Open Your Eyes

We're here because of you

We're here because you were there

We've arrived from every corner of the planet to this

nation

To seek the fullfilment of a promise of America

We were promised a better life in our home countries,

where we were told that privatizing water and

electricity will make things run more efficiently

Instead the quality remained almost the same and the

price was increased until it became an unaffordable

luxury

Some corporations are more efficient than government,

but their motivation is not the health or the well

being of the people,

it's only about profit, everything else, their image,

their human resources,

their public relations, only exist to protect the

reality behind it

Once upon a time,

we were told that nationalization would prevent growthy

by limiting competition,

that our countries were nothing without the companies

that invested in us and so they privatized everything,

everything in our country was owned by people that had

no connection to our culture,

by those who never had our interests at heart,

they didn't care about our survival or well being,

they just wanted to turn a profit by raping our land,

by exploiting our people, our industry and our

resources

They took everything we built and made it theirs,

first by creating racism to justfiy slavery,

building the capital for capitalism and then when they

gave us what they call liberty,

everything we had was still owned by them,

our governments told us that socialism was the real

enemy and that we would have freedom,

but the foreign powers and corporations were the ones

with the real freedom

The freedom to take all the wealth generated by our

work and our land and give us only a small percentage

of the scraps from the table

Their lust for power and their greed drove them to

betray not only us but themselves and the word of their

own God

(Open your eyes before you die)

And while some used missionaries and donations to off

set this abuse,

other countries and companies were blatant with their

crimes, using war,

disease and sanctions that killed millions,

they supported corrupt governments that were almost

like the old slave masters in their oppression of the

people,

because their loyalty was to those who enable them,

installed them and kept them in power,

they became the bastard children of American industry,

kleptocracy, government's of thievery,

they protected the corporations and went to war against

their own people to preserve those profits

The puppet rulers were given billions of US tax dollars

to fund civil wars, right wing death squads,

execute political dissidence,

sympathetic clergy and even overthrow democratically

elected governments and so the age of revolution began

again,

they painted it as godless terrorists versus the free

world and the free market

But the free market has never been free,

because the market does not regulate itself,

it is manipulated like a puppet and it survives because

of its image,

destroy the image and the enemy will die

Such is the same in the rap industry,

where the major label super powers treat the

underground like the 3rd world,

when they need new assets, new artists to prostitute or

sign and put on a shelf to use their songs

When they needed new concepts,

music and publishing to steal from the producers,

they came to the underground, to the 3rd world,

they took our culture, our property and our industry

and our resources,

even using our own people to help them exploit us

But behind the mask of efficiency,

they claimed that we need to succeed, they're no better

than us,

their economic advertising was always a lie,

a few got rich but most were given an illusion of

wealth,

almost as if it was designed for failure

Opportunity comes at the price of soul and the music,

so remember what they are underneath the fancy

architecture,

glittering rented jewelry, the cars, the IMF loans, the

seeds with suicide genes, 20 year contracts and oil

blood money

Build your defenses my independent brothers and

sisters,

they'll stop at nothing to get what they want, they

paint the 3rd world, underground,

as savage and backward, but the super powers are no

less corrupt,

they've just learned to disguise it better, cause they

fix elections too,

they embezzle tax money, they go to war for resources,

they fund terrorism for their own benefit,

and when there's enough at stake... history's taught us

that they'll even assassinate their own president.

(Open your eyes before you die x5)