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Be The Individual

from MusicaDiction by Renaissance The Poet

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Chorus

Rock the ship Rock the boat
Make it tip over
Break the mold they cast you in
& Shake off all the covers

Rock the ship Rock the boat
Make it tip over
& be the individual
To weather troubled waters

Verse 1

Etched in stone like they know just who we are
Stuffed us in a box like we could not have evolved /
Threw a veil over eyes to be kept from seeing far
They wanna take away our rights but that'll start a war /
We gotta have our liberty and our right to persue
Any little bit of happiness when we are so moved /
Because of how pinched we are in this world of the new /
That even less than an inch would give up to us lots of room /
We're told when to be and how to be a human being
We're told how to walk, talk, act, dress, speak /
We may as well be jacked into a hive mind link
Cuz it seems that from birth we've been programmed how to think /
But he who dares to disconnect from the rhetoric of the system
Severs the only line left to us in this prison /
These telivision programs programin us by the billions
But who can beat the mathematic repetition...

Verse 2

Got us locked, got us punched, got us boxed in
Got a 9-5 and know that they be watchin /
Cuz those who got it how they want it don't want it to change
& will do anything they gotta do to keep it all the same /
Like they'll pay you just enough to keep you eatin from their hands
Like without an education you are not a man /
These companies take advantage of people in a plight
& you have to be available by morning day or night /
Yet dont give us the hours that we need to be alright /
& you can't have a second job they'll never match up right /
& God forbid you go to school you'll just be outa luck
Rackin up these crazy debts and screamin "WHAT THE !!!FUCK!!!" /
& yet you may just make it like so many of us do
only to find the walls of hell been rebuilt just for you /
But to step out of line so you can pick up the reigns
The vice of life will come upon never ending pains...

Verse 3

We built the system, all of us, even though we hate it
Been blindly going nowhere, just going for generations /
But so much changed in such a short amount of time
Can we maintain all the progress that we find /
We made economy the central nervous system spine
Now depend on it for the essence of our lives /
Not too many farmers left villages forgotten
Who can weave a basket or find water that's not rotten /
No more hunters foragers, we get it at the store
& We're buyin garbage cuz most of the world is pour /
We all know what happens when the money goes to hell
People die resort to crime, we're not livin well /
Stuffed into a box and made to fend for our own
Individuals are shunned for bein alone /
There's a cold paradox harbored in our midst
The likes of which is here because we have been remissed...

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from MusicaDiction, track released December 31, 2011

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