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Open your eyes before you die (WAKE UP!) |
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Open your eyes before you die (We're here because of you) |
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Open your eyes before you die (We're here because you were there) |
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Open your eyes before you die |
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We've arrived from every corner of the planet to this nation |
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To seek the fullfilment of a promise of America |
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We were promised a better life in our home countries, |
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where we were told that privatising water and electricity will make things run more efficiently |
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Instead the quality remained almost the same and the price was increased until it became an unaffordable luxury |
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Some corporations are more efficient than government, |
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but their motivation is not the health or the well being of the people, |
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it's only about profit, everything else, their image, |
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their human resources, their public relations, only exist to protect the reality behind it |
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Once upon a time, we were told that nationalisation would prevent growthy by limiting competition, |
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that our countries were nothing without the companies that invested in us and so they privatised everything, |
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everything in our country was owned by people that had no connection to our culture, |
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by those who never had our interests at heart, |
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they didn't care about our survival or well being, |
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they just wanted to turn a profit by raping our land, |
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by exploiting our people, our industry and our resources |
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They took everything we built and made it theirs, |
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first by creating racism to justfiy slavery, |
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building the capital for capitalism and then when they gave us what they call liberty, |
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everything we had was still owned by them, |
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our governments told us that socialism was the real enemy and that we would have freedom, |
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but the foreign powers and corporations were the ones with real freedom |
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The freedom to take all the wealth generated by our work and our land |
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and give us only a small percentage of the scraps from the table |
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Their lust for power and their greed drove them to betray not only us |
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but themselves and the word of their own God |
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(Open your eyes before you die) |
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And while some used missionaries and donations to off set this abuse, |
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other countries and companies were blatent with their crimes, using war, |
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disease and sanctions that killed millions, |
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they supported corrupt governments that were almost like the old slave masters in their opression of the people, |
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because their loyalty was to those who enable them, |
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enstored them and kept them in power, |
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they became the bastard children of American industry, |
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kleptocracy, government's of thievery, |
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they protected the corporations and went to war against their own people to preserve those profits |
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The puppet rulers were given billions of US tax dollars to fund cival wars, |
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right wing death squads, execute political dissidents, |
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sympathetic clergy and even overthrow democratically elected governments |
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and so the age of revolution began again, |
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they painted it as godless terrorist verus the free world and the market |
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But the free market has never been free, |
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because the market does not regulate itself, |
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it is manipulated like a puppet and it survives because of its image, |
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destroy the image and the enemy will die |
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Such is the same in the rap industry, |
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but the major label super powers treat the underground like the 3rd world, |
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When they needed new assets, new artists to prostitute or sing and put on the shelf to use their songs |
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When they needed new concepts, music and publishing to steal from the producers, |
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they came to the underground, to the 3rd world, |
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they took our culture, our property and our industry and our resources, |
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even using our own people to help them exploit us |
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But behind the mask of efficieny, they claimed that we need to succeed, |
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they're no better than us, they're economic advertising was always a lie, |
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a few got rich but most were given an illusion of wealth, almost as if it was designed for failure |
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Opportunity comes at the price of soul and the music, |
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so remember what they are underneath the fancy architechture, glittering rented jewellery, the cars, the IMF loans, |
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the seeds with suicide genes, 20 year contracts and oil bloody money |
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Build your defences my independent brothers and sisters, |
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they'll stop at nothing to get what they want, |
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they paint the 3rd world, underground, as savage and backward, |
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but the super powers are no less corrupt, |
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they've just learned to disguise it better, |
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cause they fix elections too, they embessle tax money, |
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they go to war for resources, they fund terrorism for their own benefit, |
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and when there's enough at stake... |
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history's taught us that they'll even assassinate their own president. |
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(Open your eyes before you die) |
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(Open your eyes before you die) |
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