1. |
Liberate Your Mind
03:17
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This is how I spit it raw
Got the critics
Going aw naw he didn’t
It’s all about bling and ice
In this push button paradise
Paper over problems
Until terror strikes
Traded freedom for convenience
Leaders left us bleeding
Go into debt and be them
Buy everything now on credit
Gig workers living lives they can’t edit
Amazon is schizophrenic
Trample on rights for bread it’s
Manufactured monopoly
Catch up on Facebook
As it destroys democracy
We can’t live like this,
2.5 kids and shit
Isolated in our own bubbles
So fragmented from one another
They turned us into numbers
Got caught in slumber
Lost in the spectacle
Sedated by chemicals,
Endless tv turned us all into vegetables
This is what happens when you put the rich on pedestals
Liberate your mind
It’s about time
We came in from the cold
Assigned these toxic roles
We climb out of the hole
It ain’t all about the dough
Break free from the capitalist mold
Inflation getting higher
Make it hard on the buyer
Prices catch fire
And rise faster than income
For far too long we been dumb
Praying for better outcomes
But settling for breadcrumbs
The cost of living through the roof
Unemployment spikes cause a cashless society rules
Machines making workers obsolete,
Corporate downsizing, we murder the beast
Is it sane to submit to an insane situation
Wage enslavement is mass derangement
Global supply chains sick of waiting
In the system our faith is shaken,
There’s no purpose in consumption
Without their phones, most folks couldn’t function
So question your assumptions
We’re even giving babies computers
Training them to be the next consumers
Our arrogance will be our undoing
Liberate your mind
It’s about time
We came in from the cold
Assigned these toxic roles
We climb out of the hole
It ain’t all about the dough
Break free from the capitalist mold
They jail or kills off the strongest and brightest
Leaving conformists to inherit the kingdom of midas
When everything you touch turns to gold
Beware, golden apples will choke your throat
Sand through the hourglass
Who fell through the cracks,
The tired the poor the huddle mass
The rich turn their backs and wash their hands
Capitalist supply meets impractical demands
Turn the whole world into sacrificial lambs
Claiming they care, they don’t give a damn
The working poor slave under bosses command
fast food poison, clothes that are second hand
This fucked up world like sinking in quicksand
Most too distracted to understand
We’re inherited a technological wasteland
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2. |
American Nightmare
02:33
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If not us, then who
If not now, then when
If not here, then where
Their American dreams are our nightmares
Bring nature to heel,
We try to rule her,
Our arrogance will be our undoing
We haven’t got a clue,
Invested in disconnection
Consumption will consume you
What are we left with?
A life that’s ruthless the truth is
Food riots in the streets
Price you pay for leaving us
Hanging by the skin of our teeth
Emancipate
Our desires through mutual aid-
We live by a law that’s higher than the
The corporate state
The foundation is rotten it’s slipping away
One day will see it crumble under its own weight
I can’t wait for the day
The poor will have the final say
Remember Ferguson,
Before they murder us
Choke on the tear gas
Flash bangs get chucked back
Hoodies up, pull down the gasmask
Live rounds, militarized police, m-wraps in the streets,
curfews, checkpoints, this is a state of emergency
Put on a uniform, check your humanity at the door,
Don’t believe me ask Eric Garner and Ezell Ford,
Michael Brown, Oscar Grant
Hands up, or Cuffed, Shot in the back
If not us, then who
If not now, then when
If not here, then where
Their American dreams are our nightmares
Can’t say we never saw it coming
The systems as flawed as the people who run it
Science fiction doubled as prophecy
Twisted Predictions turned public policy
Phillip k. dick stared into the void
The paranoid we’re proven clairvoyant
Invented AI, leaped the great divide
Sowed the seeds of our own demise
Electric sheep still count them androids
Skynet was never destroyed
Now drones reap metallic death from a crimson sky
