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Sometimes you've just got to lay it down for folks who refuse to respect the people around them....

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Up against the wall

This is for the fools who wanna tell me how to live
All the haters and the tools who’ll take what I’ve got to give
But give me nothing back, I got to tell it like it is
I’m slow to take offense ya’ll, but I don’t forgive
& once you get on my list, you’re not getting off it
so ya better not forget this, don’t care what you call it
it’s really simple son, don’t be a simpleton
I’ll turn the cheek once, after that my sympathy is done
And once the line is crossed you can keep your apologies
your shoulda coulda woulda's, mighta beens and your wanna be’s
don’t you go callin me or sending me no emails
stay out my life, I shouldn’t have to give you details
stay out my neighborhood, stay out my way
I don’t need your hostility, all I got to say
Can be summed up succinctly with one simple sentence
Mind you’re own business, you don’t want my vengeance

this is for the haters and the fakers and the phonies
Passive aggressive people and fools in it for the money
This is all I’ve got to say to each one of ya’ll
either get out the way or get up against the wall

This is for the taxman, leechin off my paycheck
My fat ol' boss demandin a payback
Every chain store that’s charging high prices
Usin slave labor right now as I write this
This is for the landlord, taking all my cash
Never works at all- he's just kickin back
got a management company doing all the work
Just another fat parasite, acting like a jerk
Completely typical bourgeoisie
Claims he works so hard, all he’s got he took from me
And I just can’t be who ya’ll telling me to be
at the end of the day, all I wanna be is me
And I’m tryna be free, like a caged bird singing
All I see is bars but in my mind ya’ll I’m winging
Singin this brand new but very old song
wondering why change has gotta take so long

it’s a global system, with global victims
That’s why the fight to end it is a global mission
They call it globalism or globalization
it’s the same old story in every nation
People who never really work get paid
While the people who do all the work get caged
wanna know how the wealth of the world got made?
It was built on the backs of serfs and slaves
And I’m sick of taking orders, sick of sellin my life
Sick of always livin up under the knife
Wonerin how I’m gonna pay my bills
And it’s not just me, this whole system is ill
we got 8 billion people livin on this planet
a couple hundred runnin things, ‘n that’s how they planned it
this ain’t no accident, it’s not just fate
so ya’ll better stand up ‘fore it’s too late

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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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