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Rising Up

from Small Axe by Verbal Terrorists

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lyrics

Chorus
And as the world keeps turning round
People’s eyes stay closed
We work in dirt to earn our pound
But if the word is spread throughout
People’s eyes shall open
Ya smirks will turn to frowns
‘Cos we’re rising up

Verse 1 (Drop Dead Fred)
Time to wise up taking it back eye for eye stuff
Beat them pigs til they’re blue and they’re black
Cos the Union Jack is a flag we light up
Mr.B can boss the beat, me I just speak the prophecy
To me it’s obvious we don’t got no real democracy
Votes don’t count for shit it’s funny
The biggest power-the biggest money
Run by corporations the cross on the paper is pure symbolic
Our power is in the back pocket
Don’t buy shit and kill the demand for it
Use your imagination think of a life not living with brand products
That’s the way to make a change
All got to play in the game for greater days
Don’t be ‘sheeple’ buying shit you don’t need
And reading the Daily Mail
Some say you get sent to hell if you pick up a needle inject yourself
Some say that the poles are switching and we’re all gonna die by 2012
Some say that God looks over us Some say that there’s aliens over us
Some say that there’s chemicals in planes
That the government is spraying over us
Some say that the government run crack
Making money off the young uns that bun that
Some say that the towers and planes was a powerful fake
And the government done that

Chorus

Verse 2 (Nobull)
Attention please freeze, feel the tension ‘cos we’re sending
A message clear we fear intentions, of them henchmen
Resenting laws so we’re here to amend ‘em and the sentence
Is life for them shiest types getting sniped and I’d rather
Die for the cause than live my live as a fraud all that shite like
Nine to fives and driving a ford and with all them
holidays on some island abroad and it’s like they
Make a bomb from financing wars so we’re try to
Incite the hordes cos the timing is yours and it’s like the
Nine eleven intelligence evidence mebbes not the
President but the federals set it up and for me that’s
No question a fucking definite so you see that
Verbal Terrorists are heading this movement and we call for
An Improvement ‘cos rulers are useless and it’s like more
Squalid families are modern tragedies so the times up
4 This horrid fallacy in solidarity we’ll rise up

Chorus

Verse 3 (Drop Dead Fred)
That’s right we’re rising up your time is up I’m telling you
Gonna lock all the rich men down in chains and give all the beggars suits
Stand firm and rep the crew fight for the right to a better view
Got a detonator in hand to blow up the inland revenue
And we’re facing the target cannot get away from the target
Some of you relate to the target cos we’re all getting paid by the target
So it’s hard to achieve some say too far for your reach
Got ya money for your Guardian, G but remember there’s kids that are starving to eat
Need an international movement calling for a rational improvement
Put on bashments to prove that we can work as one and stay happy as a unit
Need to unmask this puppetry the real power is monetary
In a world-wide minimum wage that relates to your country’s currency
Rich companies are killing us paying for a hearse then billing us
The power to rebel is still in us need to do it for our children ‘cuz
We ain’t got much left mother-nature’s not gonna pardon
Chopping forests costs us breath but worse still it costs us carbon

Chorus (x2)

credits

from Small Axe, released August 9, 2008
Lyrics: Drop Dead Fred, Nobull
Production: Mr. Blazey

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Verbal Terrorists are a politically motivated hip hop group from Newcastle, UK. We are independent activists who seek to challenge the hegemonic culture and ideology through music and direct action!

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