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