CHORUS:
Do I hear a sound? Beware!
From the rocks, from the ground, in the air
VERSE ONE:
The Information Age has something it won't say
Climate change kills the poor every day
It comes down from the sky, it comes up in the waves
The bankster disaster is programmed to slay
RAP [solo]:
Deforestation plus poisoned pollination
Times mass incarceration equals planet devastation
They privatize then nickel-dime our lives
We’re gasping to survive the worldwide plantation
Our water, air, land, homes, jobs, food, schools, books –
Who snuck and took it? Those Wall Street crooks did!
Picking our bones and our scabs just like a vulture
Spreading the scourge of global monoculture
They want you a consumer, dazed and in a stupor
Apathetic, sedated and politically neutered
Or you can be a real citizen
Take your dreams into the streets and stand for all that you believe!
REPEAT CHORUS
VERSE TWO:
The revolution can't be computerized
The database died when the mothers cried
The planet told the president - don't you even try
A whistle-blower waits in the cyclone's eye
RAP [solo]:
Are you just a voyeur, armchair warrior
Clicking on petitions while they actively destroy ya?
Corporations clutch us with their tentacles
Caught in knots unless we make a spectacle
Droning and drilling sanctioned by politicians
Stop scratching your wounds and start itchin’ for a mission
Save the world by acting hyperlocally
Choose your devil, stand up and get vocal – please!
Life on earth needs diversity to conquer her adversities
No isms or schisms have ever conquered the system
Mend a bridge and lend a hand before it all hits the fan!
REPEAT CHORUS
BRIDGE:
The voice that we listen for doesn't come from you
You can't change the subject when millions cry
This shout in the dark is mine --
who survives?