1. |
Ghosts
02:20
|
|
||
--GHOSTS--
We're going to let the rhythm hit em like Rakim did it
Better take your shot, them cops ain't kidding (oh no)
Fuck your political party, I'll vote for Bacardi
Try to make a dent in the system they guarding
Smoking fences and hedges in a stolen Lexus
and crash it into the mansion of some company president
I am never ever hesitant to step into the madness
Call suspect status on the entire apparatus
Cause the baddest motherfuckers are Intelligent ones
Who can pick up all the pieces and discard irrelevant ones
Can't call an air strike on climate change
Before the stock market crashes start bombing with planes
And while the world falls apart the economy gains
Cause all the fixing and rebuilding means the rich getting paid
Imma rearrange the frames and call a sucka 'sucka'
Sucker punch and uppercut for fucking with the culture
The vultures are overfed and sponsoring the marathon
I care enough to raise a fist when they want us to carry on
Empire for dummies, they been running the scams
The worlds greatest pick pocket - The Invisible Hand
Thieves can rob a bank if you give em a gun
But give the thieves a bank and they can rob everyone
We're lost but on a mission
Last call or get thrown awake
State of emergency, State of uncertainty
I've stayed awake for days, overtaken with this urgency
There's a certain sequence that cannot be ignored
And a certain cost to sleeping that we cannot afford
A Border ain't nothing but a line in the sand
Law and order ain't nothing but gun of the man
The door into the station where the cops command
Water boarded, shot and tortured, fucker, put up your hands
|
||||
2. |
Welcome
02:58
|
|
||
--WELCOME--
Welcome to the world we live in
Death for all, wars, debts, and prisons
Welcome to the world we live in
Drugs for all, regret your children
Like tracks of anthrax bring the noise, Like P.E did it, gotta raise your voice
Got a razor point to the vein rejoice, up the GDP till the place destroyed
Things we oppose don't go to votes. Musical chairs to the tune of hope
Intelligence gathering, war's a go. Those Patriot missiles don't oppose
There's going gap how the fuck we fix it? Lady Liberty's name ain't bridge it
All those patches in activist fashion ain't going to fucking fill it
Still cheaper to pay a wage in this day then to maintain a slave
Trickle down, come on make it rain - ain't nothing free about this trade
No one gives a fuck about Kardashians
It's a distraction from the fact that the whole system is collapsing
The news is just outrage du jour
The wages of war so rarely make it to our shores
I hate to state the obvious, but we backward hacked the process
Moving in a circle is not equivalent to progress
Step or step up, straight up break out of the mold
Sometimes it's better not to do what you're told.
The power to change the world lies in public opinion
If they wanna win it, we CPR, to resuscitate they image
That Protest was taste test for Dr. Pepper spray
A parade of underpaid who celebrate the executive raise
The detained on Vacay, Guantanamo bay watch with babes
Durf water boarding, playing intel trivia games
Distorted courts report of killing civilians the women and children were militant villains
We'll kill their officials and missile their village for riches before they come get us
You really think they'll let us steal the fire from the gods?
We'll need guerrilla tactics and the will to test the odds
They've kept us out of practice, blacklisted the rebellion
Othered opposition and fact-twisted what we tell them
They've got the guns but we've got the numbers
Things are gonna get pretty hot this summer
I used to run from the cops, but not this time
When the bombs start to drop - watch - we're going to be the front line
|
||||
3. |
Age Against the Machine
03:32
|
|
||
--AGE AGAINST THE MACHINE--
Age against the machine
Are aging against the machine?
Are we raging against our own team?
Did we turn the public into enemies?
If were against, but apart, then who are we?
I'm like Zach de la Rocha getting smashed off of vodka
Smacking world bankers just for saying its progress
I'll structurally adjust your nose
You know they'd privatize the sun if they could get its control
Know your enemy, wake up renegades
They selling bombs and bullets and they killing in the name
Take the power back, they stole the R from rage
While we settle for nothing stuck in leftist debates
I'm the epitome a public enemy
A terrordome poet overthrowing old hegemony
The clock says chaos and Armageddon's coming
Well, fuck the whole game if it ain't saying nothing
Take it to the streets in the cities and the towns and
Shut em down, shut em shut em down
There's a poison going on but were louder than a bomb
Were going to work it out stay strong
We can occupy wall street, they occupy all streets
Sleep now in the fire, no shelter from the heat
The machine never sleeps so why should we?
