- I don't really want to take up your time Because I know you got a lot to keep you Preoccupied Got to get up for work Got to buy the new thing Got to get into church You say, "It's best for me."
- and I know you're looking out for yourself And you never had the drive to even offer to help And you couldn't listen to it if it changed your mind You want to stay confined in the line and taste wine
- and now you sit in front of televisions Wishing you never had to wake up in the world you live in And so you do nothing about it, wait for somebody else All you do is get paid, eat a steak, pass out
- and it doesn't really make any sense Cause you believe that you won't do any bad and go to heaven But you never contribute by just numbing your brain Consuming everything without knowing what it's ever like - to feel pain
Cause you've forgotten what it means to be human
- Let's take a walk until we think that we know - with The sick and the mentally ill- out on the road Who could never afford -- health care or control And you're saying that they're lazy, they deserve to go?
What about all the civilians that we're killed in the east? They won't try to differentiate a terrorist and me? You think that that they we re justified, protecting our freedom? Freedom for what? Free to just - sit and eat up?
- you say we got to liberate the people Let the Africans die since they have no resources That's the way it's supposed to be? But you wouldn't say it if you were the one to bleed
Don't you see? They want to keep you asleep And your mind closed-off, never care about a thing But the car you drive, the iphone you buy That was made by a Chinese slave for a dime
- and you're saying cause we're #1 But you never been to Canada and never been to Europe You just feed into the (individualism) of society Never even try to empathize in your entirety
You're thinking everything will happen for a reason Till you're raped - by a man who believes in Jesus The governor's paid by the Wal-Mart sleaze And they're setting up a shop where your mother's buried
- and you think it's God's destiny Let the poor be poor, and the woman be weak But God's a get-rich- scheme, American dream You never think with reason, you just have to believe
- And you're saying that I'm going to hell He can punish me now, smite me to the ground! C'mon motherfucker, I ain't waitin around Go ahead you got the power, fucking strike me down!
I'm back You weren't born with a silver spoon You worked hard and you earned everything in the room So you think if you can do it, anybody can too - They were born- in the same environment and values?
The man who's overweight can lose it if he wants to? But they're giving him pills instead of veggies and fruits, you don't
Know what it's like - to be fucking oppressed To feel inequality, police beat you to death To be wrongly accused in jail for drug use Nobody wants to help - they're afraid of you -
- - Don't tell me that you know they can change You've never been the opposite sex - or orientation A different nationality or color or race A homeless soldier on veteran's day
- Ignore science, take a leap of faith? No thanks, cause you're drinking from a bowl of kool-aid You never want to step outside of your place You're a fucking disgrace, get the fuck out my face
- But you learned it all in summer school Till they go on strike, you're a dumber fool They can never be - fired in a union pool So they don't give a fuck if you become a criminal
- and you're saying I'm a cynical liberal Pessimistic conspiracy theorist - out of tune - - I've been to the bottom of ladders and down and that's More than what you'll ever fucking see from your couch
Take the time and take a look at yourself Stop thinking if you're gonna go to heaven or hell Start learning what it's like to be somebody else And offer to help when nobody else will