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We can place the blame but it stays the same
Remain in chains as we pray for change
Make us all forget about the basic things
Like this place I've been where the lakes and streams
Connect as one body of an ancient being
And let the sun's hot beams wake your dreaming
Embrace the feeling, taste the freedom
Replace the seedlings that we take from Eden
Cause they grow to become what we're make believing
And our souls will be numb if we take this beating
Harass your brain with aspartame
McDonald's beef and acid rain
Don't follow sheep, unlatch the gates
Or we'll all fall asleep and pass away
My policy's to relax and play
Cause we'll all be free in the last of days
Scenes in the withering rain
Seem like a sad movie's refrain
Retain moments in a life obscure
Despite the blur I replied "I'm primitive sir"
My head's in the pleasure of clouds
In an effort to move the crowd
Wipe sweat from my weathered brow
Better reload the tank and crank it to loud
Smell the daffodils lying in the grasses
Under shrapnel of a cold-blooded fascist
Pay your taxes, release from laxatives
Stuck in class living life like a masochist
Travel the taverns, listen to psychobabble
Just words from the herds of grazing cattle
Fuck it, change the channel, shift the tides
Shake the lives of those who don't abide
We work, we bleed, we eat, we sleep
The earth, the trees we need to keep
Observe then breathe in deep to speak these words
We work, we bleed, we eat, we sleep
The earth, the trees we need to keep
Observe then breathe in deep to speak these words, these words
I was born a child of his own
Sworn to exile in a broken home
Dysfunctional prone, I crumble like stone
All alone a crone thrown to the unknown
Now if only the sun shined on my sill
I might have cherished love and followed my free will
The evil within
Cause people live in sin
Yet my like-minded kin still manage to grin
I cannot defend or even pretend
I like the trend of this life again
So I fight with my pen to enlighten a friend
Exhibit my right to spite 'em
I defend an evil I can bend
No type of condemn
And every cent we spend can prevent the end
Extend my hand and defend the plan
We can mend the dam if we understand
Don't you want more from a lifetime of toil
Than a pension plan and pipelines of oil?
The right kind of soil, love the earth and grass
Learn the difference between oak, birch, and ash
Most working-class folks are getting robbed
Every Fred and Bob's got a dead-end job
Go to school for degrees, pay your dues and your fees
Diploma on your wall but still short on rent, see?
You choose to believe all the news that you read
Think you know it all but feel sort of empty?
Mortal men bleed and live a cruel joke
While resourceful MCs get ridiculed most
These lyrics you'll quote ain't false alarms
It's a call to arms from them all to farms
Small or large, we're all part of the rhythm
We're all in charge of this garden we're given
We work, we bleed, we eat, we sleep
The earth, the trees we need to keep
Observe then breathe in deep to speak these words
We work, we bleed, we eat, we sleep
The earth, the trees we need to keep
Observe then breathe in deep to speak these words, these words
We work, we bleed, we eat, we sleep
The earth, the trees we need to keep
Observe then breathe in deep to speak these words, these words
We work, we bleed, we eat, we sleep
The earth, the trees we need to keep
Observe then breathe in deep to speak these words, these words
We work, we bleed, we eat, we sleep
The earth, the trees we need to keep
Observe then breathe in deep to speak these words, these words
We work, we bleed, we eat, we sleep
The earth, the trees we need to keep
Observe then breathe in deep to speak these words, these words
We work, we bleed, we eat, we sleep
The earth, the trees we need to keep
Observe then breathe in deep to speak these words, these words
We work, we bleed, we eat, we sleep
The earth, the trees we need to keep
Observe then breathe in deep to speak these words, these words
Make the profit and we split it six ways
Take the knowledge and deliver it safe
We came to rock it and to spit it this way
To tell the people there's no need for them to live in dismay
Make the profit and we split it six ways
Take the knowledge and deliver it safe
We came to rock it and to spit it this way
To tell the people there's no need for them to live in dismay
The first revolution is when you change your mind
About how you look at things
And see that there might be another way to look at it
That you have not been shown
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