Electoral coups, military spies
Cyborgs feel no pity or remorse
When they go to war
Or replace the sheriff
Ask yourselves
What if these machines achieve
Self-Awareness
What if we become aware
Of what selfishness achieved
Cameras everywhere
Eyes & Ears on every street
Kill what makes us human
We may as well be machines
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3. |
Back to Nature
03:09
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Back to nature
The only savior
Meet your maker
And return the favor
It’s Strange times to be alive,
Brought to the cusp
Of the divide only to learn
The other is us,
Our legacy intertwined
Struggle makes us one
Drawn into each other’s lives
Shared plight, like when stars and planets align
Why I rap, why I write
To be the juxtaposition
A sea change is the crux of my vision
Flip scripts like Shakespeare
Bend minds like surrealist painters
Speak truth to power til it remains clear
In our final hour,
Not going through the motions
Not rocking the boat on the lonely ocean
I’m Sinking tha fucker til I get you open
We’re out of control, we know
Letting go of ego
A billion choices reveal
Our potential as equals
We must create
And cross pollinate
Until minds Fluctuate
Unite the human race
And communicate
Our ever-changing
State of grace
Cosmic dance
Of fate and chance
Free will & circumstance
Back to nature
The only savior
Meet your maker
And return the favor
Nothing is static and fixed
In a simple twist of fate
Change is the only constant
Our revolution is an evolutionary process,
A cycle of progress that cannot be stopped
Continual quest for root causes
It cannot be sold. It cannot be bought
Its social, economic, technological
Artistic, musical, philosophical
But None of these are possible
Without the revolution of the self.
Intertwining your struggle with someone else
It’s the parts, it’s the whole, it’s holistic
In reality, it’s a total synthesis,
A feedback loop that’s intricate
A grand confluence of forces,
Our plans, words, and actions
Will help steer the courses,
Back to nature
The only savior
Meet your maker
And return the favor
Nothing is static and fixed
In a simple twist of fate
Change is the only constant
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4. |
Be Your Own Authority
03:16
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To each their own to reach our goals
Turn this shit up till the speaker blows
Decrypt the cypher, crack the code
Evolve our ways
Through solidarity and mutual aid
Sharing the feasts, that communities made
Dues have been paid, unite the human race
Do graffiti, put up stickers, tags, and stencils
Reclaim public space
Chuck the teevee out the window
Throw block parties with your friends and kinfolk
No one has superiority
We been broke
Throw seeds in the ground
Be your own authority
Trash the banks, defend minorities
Smash atms,
Fuck shit up with hammers
Cause some mayhem
And rip down some cameras
Talk to your neighbors,
Give gifts, share skills, don’t be a hater,
Start a commune, be a creator
Ain’t all about the paper, plant a garden,
Raise your children to be writers and artists
Never cut their losses but cut their carbon
Please Cut their carbon please they should cut their carbon
Live like you’ll die tomorrow
Die like you’ll live forever
Living on time that’s borrowed
It’s the final measure
Cash left us bleeding
Crash an investors meeting,
More than protestors pleading
We need Direct action,
Without leaders backing
Start a riot and attack them
You can’t stop this, it’s potent
Shoplift,
Take what you need from those who own it
Dumpster dive, give food to the homeless,
Worker’s cooperatives, we build from below
Find new ways to live, on less traveled roads
Squat foreclosed homes
Keep the landlords on their toes
Tree-sit, drive spikes into oaks
Reclaim your self-worth
No compromise in defense of the earth
Take a bat to petty tyrants and racists
Barn raise a pirate radio station
Demand the basics
Spread the underground across the airwaves
Copwatch to keep the law in their place
Organize for better conditions and fair pay
Run yuppie scum out on a rail
Your town is not their playground
Your Life is not for sale
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5. |
Blaze the Future
03:23
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I blaze the future,
