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Supersized

walkin in the city an elaborate maze
Smoke filled sky above a concrete cage
Where we live like animals, waitin’ to die
Too afraid to look ‘round and just ask why
like cryin on the road to the slaughterhouse
These are the things that I think about
On the back of the bus, the back of a plane
I even crossed the ocean, but it was all the same
On the road writing poems like keroac
Wonderin how we can take it back
I spit fact and dreams, hopes and fears
Heir to the struggles of 4 thousand years
From pax Romano to pax Americana
A pox on both houses, I’m looking for nirvana
I don’t mean a mythical place without trouble
I mean heaven right here, that’s the point of the struggle

what? don’t go actin surprised
poor people die for the rich mans lies
and you can see it if you look in the politrix eyes
and here in America it’s all supersized
c’mon ya’ll, we’ve seen this before
every few years they start another war
invade another nation, bomb another home
make more excuses to crack down at home

‘n really I ain’t tryna make it seem too hard
Cuz you can see the sky even in prison yards
There’s always hope, there’s always a chance
It’s like people in wheelchairs learnin to dance
cuz nothins impossible, anything can happen
And really that’s the reason that I keep rappin
The cracks in the pavement where roses grow
Life won’t be denied, it just goes to show
That even freedom is possible
And we could step right over these obstacles
‘cuz YOU – can do anything
born without a voice, you can learn to sing
it’s like learning to walk learning to run
soon as ya learn to talk, the struggles begun
cuz we live on our knees, beggin for crumbs
and they keep us there at the point of a gun

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’s all about the big car, big house
fake tities, in the blouse
rip it open, shake ‘em out
so we forget what we were thinking ‘bout!
see sex saturates this society, period.
as Puritans use it to sell things, a myriad
of useless products, headin for the landfill
if we really wanted to we'd bring it to a standstill
we're in a war never doubt it, see it all the time
so let me put it simply, break it down in rhyme:
we got supersized lies sold through supersized ads
eating supersized burgers gets you supersized fast
in a supersized war to get supersized gas
for your supersized cars, ya’ll some supersized brats
it’s all about consumption, push it to the max
what we need is revolution, can you supersize that?

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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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