They got a fistful of steel, we slowly rusting the beams
So from the roof of my mouth to my esophagus tube
I used to fire bomb tracks, inspire the youth
Just the renegades of funk, all city on the move
Its still the voice of the voiceless point of view
That changed the world through rhymes and loops
It's the truth, there's power in rap music
A nation of millions is down for the movement
So what you gonna do? Rap is not afraid of you
The John Wayne days are over. Face it, dude.
The magnitude of the music in our message
Will stretch out your neck on some Terminator X shit
And if you feel the flavour, you know what time it is
IMF back to drop science, kid
So don't get it confused, we sent a man to the moon
And drop bombs with a value more then hospital or school
But the evil empire is in control of the tools
The only time they'd stop a genocide? To rescue the fuel
But the mindsets a threat, lets unite like a crew
Could be the year of the boomerang, instead of year of the boom
Of the profits and the robbers of the darkness of greed
Unite to be freed or age against this machine
Social media feeds are the new channel zero
Bass in your face and you get to be the hero
Write your own hype and curate your seclusion
You don't need to worry about what anyone is doing
Even if the whole thing crashes into the sea
You can still believe what you want to believe
And while you look away from people that are trying to get free...
|
||||
4. |
Wasting My Time
03:13
|
|
||
--WASTING MY TIME--
I guess I'm just wasting my time, wasting my time
I guess I'm just wasting my time, wasting my time
I guess I'm just wasting my time, wasting my time
Wasted all my rhymes
I wrote a letter to the government just the other day
But I flowed it, you said that you learning nothing new
I said thanks for the review, I do my writing just for you
I know your mind is really great, cause your ego is fucking huge
Times when we agree, I still hate the way you said it all
Preaching that were equal, all conceited from his pedestal
The worlds most pressing issues are the ones that your addressing
What are you saying against oppression ? All I hear is your condescension.
So god damned desperate to rationalize positions
Shutting down the different and silencing the critics
Just to justify the white lies you tell yourself
About how you're so much better than everybody else
It's all about appearances, at least that's how it seems
Screaming ALL CAPS attacks at paper tigers in your dreams
Motherfucker, please. You sound like a dickweed.
Claiming victim when your record isn't close to being clean
I said IMFing pissed and put a pen inside my fist
Started writing down the things about the world that make me sick
All the changes of the past always had a soundtrack
And got the revolutions pressed inside the grooves of the track
I thought maybe I could write some words like ones that once inspired me
Light that little fire to be someone who tries help and speak
Believe in making a difference through lyrics, unity,actions
Wait, what the fuck am i talking about?
I'm just the leftist beatboxer from Three Sheet
White boy making noise in a fashion that I'm passionate about,
Mashing words onto beats and then passing them out
Some cats wanna jibber jabber some constructed technicalities
Claiming it's not my culture, fuck that, battle me
But lets not get it twisted, my studies go deeper than books
I bring knowledge to the cipher, drop science, and leave em shook
And no half-assed intellect is going to step over the line
To tell me there's a problem with how I spend my time
|
||||
5. |
Champagne Campaign
02:14
|
|
||
--CHAMPAGNE CAMPAIGN--
I'm pushing that campaign
I'm sipping that champagne
Ladies, take it to the polls. Fellas, lose control
Party like we run the country. pop that bottle, keep it funky
Like Parliament and Uncle George, coast to coast we run the boards
Make love not war, is that so strange, on a champagne campaign?
Make it rain, for the people. Pass out grams Sour Diesel
Let that freak flag fly and throw your hands up to the sky
Wave them shits from side to side and say 'I will not be denied!'
