The world that's around us
is pretty amazing
But how does it work?
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It must be compli cated
The secret is the world can only work
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When everything works together
A bee drinks from a flower
And leaves with its pollen
A squirrel in a tree
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Spreads the seeds that have fallen
Everything works together
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The biggest elephant, the littlest fly
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The gophers underground,
the birds in the sky
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And every single cricket,
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every fish in the sea
Gives what they can and gets what they need
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Hey everyone
Look who stopped by to say hello
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It's Socko (Hey)
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Where you been, Socko?
(I've been where I always am
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when you're not wearing me on your hand)
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(In a frightening, liminal space
between states of being)
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(Not quite dead, not quite alive)
(It's similar
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to a constant state of sleep paralysis)
Socko, we were just talking about the world
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and how it works
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(Boy, that sounds complicated
Do you have anything
you'd want to teach us about the world?
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(I wouldn't say anything that you probably
haven't already said yourself)
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I don't know about that, Socko
How about you give it a try?
Alright!
The simple narrative taught
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in every history class
Is demonstrably false
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and pedagogically classist
Don't you know the world
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is built with blood?
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And genocide and exploitation
The global network of capital
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essentially functions
To separate the worker
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from the means of production
And the FBI killed Martin Luther King
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Private property's inherently theft
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And neoliberal fascists
are destroying the left
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And every politician,
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every cop on the street
Protects the interests
of the pedophilic corporate elite
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(works) That's pretty intense
(No shit)
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What can I do to help?
(Read a book or something, I don't know)
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(Just don't burden me
with the responsibility of educating you)
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(It's incredibly exhausting)
I'm sorry, Socko
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I was just trying to become a better person
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(Why do you rich fucking white people
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insist on seeing every socio-political conflict)
(Through the myopic lens
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of your own selfactualization?)
(This isn't about you)
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(So either get with it,
or get out of the fucking way)
Watch your mouth, buddy,
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remember who's on whose hand here
(But that's what I-
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have you not been fucking listening?)
(We are entrenched in)
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(Wait, wait, wait, no please!)
(I don't wanna go back, please)
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(I can't go, I can't go back)
(Please, please, I'm sorry)
Are you gonna behave yourself?
(Yes)
Yes, what?
(Yes, sir) look at me
(Yes, sir)
Bo Burnham 
