The Grand Illusion Lyrics - Citizen Cope

[chorus]: 

It doesn't take your eyes to see 

What the pain won't take away 

When they take that fear away 

We're just caught up in the mass confusion 

Confused by the grand illusion 

They're never gonna let you see it 

'Cause if they did, we'd all be free, yeah 

We're just caught up in the mass confusion 

Confused by the grand illusion 

[verse 1] 

We were told that the hell below was a fiery inferno 

I rediscovered my soul between the lines inside my journal 

Trapped in a Penn. St.of mind Jo Paterno 

External gratification is not happiness eternal 

Interject, intellect, intercept, internet 

A slave majority where 5% benefit 

PhotoShop amateurs, retouched photography 

Pornography, sodomy, child labour economy 

Put away your hope, same political policies 

2010 only minus the Space Odyssey 

it's gotta be a better way, we pray to hit the lottery 

We all need a the-rapist... 

For the robbery of our God and official public apology 

An angel plotted to have Organized Konfusion 

You fell for the delusion, I'll expose the movement 

Illusion... 

[chorus] 

[verse 2] 

Professional analyst, rhetoric, rambling 

Symbicort, Advair, Albuterol, Ambien 

I change the channel on commercials when I'm channeling 

Everybody's a star, lights, cameras 

17,000 times a day the human eye blinks 

Making us even more subjectable to the hijinks 

iPhone, iChat, who gives a fuck what iThink? 

One world currency, doesn't matter where I bank 

There is no pot of gold at the end of a mythical rainbow 

We're uneducated contestants, life is the game show 

Your leader is the host, the results are painful 

The judges weave a web in which we all get tangled 

Their only contribution to the world is a delusion 

Which has no physical power, I offer you a solution 

Pharoahe Monch the antonym for translucent 

Lyrical revolution, I'll expose the movement 

Illusion...