Tonight this is our town - Higher State gonna break it down
(Champagne) Little bit of Dom to the dome, it's on
(Campaign) Little bit of fun to the break of dawn
(Champagne) Little bit of ungh just to make you moan
(Campaign) We stay goin' til the early morn
We taking shots, shots shots so liberally
No time to be conservative, lets smoke some party green
Don't worry about tomorrow, cause tonight was all we need
Going to celebrate the party cause the party keeps us free
Well then i woke up in yesterdays cloths
Going to use your seat as a porcelain thrown
Going to wipe my ass with the TPP
And crash your party, this is EMC
Is it Trudeau? Really, really Trudeau? Its just one big party?
We trusting in Justin's security?
I C51 bouncers for Steve
|
||||
6. |
Capital Lies
02:45
|
|
||
--CAPITAL LIES--
More beef then a rapper in a field full of cattle,
Turn to meat for the patty what he be - corporate lackey
Fat cats, we're the servers
Where his party? Making mergers
Rat race running fast, beat like drum tracks
Shittiest Canadian paid in tax
Things ain't even Steven, think our leader is a demon
Don't just stand and sing allegiance, grab the power while it teeters
I see 51 reasons to speak up!
Calling all people, trying to reach you through these speakers
Speak it loud as amphitheatres keep this looping and repeating
It's long march to freedom, better bring some extra sneakers
New era - its official
Aim like a pistol, voice is dangerous as missile
Write a single, sending ripples, keep it moving we're not cripples
Grab change by the fist full, more pissed then a pit bull
All eyes on the capital they capitalize
They want more power to watch us, the capital's eyes
But the capital lies, the capital lies
Capitalize on the fears of our times
With capital on their minds
Flexing panopticon principles, invincible
Indivisible minds of many men are miserable
Individualistic and cryptic in quotations
When the questions come about exactly who has paid them
Who sets the agenda, who are the pretenders to the throne
Who is in the house but will deny someone a home
Who is all alone and who will lend a helping hand
Who is in control and who will rise to make a stand
Who will make a plan and who will execute it
Who will see that something's wrong and struggle to remove it
Who will do more than make a fucking post
Who will ask more of their chosen holy ghost
Is it you, or is it easier to make excuses?
Is it me and EMC, or is it all just useless?
Is it us or is it them or is it even worth the time
Do we take it to the capital when we see them cross the line?
|
||||
7. |
Hate The Way
04:09
|
|
||
--HATE THE WAY--
Hate the way you make me feel
This cost is real, astronomical
I can't stop these pills, I can't stop the bills
Can't stop the sick, its impossible
See, I'm iller then salmonella for dinner
Corroding in sickness, my body's a prison
Rap about drug addiction?
I need my pills for fucking existence
All this misery, making them rich
But they got free samples to hook the sick
My auto immune on self destruct
There is no cure, slow it down with drugs
I have shakes and pains as I waste away
Ulcers inflame till my heart palpitates
Shit blood till i emaciate
Or I can take 2 pills 4 times a day
I got pills in the morning, pills with food†
Pills in the night and afternoon
No drug plan, hundreds a month
If I'm too sick to work, my life is fucked
If home was some of the places I write, id be a memory waiting for light
Pharma slave prescription servant working for pill for life
Do you greedy people worship the evil or the wilted demon Milton Friedman?
Getting rich off the sick and diseases, meds out of reach for the worst off who need them
Heres a business plan.. eat some Ativan and get inside the company van
That was parked on the dock at the edge of the land,
Pop a hundred milligrams of Diazepam, wash it down with a Faxe 10 can
Drive that thing just as fast as you can
As the water creeps up and you're heavy as sand
Get swallowed by the panic so close to land
While the needy just watch, no helping hands
Cause the worlds worse off, never stood a chance
Set the costs sky high cause you knew the demand
But you'd use compassion to market your brand? Fuck off.
I hate the way you make me feel
Like nothing's real but overkill
Muffled rage, a tiger in a cage
Trying to break free when you know there's no way
No light of day, cold on the mountains
Hide away, increase the amounts and hope for the best,
Try to get some rest while you're running from the stress
Pills are expensive, weed costs less
It's basic math, you know the rest
Face arrest, depression's worse
Some days I care so much it hurts
I'll take whatever gets me through the day
And maybe it's true that it's a huge mistake
But it's the move I make but I do what I need to
I've got dreams and a plan to see through
Something in my brain needs disruption
The price is a pain but I need to function
So I make do. So does E, and so do you.
