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Can anyone figure out this poem?

"Flashy Words" by Shihan

do you know what it means?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9A_k6Sj-Pg

Flashy words make the world turn but it don't turn right

Flashy words make the world turn but it don't turn right

So I use these, real eyes to, realize the real lies being spoken but not heard 'cause

We are more fascinated by that which are fabricated

The, iconoclastic tactless tactician aims

Tongues spits truth, words like wrecking balls

Bounce off brains 'cause nobody likes to hear what's going on these days it's like

The truth hurts

And we've been lied to a bunch of hollowed minds living on borrowed times and

Nobody likes to hear that and nobody likes to say it either 'cause

Lazy Angels never carry their wings and

Wingless words do nothing but keep us down so

This New York poet yells there is no satisfaction in knowing that

Your life is one of the saddest fictions ever written.

So take your not so satisfactory life back

To the Sadness Factory to

Be reworked and to

Be rewritten and to

Be reconfigured to live right.

Open your brain let your heart go

The Real You has been locked within your ribcage for too long and

Stop trying to hold on to then 'cause that's why it all started.

And about that same time He forgot fun

She lost hope and now We

Can't find anything.

And I swear to God if I could swear to God I'd ask Her

What the f*ck was She thinking when She gave us Free Will

'Cause we done f*cked things up 'cause

Kids dont play and God don't pray

'Cause it's out of Her hands now.

See I've rewritten the Bible after getting over the primal rage

Of finding my name disguised within a Bible's page and

People trying to dissect my destiny to find that

Words somehow make the world turn but it really doesn't turn right.

And suddenly the world stops spinning because words weren't good enough.

So I tell you a blind man once told me the true meaning of love at first sight

So I close my eyes and I recited this poem

To a audience of one that found total gratification and my undivided attention

And when I opened my eyes I found myself standing before a mirror

Staring into the eyes of an invisible man until my pupils became pupils

And I could teach myself to live a better life.

From a piece of mind brings peace of mind all I gotta do is give a piece of mine

Only the words piece together the pieces in me to create peace within me.

But sh*t they are all pieces

Pieces to a puzzle which when put together, is me.

So let me tell you something

Don't ever do anything you're not supposed to

And speak only when spoken to

And don't speak unless you mean

'Cause a good man is hard to find

and a hard man is good to find

And I'm half the man I used to be and

One fourth the person I should be or could be

'Cause I sacrificed freedom for stardom

After being f*cked out of my freedom without a condom

Now how dumb was I.

Words, break these words down to the syllables

They all are the silly bulls they represent

And what do I represent?

Well it's hard to say when my rep resents the fact that I have to question myself when each time that question represents itself.

I can, therefore I am and,

Sticks and stones may break your bones but Words will always teach you.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Um this is a highly complex poem and to fully analyze it will take a few hours

    the general gist of what i recieved from it was that

    1. lies are widespread and drive society, but they are wrong

    2. the truth is hard and dangerous, but needed

    3. We are controlled in the things we do, but were born with free will?

    4. Stick to yourself and be your own truth, dont compromise your morals

    5. Society will try to turn you to lies, but stay strong and learn from the truth

    6. Words can change society if only people listened

    um im pretty sure some of these are wrong or not deep enough, this was just from a cursory reading of the poem.

  • 1 decade ago

    By smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the hearts of the naive. From the bible, romans, 8:14 or 16. Done. Killed that poem in 5 seconds. :-). Flashy words.

  • 1 decade ago

    Basically if you talk the talk you have to walk the walk simple

    Source(s): oxford Literary major
  • 1 decade ago

    O_O

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