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Power Corrupts

from Equilibrium Mixtape by Strife

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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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from Equilibrium Mixtape, released March 1, 2023
Beat By: Rey Holliday

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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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