How Will I Engage? Lyrics

Have backbones softened to baked beans? Have friendships shifted to machines

Is romance an optimized code? Are we connected everywhere on a nowhere road

Seems like winnin' rides shotgun while integrity hangs in the back

Seems like mouths don't blow kisses, but instead with thumbs attack

They say, they say, yeah, they say

It's just the world today

When bright stars tumble, small clouds rumble

And waves crash with rage

When the sky is fallin', rainin' name calling

How will I engage

How will I How will I

How will I engage

Will I wade in streams of toxicity, seek publicity, dry off complicity

Or stand on shores of serenity, outta vanity and insanity

Swim in vitriole, let it take its toll, lose sight of my goal

Or sip centuries of thought, how past battles were fought, learn what wasn't taught

Do I protect my own, divide, hide truth

or model gold, unite, sit in the accountability booth

Punch back like Frazier and Ali in Manila or turn a cheek like a Ghandi and JC guerrilla

How will I How will I How will I engage

When bright stars tumble, small clouds rumble

And waves crash with rage

When the sky is fallin', rainin' name calling

How will I engage

How will I How will I

How will I engage

Battles I face aren't a new mystery, 'member what Twain said 'bout history

Folks sing of a glory age, but they weren't there workin' backstage

Learn from young, and old, evolve, adapt, grow fearless, bold

Sharpen mind, channel rage, heal with heart, that's how I'll engage

They say, they say, yeah, they say

It's just the world today

When bright stars tumble, small clouds rumble

And waves crash with rage

When the sky is fallin', rainin' name calling

How will I engage

How will I How will I

How will I engage