Its nighttime in Baghdad
A mother says a prayer
A child hunts his father
The ground-troops came prepared
Theres a woman in the alley
Shes crying to herself
Drugged from one too many gunfights
Bruised and scarred by wealth
And now the bastians of the empire
are storming through this town
I see young man resisting
systematically gunned down
And I am watching from the distance
From behind a tv screen
And my home in America
Where everythings a dream
And while I wait for some miracle
To sweep down through the streets
I know that everythings a battle
And that battle starts with me
And so Im making my decisions
Im carding in my cares
Holding tight onto the railings
Still falling down the stairs
'Cause in my mind there is a vision
One that can't be beaten down
Myself as a free man
In this very town
Im awaiting revolution
With every second of my time
And I am proud
That I, at least have the chance to rhyme
I've had 19 years inside of this
And some time still to go
Im trying to make the best of it
But still Im laying low
And these feds have got me paranoid
Im running through the halls
Dreams of flashlights, these sirens,
My back against the wall
But I will fight them for their power
With a gunshot to my heart
And the youth...
Have got to find a place to start
My high school was a prison
So I rose up and dropped out
And learned myself...
Thats what its all about
See we the people need to realize
That this government is scared
For their power is defeated
As soon as we've declared:
That we've had to much oppression
And too much theft and pain
As the workforce of this country
Is sleeping in the rain
And the government is filling up
This world with bullet shells
True Americans...
Would overthrow it all themselves
The best days of our lives
Were spent running form the police
throwing tear over barricades
The news called us naive
But we fought for revolution
In wind and rain and snow
Just like their heroes did
200 years ago
Still they declare that we are evil,
Misguided and insane
With the population stagnant,
So much has been ingrained
And Im approaching these divisions,
With everything I've got
With my mind set on freedom
Im waiting for that shot
And I am arming my comrades
WIth all that I can share:
My words, weapons,
All and all is fair
I've seen two wars already
And that just in the past two years
So I am disregarding
All that I've been tought to fear
Im standing up on two feet
With my chest all proudly high
And I will stay
Until I have to die
So let me reclaim all that
Sas been stolen in my days:
My honor, My strength,
My rebelion, love and rage
And let me use it as a weapon
Against the ones who hold me down
And let their plans
For power, never be found
And I will hold the torch of freedom
With an arm that can't be bent
As the world that lives below me
Crushes through the thick cement
And flows up into the open
So I can tell what I have seen,
The world, Alive, and myself
A human being
A mother says a prayer
A child hunts his father
The ground-troops came prepared
Theres a woman in the alley
Shes crying to herself
Drugged from one too many gunfights
Bruised and scarred by wealth
And now the bastians of the empire
are storming through this town
I see young man resisting
systematically gunned down
And I am watching from the distance
From behind a tv screen
And my home in America
Where everythings a dream
And while I wait for some miracle
To sweep down through the streets
I know that everythings a battle
And that battle starts with me
And so Im making my decisions
Im carding in my cares
Holding tight onto the railings
Still falling down the stairs
'Cause in my mind there is a vision
One that can't be beaten down
Myself as a free man
In this very town
Im awaiting revolution
With every second of my time
And I am proud
That I, at least have the chance to rhyme
I've had 19 years inside of this
And some time still to go
Im trying to make the best of it
But still Im laying low
And these feds have got me paranoid
Im running through the halls
Dreams of flashlights, these sirens,
My back against the wall
But I will fight them for their power
With a gunshot to my heart
And the youth...
Have got to find a place to start
My high school was a prison
So I rose up and dropped out
And learned myself...
Thats what its all about
See we the people need to realize
That this government is scared
For their power is defeated
As soon as we've declared:
That we've had to much oppression
And too much theft and pain
As the workforce of this country
Is sleeping in the rain
And the government is filling up
This world with bullet shells
True Americans...
Would overthrow it all themselves
The best days of our lives
Were spent running form the police
throwing tear over barricades
The news called us naive
But we fought for revolution
In wind and rain and snow
Just like their heroes did
200 years ago
Still they declare that we are evil,
Misguided and insane
With the population stagnant,
So much has been ingrained
And Im approaching these divisions,
With everything I've got
With my mind set on freedom
Im waiting for that shot
And I am arming my comrades
WIth all that I can share:
My words, weapons,
All and all is fair
I've seen two wars already
And that just in the past two years
So I am disregarding
All that I've been tought to fear
Im standing up on two feet
With my chest all proudly high
And I will stay
Until I have to die
So let me reclaim all that
Sas been stolen in my days:
My honor, My strength,
My rebelion, love and rage
And let me use it as a weapon
Against the ones who hold me down
And let their plans
For power, never be found
And I will hold the torch of freedom
With an arm that can't be bent
As the world that lives below me
Crushes through the thick cement
And flows up into the open
So I can tell what I have seen,
The world, Alive, and myself
A human being