Coffee and cigarettes, dabs and Wellbutrin
Course through my system, human pollution
Pharmaceutical solution
Kick the holistics, Keep it moving
So I can be myself,
over the counter or something else
It's all about health, see, and I am not the healthiest
It's all about wealth, too, and I am not the wealthiest
Melting on nails and lining up pills
Space out when I take em trying to save a few bills
Maybe I'll get better if I skip a few meals
Get a little something in me just to numb the feels
Shit gets real and life just happens
Trapped in the grasp of electric crackling
I need to get grounded - better than I've ever been
But I've gotta scrounge just to get my daily medicine
So, maybe it's prescription, maybe it's a pass
Maybe it's whiskey, maybe it's grass
Gotta have something, and that's the deal
And I hate the way that makes me feel
|
||||
8. |
Worker Antz
02:46
|
|
||
--WORKER ANTZ--
I'm just a worker ant, running on a tread mill
Pocket full of debt, trying to work off the damn bills
Never made it, I'm still chasing the dream
Going to live to retire as a broken machine
I owe, I owe, I'm off to sell my soul
Working for the big boss, living like a big shot
Mega house, fast car, trophy wifey, big snob
Loves O'Leary, watches Dragons Den to jerk off
Loves to read his Milton Friedman, keeps on feeding
Men to his sweatshop, I mean franchise restaurant,
Watched and overlooked like the view from his desk job
Above the law like he's Steven Segal
We're on deadly ground, with no workers comp
Me, I'm in his kitchen like a million musicians
Part of the counter culture but I question my conditions
What's wrong with the dishwasher, he's thinking out of sync
Politicize bars, we'll get served like food and drink
Cheaper to pay a wage then to maintain a slave
"We have to stay competitive, I cant give you a raise
if you don't want to work here someone else will!î
I'm expendable, so he can spend a mill
Walk into the office with a coffee to keep me alive
All that I've accomplished, unacknowledged, I need that drive
Meet that deadline, with overtime, get it done, next
Keep it moving fluid, cause the cheques don't let me rest
Benefits are AWOL and the hours just too short
There's the promise of promotion but it comes with no support
Cause my buddy in the next desk is a threat to my advancement
And the boss is throwing dollars while we do our silly dancing
But she never makes it rain so we just try harder
Gotta think bigger, think brighter, think smarter
But don't think too much, the manager has a BA
And he is the boss' brother's best friend so we do what he say
Even if it's stupid, even if it's been done
Even if it's the opposite of what you talked about with everyone
Day in, day out, the grind is so relentless
That's the life you lead when you've been given a debt sentence
|
||||
9. |
|
|||
--WHAT MADE THE WHITE MAN WHITE--
We love to claim it, our great nation
Post card picture perfect snowy white places
Molson canadian, beaver tail maple
Tim Horton savoured, hockey skating
Welcome to the celebration, we made a special reservation
For First Nations populations tucked away in isolation
Far away from most caucasians, silent war of decimation
Out of sight and out of mind of most Canadians
But not the first Canadians, you know, the ones with whom we traded
Gave em small pox and residential education
Starved them on to reservations, took the land and segregated
Faced racist hatred through a violent assimilation
Government funded experimentation, housing project degradation
Health care like 3rd world nation, highest rates of incarceration
Cops drive kids off reservations, leave em to die in the snow, isolated
Highest rates of suicide and homicide in the nation
I watched my best friend become a prison statistic
His father a survived they schools, but he lost his mother and sister
You don't think we have a race problem? This story comes to mind:
On the rez when kids to got ready for church they were asking "Why? Who died?î
What made the white man white
Is it his white wash of history or his white lies?
His white picket fence that his privilege designed?
His white pointy cap, fully masked but his eyes?
The colour of the flame that burns a cross in the night?
Wall of the halls where the power resides?
The porcelain of his idol, his white mansion in the sky
Or the white light he's going to follow so he can take what he likes
We like to say it. 'We're not racist'
Anyone who says so is ignorant and tasteless
Let me kick the basics (You must learn!)