your frozen like statues
Hold a mirror to medusa
engrave minds like tattoos
Overturn idols and smash taboos
everyday life’s a battle,
You know I stay stoned
where there’s fire there’s smoke that’s true
When I’m alone, I go and just crash through
Navigate this bitch, higher than the o-zone
Recalibrate my kaleidoscope then blaze a bone,
Things arise and cease, Decline and grow,
We are fossil fuels in the making, don’t you know
Small axe don’t make me fly off the handle
You’re frail and fragile,
Afraid of your own shadow
Stale and stagnant I slay your ignorance
Time is the master, death is imminent
Mind is what matters, ideas are infinite
So we demand everything for everyone
Don’t fall in line, Fall in love,
Real change won’t come from above
We’re golden, we’re stardust
Get back to the garden
Fate is what you make
Draw the arrow, Hit the target
Go out with a bang like a Haley’s comet
Divided we’re conquered
United we’re strongest
It’s not too late
To evolve our ways
Beyond control & hate
A place where no one dominates
Conquers your mind-state
Eclipse your blind faith
Overcome petty division,
Through cross pollinating wisdom
Now you ready to listen
So we demand everything for everyone
Don’t fall in line, Fall in love,
Real change won’t come from above
Trace the patterns Bridge divides before the casket
Unplugged from the matrix Escaped the labyrinth,
Ducked the agents minotaur straight jackets
Escaped the gallows, with innovative tactics
Stepped from the shadows buried the hatchet
Verbal acrobatics lasting hits
Strife A fascinating catalyst
Laughing last like Lazarus,
An alchemist,
Blending elements,
Of savagery and eloquence
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6. |
Born Free
02:22
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We are born free
Into a world of control
Divorced from the whole
Of course, we revolt
It’s in our blood,
It’s in our bones,
We change & evolve,
You’re not alone
Life’s a struggle
Our true natures communal
On a moving train you can’t be neutral
They stole your rights, where’s your scruples
Capitalisms a lie, the outcome is brutal
Robbing the man next to you I remain skeptical
Eventually your silence won’t be protecting you
Give respect to get respect fool,
Our movements irrepressible
Sign on the dotted line,
have u lost your damn mind?
forgotten the last time their cash climbed...
Your freedom flatlined
Robbing you blind is their pastime
Severed from the source, we try to take control
And plunge farther down the rabbit hole,
Gain the world and lose your hold,
Your grip on reality
Stuck in Stockholm syndrome
Locked in a siege mentality
With a Jeckle and Hyde split personality
Business tycoons are the biggest thieves
It’s true, companies love misery,
Trade civil liberties for dehumanizing efficiency
White collar goons walk free
While we get outlined in chalk on the street
Left to rot by an officer over some rotten beef
Don’t drop to your knees, time to plot & scheme
Swinging from two extremes like a sword of Damocles
Mutually assured destruction self-fulfilling prophecy
In a schizophrenic society
Built on class conflict and social hierarchies
Why did they lie to me about rioting in the streets
We’re drowning like Narcissus in our iPhone screens
Billions of showers, no one’s hands are clean
Swallow enough pills to put the whole damn world to sleep
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7. |
Eclipse the Plateau
03:07
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Fight like hell for the living
Free thought, free will, free spirit
Versus Fixed outcomes and received wisdom
Curse the efficiency of rigged systems
The rich cash in with
Clockwork precision
Want control of every facet of our lives living
While they sedate some
Kill the rest
We represent free untamed wilderness
What some kill inside themselves
To Gain success
Spark the dro, light the cess
I’m your cultural architect
Specializing in catharsis
Don’t ignore the effects
of structural violence
Our hands are tied
Who tied them
We are the perfect crime
The effects of our actions
Won’t be felt in our lifetimes
Actions today
Could Sever our children’s life line
Reached the apex,
Connect the dots
Eclipse the plateau,
Respect the chaos
Don’t try to break us
We’ll be off your radar
