==================================== Chorus: ==================================== Change how we feel Doubt, what we see I need to be my own Evolutionary Revolutionary me Change what we know Do we, have a choice I need to be my own Evolutionary Revolutionary voice ==================================== Verse 1 + 2 -- System is Not Broken / This changes everything ==================================== (Jams group) The system seems to most, like it may be really broke if you analyze from all the sides, it's really quite a joke or is it? are you sure it's just badly built? cuz some might say, nation way has exactly the right tilt It feels like there's a king, counting out his money and we're all just the queen, eating bread and honey in some obscure tower, where our voices can't heard while the upper crust ignores us all, it's all just so obsured indigineous peeps bein snatched for some school? Mista Harpa yo apology ain't make you less a ghoul Inequality seems the policy to be, NOT equity or honesty THAT'S all mythology. (Mercedes group) But it doesn't stop there as we devastate our planet we be taken big bites like we eatin pomegranate Drilling down for oil, making pipelines on the land fossil fuel is still the game, and that's now outta hand Methane in the air, pollution run amock, we're all choking in our homes so corporations make a buck Yes there's tons of causes, that needs us all to act but ain't none of them will matter if our planet gets wacked it's all a bad idea, like a finger in a socket them dudes are killin us, just for cash in they pocket So look, as a people where's the helping hand? Maybe, just maybe, it's time to take a stand ==================================== Verse 3 + 4 -- Majority Rules / Privilege ==================================== (David's group) Ever stop and think about who decides our fate I mean in the government there are those who dictate to all of us, you and me, your father mother brotha deciders of our daily lives are really small in numba They're so very clever as they drive us to the hills getting rid of immigrants is the plan of these new bills C fifty-one and twenty-24 were made to insist that if you dare protest, then you're a terrorist the message that it sends from the upper puppeteer your a second class citizen you weren't born here Such travesty that the will of the minority determines all the rights of the often poor majority (Sienna's group) how many of you ever consider what you gots and how much of it comes from the have nots European Christians, born into their richs while the rest of the planet is stuck digging ditches Crazy psuedo activists matching dress n heels making sure they looking fly while they saving seals if I cover up eyes I don't really have to see all this awesome priviledge afforded to me systematic bias favours some just like the vulture unconscious entitlement becomes dominant culture So look, as a people where's the helping hand? Maybe, just maybe, it's time to take a stand ==================================== Verse 5 + 6 -- Black Lives / I, Revolutionary ==================================== MLK once said "there are difficult times ahead" little did he know how much our hearts and minds he fed The race conversation makes us feel a little smaller But don't assume a man is bad from his skin color There's hunger in the street that is hard to defeat Many steal for sport, but more steal to eat Now violence seems the norm in all TV's black sectors but gunned down in the streets by our very own protectors? Eric Garner's death, ruled a homicide Officer goes free, indictment pushed aside Trayvon Martin shot to death, Zimmerman aquitted? Yo,how many more before jumpsuits are fitted!? Corrupt judicial systems means there's no equality banality on brutality is like a policy But it doesn't stop there, no shortage of the damned Gay or weird or trans or fat, you'll likely get slammed Treating everyone the same could become our new savior in the hopes that in the future it's our new behavior But really where's it start? To change us all so deeply it's all about choice and that doesn't come cheaply So look, as a people where's the helping hand? Maybe, just maybe, it's time to take a stand So look, as a people where's the helping hand? Maybe, just maybe, it's time to take a stand ==================================== restlessness is my nemisis hard to sit still xxxxxx dismiss, remise we went from pickin' cotton to chain gang line chopping to bebopping to hiphopping the black man is the invisible man the industry is just another cell block racial profiling, corrupt judicial system, police brutality now people are talking about it there's a tipping point and people are organizing in order to being heard when a white person is done talking about race all they have to do is turn off the tv we don't have that luxury silence is an action having the race conversation is always hard but it needs to happen part of the conversation is that we call come from different backgrounds, but can co-exist be different but together never last long The harder you flash, the harder you get flashed on "In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends" - MLK "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" - MLK "we speak, we pray, we scream, but without action there will be no revolution" - MLK ===================================== Stong applicable words ===================================== - savior / behavior - plan / stolen land - laws are minimal / criminal - clarity / check the similarity