I'm going to first remind everybody that this song is about "the cool". Remember, the cool, is Connotation for comformity. There is no second meaning or anything it's all there in the album. The first track/poem is about the ignorance of it.
"Freeze....cause the problem is we think its cool too.
Check your ingredients, before you overdose, on the cool."
This song directly relating to the theme of this entire album. The cool, the game, and the streets. The cool loses his soul and becomes a zombie, all of this is a metaphor for losing your individuality. The first verse isn't about aids, it's about the spread of ignorance and how everybody is forced to conform to it. Everybody begins pointing fingers, but everybody forgets that it applies to "the whole wide world".
Now the second verse describes how it is done:
"So say/some say the neon signs"
the commerical industry: the media, the internet
"might allow speaking repeating
and everything is fine"
you believe everything you hear without question
"a subtle silence
to demolish a trouble conscious"
when you hear it you stop thinking
"a compass with no knowledge"
when you stop thinking, you have no direction
"And every freedom denied"
and also, you deny yourself your god given individuality
"Every dream is designed and broadcasted
From the masters to the masses
From the antennas on top of the trine"
Then, you believe what they want you to believe
"As far as the receiving planet during a panic is shorted
It reports back everything in your mind"
The media, "the neon signs", knows what your thinking.
"Everything is lying
Everything is dying
Everything is a rule
And everything is a crime"
This is the truth that is ignored.
"Everything was healed
And everything rewinds
And new weather burn a feathers off everything's line"
Everything from the first lines is repeated everytime you remember the truth. But instead of facing the truth, you listen to the media/"the neon signs" and "everything is fine".
I'm sure every song means something to everybody. But I think lupe puts his meanings out all over the album.
I'm going to first remind everybody that this song is about "the cool". Remember, the cool, is Connotation for comformity. There is no second meaning or anything it's all there in the album. The first track/poem is about the ignorance of it.
"Freeze....cause the problem is we think its cool too. Check your ingredients, before you overdose, on the cool."
This song directly relating to the theme of this entire album. The cool, the game, and the streets. The cool loses his soul and becomes a zombie, all of this is a metaphor for losing your individuality. The first verse isn't about aids, it's about the spread of ignorance and how everybody is forced to conform to it. Everybody begins pointing fingers, but everybody forgets that it applies to "the whole wide world".
Now the second verse describes how it is done:
"So say/some say the neon signs"
the commerical industry: the media, the internet
"might allow speaking repeating and everything is fine"
you believe everything you hear without question
"a subtle silence to demolish a trouble conscious"
when you hear it you stop thinking
"a compass with no knowledge"
when you stop thinking, you have no direction
"And every freedom denied"
and also, you deny yourself your god given individuality
"Every dream is designed and broadcasted From the masters to the masses From the antennas on top of the trine"
Then, you believe what they want you to believe
"As far as the receiving planet during a panic is shorted It reports back everything in your mind"
The media, "the neon signs", knows what your thinking.
"Everything is lying Everything is dying Everything is a rule And everything is a crime"
This is the truth that is ignored.
"Everything was healed And everything rewinds And new weather burn a feathers off everything's line"
Everything from the first lines is repeated everytime you remember the truth. But instead of facing the truth, you listen to the media/"the neon signs" and "everything is fine".
I'm sure every song means something to everybody. But I think lupe puts his meanings out all over the album.