One day our grandkids are gonna look back at this generation as they’re reading in class And you know what kind of questions that they’re gonna ask Why were we such cowards who refused to act  On a capitalist system that ran on our backs Put natives away on the worst plots of land Imprisoned their people disenfranchised the black Polluted the planet and invaded Iraq  For some homegrown plot to take down two towers a bridge,a building,some firefighters an empty fucking hallway in the pentagon Then they asked us all which side we were on Why we rained down missiles shot from a drone Blowing up kids sitting innocent inside of their homes Waging wars that can never be won Securing resources.. defending freedom   Funny how the global war on terror happened to be in an oil rich desert  they’ll think we were less conscious or just less evolved As they study conservative utilitarian thought they’ll read about the contras read all about the plot to replace elected leaders with puppets to stop their economic development,replace them with products to trade at ease with the purpose of profit to take their water,their food,and their gold they created these countries to be bought and sold They created these countries under control They’ll wonder why we bailed out the banks for taking our houses didn’t notice the elite taking the whole country hostage the oil spills, the lead in the water the state police sanctioned for slaughter And the Trump election shit they won’t even mention it Like how nobody knows who was the 40th President how could we elect these fucking degenerates with some cowboy version of justice and politics they’ll say our collapse was a long time coming like how we studied the history,the fall of the Romans the Last thing they’ll wonder is why we pardoned the Nazi’s  put them in NASA didn’t tell anybody

quite frankly im exhausted from being angry all the time but ive found that its hard not to be living with your eyes open wide turns out that they werent lying when they said that ignorance is bliss and just because these problems do not affect you doesnt mean that they do not exist theyre killing our boys for holding toy guns kidnapping our students, murdering our loved ones why dont you understand you cant face the cops against themselves why dont you understand that judge wont prosecute himself why dont you understand you cant fight the system with itself and no rights were ever won sitting quietly waiting for justice to come and if you are neutral and idle youre feeding into the problem so dont turn the other cheek watching from the other side of a screen you are as powerful as you allow yourself to be we’re all fighting the same war on different fronts attacking the same system of oppression i know that it’s easy to forget that there are less of them than us and its about time for an uprising if we come together we can finally get shit done and im sick of seeing cops taking innocent lives i can’t remember all their names and stories no matter how hard i try all i can see is bloodstained skin behind red and blue lights

He said girls don’t mean what they say he said call me anytime but has not picked up in 3 days And I’d like to think I can take a hint So I’ll take your silence for what it is She asks if I’ve done this before I said a few times, She says i could use a couple more That my nervous hands read inexperience That she’ll show me love with an iron fist So sure I’ve got something to prove but I don’t know if it’s to me or you Validate the boxes that they create around us I swear it’s a cage I’ll never be man enough for you To see me the way that I do and I’ve been chasing the end of some rainbow Until I stopped and asked if it was real And I’ll never see myself as more than a boi And you’ll call me your girl And I’ll bite my tongue and swallow it whole You said I should be used to being uncomfortable He said I have no room to complain If I just tried a little harder to look and act that way And in the morning when I put on my face I’m deciding which role I’m gonna play I’ll cut off my arms and legs to fit inside of boxes that were never made for me What is the price to assimilate So I can sit inside a coffin until I rot away I will tear myself apart with these two hands I’m just trying to find my place between opposing ends between two opposing ends

Licking pesticide residue off unsuspecting finger tips Little did you know the soil in which this food is grown is drenched in blood Innocent blood Which of your values are you going to cash in for a profit How much are you willing to give up for a lousy buck and You swore you were different and for a minute I believed it But you’re a wolf in sheep’s clothing Standing right in front of me a monster hiding in plain sight And you couldn’t stop the greed Oh don’t you see that you’ve become exactly what you were fighting Shake the shackles off my ankles and my wrists Remind myself I don’t deserve this and They’ll see how far they can stretch you thin until you’re shaking, shaking from exhaustion and David picks up pennies while he’s sweeping Says that’s how he affords to keep eating on the days before we get paid When will the minimum become a living wage Food’s a right not a privilege and I’m tired of working to survive Grasping for something real I can barely keep my head above I’m drowning in it all Cut labor double output You’re just another piece of their well oiled machine And they won’t call it slavery cause this is voluntary But is it really Oh is it really

