Rock The Nation

Rock the nation [x8]

We livin' in a mean time and an agressive time

a painful time where cynicism rots the vine

In a time where violence blocks the summer shine

Lifetimes go by in a flash, in a search for love

In a search for cash, everybody wanna be some fat tycoon

Everybody wanna be on a tropic honeymoon

Nobody wanna sing a bit out of tune

or be the backbone of a rebel platoon

It's too soon to step out of line

You might get laughed at you might get fined

But do you feel me when I say I feel pain everyday

When I see the way my friends gotta slave

and never get ahead of bills they gotta pay

No way no way!

Some make a living doing killing Colombian penicillin

Some are willing to play the villan they just chillin'

To pass the time, pass the information or pass the vine

Pass the buck or pass the baton, but you can't pass the police or the

pentagon, the I.R.S. or the upper echelon

I think it's time to make a move on the contradiction

[chorus]

Bom-Bom, rock the nation

take over television and radio station

Bom-Bom the truth shall come

give the corporation some complication!

say ooh-ooh (rock the nation)

This is the dawning of our time I say it one more time

To emphasize the meaning of my rhyme

To rise above all the dirt and the grime

add the right spice at the right time

Fuck the constitution

Are we part of the solution or are we part of the pollution

Sittin' by and wonderin' why

Things ain't the way we like to find them to be, to be

For you and for me the people over there and the ones in between

Check our habitation are we peace lovin' nation, peace lovin' nation

I have a reasonable doubt

I think I'll just spell it out

There's no need to scream or to shout

The N.R.A. just bought a man's soul

then he jumps up and shouts gun control

The government says that killin' is a sin

Unless you kill a murderer with a lethal syringe

So I ask again "are we peace lover's then"

Some of them slang guns when they six years old

some of them end up in some six foot hole

This whole damn place seems to, lost control

So I raise my voice before I lose my soul

[chorus]

This is the way I'll express my feelings

Vibe revealed and revolved spinnin on a record y'all

Try to confiscate take what I communicate

with it's ancient gift of the lip steady creating

Activating passin vocal vibrations to the blind plus the seeing

Human doesn't mean just being

Be coming don't believe it just belife it

Belongings or beloved rehearse it or recite it

While shining drop your guns and move your tongues

battle motivation in no time lyrics come

Sometimes fun others run their mouth or away

My minds co beaming like an early sunray

one day we'll get the picture and all combine

Less the talking bout mines is mine and become one mind

Every piece of the puzzle has its place

To build the piece of the puzzle called the human race

Taking it long enough we crush the formal journalistic dyslexic critters

talk backwords to rap words

I'm sure raising my hands with questions and demands statements and a plan

with a map of the land

[chorus]