The Clash (A Call To Arms)

Hey world, won't you take a time out and listen

no room for dissin' your brother your kin

learn the lesson?

what have we got ourselves in?

decades in the making, seconds till they rake in

the token, the toll, the fruits of our labor

of love disappear airborne like vapors

officials run digital capers, nil paper

system overhaul now pay for favors

Expand your attention span

divide and conquer their plan

so blatant so why fold to a bluffing hand

go for the jugular and push them chips

on the river card house wins again, what a trip

it's a classic slip like banana peels

at the end of each day, it's a mass appeal

yeah a fixed game designed to end in collection

give a credit to the machine and it's pinching

like a live wire thirsty for tension

universal curse from the next dimension

hence when the time come beware the henchmen

bloke, get ready to pull out the cold linchpin

the fifth wheel to the coach ain't no pimpin

the ride like a fallen kingpin, the imprints

on the neck like a livestock on limping

from the overdose of chemicals, olymping

gold to the folk who stand up fist pumping

ode to the cure for all that fix symptoms

hold the bingeing, I'm searching

alternatives to fuel that burns in engines

and I hear men slaughter for oil, nah we need water for soil

grow seeds to feed the needy funk the greedy

natural resource better be a freebie

catch'em in the act, get grilled in a tepee

original landscapes claimed on repo

the criminals make crops unable to reproduce

and the juice that we drink is lethal?

soon enough spring water banned illegal

now I am not here to rehash the same ol' problems

to preach to the choir or pretend I know them

I don't even go there, even if it's for dare

truth shall remain a myth and it's cold here

come on

a call to arms with intelligence

spiritual belligerence

fire bullets of benevolence

direct to the heart

lodged in the chamber, pumped from the ventricle

and out the aorta,

travel up the brain, the brain

then unchain the chain!

freedom of speech resurrected from the drain

saved from the gutter salvaged from the sewers

last days fertilize grass-roots maneuvers!

oh the world in peace is so hard to imagine

as long as the rich take the poor to the cleaners and back,

colonial checks baloney yo

debtors and trespassers turn their masters

into the masses for a quick trial

unanimous vote leave'em out in the wild

see how they do caked up in vanity

out of their zoo with a fixed capacity

wow, hold up watch the commentary fail

to capture the essence of a common fairy tale

the african dream, american nightmare,

european calender, and asian agenda

go check the facts written in history

I mean lies justified like it's some mystery

ayo wise up we're in the same scenario

must be "the clash" predicted years ago

all for the cha-ching the serpents deceive us

much to their chagrin the wrath they receiveth

can't stop the bum rush nor will the behemoth

non-fiction for all you non-believers

critical news spread faster than a fever

sending out the message to all amps and receivers

one, two radio interference, bombs depot

dropped on the innocent people

now you know why some face prison for speaking

the kind of knowledge some risk lives for seeking

keep the light shining defend the beacon

recognize who slave you except for weekends

a call to arms with intelligence

spiritual belligerence

fire bullets of benevolence

direct to the heart

lodged in the chamber, pumped from the ventricle

and out the aorta,

travel up the brain, the brain

then unchain the chain!

freedom of speech resurrected from the drain

saved from the gutter salvaged from the sewers

last days fertilize grass-roots maneuvers

who used up the oxygen and spewed out the toxins,

fused the atomic and separated the hydrogen

who? take a look in the mirror, it's you

who feeds the beast the milk it needs just to please

lest we breathe, make us think like the

less we breathe the better off for the scenery

hell no, viva la vida!

the beat goes on, it's the right we keep

whether you awake asleep alone afraid astray away,

okay, you stay ahead the black sheep riding a jeep

cuz the plot runs deep, and it only gets deeper

like the bottom of the sea in an one-seater

hey World, won't you take a time out and listen

no room for dissin' your brother your kin

learn the lesson?

what have we got ourselves in?

decades in the making, seconds till they rake in

the token, the toll, the fruits of our labor

of love disappear airborne like vapors

officials run digital capers, nil paper

system overhaul now pray to save us