How many times I gotta tell you not to bother me?
Why you always bringing up this stuff that I don’t wanna see?
Yo honestly, you make it hard to sleep when you keep constantly accosting me with nonsense
Leave your problems at the beep
And you can be another call I have to screen
Crawling at the feet of ennui and apathy
You’re wrong, but have to speak, and cause cacophony
Distracting me
Y’all could at the least stop all the posturing and blathering
Go on and have a seat

It be like:
What the fuck is this shit, I’m just really tryna chill
I don’t see the need to stop and grieve each time some guy gets killed
I don’t fill my mind with images of violence
I can still be building bridges
We’re all kindred
Why y’all dying on this hill?
Isn’t this the world we live in?
How it is is how it’s been
Power shifts, power’s spent
Power lifts empowered men
And now and then we catch a glimpse of foul business
If it isn’t our friends that’s getting pounded, you don’t get to get upset at how I’m spending my attention
Stop pretending that there’s anything a guy in my position can affect or be expected to
I left my effin’ vestments in the vestibule
Try fetching ’em ‘fore the wrecking crew is through, but I think it’s best they’re never used

One hand claps, other hand stands still
One man blabs on and on until he’s not real

How many times I gotta tell you not to bother me?
Why you always bringing up this stuff that I don’t wanna see?
Yo honestly, you make it hard to sleep when you keep constantly accosting me with nonsense
Leave your garbage at the beep
And you can be another call I have to screen
Crawling at the feet of ennui and apathy
You’re wrong, but have to speak, and cause cacophony
Distracting me from all these bastards treating these catastrophes like “common people problems”

As for me, I be like:
What the fuck is this shit, I’m just tryna keep it real
Why’s it every second feels like time you need to kill?
Killing mine if I allow it
Why you proud of lying down?
We’re nigh surrounded by white power guys that quietly concealed
The type of shit that’s since been violently revealed
Amidst a mix of big ol’ threats to our existence
It’s a festival of ignorance
Insisting that I better get in on this lil bit of cultural excrement y’all been obsessing with gets me upset 'cause I wanna be spending attention on better things
Y’all can all keep watching Watchmen while I wallow with what knowledge I already swallowed up from some Akala songs in college
Thought I taught you not to bother
All this talk is nothing solid
If it’s not gonna help me comprehend my context, I don’t want it

One hand claps, other hand stands still
One man blabs on and on until he’s not real

How many times I gotta tell you not to bother me?
Why you always bringing up this stuff that I don’t wanna see?
Yo honestly, you make it hard to sleep when you keep constantly accosting me with nonsense
Leave your problems at the beep
And you can be another call I have to screen
Crawling at the feet of ennui and apathy
You’re wrong, but have to speak, and cause cacophony
Distracting me
Y’all could at the least stop the cacophony
The apathy
C’mon, I’m asking, please
Just stop the bothering
Just please don’t bother me