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Reality Lies

from No Rush by Beatspoke

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Reality Lies

We are feeding and breeding the weak, people
Look at the equation
Look for one moment at our placation
Less work +
More convenience =
Comfort and happiness
Is this your sole credence?

People like rats
running for the scraps of cheese
that the white coats
told them would please
the walls figments of imagined dreams
inbreeding by years
of trickle-up greed
we´re in a daze where marketing
has become the art
of hypnotizing our needs
Magazines telling me
To be beautiful and sheek
Buy expensive clothes
And perfumes that wreak
Of something not me

Make up made up of dead lard
Scarves made by fingerless children in barns
Telling people they need to carve carve carve
Their faces until they have the right
Look! A crooked nose won´t get you anywhere
Clean up your wear and tear
Get with the programme and give up your care

Nothing´s going on out there

How can we save the world
When we´re too busy with me me me
We´ve been tamed to be deaf, blind, numb and greedy

How can we save a world
Where media machines sell beautiful scenes
When reality lies in poverty and grief

Buy products
All American
All sweatshops
death shops for children
exploited mothers and fathers
for 15 cents an hour
it comes down to manslaughter
complete with benefit of wounds
and starvation turned sour

making you on-time
and dressed to impress
for who wants to be a millionaire hour

Wake up!
America = genocide + abuse of power
Convicted in a world court
For crimes against humanity
For dirty funny money
Naw it ain´t your fault honey

Cause who cares what´s going on
Outside of my Brita-sweet laziness
When I´ve got 700 styles of teas
Tubes of whipping cream
Airconditioning and gas heat
20 different types of hormone pumped meat
slick digital ovens that self clean
battery powered shit to brush my teeth
complicated manuals on something I don’t need
and silk screened t-shirts of the American dream

How can we save the world
When we´re too busy with me me me
We´ve been tamed to be deaf, blind, numb and greedy

How can we save a world
Where media machines sell beautiful scenes
When reality lies in poverty and grief

The mentally ill made to sleep on the streets
The sick and alone made to bust their own keep
Let fall through the cracks in the land of the free
While lobbyists cry fortune 500 needs

Little girls starving to be Cosmo queens
Can´t get an education if you´re not pedigree
Daddy´s on death row cause justice is disease
Our pensions fighting wars in the middle east

Standard of living built on credit cards
People only voting for Big Brother stars
Nature´s only something in my back yard
While cultures die-out tryin´to be like ours

How can we save the world
When we´re too busy with me me me
We´ve been tamed to be deaf blind numb and greedy

How can we save a world
Where media machines sell beautiful scenes
When reality lies in poverty and grief

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from No Rush, released April 1, 2010

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Progressive, aggressive, and with a strong message, fearlessly melding genres with unparalleled success, they are ones to watch.

Their album debut "No Rush" shook the New-Beats / Soul community with its original voice, no-compromise attitude, and skill with which they struck the perfect balance between edgy, contemporary sound design and nostalgic, elegant classic Soul aesthetics. ... more

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