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[00:14.52] Thank you my dear rapper friends for coming out to church today
[00:17.98] Here in the basement of this church where they usually hold aa
[00:21.42] I co-opted this space and swapped that 'a' with a big fuckin 's'
[00:25.36] So we could get our sins up off our chest
[00:27.40] I'm not the priest but please confess to me
[00:30.07] The demons that seeped in between you and your screens
[00:32.73] You can choose the podium, your chair
[00:34.86] Or those cushions for your knees
[00:36.66] I only ask we keep this confidential, nothing more
[00:40.11] Oh and one more thing i almost forgot
[00:42.50] Please check your phones in at the door
[00:44.33] Oh lord, see these things i'vе done
[00:47.13] Feels like i'm trapped in a mazе
[00:49.28] And although i run
[00:50.82] I'm still lost here
[00:54.23] I'm still lost here
[00:56.55] And all i see around me are these screens
[00:59.13] Too many screens
[01:00.30] Too many goddamn screens
[01:01.90] I'm twisted i'm tilted i've turned on too many screens
[01:05.50] Too many screens
[01:06.76] Too many screens
[01:07.56] Too many goddamn screens
[01:09.63] I'm twisted i'm tilted i've turned on too many screens
[01:13.34] Facebook, insta, twitter, Facebook
[01:15.44] Reddit, insta, twitter, gmail? (what?)
[01:17.83] Whether it's a dank meme or a shitpost
[01:19.48] You can bet that i'll be reading it in detail
[01:21.08] 'Cause i been staring nonstop at my smartphone
[01:22.51] Or my desktop i'm just aimlessly scrolling
[01:24.44] Ever since i was a kid i've been using the internet
[01:27.00] Strictly to fill in this hole in my heart
[01:28.67] Where do i start, back in irc chat rooms
[01:30.46] Or forums just talking to strangers
[01:32.07] Or casually adding those randos on msn messenger
[01:34.38] Straight disregarding the dangers
[01:35.63] Of internet abuse or people preying on minors
[01:37.20] All i know was i wanted to satiate my desires
[01:39.14] Of fame, and appreciation i'm still seeking on facebook
[01:40.91] So hey it's looking like the situation is dire (sigh)
[01:43.53] I don't know what i'm waiting for
[01:44.93] A text from that one person that i'm craving or
[01:46.74] An email that would tell me that i made it or
[01:48.65] Maybe a notification to show i ain't ignored
[01:50.41] You say i'm bored, but i blame inertia
[01:52.06] You don't know the ways that your brain can hurt ya
[01:53.89] Goin' through the pages of reddit in search of
[01:55.96] Fuck all, draining sands like the prince of persia
[01:57.89] Guess it's the urge for the dopamine hit
[01:59.47] The second i get it i know it's legit
[02:01.25] I put effort in taking control of my shit
[02:03.09] But the question's i don't think i know when to quit
[02:04.94] No checking or scrolling, i better live in the moment
[02:06.72] Lest i let it go over and then regret when i'm older
[02:08.53] I need to leave the big bad social media machine
[02:10.48] And if i never relapse i'll be free of the screen
[02:12.57] Too many screens
[02:14.34] Too many goddamn screens
[02:15.97] I'm twisted i'm tilted i've turned on too many screens
[02:19.35] Too many screens
[02:21.45] Too many goddamn screens
[02:23.50] I'm twisted i'm tilted i've turned on too many screens
[02:27.47] Desh
[02:29.01] I been up for 5 days
[02:30.88] Trying to make this grind pay
[02:32.73] Watch them catch a night wave
[02:34.88] While i make the slide play
[02:36.71] Whoa
[02:37.75] I could use a nap
[02:38.52] Or two days of snoozing
[02:39.81] Rap is kind of hard. look, super smack
[02:41.16] Listen i just have to tell ya
[02:42.47] Even with a packed bar yelling my name
[02:45.06] I still feel like a failure
[02:47.11] 2 am i'm playing games to decompress
[02:49.37] 'Cause while wouldn't say i haven't moved the needle yet
[02:51.12] Or that i'm not experiencing things i've dreamed of, guess
[02:52.99] This witcher run's the only way i'll feel sleepiness
[02:54.74] Plus a vodka soda
[02:55.83] Beside my controller
[02:56.97] Now it's 4 i'm hopeless
[02:57.10] I've got a call in the morning
[02:58.70] It's at like 930 am
[02:59.71] But i'm hurting wait a min
[03:01.32] Now it's 5
[03:03.13] I'll survive
[03:03.91] Took shots and downed some coffee
[03:05.60] At like 9 before my show
[03:07.36] Now it's 6. bae just walked in yawning then her eyes she rolled
[03:11.36] My bad
[03:12.04] She leaves me to finish
[03:13.32] The story arc that i'm concerned i might delete if i get up
[03:14.98] And let up
[03:15.72] On the notion that i need to breathe in the set up
[03:16.82] Of magic characters and puzzles on the screen i'm digesting
[03:18.34] I'm like a workaholic alcoholic gamaholic fiend i'm obsessive
[03:20.94] And if i ever get to sleep i'm reflecting
[03:22.52] On what i just played
[03:23.66] These games keep me from stressing
[03:24.38] I guess i must say
[03:25.43] Many screens i need to feel rested
[03:26.46] Oh no
[03:41.05] My name is schaffer (hi, schaffer) and i'm an addict (oh no)
[03:45.29] Twenty plus years of daily usage, it's far surpassed a bad habit
[03:48.62] With that first shot i got for free, i never thought i'd be a fiend
[03:52.07] A junkie for pornography, a drug i'm popping via screens
[03:56.08] I used to call my viewing healthy, hell, i nattered on about it
[03:59.75] Before i noticed i no longer get turned on without it
[04:03.37] And my old sex drive which i once thought was endless (gone)
[04:06.80] Replaced by shame which came along with my newfound dependence (y'all)
[04:11.07] I'm online, and i'm strung out, glassy-eyed with my tongue out
[04:14.13] Take that dose, and i feel worse,
[04:15.90] I've got thirty tabs open, and i still search
[04:17.88] For that last clip that i can't find, that fast hit for this sick mind
[04:21.56] I go hard till i get off like i'm livestock
[04:24.43] Feeding from a pig's trough
[04:25.10] Xtube on my iphone - coffee shop, Jpegs on my h drive - lost a job
[04:28.86] Dts on the n train - hopping off, and beeline to a pee scene
[04:31.82] - I gotta stop
[04:32.67] Bdsm to ddlg to joi pov going full hd
[04:36.32] Every night getting high with my doc
[04:38.16] And bye-bye to my love life rip
[04:40.29] I'm supposed to be super
[04:42.99] That's the moniker
[04:44.28] Sometimes i lose it though
[04:45.50] Surrender to my monitor
[04:47.63] Playin' smash long past the time it was fun
[04:50.71] Funny when your favorite work of art
[04:53.11] And your addiction become
[04:54.49] 1am to 8am
[04:56.50] Yo desh, i'm right there with you
[04:58.15] Lex and schaffer, different strains but the same disease, i feel you
[05:02.06] Got poison ivy in our psyche
[05:03.96] Shooting that iv, call it ig
[05:05.75] Or a girl on guy scene
[05:07.38] Or getting hit by a side b
[05:08.63] Why don't you just die, screen
[05:09.73] Too many screens
[05:11.54] Too many goddamn screens
[05:13.68] I'm twisted i'm tilted i've turned on too many screens
[05:17.13] Too many screens
[05:18.91] Too many goddamn screens
[05:21.02] I'm twisted i'm tilted i've turned on too many screens
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