We’ll flip and explode
Go hard until the graveyard
Blow the whistle on the system,
Not your brothers and sisters
Don’t take part in 21st century lynching
White supremacist private prisons
Forgot that community is shared difference,
Not enforced sameness
Well go an eye for an eye til annihilation
But extinction is not by trial basis
No Chance fluctuation
These are man-made changes
Resource extraction
Leads to devastation
Hand-wringing and denial leads to
Deforestation
Resource concentration,
Leads to confrontation, and conflagration
Risk it all, taking big chances
Win by any means
Not running the race backwards
For too long
Been bound to serve as slaves to the law
Under owners’ control
The state serving the wealthy since Hammurabi’s code
Now the world’s policeman has gone rogue
Americas got the earth in an illegal choke-hold
Market seeks exponential growth
Globes Heating up but somehow our blood runs cold
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8. |
F*ck MAGA Fascists
03:03
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Fuck MAGA fascists
Knock bullies on their asses
Fox news lies claims election was stolen
Goons on the right are emboldened
No such thing as illegal voting
They’re all wolves in sheep’s clothing
Authoritarians set off explosions
Pass the blame down the chain of command
Attack on the capitol reframed as taking a stand
Just following orders of Trump’s insane demands
January 6th
Their plans will make you sick
The insurrection
Was the work of right wing radicals
With extreme views
Sore that their team will battle and lose
Or be replaced with diversity
White supremacists hate certainly
Masquerading as non-conformist rage
Coming through the front door with
Resentment and a gauge
Fuck MAGA fascists
Knock bullies on their asses
Seizing power through electoral coups
Q anon and their followers are bound to lose
Believe in that bull, you belong in a zoo
Reality denial
Fantasies are wild
And quite elaborate
Fear leads to psychos shooting up and stabbing shit
In the name of the establishment
In the name of white male Christian pride
If your none of the above, you're fixing to die
The system wages social war it’s all out genocide
Black folks killed by police how many have died
White folks it’s time to choose your side
The poor and disenfranchised are dropping like flies
Read the papers you decide
But run the numbers
This racist system will get bucked
when it’s led under the spell of Tucker Carlson
Defending black lives ain’t partisan
We expose the charlatans
Fuck MAGA fascists
Knock bullies on their asses
Rebranding slavery as freedom
Proud boys, 3 percenters, oath-keepers,
Leave most speechless,
But their hatred is beneath us
They hide their fascism behind nationalist pride
But I’m not a patriot looking to die,
I’m an anarchist atheist, always asking why
I embrace a world free of nation-states
We’re tired of your division,
Militia members putting faith in a dying system
Like trying to get a hole in one by firing a mortar
Inhumanity distorts ya,
They spark civil war to
Close the borders
Stop the steal is a subterfuge
Step on a landmine
Never wonder what’s under you
Baseless assertions of electoral fraud
The youth will bury you next to your god
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9. |
Finite Planet
02:30
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Global warming
Man-made pollution
Greenhouse gases
What’s the solution
Leave the masses
Out of wealth redistribution
Divides are drastic
Pesticides and plastics
What’s the Impact
Of fossil fuel consumption
Fattened livestock and quadrupled meat production,
Shocking government corruption and indifference
Blame the debt traps of the global finance system
For carbon dioxide emissions and starvation
Unfortunately, environmental degradation
Disproportionately affects poor populations
Holes in the ozone layer, UV radiation
Drought, heat waves, desertification
Melting glaciers ocean acidification
Extreme weather events
These disasters never end
On planet earth, it’s code red
Can’t expand infinite on a finite planet
Endless growth like a cancer we take for granted
We steal from the earth to survive
What happens when demand outstrips supply
Wealth is an illusion, can’t take it when you die.
What good is money if there’s no one left to buy?
Climate crisis
They try to keep us quiet
But rising food prices leads to food riots
As species die-off,
The wealthy hide the high cost
They control and categorize and lie lots
Patent genes copyright life
And profit from our plight
It’s fight or flight
We are a dying breed
The last of the mortals
To live free on this earthly coil
Cursed to return to the soil
Each birth is a portal
To another world
Junkies for oil conquered the ether
Now the seas will boil and the earths the heater
Our dominion over the globe is counterfeit
We are a part of nature not apart from it
If we don’t halt this division
through mutual aid and resistance
we face extinction
We’re on the brink man
It’s evolution or extinction
We’re on the brink man
It’s evolution or extinction
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10. |
Fountain of Youth
02:54
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I was wounded early,
Soon I learned the wounds made me
Didn’t want to be robbed at a job
They labeled me lazy
Forced me to fit in
Until I almost went crazy
Detention hall,
Pigs tried to taze me
Penitentiary walls
But I wouldn’t let it phase me,
Taught us no pain, no gain
So we learned to slumber sound
And act real tame
Assembly-line style,
numbered, given a name
Told we’d be cut off if we didn’t remain
Loyal to dirty games, structures we didn’t create
Lived lives so sedate, just wanted to find a mate
Rarely tried to create or transform, they said it was too late
Don’t betray the norm, or smash the pearly gates
Of our segre-gated communities
They tell us we were born and bred
To serve and obey ‘til the day we’re dead
But my conscience is not for sale or rent
To the godly, the greedy, or the government
Keep it real
We elevate for respect
Back around my way
Had that good OG Kush connect,
Moving pounds in North Cackalack,
Before I caught my first case
Seven felonies back-to-back
On my 19th birthday
Judge through the book at my face
Spent 3 years in a cage
Undercover pinned the
Scarlet letter to my name for
Pushing weight duty-free
Then I moved to Cascadia
Where Washington has got the legal weed
The THC is TNT,
Medicinally or recreationally
Now the pigs can’t shake the streets cause everyone’s smoking
The realest OGs puff in the open with no fear getting choked for holding
Bullshit charges for something that grows all over
Light it up, let the bud flow, the weed is potent
They tell us we were born and bred
To serve and obey ‘til the day we’re dead
But my brain is not for sale or rent
To the godly, the greedy, or the government
The suns zenith on the Horizon,
Running through city streets
No thoughts of screeching sirens
The lunatics have taken over the asylum,
Boundless energy we bathed in the fountain of youth,
Before countless enemies stole years from my crew
Before we learned the straight and narrow was a full circle
Snakes choking on their tail, Auro Boris got murdered
Finally figured out what their afraid of,
The differences that made us
Who we we’re, some kept the flame alive,
Some got lost in the herd, others ran and hide,
me I kept my word
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11. |
Gunsmoke
03:01
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Wake up and smell the gunsmoke
When the wars brought home
Cyborgs will kick down Your front door,
Take you with blunt force,
Tell me who they gone come for
The Steel trap has been sprung
The iron fist comes out of the velvet glove
Fascism is capitalism's bastard son,
Now the most passionate ones
Fall to the assassin’s gun
Ain’t playing cops and robbers
On my honor, I’ll be on the front lines
Like John Connor, hot-wiring a chopper
This ain’t calm waters
Demand the Impossible
Be Methodical, Be Practical
No Gods, No Masters
No more state and capital
Markets are fictions
States are prisons
We need total abolition
of the whole damned system
No mercy for masters
Knock the fascists off their asses
They use counter insurgency tactics
We need counter repression logistics
The systems too broke to ever fix it
The problems are systemic,
Crime will never be diminished
Until we realize the true menace
Suits and ties wish to end us
It’s time for splendid vengeance
I’m holding the whole court in contempt…
From corrupt laws, we’re exempt
Double standard of living except
They take more than their given and then
Judges deliver sentences in double digits
Lock us up for thoughts and grudges,
Yes, I plead guilty to obstruction of injustice
My associates and I have the numbers
Molotovs hit drones to wake you from your slumber
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12. |
Keep Fighting
03:33
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On the road, here and back
Like Kerouac
Long as bloods in my veins
I can’t be tamed
Seen past the masquerade
Now I know it’s all bull
I’m uncontrollable
That’s my fate
Free will to the last of days
Until we realize diversity
That’s our strength
Blend classic raps, with 40’s and acid tabs
Scratching the wax
From the bass that pumps in the trunk of the lac
To fat blunts we puff puff pass
It’s all related,
It’s not complicated
Take the raw data
Extract the essence
Blend it with the cross-faders
To Leave a lasting impression
Across a broad spectrum
The right answers always a question!
Keep fighting, never stop until freedom is won
Better to be pissed off than to be pissed on
Would you rather live a little or live a lot
Death is certain, life is not
So give it all you fuckin’ got
My philosophy
Authority is obsolete
We are not machines
We need to set each other free
Stability left you ill at ease
If nothing changes, may as well be six feet deep
Need a world of passion filled with dreams
Potential bursting at the seams
Call it how it is
Not how it appears to be
Envision a world of equality,
Not a pyramid scheme
Act collectively
And speak it into being
Vexed by the complexity
Is Free-will our destiny?