They say waking up a sleepwalker’s a dangerous thing to do and i agree, haven’t you seen the news There’s people bombing buildings and shooting up their schools  Not the banks or prisons or the mansions on the hills I guess women’s health care centers are warfare zones so are gay clubs,black churches,And our homes Well it seems to me that there’s a level of hate In a white man’s world for another gender or race a refusal to see humanity when it’s staring you in the face And their fear has built up a police state Now don’t know who is sleeping but i sure know who’s awake And I wouldn’t trust the media of a corporate controlled state Cause what people see and hear is what they’ll regurgitate  It’s true for drunks and it’s true for heads of states Representative Democracy is a myth in modern day How could they bring justice to problems they’ve never faced Or how do you reform a system that was built to enslave How do you use your master’s tools to break out of your chains well There’s a street in every city named after M.L.K. But what’s it matter, shit’s just as racist these days look at Mr.Trump up on center stage or the police protecting nazis marching in parades well it Seems to me that the police only protect the interests of the state And if they cannot keep us down the army will take their place Now I dont believe in violence but I believe in self defense  And I believe that Malcolm X put it best defense against tyranny is a sign of intelligence and that the truth has always on the side of the oppressed and modern slavery is in debt not chains locked up in a cell working for cents a day So for every slave that took the name of a president  and for the stolen teeth in the rotten skulls of dead white men for the tortured and locked up in this Disneyland and For the kids bathing in poison up in Flint,Michigan They’ve been trying to bury us, didn't know that we were seeds and The bullets that they’ve sown, well that’s what they’re gonna reap

Oh darlin’ I know you don’t believe me when I say I’m seeing shadows in the corner of my eye And I’m jumping at every bump and creak in the night AND My head is spinning And you tell me that it’s gonna be alright But I think that I can see the light And the voices in my head Are repeating all the awful words once said And the hardest thing THAT I ever did Was keep on living when I wished I was dead And I think that it’s getting bad again In ways I had never imagined And I’m scared to show you all the demons that are hiding inside my head And I’m scared one day I won’t be able to tell the difference Between me and them You asked me Not to kill you While you’re sleeping tonight And we both know that I’m crazy but not that kind But now I see how I look in your eyes And the voices in my head Are repeating all the awful words once said And the strongest thing THAT I ever did Was keep on living when I wished I was dead

My house is filled with flies and I can’t figure out why when I think back it’s been like this from day one I don’t really mind them but I kind of want them gone And they keep me company when no one else is around kiss the tears off my cheeks and when I come home from a long day of work they’re the only ones always there waiting there for me So I let them munch on the compost bin after all everybody’s got to eat And they hum me the same song all night long until I fall asleep And I don’t know if you think when you see the light but you dive right in without knowing just what you have done and I see the panic sink in when you see the other ones who have died you’re throwing yourself against the glass you try,you try,you try And you accept your fate you know you’re gonna fry all the while I sit there watching I could’ve just turned off the light

Remind myself to keep breathing  Wash away the nausea induced by reading While we’re flying down the interstate I will try to correlate the names to the faces  To the cities in which they came I’m drowning in desert skies at dusk  Watercolors painted onto the mesa I forget my worries tangled in the sage brush Down in the washes all dried up I watched the land turn from mountain into stone and into sand and back again And the salt flats in Death Valley shine like glass My head out the window as we pass Just to smell the air just to feel the breeze in my hair And this ,this must be it  how it feels to be human again I will go wherever this road takes me I guess I just need a little change of scenery  When a postcard does not suffice I wanna show you all the things I have seen in my life  but..every city is the fucking same machinery of the day to day  The hobo camps under the bridge  The racist cops the anarchists The drunks passed out in the street  flying signs for something to eat Yeah some see freedom but I see poverty Upturned noses white luxury

Ain’t nothing much exciting about jugging at a gas station sure beats busking to a bunch of wealthy men that think we’re all addicts in need of a fix that people like us couldn’t possibly know shit But bourge is still bourge fighting over state apparatus  Red and blue don’t matter they’ve pit themselves against us and they sure ain’t giving up that economic status  cause even liberals are a bunch of fascist sympathizing state capitalists well I’d like to live in a much safer community Where we’re not coerced into mainstream ideas of normality Cause deep down inside we’re all the same cept we were given different sets of rules and different boxes to play in But I swear to you it ain’t the truth  look at the behaviors we’ve been bred to do The things that we call natural have economic roots So turn of that TV set, don’t follow media trends it’s just another way that the state gets inside our heads they’ll use the political body,military,and police working class traitors fighting for the bourgeoisie yeah i’ve lost my faith in the powers that be cause they’ve got us in cages living off of genetically modified grainsand seeds So say farewell to welfare cause that shit won’t exist no more The economy’s collapsing and they’re aiming guns at the poor using propaganda like they’ve done in every war  wont sit back and let them do what they’ve done so many times before

Take me down to the river and make me clean again where The words I could never scream are spray painted in red So take me down to the riverbed and I’ll never let another make my knees bleed the way that you did And I’m trying to forgive you but i sure as hell won’t forget what you did And I’m still trying to unlearn your brain washing And the idea that I owe you something I never did and I still don’t and that’s a fact Thought if i aimed for what I hated most I’d be a better shot So I pointed that gun at the scar over your heart And i missed again and again As hard as I try sometimes I still wish you were dead And you told me this was how you showed me you loved me But coercion isn’t love and you know that Maybe we fell into our set roles in society Our behavior is learned And we were born into a world ruled by patriarchy And I was born into the body of a war zone So take me down to the river and make me clean again where The words I could never scream are spray painted in red So take me down to the riverbed

