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[00:03.02]Open your eyes before you die (WAKE UP!)
[00:04.73]Open your eyes before you die (We're here because of you)
[00:11.46]Open your eyes before you die (We're here because you were there)
[00:18.56]Open your eyes before you die
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[00:22.80]We've arrived from every corner of the planet to this nation
[00:25.32]To seek the fullfilment of a promise of America
[00:28.40]We were promised a better life in our home countries,
[00:31.56]where we were told that privatising water and electricity will make things run more efficiently
[00:36.91]Instead the quality remained almost the same and the price was increased until it became an unaffordable luxury
[00:43.48]Some corporations are more efficient than government,
[00:46.46]but their motivation is not the health or the well being of the people,
[00:49.60]it's only about profit, everything else, their image,
[00:53.49]their human resources, their public relations, only exist to protect the reality behind it
[00:59.11]Once upon a time, we were told that nationalisation would prevent growthy by limiting competition,
[01:05.14]that our countries were nothing without the companies that invested in us and so they privatised everything,
[01:11.14]everything in our country was owned by people that had no connection to our culture,
[01:15.99]by those who never had our interests at heart,
[01:18.40]they didn't care about our survival or well being,
[01:20.87]they just wanted to turn a profit by raping our land,
[01:23.80]by exploiting our people, our industry and our resources
[01:27.04]They took everything we built and made it theirs,
[01:30.03]first by creating racism to justfiy slavery,
[01:33.14]building the capital for capitalism and then when they gave us what they call liberty,
[01:38.76]everything we had was still owned by them,
[01:41.40]our governments told us that socialism was the real enemy and that we would have freedom,
[01:46.17]but the foreign powers and corporations were the ones with real freedom
[01:50.10]The freedom to take all the wealth generated by our work and our land
[01:54.09]and give us only a small percentage of the scraps from the table
[01:57.44]Their lust for power and their greed drove them to betray not only us
[02:01.67]but themselves and the word of their own God
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[02:08.32]And while some used missionaries and donations to off set this abuse,
[02:12.63]other countries and companies were blatent with their crimes, using war,
[02:16.20]disease and sanctions that killed millions,
[02:18.91]they supported corrupt governments that were almost like the old slave masters in their opression of the people,
[02:24.73]because their loyalty was to those who enable them,
[02:27.71]enstored them and kept them in power,
[02:29.95]they became the bastard children of American industry,
[02:33.03]kleptocracy, government's of thievery,
[02:36.06]they protected the corporations and went to war against their own people to preserve those profits
[02:41.45]The puppet rulers were given billions of US tax dollars to fund cival wars,
[02:46.65]right wing death squads, execute political dissidents,
[02:50.70]sympathetic clergy and even overthrow democratically elected governments
[02:54.79]and so the age of revolution began again,
[02:57.94]they painted it as godless terrorist verus the free world and the market
[03:02.94]But the free market has never been free,
[03:05.25]because the market does not regulate itself,
[03:07.82]it is manipulated like a puppet and it survives because of its image,
[03:12.21]destroy the image and the enemy will die
[03:14.60]Such is the same in the rap industry,
[03:16.85]but the major label super powers treat the underground like the 3rd world,
[03:20.84]When they needed new assets, new artists to prostitute or sing and put on the shelf to use their songs
[03:26.66]When they needed new concepts, music and publishing to steal from the producers,
[03:31.24]they came to the underground, to the 3rd world,
[03:34.08]they took our culture, our property and our industry and our resources,
[03:38.37]even using our own people to help them exploit us
[03:41.93]But behind the mask of efficieny, they claimed that we need to succeed,
[03:45.38]they're no better than us, they're economic advertising was always a lie,
[03:49.98]a few got rich but most were given an illusion of wealth, almost as if it was designed for failure
[03:55.29]Opportunity comes at the price of soul and the music,
[03:59.36]so remember what they are underneath the fancy architechture, glittering rented jewellery, the cars, the IMF loans,
[04:06.67]the seeds with suicide genes, 20 year contracts and oil bloody money
[04:11.39]Build your defences my independent brothers and sisters,
[04:14.73]they'll stop at nothing to get what they want,
[04:17.10]they paint the 3rd world, underground, as savage and backward,
[04:20.61]but the super powers are no less corrupt,
[04:23.13]they've just learned to disguise it better,
[04:26.23]cause they fix elections too, they embessle tax money,
[04:28.86]they go to war for resources, they fund terrorism for their own benefit,
[04:33.28]and when there's enough at stake...
[04:35.46]history's taught us that they'll even assassinate their own president.
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