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[Intro] Look [Verse] In 2017, for two minutes and thirty seconds We were on Pangea One land, one nation, one planet And I and my ancestors were same aged Two minutes, uh, thirty seconds We saw how small we are We saw how privileged we are to see how small we are We saw Black was beautiful And if you just let Black be Black and it blocks out the light The light rebuilds the brilliance it didn't know it had You know, we should trust Black more And mixed metaphors can speak volumes You know, thе planet knew we needеd it We were two days away from Nazis marching on American soil Spitting the most vile irony on the American myths The greatest generation rhetoric We were three days away from cars driving into peace White lives matter, blood and soil appropriated Polynesian mosquito repellents turned white hoods Tiki torches turnt burnt crosses Frat boy uniforms in all khaki which were kind of funny, though Two days ago, we were one planet, two minutes, thirty seconds Our perspective was orbital, and wouldn't you know it? When you look back down at the ground from space The word America ain't written on the ground It don't look like the maps, huh Streaked across the globe, streamed revolution, televised Bend, Oregon highways turns into one-ways to support the traffic Kim Jung was singing Bob Marley Vlad French kissed Trump Ta-Nehisi and Cornell squashed their beef Stormy Daniels and the prophet Daniel drank Thunderbird Weinstein thought twice about unzipping Elvis and swing dancing finally admitted to being appropriators and gentrifiers And Meek, he was set free early, two minutes, thirty seconds I straightened my side eye at them stupid red hats Hippies, white girls in hula hoops who cared about traffic on the 405 Heavenly bodies just showed off their curves And beautiful stretch marked space can be so sexy We let our appetite for destruction satiate for a second Traded our guns for roses But you too cool for the glasses Was you too stupid to not look directly at it? Did our president actually look directly at it? After every expert said don't look directly at it Did you laugh? Ayy, you ever made out with somebody you know you shouldn't have? Ayy, you ever touched something you know you wasn't 'posed to? Ayy, you ever seen an eclipse? You ever been to Stonehenge? You ever felt connected to Mayans and Druids at the same time? Dogans, Egyptians, Etruscans, Ethiopians Ayy, you ever experience something that was so far above you it was gon' happen whether you was there or not? Yet, it felt like the entirety of the cosmos conspired just to show you something about yourself? Two minutes, thirty seconds Too bad none of us will be alive for the next one