Rebel Chant

Imagine living in a prison, the cell is invisible
Not physical, but it's limits got a grip on you
Conditioned to stay within the box in a position to
Faithfully obey the same oppressor that imprisoned you
Living where lies are perpetual
Miserable, so called freedom is diminished to
A cycle that's vicious, malicious, menacing
The day you out the womb
The same day you get your sentencing
Plantin ideas in vulnerable seeds, and they
Tell you to follow your childhood dreams, until
They measure your worth with SATs
But it's a lucrative scheme to get a college degree
This all leads to the job of your dreams
The long term girl and the birds and the bees
You bought a brand new home on a 30 year lease
Now they got you right where they need ya to be
Ya gotta keep workin, ya gotta keep hustling
Ya gotta get the new whip equipped with gas guzzling
At the end of the day you've completed that function
But you struggling, ain't that troubling?

Eyes are wide open
Hands in a fist
Marching to the battle
Chant like this
We demand equality
We demand peace
Representatives that represent our beliefs
Eyes are wide open
Hands in a fist
Marching to the battle
It goes like this
We demand equality
We demand peace
Representatives that represent our beliefs

You talk about change, I ain't buying it
I don't trust a soul, result of my environment
It's good to know, how to recognize a liar when
They've been lyin ever since they discovered fire
They try to coincide the state law with the messiah
But that's the same devil with the oil empire
How could Orwell foretell my arrival
1984 should be anointed as the bible
The mighty dollar holla in god we trust
The same that sent blacks to the back of the bus
The same that shot cats just for making a fuss
And that's the same higher power that's protecting
But who got the weapon, who should feel threatened
Who's the one pulling triggers if you disrespecting
Who decides when the time is right to use aggression
This shit got me stressing, switch up the session
They got guns, control is what they holding
Control of what you thinking
Control of what your hoping
Controlling sunshine and when the skies open
Controlling when you sleep
And when you keep your eyes open
To believe the American dream became a nightmare
That got you on lock since you were in a high chair
Listen up
Ain't no time to have your mind
Squared away in a box
For you to hibernate and hide there

Eyes are wide open
Hands in a fist
Marching to the battle
It goes like this
We demand equality
We demand peace
Representatives that represent our beliefs
Eyes are wide open
Hands in a fist
Marching to the battle
Chant like this
We demand equality
We demand peace
Representatives that represent our beliefs

Where I come from a lot of scum done
Run off with the money and left us undone
Some fun, but soon the sun come
And the masses that you laughed at become one
Run run, we see through your scheming
Feed me feed me, fast food tv
Cell phone iPod, iPhone, freebee
Got us fiending but we don't need it
Institutionalized lies and slavery thrives
Off of rich guys that devise lies and high crimes
Compromised minds psychological fine lines
Blind in the battlefield assigned to find mines
Its trying times, so I keep my ears perked
Hard to learn the truth if it disappears first
Its hard to tell man that its not just his earth
Power to the people, we're marching fist first