Let it burn
Back in the day when the Church was moved to Rome
White men stole and took control of the throne
They shaped knowledge by consensus to relentlessly ensure
That their power was absolute and forever would endure
The kings and queens of Europe sent their ships to spread the word
That their own claims to greatness were all rules to be observed
They conquered distant nations and waged wars against the heathens
That is, any one on earth who didn't believe what they believe in
Empires rose upon the bones of those from whom the lands were taken
Justified by a book held high, loosely translated
Established a ruling class and created global trade
The engine ran on genocide, but there was money to be made
Generations fade away and the machines just keep on turning
They lead a life of leisure while their fortunes do the earning
Secure in several centuries of social manipulation
That benefited white men in nearly every situation
|
||||
10. |
|
|||
--STATE OF THE UNION--
Confusion. Closed eyes buy into delusion.
We are just a Higher State.
First step would be a revolution
(Buy into delusion) Looking at the state of the union
All together now with inclusion
Closed eyes looking at the state of the union
It's all Molotov volatile,
bottle broke and soaked the rubble
Tunnels in the jungle, Smoke,
trouble choke folks 'til they mumble through bubbles
Huddled masses yearn to breathe free, believe me
It's not easy - Less Dorothy, more Adibisi
Police are getting greasy, seeing streets like a pistol range
Victim's names tagged on bricks with blood stains
The Game flashes on a few screens and then vanishes
People buy whatever they want,
the thought's abandoned
As the plots along the blocks
where my city should be planted
There's a method to the madness - pass it off as random
Dancing in the dark - Singing party anthems
The Boss writes blue collar music lampin' in his mansion
The cops are smashing windows
arresting who they wanna
Anyone says anything, they're probably a goner
We've seen a lot of judges go on and lose their honour
Over mandatory minimums for smoking marijuana
And we're actually asking if Alaska is an island
If the length of her skirt is a reason to get violent
If the colour of his skin is the way we should define him
If believing something different
nullifies the need for science
Defiance will divide the sides
while lives are being squandered
Wander through the wilderness
denying we've been conquered
Onward. Juggernaut stubborn chaos is mundane
Laws are embedded in the brain
so everything remains the same
It's a shame that it had to come to this
That a difference of opinion
led to bruised and bloody fists
Ego trips and inclusion by comparison
Racism and hating women are capital A American
It's embarrassing;
the virtues some choose to rule their views
Dazed and confused
in the house where they were raised and abused
I'm amazed by the lack of hesitation
The State still has no business
in the bedrooms of the nation
Class war behind a bullet-proof glass door
Sucker punch strategists and trickle-down tax laws
Slack jawed, toss a hammer in the hornet's nest
Bring the sun down upon the west
Oh yes, the manifest destiny we were taught to see
Is rotten with hypocrisy and often just a mockery
Remix old philosophy and make it hot
Sell it all again until we've given all we've got
We talk a lot it's time-time for some action
It seems drastic with the general level of satisfaction
It's magic - the illusions have been ruined
But we need to see the truth
and that's the State of the Union
The days just starting, sun's receding
I'm still awake the machine ain't sleeping
Rhyme for reason beefing with the leader of the beavers
Think he's trying to please the eagle, trade agreements, don't believe him
Think he's scheming, global village pillage villains cheerleading
Trust isn't a couponÖcan't redeem it
Things ain't even Steven, think our leader was a demon
Need more then a vote when the choice is the lesser evil
Kyoto a no go, the ozones depleting
Oust our leader on behalf of our species
He's got republican features, I got rumbling speakers
Furious like the 5 with boogie down teachings
In a Who's who hinterland endangered Canadian
Habitat, make a stand, way of life, change of plan
So much to say, where the voices at?
Only change on the radio wavesÖNickleback
My hope for brighter days just some ultra violet rays
Send budget to the barber, while this fucker gets a raise
Sell us down the river, sold the water to bidders
And the contract for the ships at an APEC dinner
Get to the chopper, pick up Peter Mckay
Help the rich people with the taxes paid
Those winos on welfare were looking so ugly
while the subsidized wealthy are sipping their bubbly
To whom its concerning, the woods are still burning
So learn the diversions, ad bust them subvert them
serving theses vermin, a verdict with Hermit
Voice of the voiceless making them nervous
Try to speak with hope and purpose
Soundtrack in this fucking circus
Can we change it? Are we losing badly ?
