Listen Up

by Yahya Abdul Rahman - Sept 29, 2004

Yo, listen up.............

Now we have a bunch of fat-cats

Wanting to kill all the poor blacks

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Possessing weapons of mass destruction

Lecturing the world with their pontifical instructions

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Poverty rampant everywhere

No one around seems to care

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Give the people a voice

Give the people a choice

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War criminals getting a Noble prize

Poor people trying to get nutrition on left over curly fries

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We don't want your racist pity

Let's get down to the nitty gritty

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WE WANT JOBS!

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We wanna feed our families

Have a little bit of security

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Breathe a little clean air

Does anyone reading this even care?

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They talk about the horrors of terrorism

How about the horrors brought about by capitalism?

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Unfair wealth distribution

Meaningless pieces of paper called a constitution

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Entire nations being ethnically cleansed

Kabala reading divas seeing the world through a rose coloured lens

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We're tired of the hypocrisy

We want real grassroots democracy

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Go ahead and plant you injustice seeds

Go ahead and commit your dirty deeds

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We'd rather die on our feet than live on our knees

We want a good life and not collectively bleed

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You might not like the colour of our face

You might not like the content of our faith

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Well tough

We've had enough

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Go ahead and fabricate history

Go ahead and spread your misery

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If you squeeze a cat you're gonna get scratched

If you oppress us we're gonna fight back

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We're not the ones with guns in our hands

We're not the ones who drew artificial lines in the sand

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A nation has nothing to do with geography

A nation is all about identity

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We know who we are, but do you know what you have become?

Treating the rest of the world like a piece of scum

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Just remember that you reap what you sow

And we will rise up and won't take it anymore