"is freedom ringing?" genre: Spoken Word
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	some of us love america. most of us love what america Should Be... which nowadays seems to be the definition of controversy.
	CD: for the Famished   Label: Independent Credits: vocals & lyrics:- empress of words. all other credits: atinuke abayomi-Paul
	Story Behind the Song on the morning of november 8, 2001, i was awakened from a nightmare about terrorism... only to find that the nightmare was reality. not even two months ago, american citizens were experiencing the aftermath of what happens in some countries every day. i wanted to leap to my country's defense... and then i realized that a lot of what i loved about america was its ideal... not what was true about it today. in june of the following year i recorded this as a reply to a request from a friend i interact with mostly through our urban poetic arists' website. with it i express my love for what the usa could be... despite the fact that the love is currently unrequited... Lyrics i can't choose to be delusional and maybe until now i've been confusing you with my wild theories and the scary books i ask you to read and the fear i have for my future seed we reap what we reap what we reap what we .... so if we think the New World Order is a fool's fiction and it is written on our money today, who is the fool? yet we Say we believe-- or maybe we believe that we believe-- that our money could never end up in the hands of the few although some separate parts of our souls knew full well that it already was and Time swallows Warner which got swallowed by AOL whose Sorry AIM product made me reboot twice while i wrote this but they will merge and merge and merge until all the world companies are all owned by the same men you try and dispute me and you know that, again, this isn't me speaking. it's part of His Prophecy that they'll be one company tis of thee Straight Mackin Liberty, USA as her pimp. at which time/warner/aol we will begin to die of the suppression of our sick urge to splurge ...and for the first time we won't just be broke or indebted we will have no currency. None. unless we're willing to run and forsake our God by putting a barcode on our foreheads or hands ///oh that's right!//// you think the beast is coming in some far off future? the beast is a computer in Brussels, Beligium today whose mark appears on every product that don't grow out the earth you don't even have to believe me just wait and see black people won't be the only ones who realize that we are not free and when that day comes it will be of Sweet Miss Liberty that we will sing. the blues. again. only this time we'll all sing together this land where our fathers will cry will be the same land where our children die go live on a mountain side or your Freedom will ring you up collect And long distance to say goodbye. and yet until recently we thought we were safe in America when in 3.5 hours on any given day if someone else willing to die for their cause decides that we should too we will live only long enough to witness the end of humanity but still we feel that it doesn't matter to our personal lives that other countries HATE America because of her foriegn policy that other countries HATE Americans because we turn a blind eye to the actions of our own nation who say they are acting on our behalf yes they hate us yes even afrikan amerikans though we share some of the same struggles. but we are blameless, no? we sit at a table we Know is stolen and we eat from a table of stolen food built by a governement that stole the construction labor from Our Immediate Family aren't we taught our whole lives that receiving stolen property is wrong? of course we should not be the ones to die for our forefathers mistakes in a flaming tower of babel or anywhere else but also we must not behave as if we are not awake or that we don't see the Evil being done in our names, when we accept the freedom to sit at the table we have the Responsibility to protest the politics that fed us yes even as we eat the food. so before my friendly visit from Homeland Security i ask you nay i beg see what is before your eyes and act. before you are acted upon.

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