What's the cost in the grand finale ?
Will we stand and rally, through peaks and valleys
till we write our own maps like Rand McNally?
Raise your voice up, fill the sky
After the darkest night, the sun will rise
Change must come from all our lives
This ain't a feel-good album made to dance and grind
Cause I was starting to feel, they treat us like seals
Being clubbed to death, reclaim the wheels of steel
Don't just march to your own beat - put it in riot gear
Long commute to justice, increasing times of fear
I fear were all doomed sometimes
Nothing left to do but turn up the volume
On the active movements of mass inclusion
that maps a future of vast improvement
cause these bastard humans are attacking the future
thats the State of the Union
|
||||
11. |
War Party Party
03:39
|
|
||
--WAR PARTY PARTY--
They think they're the bomb cause they drop so many
The war party's party making human confetti
I wish the bombing was graf, the battle people rocking steady
DJ revolutions, MC's voices armed and ready
Please excuse our point of view, we're the broken records with the breaking news
Names your god and clash, making cash and doom
Here's the fundamentals of who's leading some troops
God Bless America! resounds through congregations
The jubilation's tasteless draped in shades of tribulation
It's capture and subjugation chased with rapture and revelation
In a rapid reclamation writing the reverse of reformation
They run to the Right looking for a fight Lets give it to them.
Lay them to ruin, they're moving We're doing nothing
Institutions are a prison - specifically systolic evangelism
It isn't hit or miss it's that "Ol' time exceptionalist religion"
Limiting living divisive indifferent explicit descriptions
Of scripture revisions in the Inquisition prism a mission
To stick it to the system blister the skin of their victims
You gotta hit them with the wisdom scratch 'listen'
The intolerant and belligerent attitudes are hypocritical
And the devotion to inequality is entirely inexplicable
You really want to know what Jeshua Bin Joseph would do?
He'd probably cold beat the motherfucking shit right out of you
So you can either offer proof, accept the truth, or let's have at it
Because I've had it with this erratic attack on the social fabric
We don't all believe in magic, subservience, and unworthiness
And I'm pretty sure the fire they speak of doesn't burn within
The gated community unity with impunity opportunities
To drop in on the gooniest and talk them into doing shit
Scared of evolution because they're a loose link in the chain
They strain to train the brain to drain the reason away
They say: "Doomsday anyway let's play, gun spray
Oh hey enjoy the stay at X-ray? Ok!
Crusade! Teach shame and shoot the intellectuals
Indoctrinate the kids - demonize the homosexuals!"
The pull they have is parallel to presidential power
Eleventh hour battle lines are scoured onto ivory towers
Military prowess they're growing hungry
Organized and influential and They are coming.
God bless America resounds on country stations
Like Neo cons had wrote the songs and foreign policy came from God
Support the troops who fight for you to bring the world salvation
Choruses for the masses, amped up for the faithful
The leaders preach freedom is granted from the almighty
Well ask why the fuck he only gives it to whitey
With long lists of bombings, hegemonic, economically
Dominant, prominent demonic mission launchers
Media limits debate to whether wars are winnable
Eluding the fact that murder violates their fucking principles
Love thy neighbor's oil, chase it waging
Blatantly racist invasions, while claiming that Satan's evaded
Through baptism, cleansing mind and spirit from sins in which they toil
Monopolize the spoils of illegal wars
Ya got a get out of hell free card for terror you endorse
Hypocritical mother fuckers, I can't take it anymore,
You stand against abortion yet support dropping missiles,
There killing forgiveness, instilling their vision, division,
it's friction with different religions, to pillage positions
And kill the resistance or make em all Christians, listen
Republicans summon the drumming that functioned for Cold War
With Russia to usher destructive constructions of Muslims,
Whole countries viewed terror suspects,
Time to hunt the leaders they once funded
You didn't bomb the Bible Belt when fundamentalists struck home
You sought to bring em to justice not make war zones
But no, you explode homes, so heads will roll
And strike with time machines to send em back to year zero
Centuries of pillage aligned with divinity
Claim to fight Satan while he props up your industry
The money of sinners keeps flowing in your doors
If you personify Satan, they'll support your fucking war
|
||||
12. |
We Want The World
05:00
|
|
||
