Lyrics: Milk and Honey

I got a lot to say and we’re just at the start
So sit down and wait, patience, for a piece of my heart
See I nor’mly don’t do this, my smarts and success
Meant I never had any pent-up rage
I always made rent ok
And felony’s like a pair o’ foreign syllables
More impor’ant for me was makin’ sure my address was billable
For the stuff I bought, cuz I got a lot of products largely for showin’ off
Like boxes o’ nice socks prolly made of fox fur in Darfur
And hors d’oeurves rottin’ in sauces I didn’t cook
Books with embossed glossaries
Prolly -- I never bothered to look,
Took too many things, man, feelin’ claustrophobic in my apartment,
Myopic when I got plush carpets ‘n leather wallets with too many compartments,
Is that the arc of the covenant or the carcass o’ providence?
I’m tarnished, alarmin’ when I’m partin’ with my time in this world like a swine with a pearl

Made that money just to give it back
Milk and honey and a booster pack
Swollen tummy and I’m losin’ track
What did I want to go and do again?
Oh, I’ll eat there, I heard it’s Michelin

I’m livin’ a farcical show largely unnoticed and eas’ly dismissed, like
“You’re happy though aren’t you” as though that’s all it is
I pissed away fortunes on unfortunate whims
Dystopian hymn when Ethiopian wom-en are reminiscin’ ‘bout that time they traded away a day’s wage for a spot of shade
While I’m wond’rin’ whether to upgrade my gym membership,
Made gains but ate bad and let it slip so maybe I won’t quit
And I’ll be copacetic if I throw cash it
More athletic and penitent is better, I know that
But my aesthetic fetish requests Doordash this second
It’s pathetic, what I thought was so fab’s just anaesthetic
Instant gratification doesn’t make me more free
It’s illus’ry, I’m a poor freak, I don’t just buy what I need
Got no reason or creed, it’s pure greed
“Avariciousness” euphemized to “succeed”
The seed of ambitiousness euthanized, a done deed
Capriciously seceded from humankind with all speed

Made that money just to give it back
Milk and honey and a booster pack
Swollen tummy and I’m losin’ track
Coulda made art but I chose to stay
In my room and surf the web all day

I’m enslaved by my own brain
Chained down by my ability to satisfy
Paints dried up cuz I never gratified
The canvas, propaganda’s got me feelin’ calcified
And sep’rate, a soli-tary panda though my birthright’s a gemini
Ran this land up from the veranda, now horrified
To find out it’s runnin’ me
Material demand’s got me right up its sleeve
Cereal brands are septic, even skeptics admit
The sheer colors are bright enough to smite an epileptic on sight
The quest to success is endless and measured in dollar signs and algorithms,
Benign crimes suffice to consign my mind to aneurysms
Surprised to find I’m oblivious and blind to the most obvious shit
Got so used to buyin’, forgot what a library is
Imperious businesses holdin’ me tight in their fist
A grip I might never escape
But hey, at least I ate cake and made rent
I’ll stay si-lent and consent, it makes sense
I never meant it to be this way, and I wouldn't make a diff’rence if I tried, so
Pass me that milkshake, it’s past five, I gotta ride home
To catch the latest episode of that new show

Made that money just to give it back
Milk and honey and a booster pack
Swollen tummy and I’m losin’ track
Made that money just to give it back
Milk and honey and a booster pack
Swollen tummy and I’m losin’ track