I got the recipe
To shift your trajectory
Dwell in possibility
Know thyself
To live fearlessly
Resist tyranny
Live fearlessly
Keep fighting, never stop until freedom is won
Better to be pissed off than to be pissed on
Would you rather live a little or live a lot
Death is certain, life is not
So give it all you fuckin’ got
Our ways maladapted
Set off a chain reaction led to collapse of the system
A glitch in the matrix, more than a lapse or schism,
The main feature not just a facet of capitalism
A universal aspect,
A hidden pattern
That’s the same forwards and backwards
Like a strange attractor
Like stars that implode in a black hole their reach expands
The tides on beaches wash away castles in the sand
The truth slips through the palms of our hands
Our enemies mastered our plans,
Forced a retreat, when we should’ve advanced
Ruled by classist racists,
Claiming ownership off all places
Makes me want to bash in their faces
Curb stomp a Nazi
Burn a Klansman in his robes with my posse
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13. |
Overthrow Your Control
02:43
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The future is born in struggle
We Are one piece of the puzzle
Hate to burst your bubble,
When greed’s your driving principle
What are we evolving towards?
Are we moving backwards or forwards?
Who charted the course?
Throw the captains of industry overboard.
Is this the human or the rat race?
Have we learned to spark change
Or returned to the dark age?
Has technology liberated us
Or expanded the bars of our cages?
You be the judge. Jury executioner
But you can’t remember what the solutions were
There’s no sustainable economy on a dead earth
Get it right, motherfucker Earth First
Life is too short
To do as you’re told
We’ll build power from below
And overthrow you control
In greed we trusted,
Power accumulated corrupted us
Centralized control in this giant clusterfuck
If you scratch the surface
What’s a capitalists purpose
Just to hoard surplus,
Give a fuck if they hurt us
We’ve inherited this disease
Things are not what they’re appearing to be,
Economics is the science of greed
It’s a pyramid scheme,
Disconnected from the outcomes, we’re lost
Unintended consequence of pandoras box
Cracked the atom
Dropped the bomb
Humans replaced god,
Invented heaven
From whole cloth
To construct a hell on earth
For the have-nots
Life is too short
To do as you’re told
We’ll build power from below
And overthrow you control
And Surveillance,
The owners, the jailers, they are us
They, the eternal myth and paradox,
Jailers stay jailers unless they unlock the cages
The owners, prove crime is contagious
Do they have the wisdom to admit mistakes?
Let the rich take a bow from the world stage
By hording everything they dug their own grave
Had their chance, they hold us back
From choosing our own fate, a new path
Not one we’ve been getting beaten
On since the good old days
A place where we can boldly admit mistakes
Make way for equilibrium with the earth and her ways And live to grow sage
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14. |
Power Corrupts
02:47
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Don’t hunt the witch
Eat the rich,
They’re out of touch with reality
Eyes stitched shut for salaries
Treat people like problems callowly
Politicians solve them shallowly
Close schools, build prison mentality
The root of crime is inequality,
Law and order logic been faulty,
Empires bout to be falling you’ll see,
Racing to a terribly dreadful endeavor,
Where bosses cleverly sever your life-line,
Don’t pull levers you might find,
Your kite-lines been knotted,
When you ask for more, than you’re allotted,
Die like plants left unpotted,
Forgot what the plot is,
The long-forgotten motto,
Of cats caught in the wage slave lotto,
Shots rang out in staccato,
Oppressed people should stick together,
Take a raincoat for inclement weather,
And kill your oppressor,
Before the age of tyrants
Drown your rage in fire hydrants,
They rely on our tired silence
Claim we’re burdens on the state,
They hate us,
But we didn’t invent rat races,
We just learned how to play this,
So feds don’t find where we hide our aces,
And why we play the game so frigging faceless
Know what needs to be done I do it
Know what needs to be said, I’ll say it
The truth pursued stands naked
But is often overlooked
Power corrupts, that’s what’s up
Powerful pulling strings like Gepetto
Building condos and ghettos
Developers embezzle
Pigs aim the heavy metal
Made to unsettle, those too poor to let go
Of what they peddle, they get wrestled,
Used as a vessel,
Cashflow nestled,
Profiteers got scores to settle throughout the years,
Against black, brown, red, and yellow men they fear, white power Legacy that tears, the social fabric apart, replacing it with gears, Crushing hearts,
Recruit us as the eyes and ears,
Throwing darts, at maps on frontiers
Conquered by the insincere
Who’d commandeer our ride,
Until organs burst inside
The centripetal force,
Makes it hard to change courses,
Got us in a corporate stables trained like horses,
Unaware of hidden forces that spy on our lives
How can we stand up for our rights without spines,
You crack a beer and ask what about mine?