--WE WANT THE WORLD--
We want the world
Can't call an air strike on climate change
We want the world
Subvert their own existence if there profit to be made
We want the world
I'll try to be the change, if I can make it through the day
We want the world, worker ants/worker bees
With our words and our dreams and abilities
Innocent as snowflakes until we
Stick together shutting down your fucking city
We want the world without watching an ad first
Adverse effects upon the Earth
Rain will come down soon
Doom is booming from the centre of the womb
She wants the world Mother Nature,
Earthquakes, tsunami's taking
back what we've taken
Endangered way of life changing, ain't no way we can sustain this
Aimless sort of drifting, in a shifting sea of data
Where there's so much information that nothing really matters
We can't see the forest for the screens
Or hear the birds singing over these MP3s
She wants the world, Mother Nature, global warning
She's a terrorist, using ultra-violent rays, global warming
Her fighter planes: snow and rain, weather bombs, hurricanes
Trying to ghost us all for all the pillaging and rape
She wants the world, all the wars and disasters
Just to see if we even know what matters
But typical tough guys we rarely show respect
We just try to control her, but she's sick of all the threats
We want the work, this kitchen working not worth it,
Get herded to Shellberta as a seasonal worker
Value oil by the litre, not the knowledge of our teachers
Political leaders crooked as Chretien's mouth when he was speaking
Who will stand up to fight the fight that needs fighting
To stand against the rain, against the thunder and the lightening
To stand up to the money, before the eleventh hour
Or is it always the corrupt that's gonna rise to power?
We want the world
Who runs the world?
The arrogant, the classist, the paternal, the racist
Conservative, fundamental greedy vengeful, archaic,
The chauvinist, the homophobes, raising sheep to carry on
Controlling corporations over parliaments and pentagons
The assholes, the fascists, people who are rude to waiters
Murderers and alcoholic children's entertainers
White Flava Flav impersonators playing games
Ghost riding the whip that came with their daddy's name
We want the world that got free education
While some rich kids complain that First Nations ain't paying
And he starts his conversation by saying, "I'm not racist"
If you have to state it, you probably are, so shut your fucking braces
Planets heating and its freezing and were spying on our people
World war me my inner peace is full of demons
Scheming on another way to try to stop the bleeding
But it's feeling like I'm failing, yo, you seeing what I'm seeing?
Sweat shops, forest chop, fear plot, freedom loss
Cash crop, pills to pop, higher cost, crooked cops
Every day the bodies drop. Maybe one, maybe lots
Maybe it's guns? Maybe stop? Maybe? Maybe not.
I'm still dreaming we can beat it, and believing while we're screaming out
This is all I ever wanted
All I ever wanted was to leave a little mark
With all the things that I had started not a leader or a martyr
Just pieces of my mother and father, lessons and rhythms life had to offer
Live on inside this music when my beatbox is a coffin
All I ever wanted was to strike a little spark
Just enough to cast a little light into the dark
To be another reason to believe in something better
Cause I'll be there when you need me, in any kind of weather
We drop killer verses like Masons in churches delivering sermons,
We want the world, its security ain't secure, shit
They need victims in the prisons, poverty and terrorism
Crime, destruction, instability, separation good for business
I'm seeing white collar crimes and dead black youth
Blue is on a rampage, and green is the truth
Blood runs red but it all turns to grey
Claiming that we're colour blind to get us through the day
After all the intelligence gathering war was our best solution
Kill each other with the smartest bombs or time and more pollution
Feud instead of improving, losing instead of regrouping
While poor people put their poverty together to try to get through it
Put people over profit and put a stop to violence
Pretending that it's progress, no one is an island
It's the needs of the few against the needs of the many
Did we get rid of common sense when we got rid of the pennies
Assassinate your ego like JFK's Motorcade
Fuck dollars and fame, we'll make sense and bring change
Rage against us, come back CIA trained
You'll get crushed like bay of pigs, we're the rap's Castro and Che
|
hermitofthewoods Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax-based rapper, producer, musician and hip hop activist. Keep rap weird.
Streaming and Download help
If you like Higher State, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp