I know you kick your flows about your fashion so fresh Boy I'm about to take you down a notch, so fasten yo belts Cuz the story about your clothes, and everything else Is one that might make you challenge yourself You see, let start in Uzbekistan, with forced child slaves, picking cotton How much are they paid? can you guess oh I bet you can Yeah, less than a dollar a day, Their impoverished to say the least of it, Then this cotton get's shipped off to factories in China Where independent human rights estimates suggest there's 6.5 - 7 million people in prison labor camps The free market ain't so free when you put it to the magnifying glass, After the textiles are processed in southeast Asia They are assembled by teenagers Mostly females Latinas in maquiladoras Backed up by regimes like the one in Honduras Then shipped, and sold through a clerk at a register Who's paid like shit, wants to merc every customer Pay dues to a union that colludes with the boss Workers getting screwed from the from the dudes on the top Yo you kick flows about how you're eating so well But I'm about to take you down a notch, so fasten yo belts Cuz the story about your food, and everything else Is one that might make you challenge yourself My hopes are hard that the next time you eating chocolate, You'll think about the slaves picking cocoa in Cote d'Voire Or the mechanically separated animals, shown no regard Or the workers at the meat factories, missing toes and arms Or those who starve because more food is grown on farms to Feed animals for meat and dairy products, when did we go so far? It's so bizarre, monocrops grown in petroleum soup The top soil can only erode so far Before you just can't grow food, and it's crazy 'cuz we waste so much Throw out billions of tons of food annually, yeah this case closed shut It's our duty to build in this GMO wasteland So the next time you at the store, here's some ish you can say such as Tell 'em 'bout the slavery in the cocoa, the brutality in the beef the imperialism of the banana, and the fallacy of the feast Point out that the current system's unsustainable Especially when the rich throwing out plate's that's full I heard about how you got the fattest dope cell But I'm about to take you down a notch, so fasten yo belts 'Cuz the story about your gear, and everything else Is one that might make you challenge yourself Let's start with a gun in a child's hand Pointed at another child, diggin in the sand like a wild man Mining for coltan in the Congo It's needed for your iPod so there ain't nothing wrong though The coltan is broke into columbite and tantalite And snuck out the country so no one can track it right Tantalite's essential to your cellphones and laptops And the country with the most of it is a hell hole with have nots Materials converted to components up in sweatshops Filled toxic chemicals, like fumes produced when lead's hot Causing birth defects, and many other illnesses But these are poor people so the media just filters it And again after all this murder, rape, and bloodshed It's all just thrown away, and the perp is safe at sunset And the path ahead will get darker unless the unrest Is channeled towards a future where we all can feel the success So I heard about how your living so well But I'm about to take you down a notch, you can go to hell 'Cuz the story about your life, and everything else Is one that might make you challenge yourself So I heard about how your living so well But I'm about to take you down a notch, you can go to hell 'Cuz the story about your life, and everything else Is one that makes me want to damage your health, say word

I see the sun rise & set across the scraped sky Fears for the future, yeah I guess it's time to face mine Sometimes all you need is the kick snare and bassline And all your worries melt like the glaciers the daytime For every dope sneaker that ever graced the blacktop There's been someone slaving, the haves require have nots & all your favorite rappers has been the fuckin' mascots But you heard it first from us, this right here's the last stop My hope is to make this sentiment heard through spacetime Before your heart's cold, but still it breaks mine Collision is imminent, I advise you to brace minds For the years to come do not look sunny, yeah I heard it through the grape vine That was cleared to make way for the cash crops Cotton, rubber, sugar, coffee, I'm about to blast off For real, lick shots, 'cuz my optimist's compromised Brown's about to change his first name to John & pop some guys Pow bang, bang, and the problems will still burn inside Often it seems that our oppression has been internalized The earth screams, and slaves weep, I heard the cries Struggle/grind, while we all wait our turn to die It's funny, I heard money is the root of all evil But who made that, joe? yeah the truth is all people Have the potentiality for bad, and good, That's not even, news to you, but I think that it should be And damnit kanye, why'd you stop with George Bush? The whole system's fucked, we need a large push In a new way, yeah oughta switch directions Local organizing mixed with insurrection To hopefully topple the pyramid scheme 'cuz honestly I'm getting sick of hearing kids scream & I have to speak, even if they kill or capture me I can't just wait for the next catastrophe [Chorus} & I always find, always find something wrong We;ve been putting up with this shit for way to long I'm so gifted at finding what I don't like the most So I think it's time for us have a toast Let's have a toast for the people (douchebags) Let's have a toast for the prisoners (assholes) A toast for the revolutionaries (scumbags) Everyone of them at I know So let's have a toast for the workers The people never getting work off Baby I got a plan Revolution... [Mary Mad] I got a complex like the prison and military Order of the new world instructively carried out To the out sourced pandemic killing our mother earth Who gave birth to the people, as some chose evil & let the power destroy equals, the eagle consumes The root of our existence, only living for self Create a feel for resistance to empathy mixed with compassion Complacency, with no need for retro action Fooled by, the ideology of to conquer is to divide Seperated by invisible ties, many are marginalized Shackled by history's chains by a power system Passing on the reins, containing, but not on top of the control People's commodities can be bought or sold Now in the new light, we need to start a militant fight & focus on the paralells, deconstruct down to cells Not dwelling on our identities, Yeah we all have the capacity to use our experiences tactically Actually fight against apathy, action on behalf of humanity Interconnect the struggles, yeah it's a worldwide hustle Realizing the biggest situation, of capitalism's weapon of globalization React and resist domination that takes on any form From patriarchy's prescribed gender norms To resources raided resulting in lands torn To silence surrounding sexual violence to walls built by tyrants We'll create an alliance in defiance See more than one dimesional vision Stand up in opposition to neo-colonialism [Chorus]

We plan to perservere, hell yeah we made it through the first five years But still it hurts my ears, most of what I come across on the radio is worthless, chea Now my temper's blowing - our ability to see another world is hella broken, & it don't help when we wake up each day now to see that our dilemma's swollen Fists up for Emma Goldman, she fought to keep those embers smoldering I'm forever holding the struggle in my heart, I'm prepped & loaded, why just Watch cancer metastasize? hey punk, don't let this life pass you by Say what? did you really wanna test this guy? Stay up to my people in the pen this fight Ain't over til the cows come home, and the slaves get free and the towers fold And flowers grow in the shell, how can we hold? such a dream in the palm of our the hand, we must talk with people, get involved with the land Understand, to evolve we must all come to task, or life on the planet might crawl to a stand-still The world's not your landfill And I'll be damned if We're just gonna sit back and watch it all burn Yeah we can't just [Chorus] Yeah I'm a pick this knowledge up and I'm gon' drop it on your fuckin' head Yeah I'm a pick this knowledge up and I'm gon' drop it on your fuckin' head Millions die malnourished motherlover At the same time we kill earth motherlover It's on Motherfucker, It's on From the depths of my chromosomes I desire a world, Without all this bullshit, I'm on overload I ain't sorry that I'm pissed , b-b-b-b-b-buzz killa, man I told ya so I guess that's why I'm home alone, no companion, it's fine I can hold my own Defiant David throwing stones at go-liath, don't just stay comatose Feeling so low on a lonely road, solo - at least I haven't sold my soul Boldly go where no homo sapien or otherwise has roamed before Hold it joe? Did I say no homo? fuck the homophobes! This is poem is an opus was wrote for proles & all precarious workers and homeless folks DJs wanna play the hits so the radio station rotation lists Talk about love or relationships or getting wasted in clubs and degrading chicks & they won't play the joints tellin' you to raise a fist cuz you might wanna change the script Advertisers might stay away from it, like "so who's gonna pay for this?" See it's not about the music to the people in the cockpit, it's about the f'n money, & the power & the profits & the sooner you're hip the the jive, the sooner we can start to work together here to stop this I'm watching the options diminish, but I won't drop til the finish, the clock and it's minutes Keeps going, p-p-provacative agents, buzzkilla/buzzkilla, ok I'll be the menace [Chorus]

Fuck money, I say that with sincerity It's toxic to the spirit & propagates disparity Those who work the hardest often times can barely eat While the rich, who rarely work at all, are guarded from this scarcity Freedom, freedom, freedom, this feeling is so rare and sweet I'm hoping y'all can hear me, so I'm speaking out with clarity With the oppressed worldwide I stand in solidarity We gotta work together, this is not charity I got mad love for the creatures of the air & sea But always on the prowl for a wolf that be wearing sheep Yeah they call me Lantern, but my fuel is not the everyday I got a heart full of rage, not kerosene Music is a weapon, drug, and a therapy Use it when I die, in your heart you should carry me Don't get too comfortable, always be prepared to leave & this one goes out to everybody who ain't scared to scream [Chorus] Born with a heart full of rage I got a heart full of rage so they label me a heretic There's a fine line between the hero and the terrorist I know that statement prolly gone sound un-American & that's 'cuz it is, this country's an embarrassment Love it or leave it, fuck that shit I ain't hearing it The banks just got keys to the country out the dealership The war machine grinds on for oil, coke and heroin While wealth distribution be resembling a pyramid That means most people do not have a fair share in it Born into a system that teaches you to wear a grin But fuck that! We gon' do the opposite of stare & sit Organized resistance is our primary imperative Fighting for the planet, yes it's true that's the narrative Our heritage, it is just the work we inherited But I'll tell ya, our kids (our kids) gone be very pissed If things are like this (are like this) they'll be born with a heart full of rage [Chorus] Rage and love work together in a strange way Freedom is a state of mind, like singing with the chain gang If rage is in your heart, then we prolly spit the same slang Again it's Lantern that be written on the nametag Stirring up shit, we going to create waves Monocrop hell will make a desert out the great plains Fuck those punks, I gladly will display rage Just know I got a movement that will back me up in the melee I ain't here to fuckin' play games I do not pray put away your King James When I flow is when I sing praise To your illusions I will bring flames I'm the gray matter to your ying yang Lantern hotter than the big bang/I got Bumbaata in the think tank Brian got a little bit of knowledge in his thick brains, Action is what's goin make change, take aim [Chorus]

Stay strapped! Fuck the government, and everyone who hates that Can get the hell out my face, like ASAP I don't wanna hear your bullshit, stay back - way back & Fuck the rich, 'cuz they probably made that money from a slave's back Y'all better be expecting payback, blah! blah! I wonder if they heard me say that? This life is a cage match you see there's no holds barred, But you better be expecting the same back yeah let's go roll those cars 'Cuz a motherlover is running out of patience about to get a gat & spray caps At every sexist & racist, queer bashing motherlover, [I] got a bullet for your snake ass My flag remains black, fuck the mega corporations, their insane pact With the devil has us all upon the same path to annihilation planetwide, no cracka, homie don't play dat, Trying to find the solution, like I'm looking for a needle in a haystack, Like I'm colorblind trying to make stained glass, what we need is revolution! Plain wrath unleashed by the people taking aim at The whole structure of oppression at it's foundations with a force that's similar to when two tectonic plates crash Now I may slap the grin off your face cuz I'm way mad & the only way I know how to change that is a message in a bottle with a fuse lit going bang, blow! [Chorus] I'm letting you know that I am on my way (watch out!) Sleep with one eye open I'm letting you know that I am on my way (watch out!) Sleep with one eye open You see my main task is make sure y'all don't stay pass-ive, Wake up, motherlovers hey asshole, no half steppers here, yeah you're not gone change that, There ain't no day pass in the movement you're not getting paid cash Just a faint chance that we avert apocalypse, so instead of just working on stagecraft, Like if you gon break dance, teach others to use their body as a weapon Of if you dig crates of wax, you can spin hip-hop that's anti-sexist Every time that you out spray graff, you can hopefully teach somebody a lesson If you're like me, you slay raps, you make sure to rock and kick that fresh shit No matter what it takes, if I end up in a cage, I have no illusions If I'm splattered with a gauge, the pattern is the same, we've been sold delusions I saw capital & state, in a matrimony, hey, no doubt the coldest fusion Soul shattered out of rage, if we're ever gonna change, we need a bold solution We must know that that dissent is the only sane path The forces that we now face are tenacious Why you sleeping? there's no time to lay back Oh yeah I forgot, it's about time I say that [Chorus]

We're some partisan artisans who ain't waiting for the trickle down With emphasis on the TRICK, it's so sick how they figured out How to sell the workers the value of their labor back to them Which is why you should consider revolt as part of your daily acumen The presence of a president gives me hives, where's the Cortizone? Backroom high fives, while they bolster up war at home Militarized police, high schools get privatized Social death completes with a globe that clocks in 9 to 5 Corporate sponsored lies propagated through the blackboard Take back your schools, no class but class war! No standardized test left behind, that's word & word is bond, it's time to learn solidarity, the crash course Why rule the world? here's a silver bullet for the oligarchs Here's a stake and hammer, now go ahead and drive it through the coldest heart Defiance, I hurled through the window explodes to shards Fuck the ballot, here's my vote, you'll see me on the boulevard

AOC bringing realness back A real patriotic mothafucka would call to repeal the act Government Officials conceal the facts Lantern, "who's that?", here to steal the track Started off as a punk kid rapping my poems, & now I got the FBI tapping my phones Put your fists up, I want the clapping the cease Keep 'em raised for everybody trapped in the beast You see the revolution's booming, I surmise that it might burst And all it's gonna take is a mic and a hype verse Y'all can call me idealistic and naive But check this, y'all gonna miss me when I leave AOC spot a party we gon' crash in it Starts placid with everybody mad timid We start mashing, now everybody's passionate We them type of cats to turn them true beleivers into mad cynics! [Chorus] I can't make it clear, I'll try to make it crystallized Nobody's perfect, each of us has a list of lies, Now that's demystified Y'all can kiss goodbye Any preconceived notions, you might have of this design In a world ruled by capital gains, how can one make a actual change? I'm here to wake y'all with factual slang They got you working as contractual slaves Those who speak out blasted away Like, poof! they redacted the page Meaning they blacked out the names Removed from history, a mystery, consisting of a distant dream A faint echo, maybe a ghost or deja vu Do re me fa so la - Ti, Fela Ku And I can hear the screams hidden in silence And I can see the screens ridden with violence We bit the forbidden fruit, and let loose the venom inside us Don't care how, just get the denim supplies up We're American dreaming, Like as if someone had enough dough to convince us That the air isn't for breathing,so I share a vision for leaving The cave man behind, it's time, stay sharp, start preparing this evening

This your chance, for change, every single second on the you spend could be your last, so hey Re-consider this minute, and choose a humble path to blaze, Break free from the system of domination, smash the chains, combat the hate Liberate! Remove the shackles from your hands and brains Upon the moutaintop I had a chance to gaze At the horizon and, yes, you bet the glance has stayed with me Cuz I saw a future with no class or caste No privledge based on sexuality, gender, cash or race We must organize if we want more than to grasp or taste This brighter day, yes because the brutal fact remains That the corporate elite and the politicians stand to gain Far too much from a world of masquerades Upon this realization, my task became Right then to build resistance, right then to pass the flame No not like the olympics, more like a masked brigade At the palace ready crash the gates [Chorus] I just want to riot We just wanna riot Tear gas in the air Fuck the police state's fear (fear! fear! Aww don't be scared, say it I just wanna riot We need act for change on every front of oppression, this war we have to wage Or at least I am gonna 'til the day, no the second my casket lays Six feet under, but if you want to see me dead, you're gone have to wait And when I do pass, that's more fuel to the fire that they can't contain Cuz chances are I'll get locked or they'll assassinate Me, but that's why we're here to clash and rage Against the machine that plans to take our planet make our grandest plains Sand and waste if we do not make a stand today, x There's not gonna be a tomorrow, don't just act sedate The whole globe could easily be a massive grave Somehow we need to activate other captive slaves agitate get 'em mad to say it's about time we crack the safe you can call me crazy, well I am insane But can you blame a combination of acid rain, aspartame, fashion pages But I plan to shine, you can either bask in rays Or join this ish and realize [Chorus] [Phillip Morris} Your killing my buzz with all this politics... So how the fuck can Phillip Mo retain his faith in the system This euphemistic, when the slave camps are labeled as prisons And when the information that's given is tainted and twisted By the heartless, they target educated decisions like marksmen So we're raising arms fists and picket signs to match & fight for human rights, we carry lanterns with a mic attached Focus groups began with advertising, Then it got involved within the dollars spent on politics, is that surprising? Your campaign is a fucking commercial, I'm not fooled You got strings attached to your back and it's not cool These monsters have murdered the landscape And proceed to blow her top off, a damn shame The recipe is seasoned, but I swear you motherfuckers shouldn't grab a plate Although it's harder to swallow I would rather taste The truth is the rawest food, pursue effective revolution There is need to procrastinate [Chorus]

It's seems like most other rappers just in it for the bidness Or spitting game to shorties trying to get upon some digits I'm like fuck the system, revolution, come get with it They was calling me a felon, well I got acquitted, The system always tryin sending me to prison, First the RNC now, again up over this shit I guess I really shouldn't get into specifics Even though it's said & done, I'm still like fuck the olympics, I'm still like fuck the olympics, That goes to my codefendants and all of those who in resistance Well not those who just vote and petition their politicians It's just a waste of time, those punks aren't gonna listen, But that's no cause for the people to act indifferent We can make it better, we just have to build the interest 'Cuz they would rather have you apathetic & submissive Than joining up with organized, militant opposition [Chorus] Clash! (x4) Laugh til I break - as for today - packing a blade - passionate knaves - hackin away Assimilate - that's a disgrace - crafting a play - the world's our stage We're all actors engaged - casted away, floating on a raft in the waves trapped in a daze, Do not capitulate, capture the day, so long captain and mate, Master, eat my answer today, no chat or debate, no maxin or breaks, Hold fast on the shakes, so sad for the glazed - look in your eyes (x3) Smashing the state - capping the trade-rs blasting the face of the bastards at banks Disaster they brang is a cancerous fate & it's coming at a fastening pace You see what happened today - passing the flame [In the] back of your brain scratching my name, dance in the rain, fasting on thanks-giving cuz I could really give a fuck about reenacting a fake Version of past, just to get fat and sedate, ass sitting/face plastered to rays passed from a cathode display, yeah, I'm trashing the place, I beginning to understand why motherlovers go crashing a plane Facilitate actions for change, don't just passively wait, practice & train, cold rush, That's in the veins, & that's what I'm saying, hold up, we passed up the place, fashionbly late so what? So what? after the chase, rapture embrace, cancel the date, your love songs sound boring after lantern is done fucking up the track, I got this shit sewed up [Chorus]

While the oceans acidify, We collectively ghost ride the whip into a coal burning pit of fire, No survivors identified, The perpetrators hardly penalized, killing earth, call it ecocide Turn the Great Plains to a desert If it get's ya more cheddar then it don't get more better For the banks, the bosses, the politicians The companies who profit from all these f'n Industries, yeah I'm calling it a Grave disease - yeah we're facing several Matrices of oppression, regression, and exploitation, Well it doesn't takes brains to see The system that exists is predicated all upon slavery Straight from A to Z If you really wanna change this scene, We gotta think creatively, applying bravery Laws a things of the past, relinquished to ash The rawness, I'm bringing it back, spring into action Call this a string of attacks on the pigs & the fasc Let all this sink in and I'm gonna sing til the crackin' of dawn Corporations using rappers as pawns Instead of messengers they're actors with a vernacular form Our mission; attack as a swarm The institutions that uphold class division, can't put my back to the storm Things are too fucked up now to waste time wondering How we gonna fix it all, the answers are in front of ya Direct action, organization of the grassroots Fuck the state, eat the rich, erase the borders, that's truth [Chorus] It's time to recognize If you're not oppressed today, well you're probably next in line It's time to recognize Start to question lies, and I will say this for a second time It's time to recognize I don't know about your life, but money's sure made a mess of mine It's time to recognize Women are objectified, portrayed as submissive or highly sexualized Recognize, I wish that it was set alight, Burn that ish down, now don't get arrested alright? The poor sentenced to die animals dissected alive If we want revolution, we need to see the intersections a'ight? I'm just a reflection of light intercepted through sight, On a ball of dirt that's connected to the inception of life As we know it, the sun, it ain't just glowing for fun, You're probably sayin' hold it there son We while could all use some empathy and love, But our addiction to this life is like dependency to drugs And if some poor mother lovers start emptying they guns At the gentry from the mezzanine above, my tendency's to shrug I overheard the plan their gonna bury me alive, Oh well, soon I'll have my own chariot to ride Through the sun, to most that's probably scary shit to hype But I'm not gonna cherry pick my rhymes It's ebb and flow, my rebel soul will forever hold the struggle in my heart It's ebb and flow, my rebel soul will forever hold the struggle in my heart [Chorus]

Here's something that you might not be able to fully process with your primate brain Our mother earth is undergoing a pattern that is commonly referred to as climate change Now I'm afraid the problem is bigger than the elite's private planes, How can I explain other than first stating that god damnit motherlovers I'm ashamed This process is highly complex involving a myriad of factors #1 is our energy consumption that is steering us all towards imminent disaster To say this in laymen's terms, the time's slipping so stay concerned, stay concerned But understand that this race against the clock, as we go along the cascade effect will only get faster Who was that, that said you do not need a weatherman to tell which way that the wind gone blow? Well they were wrong, 'cuz the global scientific community says that that it's fo sho With a wanton disregard for our planet we destroy our spaceship Most of the old growth trees are gone clear cut, mass deforesation Now this speeds up the process, we begin to witness occurances such as glaciers melting Sorry that I'm faithless, keep praying, but I assure you that they'll be no saviors helping We must rise in defense of earth, so all my people commence with work, let's exert energy, To fight for the planet, 'cuz without that commitment there'll simply be no place for us left here [Chorus] Sick of being getting poisoned and raped She's sitting on a cliffside, poised on the brink Covered up scars, anointed with ink, sings of the thrill of the jump, the joy of the fling at this point would you think "Girl don't do it!", but boy would you bring Out the guns if I told you this lovely lady Was our mother earth and her illness is a product of the choices we make Can you tell me who can flatten a mountain, then take a ancient forest & just mow it down? Well the psychopaths controlling the global machine of death seem to be the ones who hold the crown This development is nothing new, it happened to the people that were called the Anasazi They made a forest to a desert, then they crashed & burned like kamikazi There is another element of climate change that it seems many folks who oppose try to minimize Globally carbon output is in fact so great that it makes the oceans acidify This in turn disturbs methane pockets located pretty much right under the seabed When these bubbles escape, it invariably leads to the pace of this process increasing Overall, unburned methane is significantly worse for the atmosphere than carbon Don't forget about devastation wrought by industrial agriculture, yes modern farming See in order to mass produce food, they destroy ecologies with no hesitation Gone is the biodiversity & the soil's capacity for carbon sequestration Now this might be depressing, but that's why I'm stressing that the place is here & the time is now For deliberate action against belligerent fascists, yeah I think you should try this out & a word of advice, there's rarely a king who has been talked off throne We need to move now, we need to act, before we destroy our home

We need community farms and free education Cop watch on every block, de-colonization of our minds, our culture and the fruits of our labor De-commodify our lives and build roots with our neighbors That'll bloom a garden a immune to the pesticides Start consuming food that produced with the freshest fly taste Am I priveledged? It depends on my race My gender, my class, my sexuality, ability and yes and my face Fire the bosses and occupy the factories Organize a general strike, it's gonna be a masterpiece We need a slave revolt of global proportions That was not a glitch, not a vocal distortion This goes out to tax resisters, soldiers gone AWOL, and my bad ass sisters Who don't take shorts from the patriarchy We're out to end all oppression, you can put that on the marquee [Chorus] Anti-national, anti-capital-ista Please dump these vampire cannibals A no-state solution for a gerrymandered world Sin patron, horizontalidad Anti-national, anti-capital-ista Please dump these vampire cannibals A no-state solution for a gerrymandered world Sin patron, horizontalidad Flip over your maps, disorient the axis North becomes south, south to north, it takes no practice Cuz honestly, fuck neoliberal hegemony Corporations and the state combined, that ain't no friend of me Dependency, on the spectacle of lights Got you dazed by the day, while arrest you in the night That's why I'm speaking out to the people that be listening We need to build a culture of resistance to support our initiatives Of equality, justice, an end to oppression Sustainability, see I'm sending a message To la puebla, the people, divided Refuse, resist and you'll see me delighted There are more slaves now than any other point in the past And more incarcerated in the joint in the last 20 years than the last 200, and Mass environmental destruction, I see a snafu coming [Chorus] Anti-national, anti-capital-ista Please dump these vampire cannibals A no-state solution for a gerrymandered world Sin patron, horizontalidad Anti-national, anti-capital-ista Please dump these vampire cannibals A no-state solution for a gerrymandered world Sin patron, horizontalidad Blockade the coal plants, tear up the streets And build windmill farms, document the romance Cock the heater, hold hands,take aim at the spectacle, Shots release, controlled blasts, not down with the program, Got apocalyptic flows yeah, But I don't let my cyncism get in the way of my honest wish to attack the structures that uphold class division, as for vision I see a world without borders, on maps or within them Them being us, us being we, an all inclusive entity with trust being key We're not there yet, it's true I'll admit it It takes hard work to improve our conditions But the heart of the message, is different indeed Passed down from the masters is constituent greed That we need to attack, colonized minds Need deprogramming, oh yeah thanks for bringing me back to Anti-national, anti-capital-ista Please dump these vampire cannibals A no-state solution for a gerrymandered world Sin patron, horizontalidad Anti-national, anti-capital-ista Please dump these vampire cannibals A no-state solution for a gerrymandered world Sin patron, horizontalidad

Hideous, that's my description of a system That awards humanoids solely based on their lineage, Insidious - The methods employed by the system so vicious Money for the banks, but not for the city kids Unreal images of prettiness My home girls gone smash it to itty bits I pass them a hammer and a spliff full of sticky shit The damage so glam, no question if they hit or miss We're in a predicament Gonna be a challenge to reverse the conditioning A history of lies, yes I heard the equivalent Now grown up, I learned to subvert the official script But I'm one out of billions & most of us acting like some god damn idiots The rich and powerful always acting mad villanous That lesson isn't one you're gonna find in the syllabus [Chorus} Hideous Lanternicus, ya heard a this merciless personage Disperse the superfluous with a burst of my verse eclipse Your bright day now it's a slight gray, Type A With a circle I play in the rain, write page after page, Faster chapter crafter with a knack to cast a flame on the shade Where y'all cats might graze on the cud of complacency, I nudge you impatiently to come through and wake up please? I won't ask twice Speak softly, they can hear us, I got bugs in my skin Unplugged from the thugs but I shrug & I grin, Tug of war of the worlds, The rugged torrent unfurls When I slung my not so subtle syllabic sword at your pearls Fuck the nicest of amenities, our culture has a crisis of identity I'm just getting ready for the fight that is ahead of me & we don't really have much time to waste

[Chorus] Yeah, uh-huh, you know what it is, black and red Yeah, uh-huh, you know what it is, black and red Yeah, uh-huh, you know what it is Everytime I hear the radio, I get pissed Yeah, uh-huh, now that's gumption Something's missing from the rap game, that's substance The oil in your whip, and the blood in your diamonds they be Black and red When there is trouble on the streets you see that flag be waving Black and red Black oil, red blood One burns and the other spills, & many shrug I get disgusted everytime I look at y'alls face These rappers giving props a system that's all fake They want the oil, that's why they're warring It's a big ploy, somebody's gotta pay for it Fuck the system where's my rebels From the bankers to the bosses, it's all broke on every level Stop giving props to this bullshit system is what I'm yelling There's children killing children for your gems and petrol We need change, so please take part It ain't easy, let's take it apart [Chorus] Wars for your diamonds, my hope is in the dust bin Fuck your lifestyle, this type of bullshit must end Child soldiers doped up it's a freak show Killing mixed with speed & h all day makes it hard to sleep though I reach for, a world without this senseless violence We need to stop all this, especially the blood for diamonds & I know you got a shiny slick bracelet But just know that for your image there's some kid slaving [Chorus] Fight back like how I’m supposed to do Agitate for action & build a new world, & oh yeah, here's a dose of truth kill me, I'll be back like that kenobi dude Root for teams that uproot regimes Give props to them cats, ben ali, & musharraf got sacked Much daps to the North African revolutions, real rap Let's hope that it spreads, let's make our government fear that fuck the corporations, lantern circa 86, still crack [Chorus]

Every country on the planet's full a junkies and addicts Evolution? yeah the monkey's have gone fuckin bananas Others suffer the damage for our disfunctional habits 'Cuz some consider voracious consumption is average The rich get fat, while millions starve, hungry and famished This is not new, but it's what we've been handed The world burns so that a few can live in a comfortable manner You don't want my opinions, but you punk's are gone have 'em I have no problem disrupting your comfort with havoc This life of waste and greed must be abandoned You'll see that slav - ery, is the foundation upon Which this wicked system' entire structure is standing Yes it's much worse than what you'd imagine Puffing the cabbage, 'cuz it's getting tougher to manages The earth is on the verge of collapsing & if word is not action Then we get what we deserve, yeah our herd is gone vanish [Chorus] It's a tragedy Environmental catastrophe Tragedy, tragedy Whitewashed history Tragedy, tragedy Tens of millions in slavery Tragedy, tragedy It's a fuckin tragedy, how many species go extinct a day And 'who cares?' is what most people would think to say We dine on ignorance and often times we drink decay & fuckin' rappers still yapping about links & chains The situation we face won't just be blinked away We must let dogma die, no longer cling to claims Stop trusting policians and their assorted winks & waves & fuck corporations, even though they've convinced you of the biggest craze Enough to make a cracka crazy, so I sing for slaves A bullet for every king, let's go dig some graves Lantern is here yes, I came to bring the flames Illuminate the path ahead and fly upon the wings of change While I would certainly prefer to use the ink & page Not afraid to fight back, yeah I'll sling my blade So before the north pole becomes a rink to skate Let's name some names, yes I claim I'm here to bring the pain It's a tragedy Racist ass cops It's a tragedy, tragedy Unpoliced banks It's a tragedy, tragedy [Bob Rok] Bob Rok, working with the Agents... I never thank god, I thank Logic The pope is a joke, devote to make profit That's why the Vatican runs its own bank Then turns around and tells you to bow and show thanks Occupying countries, allowed to show shanks Fuck that, plain and simple, no thanks Peep my brain, priests from Spain You crucifed my relatives and tweaked our names The only thing you didn't take or rape was blame That's why the Catholic church is fake and lame & if it costs me fans, then fuck the fame That's just another reason I don't trust the game Here's the Easter, we ressurected racists The GOP runs this country like a slave ship That's why you stuck at Days Inn working the grave shift Work all day for that graveyard paycheck Asking out loud, "can we have another break yet?" While the untaxed rich take vacations No lies, the church closed it's eyes & looked the other way while the Nazis took lives And happily took bribes, While sending west to literally cook tribes ...Watch your step These crooked motherfuckers will plot your death And if you don't believe me stop and check We got the message in the music, rock ya decks Closing thoughts, fuck your majesty Class welfare is the true blue tragedy

I'm lucky cuz the judge didn't say I'm guilty, resist! til the day they kill me & this ain't an act or a game, it's real speak & when I'm done, meet me in the Way that's Milky Even though I'm vegan, I seek to kill beef, Develop affinities, not just here to thrill seek In it for the long haul, titanium, that's what our will's be made of, but say hey, y'all feel me? Struggle through conflict as we seek to build peace, Bumping the bomb shit, while our dreams our wilting The scales are tilting toward destruction From the Gulf of Mexico to Nigeria the spills be filthly & I'm looking at the wealthy & I see power gone mad for real it fills me With an anger that I don't know how to keep under the table, How the hell am I supposed to cope, "just chill, here's a pill B..." [Chorus] "Just chill here's a pill B..." How the hell am I supposed to cope? "Just chill here's a pill B..." How the hell am I supposed to cope? Alienation, can not seem to find way of life that works for me & it doesn't really help that I can already sense a drop in the mercury Everybody wanna turn to me like I was Hercules, as of right now I'm stranded In the midst of 3 million I'm standing, & my nerves scream the vultures are circling I'm alone in the crowd, but told as a child to purchase things This culture is nurturing our own death, and collapse is a virtual certainty As long as we be worshipping the dollar over life & an earth that's green We can place safe bets on our kids not having a place to call home by the turn of the century

They speak of rags to riches, with no mention of old money While the rest of us are upwardly mobile like cold honey If you're not, then you best become conscious of class Join the struggle to dethrone the pompous and crass Who tend to lend a a hand to exploitation & torture Yet they try to paint a portrait making saints outta vultures Like all these wack rappers getting media hype When their formulas' more childish than Pedialite See we're all born to die, the obsolescence was planned So live while you live, yea, that's the message the grand Paradox that sits at the essence of man, so stop the presses supplant depressants With spiritual convalescence advance past you're pre conceived notions & stereotypes I doubt that you'd beleive what goes into a pair of your Nikes In terms of sweatshop labor, I know you're more concerned with the fresh hot flavor But let's not, let's not cater to an Economic vision that depends on slavery Yeah to all my friends and neighbors Can I get an amen to say "End that behavior!" Amen "End that behavior!" A-womyn "End that behavior!" A-human "End that behavior!" Within the dollar sign, no you won't find a savior [Chorus] colonized minds, swallow lies fine Role models most felons, do they still qualify prime? You depressed? Let's go grafin', demolish fine lines Of fuck it, play some drums, run a mile the guy's fine I'm aimin these shots at the scholar's mind's pride Our leaders mostly focus on the dollar sign prize Religion mostly tries to personify time Lantern spark the universe's pilot light's shine

Over a billion around the planet are starving & famished While all of your gadgets & marvelous garments and fabrics are made by slaves in places where dreams Whittle down into shards and to fragments Bank & business pushing carbon capping & trading Disaster is waiting, The same system that's dependent on this master & slave shit Is raping the planet, the cancer is raging Climate change causing massive displacement & the people worst affected didn't make this It's like the house is flooding & we're trapped in the basement & everyone is drowning & they don't want me to say shit (stay zipped) Except, that's not how I play kid This twisted fate - I'd like to think we could escape it Impatient as each hour passes, it get's worse, it amazing About to go from statements to ape shit - fuck success I don't want the money, the cars, or the clothes, I want the CEOs bloody, or at least to feel the dark pit of cold Lonliness of a cell or a prison camp They turn heaven into hell with a finger snap Pesticides put toxins in every mother's breast milk How you gonna tell me that this system is the best one built? Ism comma capital's is a new form of servitude Where 1 tenth of 1 percent rule it's a perfect ruse They call the modern form of forced labor freedom TO me it seems more like a re-run We don't own much, 'cept the future that we dream of Where we picture peace, those who tree hug receive love But hopes and dreams aren't going to catalyze change Some of us might end up at the battle lines slain So if they splatter my brains, then at least I died For a cause, not just a man of high age If they capture me, you know I finna rattle my cage There's no where to hide from the satellite's gaze I won't quit fighting, I won't abandon my page How you gonna watch the whole movie while trying to analyze frames? The trees for the forest, they've both been slashed clear The question looms now can we steer past the crash we're Headed towards, the answer, that's fear The game needs changing, I'm the motherfucking cashier Don't rely on the radio or MTV to tell me what's ill The product placement in modern media is unreal And our government is bought by whoever's got enough scrill & of course those paid by big oil are saying "let's drill!" In it for a minute and I plan to continue until The bucket get's kicked, til then I'll let my guts spill Check the header, we never said this would be fun filled I guess that's why they call this the motherlovin' buzzkill