Lyrics Blue Scholars

Blue Scholars

Blink

With war rising over the horizon

It's hard to start writing

Been fightin in the belly of the titan, my tourniquets

Tighten around the livin' but dyin'

My pen floods the pages while the children are crying

I want to put on an iron shirt, chase the devil out of

Earth

Spit until my tongue and saliva glands burst

But first I invoke the spirit of the long gone and

Coming back through the song

I am one with that all-seein' being but

It seems as if we're being tricked into believing that

Which we think we believe in

Even if we disagree on who the best mc is,

We bob to the beat as if we're nodding in agreement

I write to freedom, though freedom hasn't come

I let it ring to leave a message on my answering

Machine

I see a movement has begun

As soon as we become the true truth seekers

Down with this Babylon regime

To think you can die in the blink of an eye

I bid you to try, to test I & I (?)

Been destined to fly But I'm restin tonight

And one bright morning I will take flight

But until then, I'll be rockin on the m

I see the future drippin out of a pen

If sleep be the cousin of death

Then every time I blink's one step closer to my last

Breath

It's said talk is cheap, but war is expensive

I speak cuz it's free and these words are my weapons

Don't think for a second I will not question US foreign

Policy, imperial aggression inventing war for he

Quenching of the thirst for the oil

Cuz money don't trickle down to workers who toil, you

See

Blood trickle down from the wounds of the soil

And broken antennas with aluminum foil

Standing on televisions, transmitting propaganda of

Millionaire senators

And your so-called commander in chief, b, I'm telling

You the man is a thief,

In his head he holds a plan to ban your freedom of

Speech,

To build a pipeline, put Afghanistan on a leash

When it bites back blame the Taliban for the breach

Of security in each and every first world country

Where life more dissin' If you're thirsty or hungry

To think you can die in the blink of an eye

I bid you to try, to test I & I (?)

Been destined to fly But I'm restin tonight

And one bright morning I will take flight

But until then, I'll be rockin on the m

I see the future drippin out of a pen

If sleep be the cousin of death

Then every time I blink's one step closer to my last

Breath

America romanticizes the old war story

Heroes, ammos, guns, blood guts and glory

And no wonder the majority wants a war with Iraq

Even if only 15% know where it's at on a map

With our backs against a stockpile of weaponry

Enough to turn the earth into a memory, 'cept there'll

Be

No one to remember this planet

If it happens god damn it, if I get drafted today

I swear to God, Ja, Allah and Yahweh

I'll toss the letter away and I'll pull a Cassius Clay,

In the military

Minorities comprise the majority, Surprised? are you

Kidding me?

The lies rely on brown bodies to fight for white puppet

Masters

I cannot fathom how the caged bird drinks

Until he thinks he is free

A critical mass between the heavenly future, and a hell

Of a past, now

To think you can die in the blink of an eye

I bid you to try, to test I & I (?)

Been destined to fly But I'm restin tonight

And one bright morning I will take flight

But until then, I'll be rockin on the m

I see the future drippin out of a pen

If sleep be the cousin of death

Then every time I blink's one step closer to my last

Breath