Lyrics We Want the World - Higher State, EMC, Hermitofthewoods

We Want the World

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