INTRO: In this system we - - All they want’s to be - -
and they worshippin - - what it’s really like - -
1st verse
This empire it’s cold blooded like a vampire
All they wanna do - is see money - like - Jerry McGuire
Most sleep like they’re tired – through years we’ve acquired
- - Many revolutionaries that’s live like a wire
- - we’re united like a choir – cause life is dire
like a bad virus – cause world leaders always actin
like they wanna be pirates – they tell so many lies in it
we need a Will like Smith - for our minds to survive in it
Everyday they say you could be next to get riches
But the odds of makin that livin is like jumpin from bridges
And the ones that do - get to make a huge salary
They never look around like blind people in a gallery
(It’s) a fallacy to say the leaders’ll figure it out
That’s like more crazy then getting lost and then takin the same route
We’ve demonstrated – (demonstrated) a better world could be created
Like if people oppressed said – we’re fed up – we won’t take it
I stay rappin like this – they stay rappin like that
I stay rappin like this – they stay rappin like that
- So – you can get with this – or you can get with that
They say ignorance is a bliss – I say this is not a fact (HOOK)
2nd verse
This is the right system man you gotta be kiddin
That’s like sayin we have justice while Mumia’s still in prison
Like the FBI didn’t set up AIM and Leonard Pel-tier
Like corporations own food and water and don’t wanna own air
Big business practices – they act like Mr Burns
It’s funny like the Simpsons when they act like they concerned
On the Jersey Turnpike ya see em pollutin the air
It gets me down like stairs – but like it’s the sun they don’t stare
A lotta people (now) actin green like a grasshopper
But won’t admit tanks ain’t green to be Frank like Sinatra
If this was 88 I’d tell ya I was Fresh like Prince
And deffer than Hellen Keller – - I wanna get the world
To Turrrrrrrrrn around - - Like a pro – peller - - -
I don’t got a lotta dough - And I’m not one who’s famous –
don’t want it though - I’m like Jon Doe and stay nameless
– it’s tragic – - - thinkin that you’ll get riches too
– but capitalism’s like a casino – and the winners are so few
– used to get nervous at my first shows now it’s lesser
– like a broken barometer - I no longer feel the pressure
– (Seems) like I could go forever – words fall like November
HOOK
I make tracks like Asian slaves who did the railroad makin
People’s lives unbalanced like fault lines when they quakin
It’s like a basic need – that greed should be locked up
It leaves a Pitt in my stomach like Angelina knocked up
- - Too many is dyin – so my people March - -
goin out like a lion – - I’m tiring of the plans
for the masses to have fear – goin out like a lamb
the man rips us off like pickin grapes by hand
they want us to stay ignorant like mechanics when they scam
I resist Uncle Sam like Geronimo and his band
- - my theories hold water - - - unlike Fema’s dams
- I’m driven like your car – I write words you can’t forget
left on you like a scar – they make weed illegal
but when it comes to alcohol they want you high like a star
- - - like I write a simile in every other line
like I just told ya what it’s like – like 45 times
SHOW ME WHAT DEMOCRACY SOUNDS LIKE CALL
THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY SOUNDS LIKE RESPONSE
SHOW ME WHAT A POLICE STATE SOUNDS LIKE CALL
(silence) RESPONSE
OUTRO
what it’s really like...
cause youre corrupted when you're...
they try to silence you...
like they buyin you...
we don’t have to be - -
and Human rights are not
Cause your value’s never - -
* In Money... (this phrase runs throughout entire beat)
