Atomic Misphilosophy Lyrics - Lupe Fiasco

War gives value to life by showing it can be taken away 

And in a perverted way, those who wage war delude themselves into thinking they create life 

Or at least make it meaningful 

Thus, using that as a basis for grandiose notions of supremacy 

Falsely giving themselves the title of masters of the universe 

And gatekeepers of morality 

Peace trials and living power pleasure over pain 

Geiger counters check amounts of radiation in the rain 

Biochemical new gas masks and rubber boots 

Inhale your last gas without a Hazmat suit 

Terrible, unbearable miracle of the modern scientific 

Arms race, chase for the horrific 

Manhattan project, man cancelling concept 

Catastrophic bomb, a fabric-shattering context 

A little boy falling from a metal bird 

Followed by a fat man who left behind a leveled earth 

Imbalanced challenge to survival of the whole piece 

Have seeked to staff the whole planet with their own peeps 

A zone beeps of contaminated contents 

Atomically activated, saturated beyond its 

Limits, to live within its boundaries with conscience 

To cancer cells, I'm not totally unresponsive 

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Cause in the future [?] 

I don't feel like there's anything for me 

I hope they put this out 

Cause in the future [?] 

I don't feel like there's anything for me 

I hope they figure out 

This atomic misphilosophy 

Uninhabitable avenues, third wars in southern latitudes 

Mutually assured that it all happens to 

International violence leaves us black and blue 

Blast us back into the past if attack ensues 

A pack-approved tactic fully practiced 

On the evil of the axis back in World War Two 

The melted lunchbox of a disintegrated girl 

Dogs on fighting mosquitoes, flies and squirrels 

Men, women and children have their bones cooked to ash 

And their shadows burning to the ground from the flash 

And if they didn't pass, what's the future Hibakusha 

You say you need a job but they won't give it to ya 

In the era where they said the greatest evil was that white man 

From the right glam, but this was coming from the same people 

Who thought that Jim Crow was all a hype thing 

Same thing that kept Colonel Tibbets on his flight plan 

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Nuclear stockpile's America's second largest 

The world's most destructive and the world's most heartless 

Under the auspices that war will be rendered harmless 

And everlasting peace will be in reach if we just bomb shit 

Technologically fanatic racial social 

Economic faux-intellectual fucking nonsense 

Dripping with political interludes, typical of a system 

Stark raving mad and operating unconscious 

Now how do we proceed? 

Knowing through the man's fatalism and probably you'll never leave 

A disease tryna cure its own symptoms with disease 

Creating an epidemic just to see if it can be 

Genuine mistrust of everything but us 

Based on artificial evidence but mostly racists at the crux 

Let's pray they throw em all out 

And I hope I don't see you through the foggy field division in the fall now