Spoken Word - It Doesn`t Have to be This Way


 "Read the lyrics to this spoken word track, I think today's message is in the lyrics" Rebbie said. 



I’m sitting here watching madness unfold

Their breaking up the family unit, they want us careless and cold

Less human bonding,

always in the box

carelessly consuming things made in sweatshops

or for profit prison labor

see that is the new trend

modern day concentration camps

maximizing profits

see these suits pushing for a race war

pushing for a great war

that is why they militarized space for

their killing off Earth’s species at an alarming rate

patenting plants and making seeds that don’t replicate

that is why I do not salute your flag  (Nationalism)

and I don’t support your troops  (imperialism)

those are not my founding fathers and I don’t believe your news

pero soy mas Americano que George Washington

that is why I am saying Free Turtle Island

I don’t acknowledge your courts, I do not respect your laws, you do not stand for justice, you fooled them all



You ask me why I am pissed

I come out of the abyss

Where the sheep think they are free, huh, you can’t be serious

They think they are doing good, when all they do is kill

Their propaganda is effective

Because the fear has been instilled

They do not believe they are an empire

Funding those groups to destabilize regions

Proxy wars and coups

And the rapes and the murder of the innocent children

But they don’t think twice because war is business

Now their pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war

Meanwhile the protesters criminalized by their laws

They got the nerve to turn on Kaepernick for not saluting

But they won’t stop their pigs from indiscriminately shooting

People of color laying dead on the street

But no one says nothing because their too scared, but their free

Or they agree,

racism never changed

these are still lynchings

and people are still in chains



Calling out the real

We need you now more than ever

The future of the world depends on the actions we endeavor

To defend against enemies, foreign and domestic

So what we gonna do, huh

Yea, you guessed it

Fight!

With every last ounce of strength

Pa la gente, para el pueblo and we have to win

El pelucon picking fights

As N.A.T.O. sets up their troops

In Eastern Europe

Doomsday clock at 2

We need to take hold of the reigns, need to stop this train

Or at least try

Because they kill innocent people in our names

Spiritual warfare, where is your humanity

I know Operation Gladio, is this Gladio B

Bread and circus

Take your mind off dead journalists, and whistle blowers criminalized for serving us

Same old tricks

False flag ops

Drones in the skies, militarized cops



Activist, or just a simple man

I want peace, but it is starting to sound out of hand

Cause United we stand divided we fall

The land of the free with over 2 million behind prison walls

Political prisoners getting hits, not allowed to be free

after decades in jail and the damage of solitary

How do you expect me to respect you, when you treat me like that, I have been in rooms with Middle Eastern kids, their mom and their dad

They brainwashed us since we were kids

People were murdered and displaced from the place we now live

They have fed us lies since we were children

To dehumanize us

and pay their taxes and fund their killing

question everything

who benefits

hold them accountable

and stop believing these puppets called presidents

they’re not looking out for our best interests

they only care about themselves

give Mumia his medicine (He has received his Hepatitis C Medicine)

and free the man

and stick Donald Trump in a jail cell

Free all Political Prisoners, Free Robert Seth Hayes (He is now free, and has recently passed away R.I.P.)

Free Jalil Muntaqim

Free Jamil Al Amin, Free Alvaro Luna Hernandez

Free the Move 9 (They are now free), Free Mumia, Free Leonard Peltier

Free Russell Maroon Shoatz

Free Herman Bell (he is now free)

Free Oso Blanco, Free all these Political Prisoners (Free Jaan Laaman, Free Mutulu Shakur, Free Kevin Cooper)

In the memory of Berta Caceres, and Oliverio Castaneda de Leon

Leave the activists alone, stop killing the students, free Palestine (We all want Peace for both Muslims and Jews. )

Stop funding these groups we don’t war, we don’t want watch lists, we don’t need to be watched all the time, like we are bad people

Why am I a security threat

Today I found out that Donald Trump killed an eight year old with a drone

Those things are not making anything better, they are just adding fuel to the fire

This song is dedicated to my Homeboy Little Man, R.I.P. to your brother Capone.



Hook:

It doesn’t have to be this way, that is what they say, and I believe them

https://soundcloud.com/elu-the-poet/it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way

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