from immigrants
The irony is imminent, I’ll shed the light on immigrants
America was colonized by Britain
Britain, it was colonized by Rome
And also colonized by the Saxons
They were German by the way
You know how people throw shade upon the Germans ’cause of history’s pain?
And yet we make the same mistakes all again
Demonize a whole people Jewish or Muslim
The same and the same, old situation plays on repeat
The same old TV shows repeat
Yeah, we worship the bleak
Our opinions aren’t our own and we follow like sheep
There’s no left, there’s no right, in the middle we sleep

-KitJ