Big belly, beard and mad tattoos

Hella heavy handed 

Tell your mom The Bronx is back in groove

Pack a tune

Baby I got bars, I’m down to spit and soothe

Down to live a life that both my children could be proud to use

Now it’s true

That Bori Bori spirit—got it loud and loose

Got that New York City vibe, and Latin Flavor to the Moon

Zoomin’ 

But I’d rather keep it Live on Google

Speak the truth

Students call me teacher but they teach me just as much as who?

Just as much as any teacher EVER that I had in school

And so I rarely ever tell whoever that I teach the youth

Yea, it’s fine, oh, 

“this ones a teacher?” 

Yeah, “Rene is too”

But I dodge those convos like Corona 

Rather hide and move

Let’s get back to talking Sports or politics, compare our views

I could go on steady for about another week or two

Alas, my time is up, I hope you see me now, let’s speak a few

Big up to my wife and Knicks and Yanks, let’s get a chip or two…

i am curious, funny, and impatient. 

challenge and money be my main focus.

i’ve recently been finding myself lost and anxious to things i feel been around. 

My mind constantly overthinks so i let others know about my pain so they feel better. not sure on how it works but it does. 

Music is what motivates everything for myself. i damn sure have faith in my career just bases around the people i surround myself with. 

My journey is goes deeper every second and i feel at times i shouldn't grow with myself but it’s all i have. 

pain. 

-Zac

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Don't want a nation under the new media

And can you hear the sound of hysteria?

The subliminal mind fuck America

Welcome to a new kind of tension

All across the alien nation

Where everything isn't meant to be okay

Television dreams of tomorrow

We're not the ones who're meant to follow

For that's enough to argue

Well maybe I'm the faggot America

I'm not a part of a redneck agenda

Now everybody do the propaganda

And sing along to the age of paranoia

Welcome to a new kind of tension

All across the alien nation

Where everything isn't meant to be okay

Television dreams of tomorrow

We're not the ones who're meant to follow

For that's enough to argue

Don't want to be an American idiot

One nation controlled by the media

Information age of hysteria

It's going out to idiot America

Welcome to a new kind of tension

All across the alien nation

Where everything isn't meant to be okay

Television dreams of tomorrow

We're not the ones who're meant to follow

For that's enough to argue


This song relates to me cause I’ve loved Green Day since I was like 12 and I have always loved this song. I think it’s very clever and honest and I agree with every line. It’s from a rock opera they wrote that was on Broadway for 4 years n I think that’s really cool and impressive for a punk band to do. The whole play is basically about these young guys from Suburbia going to the city to pursue their dreams and failing. The irony is that they r moving away from the typical American dream, cuz they are young and they think it will be better somewhere else, but it’s not and they end up with the same hopeless ideals, making the same stupid mistakes, and going back to the home they resented. It’s a pretty dark play just kinda talking about how fucked up everything is, there isn’t really a positive message or happy ending, it’s just honest. This song is basically saying America is full of idiots, the American dream is a stupid lie and if u believe in it, ur an idiot too, and I don’t wanna be that. I agree with all that.