They’ve domesticated us they’ve turned us into sheep We’re all hypnotized,walking in our sleep Distracted by media and a market of commodities  We’re just resources, units for their economy And they want technology that’ll make us obsolete  I mean why pay for workers when you can automate machines yeah we’re being ruled by other human beings  who seem to have forgotten what that means we’re hamsters on a wheel we’re a human fucking farm And they’ve worked us to the bone we’re all weathered and worn In this new age religion with caste systems and feudal lords Convincing us life’s a dream while we operate their stores Cause it’s social control,recirculation of wealth It’s a power dynamic we’re all stuck in a cell Whether it’s iron bars or a cubicle We’ve all gotten used to it, it’s business as usual  And the workers are just as guilty as the bourgeoisie  Cause we’re doing the killing,we’re building death machines  We’re on the front lines for the army and marines  And we’re the cops patrolling every city street we are the market we are the industry And it’s our trash collecting into plastic islands in the sea We’re destroying ourselves and this planet collectively and I don’t know who to blame but neoliberal policy Cause the wealth divide is getting greater in this nation  And it’s not gonna stop until we reach starvation  But don’t you worry no don’t lose your patience It’ll all trickle down once they get off their vacations It’s in the air you breathe and it’s also in the water It’s something you can’t see,you’ve been warned of by your mothers and it’s not the soylent green Or the chemtrails that they’re streaking It’s a poison that comes from you its a poison that comes from me Can you hear the children scream It’s the sound of freedom ringing we’re birthed from generations of violence and disease we pardoned the scientists from the nazi regime Who’ve been studying us for over a century  Learning new ways to change how we think And the observer effect is not a fucking joke Why do you think they’ve built satellites to circle the globe mice behave in different ways when they’re watched I’ve been told And the NSA has eyes around the world They say after the revolution kill the revolutionary Cause we’re just as afflicted by our poisonous society And we’ll tear down the state build a new one in its place That’ll feed off the labor of the human race

They dammed the fish now we’re damned ourselves They’ve built a market that’s got freedom for sale And it’s powered by slave labor and prison cells Oh the earth is getting hotter but it’s already felt like hell we need our rivers back to the sea and We need to fight this corporate machine that in the name of profit has been killing everything  We need a resistance of you’s and me’s  cause we’ve been at war that’s for goddamn sure and We’re not gonna save ourselves with a government issued voucher Cause business is good,yeah it’s great And long ago wealthy fascists bought out the state I’m tired of turning their wrenches and being fucking lied to I’m tired of making products that I can’t even use All for a dollar or a handful of bucks Trading away my time and health for some rich fuck i’ve spent my whole life working for money I’ve already spent And if property is robbery then so is fucking rent They’re treating people like some cheap resource  If you don’t submit to it they’ll use the police force we’re worked we’re buried in collars and cuffs and i’m starting to feel like there’s a joke being played on us so raise us out of poverty what a fucking joke That’s gonna take a whole hell of a lot of rope Cause This economic system thrives on poor folks they’re making up excuses to keep our wages low For every gigatonne of greenhouse gas that they release  And every bomb dropped in the Middle East For every racist cop who ends another life And every hungry family without food tonight we’re all fighting on different fronts So grab a pen or grab a gun When did welfare become such a slur And why are we blaming women of color While corporate trash is being subsidized With our tax dollars to lower a market price they fucked the air and they fucked the water  They’ve turned our food into plastic and slaughter making us choose between two big brothers but patriarchy is just another abusive fucking father And the privilege they give to us is self defense It’s simple chess,it’s common sense The middle class is just a buffer zone And the United States is the next empire of Rome

Death is sitting underneath the cottonwood tree There she sits waiting so patiently for me We met eyes when we crossed paths Well i only had one choice keep on walking There is so turning back now Every winter I freeze to death Buried alive beneath the snowy depths Only to be thawed out come the spring Resurrected with the life that warm sun brings Now I’m shoulder deep into the briar Looking for ripe berries You know i don’t much mind the thorns It’s just the price you pay for the sweet taste you know So take me where the grass grows high And sitting at the top there are ticks trying to hitch a ride They just want you to let them in Isn’t that what love is Oh how could I forget that love could hurt like this I’m a child with a magnifying glass who wants revenge All about the thistles there are bees Look but do not touch cause these things sting Something’s must be loved from far away Don’t you get too close now Or you’re gonna pay,you’re gonna pay,you’re gonna pay Death is sitting underneath the cottonwood tree So I sat down next her and offered my company