Now I was born on an Annotateisland Floating in the cosmos With a couple of children Who like to call it home Just a sailing rock Yeah a pale blue dot Where they say we ain't changed a lot Since our days in Rome
[Verse 1: Mr. J. Medeiros] This is the anti extremist Silencing the religious Who vandalizes our dreams Using violence to find forgiveness The un-chosen die in explosions minding their business Find them frozen their bodies as open as Zion’s wrists is This is spiritually inept This is my soliloquy I bet This is politically correct If your politics and Molotov hits don't intersect You see the war don't convince me You see the Lord I see it more as Theodore Kaczynski You got your knees to the floor sure as your prints be Wrapped around a block of C-4 pow your minced meat And now you’ve blown it Using physics your god is distant and don't condone it Using mystics to bomb your critics and your opponents You a bigot, misogynistic and homophobic
Now I was born on an island Floating in the cosmos With a couple of children Who like to call it home Just a sailing rock Yeah a pale blue dot Where they say we ain't changed a lot Since our days in Rome
[Verse 2: Shad] Things ain’t change, you can’t make me a unbeliever George bush didn’t care and Matt Lauer doesn’t either Tell little sisters with that jungle fever For Justin Biebers make the world the color of Russell Peters We still deal with this BS, they avoid our issues In the so-called free press, sometimes as a black man I gotta take deep breaths, Mayor Ford got no class Dude barely got recess I took a couple little jabs, I’m composed now They say Lebron shoulda never left his hometown I say slow down, we talkin' 'bout draft picks Reporters and lawyers still talkin' bout practice Meanwhile, we just tryna keep out of caskets Black kids keep dyin' all over this atlas And that’s not a racial issue, it’s a human issue It’s about what kinda human is you
I was born on an island Floating in the cosmos With a couple of children Who like to call it home Just a sailing rock Yeah a pale blue dot Where they say we ain't changed a lot Since our days in Rome So take me out Passed these satellites and things To where the only light we know shines the globe Yeah take me out into a spaceman's glance And give me one last chance to pray for home
Now I was born on an island Floating in the cosmos With a couple of children Who like to call it home Just a sailing rock Yeah a pale blue dot Where they say we ain't changed a lot Since our days in Rom