Open Your Eyes-Immortal Technique

[ti:Open Your Eyes] [ar:Immortal Technique] [al:The 3rd World] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.83]Open your eyes before you die （WAKE UP ） [00:06.51] [00:07.64]Open your eyes before you die （We're here because of you） [00:13.71]Open your eyes before you die （We're here because you were there） [00:19.26] [00:19.96]Open your eyes before you die [00:22.83] [00:23.40]We've arrived from every corner of the planet to this nation [00:26.14]To seek the fullfilment of a promise of America [00:29.76]We were promised a better life in our home countries [00:32.58]Where we were told that privatising water and electricity will make things run more efficiently [00:36.51]Instead the quality remained almost the same and the price was increased until it became an unaffordable luxury [00:43.46]Some corporations are more efficient than government [00:47.33]But their motivation is not the health or the well being of the people [00:51.64]It's only about profit everything else their image [00:54.21]Their human resources their public relations only exist to protect the reality behind it [00:59.77]Once upon a time we were told that nationalisation would prevent growthy by limiting competition [01:05.83]That our countries were nothing without the companies that invested in us and so they privatised everything [01:11.26]Everything in our country was owned by people that had no connection to our culture [01:16.71]By those who never had our interests at heart [01:19.40]They didn't care about our survival or well being [01:21.96]They just wanted to turn a profit by raping our land [01:24.71]By exploiting our people our industry and our resources [01:27.64]They took everything we built and made it theirs [01:30.83]First by creating racism to justfiy slavery [01:33.58]Building the capital for capitalism and then when they gave us what they call liberty [01:38.58]Everything we had was still owned by them [01:41.77]Our governments told us that socialism was the real enemy and that we would have freedom [01:47.14]But the foreign powers and corporations were the ones with real freedom [01:51.72]The freedom to take all the wealth generated by our work and our land [01:55.77]And give us only a small percentage of the scraps from the table [01:59.47]Their lust for power and their greed drove them to betray not only us [02:03.40]But themselves and the word of their own God [02:06.02]（Open your eyes before you die） [02:08.08] [02:08.83]And while some used missionaries and donations to off set this abuse [02:13.27]Other countries and companies were blatent with their crimes using war [02:16.64]Disease and sanctions that killed millions [02:19.52]They supported corrupt governments that were almost like the old slave masters in their opression of the people [02:25.77]Because their loyalty was to those who enable them [02:28.72]Enstored them and kept them in power [02:31.09]They became the bastard children of American industry [02:34.08]Kleptocracy government's of thievery [02:36.40] [02:36.90]They protected the corporations and went to war against their own people to preserve those profits [02:42.84]The puppet rulers were given billions of US tax dollars to fund cival wars [02:47.52]Right wing death squads execute political dissidents [02:50.64] [02:51.27]Sympathetic clergy and even overthrow democratically elected governments [02:55.02] [02:55.84]And so the age of revolution began again [02:59.02]They painted it as godless terrorist verus the free world and the market [03:03.22]But the free market has never been free [03:06.22]Because the market does not regulate itself [03:08.97]It is manipulated like a puppet and it survives because of its image [03:12.90]Destroy the image and the enemy will die [03:15.72]Such is the same in the rap industry [03:18.52]But the major label super powers treat the underground like the 3rd world [03:21.97]When they needed new assets new artists to prostitute or sing and put on the shelf to use their songs [03:27.90]When they needed new concepts music and publishing to steal from the producers [03:31.27]They came to the underground to the 3rd world [03:34.71]They took our culture our property and our industry and our resources [03:39.09]Even using our own people to help them exploit us [03:42.02]But behind the mask of efficieny they claimed that we need to succeed [03:45.96]They're no better than us they're economic advertising was always a lie [03:50.90]A few got rich but most were given an illusion of wealth almost as if it was designed for failure [03:56.40]Opportunity comes at the price of soul and the music [04:00.22]So remember what they are underneath the fancy architechture glittering rented jewellery the cars the IMF loans [04:06.52] [04:07.15]The seeds with suicide genes 20 year contracts and oil bloody money [04:11.65]Build your defences my independent brothers and sisters [04:16.65]They'll stop at nothing to get what they want [04:18.77]They paint the 3rd world underground as savage and backward [04:21.02]But the super powers are no less corrupt [04:23.65]They've just learned to disguise it better [04:26.09]Cause they fix elections too they embessle tax money [04:29.47]They go to war for resources they fund terrorism for their own benefit [04:33.52]And when there's enough at stake [04:35.84]History's taught us that they'll even assassinate their own president [04:39.47] [04:40.15]（Open your eyes before you die） [04:42.77] [04:44.15]（Open your eyes before you die）