Story Behind the Song
the motivation for the song was frustration. frustration with America. frustration with the system, and the feeling like we should do something. move something. stand up and stand tall.
the lyrics are straightforward and aimed right at the problems with society and the government. If you want some champagne rap, i'd advise you to look somewhere else.
Lyrics
CHORUS
Demand the mans downfall
you know you hear it in the concrete walls
the system, we blow it!
Demand the mans downfall
can't stop the spirit stand tall the system
YES YES, we dis them.
EBENFLOW:
I'm writing words, the final fight, releasing pent up anti-agression
the scent of my affection is the reach of my intention
breach the gap holding back fortified life perfect
promised after death thats your curse you rehearse it
here's your script, play your part
know your role, lose the heart
have no use, discard it
you're living for them
written in pen word symmetry blurs the lines defined to keep mankind behind in middle rank
the highest potential
is not the highest money making
its funny i see you faking
trying to debate your reason
in front of your face and leaving impressions
is what we know
subtracting satisfaction from factions and taking action as i flow
actually what we're lacking isn't lacking at all, so when you hear the call, feel the spirit, stand tall....I said
Actually, what we're lacking isn't lacking at all, so when you hear the call, feel the spirit stand tall and.....
CHORUS
DA FOUNDAH:
The foundah never flounders when it comes to being real
yeah you could be on death row staring at your last meal
and still you'd feel the realness that im kicking to your head
we're here to move the people so remember what i said
see the man is kind of evil
so you've got to work around
move in shadows silent
like a railroad underground
cuz the sound of freedom don't be what the man is feeling
people needing healing while the system it be killing people filling people with the poison of their lies
brother do you wonder why so many end their lives?
sister not to dis ya' but you must open your eyes,
yo fuck this evil empire
we watch the people rise
IKE:
It's all relative in this modern corporation
world inflation. Desecration, persecution, and confusion
Let us live in a better place with fusion of races
instead of abusing the faces
the family is spacious in the spaces
I stay weightless on a high basis
Cuz there’s no oasis, just the latest databases
With the radius plus radius equals diameter
Bust free exceed perimeters
CHORUS
IKE:
I'm just one individual, one being
with three eyes seeing despising mind
conditioning
America the beautiful
efficient murder machine, under the screens
malicious militias
they trick us like McDonalds, with cigarette clelebrities and sexy models
Starbucks foreign policy
democracy hypocrisy
disorderly conduct
when the bomb struck impossibly for all to see we need another 9-11
Osama, Bush, Lime, Lemon
Same difference, one weapon to threaten life
Uncel Sam tax our money for nukes to keep the hungry victim
Mutha-Fuck the whole system
propaganda crack pushes to the children
and we all listen
solving the depression
by evolving revolution
offing of the president is in the constitution
never staying hesitant with lyric execution
CHORUS.
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