Fuck that, what about ours, collectively,
Total liberation, cause freedom beckons me
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15. |
Prisoner's Dilemma
03:37
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Life is raw, life is war, life is a Rorschach test
Strife brings constant flux and metamorphosis
The truth hits you like a ton of bricks (Blaow!)
Not scared of dying
Cause I ain’t been scared to live
Deaths out of our control
So why be afraid of that shit?
No regrets, I put that on everything
Thrown to the wolves found my place in the pack
Now I howl at the moon dressed in pitch black
My crews been through hell and back
Now we’re firebrands, leaving impacts
Snatch the final word from the jaws of death
Cause Nothing dies, it changes form instead
Energy recycled, matters reborn
These are the times, to pass the torch
Ride the storm Along the razor’s edge
In its rawest form, freedom’s dangerous
Like a thief in the night,
We learned the art of lock-pick
Before pigs strangle us
Shatter illusions with a hard brick
Call it catharsis, spark that piff,
Tear down the borders in a sentence
Glimpse eternity in a single instant
Dimethyl Tryptamine Ascension
Clockwork universe ending.
Watch me bring it
Swing the pendulum
Blow your doors
Of perception off the hinges
Knowledge indispensable
Reveal we’re all kindred,
We demand the incredible
And express the inexpressible
What you deem impossible,
Tomorrows will seem inevitable
We hustle
Hand-to-hand,
Check to check
Struggle sun rise to sun set
Survive through tears,
Blood, & sweat, kid
We’re all connected
More similar than separate
No snitching, no exception
It’s A prisoner’s dilemma
No ego, no hubris, no lies
As I pursue an evolution of minds
Revolution in our time, before our species declines
Rise above what divides us
Read the signs, see that fear and greed are suicidal
We combine forces for survival
Mutual aid and self-reliance
End the reign of wealthy tyrants
We are our own saviors,
Total liberation
In our nature
No turning back
I spark transformation
Now is all you have
In a split-second it’s taken,
Each breath could be your last
We fear change like we fear death
But I have no fears left
We hustle
Hand-to-hand,
Check to check
Struggle sun rise to sun set
Survive through tears,
Blood, & sweat, kid
We’re all connected
More similar than separate
No snitching, no exception
It’s A prisoner’s dilemma
Now is all we have
Done asking permission
Past trusting tradition
We’re Free thinkers
Cowards build walls
The fearless build bridges
All I know is that I know nothing
I remain driven
No easy answers
Or received wisdom
We were all created in the big bangs image
Gods a metaphor for our combined existences
See life for what it really is
Then seek conspirators
It’s second nature, there’s no one right way to live
No leaders or saviors the skies got no answers to give
We’re unified tribes embracing the random
Found freedom on the edge, improvising with friends
Sick of waiting in the hall, now we know the ledges
Read the writing on the wall, respect the unexpected
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16. |
Rebel Fist
03:24
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Raise a rebel fist
Stay forever pissed
Strike proportionate
Before you’re too poor to live
The less fortunate
Will spark metamorphosis
An escape artist,
Until the day I’m a carcass,
Paid ta count your losses
My ways remain lawless
Revenge is catharsis
My blade is the sharpest
Sew seeds, Reap harvests
Keep my scope on target
Leaders broke they promise
Rich thieves gave us no options
Bring a blow-torch to his office
A four-four to his fortress
What’s the source of his profits
Evolve or be left a hostage
Force the boss to pay for this hardship
Slave for a mortgage or stay on the margins
Caught in paid bondage or waste away jobless,
They’ll call the poor monstrous
Check the context,
Every action has a consequence
It’s pure carnage
Thrown through the gauntlet
Of modern-day economics
Commoners need courage and confidence,
Mob with enough heat to break thermometers
Get autonomous, before they start bombing us
Put fingers around the esophagus of monopolists
Raise a rebel fist
