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so what are you waiting for? this whole world has gone nuts! I'm so sick of taking orders from pigs who think they own us! this lifestyle is infantile, it's time to act like grownups! Carpe Diem - Seize the moment!

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Carpe Diem

Ever since I learned to talk I’ve had to censor myself
And ever since I learned to walk I’ve had to deal with someone else
Telling me where to go, what to do, who to be
And I’m so sick of it, I’m just tryna be me
And I that know ya’ll can see through this facade
America is sicker then the marquise de sade
if they value individuals, it seems kinda odd
To make us sell our lives to survive, but their god
Is the dollar, straight up, and everybody knows it
they might not ever say it, but all their actions show it
’s all about the Benjamins, that’s why they sendin' in
our friends and our neighbors to die in a war again
but one of these day, we’re gonna stop ‘em
got the system in my sights, get my guns cockin
keep the people rockin, reclaimin the streets
bangin on the drums and stompin ya feet

So what are we waiting for?
It’s like this whole world has gone nuts
I’m sick of taking orders, from pigs who think they own us
This lifestyle is infantile, it's time to act like grownups
Cape Diem - stand up and seize the moment!

we’ve got limited options, unlimited potential
this is for rockin in your residential
it ain’t about college or getting credentials
it’s a mission and a mantra for power exponential
there's a couple hundred ruling class cats globally
with a system of control that extends to you and me
but if we could organize ‘n manifest unity
it wouldn’t bee so hard for us all to get free, see?
It’s just addition , subtraction, it ain’t complicated
we’re starving to death amid wealth that we created
everybody has the right to food clothes and shelter
nobody has the right to stand there and tell ya
you’ve got no choice but to die for their dollars
this should be obvious, you ain’t gotta be a scholar
to know something 's wrong with the way we’ve been livin'
and I’m sorry but some things just can’t be forgiven

it’s the questions we ask, the questions we forget,
and most of all the way that we forget to ask questions
standin here looking ‘round wondering why
and at the end of the day, I’m left guessin
there’s so many things I just can’t understand
like why intelligent people do such dumb --------
but I guess it all comes down to the bird in the hand
and the 2 in the bush that they think they gon’ get
so if you’re sick of taking orders jumpin through hoops
scrapin along, just tryna make a livin
and if you sick of getting flack for not supporting the troops
when all you wanna do is to get ‘em home living
then now is the time, like the good Dr. said,
for us to take a stand against this injustice
tryna speak from my heart, not just from my head
and my heart’s telling me the time has come to bust it

If one chance in a million is all we’ve got
Then that’s the one chance that we’ve got to take
Cuz there’s only so far you bend a man
before body and soul begin to break
we’re already at war, folks are already dyin’
I’d rather die for freedom then for a rich mans oil
And in the silence at night i can hear children cryin’
for the planet and the future that our greed has spoiled
We’re running out of time, and everyone knows it
the oil economy’s a tickin’ time bomb
meanwhile ya pave paradise & worship showbiz
Ya’ll really won’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone
And the devastation, of this american nation
won’t surprise anyone beyond these shores
it goes back to the line of Dixon - Mason
and the rapidly approaching civil war

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from Weapon of the Future, released December 31, 2006

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Beltaine's Fire is a 5-piece folk-rap juggernaut of revolutionary love & rage taking aim at the dark heart of Empire.

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