Pass The Mic
Jude Icarus & Sariya Peregrine
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A revolution streaming in the eye of a webcam Standing while I risk a rubber bullet to the head, man Desensitize the masses 'til their speech is running deadpan Mad that I ain’t listening? Well color me a deadman Feds land in your city Boots on the sidewalk Head man gives the order “Shoot for the eyes Block all of the exits Lock up the news crews Load ‘em all up into the van And let the suits choose" Who’s who? Using IG to ID Feeding you their lies Poison ivy IV Corrosive rhetoric From a broken experiment Apple pie and oppression That’s American heritage Spray rounds at citizens face down Hitting ‘em while they’re sitting there Pinned to the grey ground So that middle class hypocrites Living in quaint towns Can go to sleep knowing That liberty’s safe now Oh say Their names Can you see Through the lies Yearning to breathe free Shouldn’t be a crime A city on a hill Was built on a grave In the land of the free And the home of the brave Oh say Their names Can you see The charade The long walk to freedom Isn’t a parade From sea to shining sea We the people Have to fight It’s time for a new voice Hey, pass the mic You can debate ‘Cause to you it’s a game The news is the same Just a noose and a name Your excuses are useless Obtuse and obtrusive Abusive The truth is You’re used to the pain You say it’s not your problem When you’ve got something to gain Staying steady bending over backwards with your brain Your fellow man is not your enemy There’s no need to compete This ain’t the Wild West That kind of Freedom’s obsolete The crimes of police And the crimes of the state Are the symptoms of a system built on violence and hate You can try to erase Keep blocking out the truth But there’s blood on the leaves 'Cause the tree is rotten at the root You sanction wars Far beyond our borders To impose the imperial plan Law and Order I don’t fight for a flag I fight for a free nation Life, liberty, and the pursuit of liberation Oh say Their names Can you see Through the lies Yearning to breathe free Shouldn’t be a crime A city on a hill Was built on a grave In the land of the free And the home of the brave Oh say Their names Can you see The charade The long walk to freedom Isn’t a parade From sea to shining sea We the people Have to fight It’s time for a new voice Hey, pass the mic The system isn’t broken It’s working as intended But you spend your mental energy Pretending to defend it Let’s arrest the presidents Who oppressed the residents Jettison Jefferson, yes But messaging isn’t medicine They say blood and soil And they spill it all for oil Keep the people toiling While the planet is boiling And you spoiled Proud Boy-scouts Who stood with Derek Come on, don’t be shy If the hood fits, wear it You’re kneeling on the neck Of the black community And kneeling in the streets For a false sense of unity Qualified immunity Exercised with impunity Brutally beating people For being a different hue from me Euphemy Infamy Used to keep Empathy Mute and content with the Brutal contempt for the Truth that your treasured Institutions have measured Success Through oppression Of humans For centuries Oh say Their names Can you see Through the lies Yearning to breathe free Shouldn’t be a crime A city on a hill Was built on a grave In the land of the free And the home of the brave Oh say Their names Can you see The charade The long walk to freedom Isn’t a parade From sea to shining sea We the people Have to fight It’s time for a new voice Hey, pass the mic Oh say Enough Can you see How they run Live by the Golden Rule Die by the gun Remember the stories Of those you enslaved In the land of the free And the home of the brave Don’t look Back now Let the revolution sing From every mountainside Thy Deeds Shall Ring From sea to shining sea We the people Have to fight It’s time for a new voice Hey, pass the mic
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Written by: Julien Leitner, Sariya Ismail
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