[Verse]
When shit hit the fan what side will you take?
Will you stand like a man or bow till you break?
When they call in the troops will you cower and shake?
Or will you get grip on your dick, middle finger flip, spit in they cowardly face
I'm glitch in the Matrix unplugged from the fakeness, here to give the government a facelift
Going apeshit, ham, bacon, but don't fuck with a pig or an agent
NSA got our phones on lock so I’m watching my talk man, hold that thought
Hold that Glock, cause they might send a drone to your home with a shot, blow a hole through your top
It's scolding it's hot, hell on Earth, got a boot to my neck and that tread gon’ hurt
But I'm still gon’ work, will subvert but when they come to get you man them shells come first
Questions last, your chest go blast, they gon’ dead your ass in red blood bath
I'm a threat on wax so when they come and get my ass they can't kill these blessed on tracks
Through my peace rest gon’ last you can bet on that
I'm a technocrat for the left off maps, shore up with Tor up, protect your Macs
Fact – pharma want all of us stressed all fat with cholesterol maxed
So that we ingest they crap, it's a trap man, can't stand when your damn clan out of breath so fast
Right arm got the X on tat as tribute to fallen soldiers
Got a pot of Folgers, wired I'm watching smoldering Rome burn as it topple over
When the power is out with no water in spouts and the dollar go south, you can wallow and pout
You can holler and shout but you’ll still be in squalor with cholera bouts, so best stock up get off your couch
‘Fore you're grabbing your hair and you scrambling, panicking, ripping the follicles out
Because you weren't prepared for the anarchy, police are clamoring, ripping down walls of your house
And they tracking your phone, so they knew you'd be home until four with a loaded four-four, so they hone on your dome
And they shoot you on site with the rifle in front your wife for just talking about
Changing the system, it's wicked, it' skewed and it's twisted, it's sick and it's putrid, it's hot
It's viscous so witness the brewing of missions to get to the roots of the plot
It’s hell, open your heart and tell me is this really the future you want?
‘Cause we on our way, if you think that I'm playing you missing the truth of it all
If we don't kill ourselves first we still cursed, the earth go Rambo for us
It's been a goddamn long time since man first ran in forests
With hands on bows and landing blows on man his foes and then those that ran on fours
But now is ran its course, we thought that we could handle more but now we dealing with a damaged orb
When the sea levels rise and we seeing eye to eye with storm tides the size we ain't had before
When we abandon shores and there water wars and we out of oil and we panic for it
You'll be confronting the truth - the government don't give a fuck about you, we just swarming hordes
The poorest of poor face the planet's horrors while the rich on a Stanford torus
Or maybe they stay, paraded away in armed guard gated estates to themselves saying they safe
Praying the day don't come when the anger and rage from the lay of the wasteland break in they space
You think your neighbor is tame, till his fate in the fray and he making his way to raise an AK to your face
Better stay in and wait for you filleted like a steak on a plate and pay attention to the radio waves, ugh
I hope you got HAM license, its priceless when the price of ice is twice what your life is
When typhus is striking ain't no white dressed side kick, ain't no doctor to fight it
When you hurting where the surgeon for precise slices, can you sight him to right this?
No time for the self righteous when you liable for survival in crisis
Troops in the street like move along while they beat a nigga noodle till he snoozing gone
When he oozing they lose him and move along cause they cause got brood to feed and they used as pawns
I'm hoping you don't lose an arm to some loser who cruising and boozing armed
‘Cause when the rule of law isn't a rule no more, many are losing their duty to do no harm
But why am I telling you this, this negative shit, cause we don’t gotta settle for it
We can still slip from the tentacle grip and the strings of Geppetto they ready to snip
But if we stay still, steady and sit and don't say zip we facing some incredible shit
As our planet get inhabitable quick, witness sinister men spit venom and tricks
When the climate migrant crisis reach its peak we gon’ let peace be deceased?
When the feat to beat is police complete with AI machine freaks that seek your heat?
When every iris on file and a virus release your deets for cheap to creeps?
What you gon’ then, bow down or stand up, sweep the streets and defeat and beast?
[Outro]
Either we stand as a people in peace or we fall like the Tower of Babel (ugh)
Either we stand as a people in peace or we fall like the Tower of Babel (ugh)
Either we stand as a people in peace or we fall like the Tower of Babel (ugh)
(fades out)
credits
from New Era,
released March 16, 2017
Written by MADic
Produced by MADic for MAD Dope Productions
Recorded by Chris Gibney at Big Yellow Duck
Mixed by MADic & Brian Newell
Mastered by Brian Newell (benewmusic.com)
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