Bought and Sold

Lyrics

Intro (Spoken)
Bought and sold.

Verse (Spoken, flowing)
What's the difference 'tween a heart gone cold or a soul be bold?
Now won't we behold—we've been bought and sold.
With gold and mass fortune, self-important,
Follow rules or be in more sin—poor bent.
Spent—what I meant: use what you've been lent,
Represent like cement—hard and stuck.
Out of luck—what the fuck?
Ah, that suck, and other muck.

Turn (Quick cadence shift)
Simple.
Pop the pimple.
Rock the dimple.
Live it limp a little—
Not shrimp or blimp, but middle.

Pre-Outro (Spoken, playful)
And uh—hey diddle diddle,
I got another riddle:

Outro (Spoken, clear)
How can small things seem so big
In someone who's so little?

Interpretation

Moral compression under economic gravity. The poem questions whether hardness (cold heart) or bravado (bold soul) is a response to being commodified. Wealth, rules, and sin form a pressure system that turns people rigid—"cement, hard and stuck." Wordplay spirals to show how language itself gets bought and sold. The closing riddle reframes power: perceived magnitude comes from inner smallness, not external size. Emotional vector: critique → agitation → playful destabilization → reflective insight.