Automated Oppression

(Yo, I remember I heard somebody say...)
When the stars were strung...
(We could have a democratic society...)
Was the first song ever sung...
(Or, we could have great wealth concentrated...)
With skies forever blue...
(Concentrated...concentrated in the hands of few...)
They were meant for me & you...
(But, we can't have both...we can't have both...we can't have both...)

I made a vow as a child, to speak the truth, unless a lie was needed, to relieve the noose. But, the rope's been cut, yo I'm freed, it's loose, now the power lies totally in me, to choose. And, I pick reality, so people please excuse, if it conflict with the fantasies, they feed to fools. If its a game, most are guaranteed to lose, like 405 said, you better read the rules. Somebody told you Mr. P's amused? They lied to you like junkmail, tellin' 'ya you're pre-approved. M-I-C's get used like 3's, & 2's, & 4's, 'cause whenever I squeeze, it ooh's. Hip-Hop's power could breed the tools, to liberate a whole nation, like Moses when he freed "the jews." But, at this very moment slavery's bein' used world-wide, didn't you read the "news?"

Who shot JFK?
Oswald pulled the trigger, (unh-huh) but we know it's much, much bigger. Whenever there's a powerful man that stands for freedom, they turn on a machine that's programmed to delete 'em...
Who shot MLK?
(Say, Earl Ray pulled the trigger) But, we know it's much, much bigger. Whenever there's a powerful man that stands for freedom, they turn on a machine that's programmed...

Ronald McDonald couldn't flourish globally on the scene, (huh?) without McDonald-Douglas, (who's that?) designers of the F-15. When your leaders do sheisty bidness far away, it's unsuspecting civilians who often pay. You know what makes these men pretend so well? (What's that?) It's a three-letter word that begins with "O" & ends with "L." I ain't tryin' to be in the middle, I can't stand men who thrive on war. (You don't like 'em at all?) Not even a little. The machinery operates effortless, the relationship between big bidness & big government is incestuous, and when the mainstream media joins in, it becomes a three-way. Brother, sister, & cousin fuckin' like is D-Day, and that's a fuckin' fact, check-it aye yo, somethin' ain't right, right? Like the CIA's track record, to protect business interests abroad, they removed a slew of democratic rulers, and had dictators installed, but tell me...

Who shot RFK?
Sirhan Sirhan pulled the trigger, but we know it's much, much bigger. Whenever there's a powerful man that stands for freedom, they turn on a machine that's programmed to delete 'em...
Who shot Malcolm, now?
A Muslim pulled the trigger, but we know it's much, much bigger. Whenever there's a powerful man that stands for freedom, they turn on a machine that's programmed to...

We all know the U.S. Government's crooked & evil, and should be completely overthrown by the American people. The first revolution was a beginning, not a consummation, this generation you knew there's gotta be a sequel. Even physically, it's feasibly within us, but the tree of liberty, it needs to be replenished, with the blood of patriots & tyrants, alike. But, it don't have to be violent, despite what some men may say, there's a much better way. Non-corroberation with Satan, look at all the taxes we pay, if ninety million of us didn't hand-over green, that would kill The Pentagon mass-murder machine. And, if we held onto the moment, we could suffocate government, and corporations that essentially own it. But, without these hundred & fifty dollar Nike's on my feet, my life be incomplete...
(((Won't it?)))

Who shot JFK?
Oswald pulled the trigger, but we know it's much, much bigger. Whenever there's a powerful man that stands for freedom, they turn on a machine that's programmed to delete 'em...
Who shot MLK?
(Say, Earl Ray pulled the trigger) Unh-huh, but we know it's much, much bigger. Whenever there's a powerful man that stands for freedom, they turn on a machine that's programmed to delete 'em...