Act III Scene II-Saul Williams

[ti:Act III Scene II] [ar:Saul Williams] [al:Saul Williams Live at Double Door 11/08/2004] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.22]Act III Scene II - Saul Williams [00:01.05]Written by：Zack De La Rocha/Saul Williams [00:01.77] [00:08.67]This is a call out to all the youth [00:10.34] [00:10.89]In the ghettos suburbs villages townships [00:13.77] [00:14.61]To all the kids who download this song for free [00:16.96]By any means [00:17.83]To all the kids short on loot but high on dreams [00:20.00]All the kids watching tv like yo I wish that was me [00:22.50]And all the kids pressing rewind on let's get free [00:25.12]I hear you [00:25.79] [00:28.36]To all the people within the sound of my voice [00:30.94] [00:31.90]Spit for the hated the reviled the unrefined [00:34.80]The no ones the nobodies the last in line shakespeare [00:37.78]Spit for the hated the reviled the unrefined [00:40.47]The no ones the nobodies the last in line [00:42.39]I didn't vote for this state of affairs [00:44.87]My emotional state got me prostrate fearing my fears [00:48.33]In all reality I'm under prepared [00:50.57]Cause I'm ready for war but not sure if I'm ready to care [00:54.17]And that's why I'm under prepared [00:56.35]Cause I'm ready to fight [00:57.70]But most fights got me fighting back tears [00:59.86]Cause the truth is really I'm scared [01:02.10]Not scared of the truth [01:03.45]But just scared of the length you'll go to fight it [01:06.01]I tried to hold my tongue son I tried to bite it [01:08.75]Not trying to start a riot or incite it [01:11.66]Cause brutus is an honorable man [01:13.44]It's just coincidence that oil men would wage war on an oil rich land [01:17.17]And this one goes out to my man [01:20.06]Taking cover in the trenches with a gun in his hand [01:22.87]Then gets home and no one flinches when he can't feed his fam [01:25.75]But brutus is an honorable man [01:27.69] [01:29.12]Spit for the hated the reviled the unrefined [01:31.62] [01:32.34]The no ones the nobodies the last in line shakespeare [01:35.11]Spit for the hated the reviled the unrefined [01:37.14] [01:37.94]The no ones the nobodies the last in line [01:40.16]If you have tears prepare to shed them now [01:42.45]For you share the guilt of blood spilt in accordance with the dow jones [01:46.45]Dow drops fresh crop skull and bone [01:48.59]A machete in the heady hutu tutsi leone [01:51.50]An afghani in a shanty doodle dandy yank on [01:54.44]An iraqi in gap khaki coca coma come on [01:57.22]Be ye bishop or pawn in the streets or the lawn [02:00.13]You should know that these example could go on and on and [02:03.34]What sense it make to keep your ears to the street [02:05.88]Long as oil's in the soil truth is never concrete [02:08.57]So we dare to represent those with the barest of feet [02:11.58]Cause the laws to which we're loyal keep the soil deplete [02:14.39]It's our job to not let history repeat [02:16.27]Spit for the hated the reviled the unrefined [02:19.15]The no ones the nobodies the last in line shakespeare [02:22.10]Spit for the hated the reviled the unrefined [02:25.07]The no ones the nobodies the last in line shakespeare [02:27.89]Spit for the hated the reviled the unrefined [02:30.20] [02:30.72]The no ones the nobodies the last in line shakespeare [02:33.83]Spit for the hated the reviled the unrefined [02:36.28]The no ones the nobodies the last in line [02:39.27] [02:48.57]So here's the plan [02:49.54]The ides of march are always at hand [02:51.71]And when the power hungry strike [02:52.92]They strike the poorest of man [02:54.45]And if you dare put up a fight [02:55.95]They'll come and fight for your land [02:57.40]And they'll call it liberation or salvation [02:59.78]A call to the youth [03:01.03]Your freedom ain't so free it's just loose [03:03.07]But the power of your voice can redirect any truth [03:05.43]Shift and shape the world you want and keep your fears in a noose [03:07.90]And let them dangle from a banner star spangled [03:10.45]I'm willing and able [03:11.68]To lift my dreams up out of their cradle [03:13.72]Nurse and nurture my ideals [03:15.05]Till they're much more than a fable [03:16.66]I can be all I can be and do much more than I'm paid to [03:19.47]And I won't be a slave to [03:20.90]What authorities say do [03:22.43]My desire to live within a nation on fire [03:25.19]Where creative passions burn and raise the stakes ever higher [03:28.35]Where no person is addicted to some twisted supplier [03:31.12]Who promotes the sort of freedom sold to the highest buyer [03:34.09]We demand a truth naturally at one with the land [03:37.06]Not a plant that photosynthesizes bombs on demand [03:39.98]Or a search for any weapon we let fall from our hands [03:42.49]I got beats and a plan I'mma do what I can [03:45.02]And what you do is question everything they say do [03:48.27]Every goal ideal or value they keep pushing on you [03:50.99]If they ask you to believe it question whether it's true [03:53.79]If they ask you to achieve is it for them or for you [03:56.33]You're the one they're asking to go carry a gun [03:58.57]Warfare ain't humanitarian you're scaring me son [04:01.09]Why not fight to feed the homeless jobless fight inflation [04:04.22]Why not fight for our own healthcare and our education [04:07.26]And instead invest in that erasable lead [04:09.86]Cause their twisted propaganda can't erase all the dead [04:12.61]And the pile of corpses pyramid on top of our heads [04:15.67]Or never mind said the shotgun to the head