Gather Round

Ain't no stopping the calling I'm a warrior scholar

With the pad and the pen or with the sword and the chopper

Look at how far I got if you lost I could guide you

In between two extremes like Safa and Marwa

In the desert like Bedouins in search of water

Except we're thirsting for power up in this urban drama

Every day our sons and daughters are led to the slaughter

Indoctrinated by a complacent social order

Decapitated they're trying to cut our jugular vain

That's the sacred lifeline from heart to the brain

Make us blind to mankind's suffering pain

Ugliness worldwide that's done in our name

So the only thing we're seeing is what we can gain

Precious blood shed in vain and nothing is changed

Drugged up in daze in a comfortable maze

Upscale slaves in luxury cages

But the weak keep crying and the innocent dying

And these are the times when the real freedom fighters gather 'round

I said the cities catch fire and the flames grow higher

And the poor and the pious get inspired and decide to gather

'Round

When the times get dire and the mighty are liars

And the righteous fighting for their life get organized and gather

'Round

When the prophets are silenced and the tyrants are giants

And David sets his sights on Goliath and we finally gather

'Round