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Deconstruction (OG Version)

by MICHAEL MANASSEH

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First Single from Michael Manasseh's new album entitled " Fine China"

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I’m a race traitor
Hate hater
Way maker
Faith shaker
Brain shaper
Gay embracer
Shame Shamer
Lane changer
I’m an over grown man bull
Trapped in a china closet
Picking up the valuable pieces
And know that ima drop it
If you break it then you buy it
So I’m coming outta pocket
Trying to turn the light on and you keep on pulling out the socket
Gotta stop it
Give me a microphone and ima drop it
Right on top the slightest thoughts of trying to stop signs of Progress
Time to process
I find dividing lines
Then try to cross it
I am not a hater but some days it’s hard to find the logic
When half of the nation is disgraced and saying lies so often
Trying to find the tonic
For my optics cause the times are toxic

Break stuff
Build stuff
Repeat
The Deconstruction
Of the elite
Build stuff
Break stuff
Now you’ll see
The reconstruction
comes from beneath

I’m an ex evangelical
Sorry about the pain I caused
Bigotry misogyny
All of these in the name of god
A painful loss of faith I thought
Would make me lost
But maybe not
Maybe putting on something better
Begins with taking off
Like voyeurs
Destroyers
Employing
Relief
Through building up and breaking down
And making sound beliefs
Truth makes the earth quake
And shakes the ground beneath
Maybe now I’ll say it loud
And make the crowd believe
Stay around to see me changing
Ain’t you proud of me?
Ain’t you feeling shame about the ways you doubted me
Now I’m free
And able to see my own lack of sight
A lot of everything I was taught was just a bag of lies
God’s love isn’t dependent on child sacrifice
Cheapen down your Jesus found in bargain bins for the half the price
Have to fight
Disaster tries
To Bastardize
And standardize
The massacre of masses thru Mass media masterminds

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released September 7, 2018

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