We Want the World - Higher State, EMC, Hermitofthewoods

We want the world

Can’t call an air strike on climate change

We want the world

Subvert their own existence if there profit to be made

We want the world

I’ll try to be the change, if I can make it through the day

We want the world, worker ants/worker bees

With our words and our dreams and abilities

Innocent as snowflakes until we

Stick together shutting down your fucking city

We want the world without watching an ad first

Adverse effects upon the Earth

Rain will come down soon

Doom is booming from the centre of the womb

She wants the world Mother Nature

Earthquakes, tsunami’s taking

Back what we’ve taken

Endangered way of life changing, ain’t no way we can sustain this

Aimless sort of drifting, in a shifting sea of data

Where there’s so much information that nothing really matters

We can’t see the forest for the screens

Or hear the birds singing over these MP3s

She wants the world, Mother Nature, global warning

She’s a terrorist, using ultra-violent rays, global warming

Her fighter planes: snow and rain, weather bombs, hurricanes

Trying to ghost us all for all the pillaging and rape

She wants the world, all the wars and disasters

Just to see if we even know what matters

But typical tough guys we rarely show respect

We just try to control her, but she’s sick of all the threats

We want the work, this kitchen working not worth it

Get herded to Shellberta as a seasonal worker

Value oil by the litre, not the knowledge of our teachers

Political leaders crooked as Chretien’s mouth when he was speaking

Who will stand up to fight the fight that needs fighting

To stand against the rain, against the thunder and the lightening

To stand up to the money, before the eleventh hour

Or is it always the corrupt that’s gonna rise to power?

(EMC and Hermitofthewoods]

We want the world

Who runs the world?

The arrogant, the classist, the paternal, the racist

Conservative, fundamental greedy vengeful, archaic

The chauvinist, the homophobes, raising sheep to carry on

Controlling corporations over parliaments and pentagons

The assholes, the fascists, people who are rude to waiters

Murderers and alcoholic children’s entertainers

White Flava Flav impersonators playing games

Ghost riding the whip that came with their daddy’s name

We want the world that got free education

While some rich kids complain that First Nations ain’t paying

And he starts his conversation by saying, «I'm not racist»

If you have to state it, you probably are, so shut your fucking braces

Planets heating and its freezing and were spying on our people

World war me my inner peace is full of demons

Scheming on another way to try to stop the bleeding

But it’s feeling like I’m failing, yo, you seeing what I’m seeing?

Sweat shops, forest chop, fear plot, freedom loss

Cash crop, pills to pop, higher cost, crooked cops

Every day the bodies drop.

Maybe one, maybe lots

Maybe it’s guns?

Maybe stop?

Maybe?

Maybe not

I’m still dreaming we can beat it, and believing

While we’re screaming out

This is all I ever wanted

All I ever wanted was to leave a little mark

With all the things that I had started not a leader or a martyr

Just pieces of my mother and father

Lessons and rhythms life had to offer

Live on inside this music when my beatbox is a coffin

All I ever wanted was to strike a little spark

Just enough to cast a little light into the dark

To be another reason to believe in something better

Cause I’ll be there when you need me, in any kind of weather

We drop killer verses like Masons in churches delivering sermons

We want the world, its security ain’t secure, shit

They need victims in the prisons, poverty and terrorism

Crime, destruction, instability, separation good for business

I’m seeing white collar crimes and dead black youth

Blue is on a rampage, and green is the truth

Blood runs red but it all turns to grey

Claiming that we’re colour blind to get us through the day

After all the intelligence gathering war was our best solution

Kill each other with the smartest bombs or time and more pollution

Feud instead of improving, losing instead of regrouping

While poor people put their poverty together to try to get through it

Put people over profit and put a stop to violence

Pretending that it’s progress, no one is an island

It’s the needs of the few against the needs of the many

Did we get rid of common sense when we got rid of the pennies

Assassinate your ego like JFK’s Motorcade

Fuck dollars and fame, we’ll make sense and bring change

Rage against us, come back CIA trained

You’ll get crushed like bay of pigs, we’re the rap’s Castro and Che