Stay forever pissed
Strike proportionate
Before you’re too poor to live
The less fortunate
Will spark metamorphosis
Right wing politicians are money launderers
Trafficking power and policy for corporate sponsorship
Financial goliaths take service sector hostages
All of them trapped in a skyscraper sarcophagus
Will a rising tide save the living
If glaciers melt before the titanic starts sinking
Liberty bell stopped ringing a long time ago,
Pavlovian conditioning nursery rhymes for soap
Whitewash the world
Triumph of the swill
The truth hurts but ignorance kills
Separate the fake from the real
Leaders are frauds
Heroes are flawed misdirection
We’re outlaws and
There’s no such thing as perfection
History is written by the very rich
The poor get blamed for everything
Treating the symptoms
When the disease is systemic
Ignoring the victims
Reformists rule out vengeance
But What you gone do
When the boys in blue
Roll through
Like they own you, like they own you
We won’t be passive now
We will stand our ground
Never let the bastards grind us down
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17. |
Win At All Costs
03:53
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As I reach for my piece to gather
My thoughts
Take to the streets, rally peeps for the cause
No justice, no peace all is not lost
No freedom, no sleep, win at all costs
America first
Is Americas worst
These fools send democracy off in a hearse
Claim to be real Americans
Beware of this their arrogant
Sociopathic with semiautomatics
Claiming to save the republic
Tragedies make you wonder, Insanity uncovered
Say US was stolen from it’s rightful owners
Reclaiming old glory they might be goners
Fascism came to America wrapped in a flag carrying a bible
Singing the national anthem on American idol
Senile idiots yearn for a right wing revival
Leave the poor violent, weary, and suicidal
Trapped in Cycles of predation and survival
Trump sews fear and confusion, he lowered the standards
Follow the cult leader with delusions of grandeur
Fascist parades with tanks and military banners
You hide your head in the sand like ostriches
Democracy hostage
Autocracy fostered
Arguments filled with leaps of logic
Fragile old conservatives
Sew doubt in the electoral process
We must stop them we have no options
As I reach for my piece to gather
My thoughts
Take to the streets, rally peeps for the cause
No justice, no peace all is not lost
No freedom, no sleep, win at all costs
Rightwing flunkies go to war
Seeking pardons and silence
All the while encouraging MAGA violence
Portray your enemies as soft on crime
But what about conservatives who crossed the line
Then blamed Antifa
Instead of their own people
The results were more than lethal
Fox News should be run off the air
They preaching hatred of difference from their armchairs
While good people starve and die
Homeless vets committing suicide
Remorse for what they’ve seen and done
Told to look out for number one
Their lives become undone
Too many live on the streets, a societal fail
The only shelter supplied to the poor are the jails
As I reach for my piece to gather
My thoughts
Take to the streets, rally peeps for the cause
No justice, no peace all is not lost
No freedom, no sleep, win at all costs
Military spies ain’t new kid
They break hearts like cupid
Dumb us down until we’re all stupid
Social medias the proof, shit…
Know what we’re going to do before we do it
Weasel their way into social movements to end them
Report to fusion centers, take the rules them bend them
Crush resistance like a looming juggernaut
Preemptive strike, cut the legs out from under us
Take to the ring, punch out a fascist
Knock the bullies on their asses
Get your back off the ropes
Get your back off the wall
We don’t have it all together
But together we could have it all
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Strife Olympia, Washington
strife
n.
1. Heated dissension; conflict or
clash.
2. A struggle, fight, or battle.
3. Contention or competition between rivals.
4. Contest, controversy, combat, warfare.
4. An omnipresent force that punctuates the evolutionary process.
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