The Noose

I've tried writing this letter now several times before
 When the party is over and the liquor is no more
 I'll tell you now that living now has become somewhat a chore
 And following their rules is such a god forsaken bore
 Now I say "God" because I'm programmed, but I believe in none
 I see no interventions, and I see no holy sons
 And if I'm wrong, then strike me down and break these breathing lungs
 Just take the words and reverse 'em back upon my evil tongue
 I've seen children harm each other like it's second nature, some
 Just want to watch the world burn and bang upon the drums
 And that is why the music and the rhythm will live on
 Cause chaos has a melody and death is like a song
 I sing, sing out to the rafters, I sing
 Close this little chapter and I think
 This life is a disaster and it stings
 I'm trying to find a way to just sing
 Sing out to the rafters, I sing
 Close this little chapter and I think
 This life is a disaster and it stings
 You see I'm trying to find a way out
 What a world, what a world
 I'm hanging up the noose now
 Waiting for the end
 What a world, what a world
 I'm hanging up the noose now
 Waiting for the end
 I went to visit wounded soldiers out on Camp Pendleton
 And the cause of the missing limbs it mean that it's no love like Wimbledon
 When they sat before me young as hell and gave me accolades like gentlemen
 I'm thinking that the enemy took away their ability to walk and to touch
 No way of rekindling
 What it's now gone, unless they got money like Forrest and Lt. Dan
 The war, if you in it, damn, they have no remorse at any minute, Bam!
 That's fucked off, while we chillin' on tour on the bus getting sucked off
 Know our families grieving cause war is receding
 Their peeps have been crying their butts off
 That's why I give so much when I flow bust, why we got it so good?
 Cause it's so rough, for the young soldiers who
 Do exactly what they're told to do, damn...
 Through exactly what they told to do
 Defend the country and uphold the crew
 But give my one and only soul for U (S.A.)?
 That's a hell of a job description, I don't know if my God's with this one
 But I guess it's the laws of sick men
 Send out young'ns and they fall the victim
 Of an evil clan's plan, that's why I be saying, "Dwamn"
 Cause on 9/11 I realized our fate is in another man's hands
 What a world, what a world
 I'm hanging up the noose now
 Waiting for the end
 What a world, what a world
 I'm hanging up the noose now
 Waiting for the end
 When I see how my loved ones have left
 I wonder how long I would fight
 I wonder if I would give in or let the reaper lead me into night?
 See I got too much pride left, like my grandmother died too earlier
 Reaching for moments more but the cancer in her lungs took her from me
 We drift, naturally, like two ships in the roughest of seas
 That's why this moment is precious, yet I'm too distant to feel it complete
 See these days I feel so disconnected, it gets harder to drop to my knees
 I guess that's a side-effect of living in Generation X-Y-Z
 Obsessed with pain and greed, man I wish we were kids again
 Things were simple then
 90's incidents got me losing friends to the hands of violent men
 Fast, faster than speeding bullets whizzing down alleyways
 I probably am waking up from this haze
 But only to realize the world hasn't changed
 Some of y'all not even fazed, y'all think it's the way we've been raised
 Fuck it, I'll stick him right back in his haze
 Cause these could turn out to be my last today's
 With a hope and a prayer put a rope in the air, but I'm just too scared
 Choking from the pressure when I rock this chair
 Swing back and forth and tempt Death with a blank stare
 What a world, what a world
 I'm hanging up the noose now
 Waiting for the end
 What a world, what a world
 I'm hanging up the noose now
 Waiting for the end