El-P - Arise lyrics

Here's a vision Imagine a whole globe made with precision Continents of brown soil with green gra** That compliments deep seas and trees with multi-colored leaves Mountain ranges that survive through the ages Plus show expressions of time on rock faces Now gaze up towards the glorious sky Only appreciated by a powerful eye As I understand, man is to cherish the land As we coexist hand in hand But as time has past Man has created a vast Ma** of trash that has the capability to smash Your natural desire to explore your state of being and Discover you fire For instance when a child is born It posseses no intelligence of hate or scorn But as it learns of hard ways It becomes tuned from its original nature As we destroy nature in the name of cash All justified by laws made by the legislature You never say *rekcufrehtom* cause that claim they aims to Seek justice but ain't it a shame That that isn't the case yo we all are so tame That we're all fair game Thats why they got our name Address social security number Even though where you bought your last rest Or mattress have you saying "Oh that's just the way things are" Then I explain that you're so far from your core You need to explore I wake up in the morning in war and saw And go look for more Weapons being prepared for nuclear war And then when I found some no this is to god, hit The ground son With strong winds to make the clouds run Step up in the laboratory Keep it mandatory Their response: Inflammatory Now their dome's all puffed up Cause they *kcuffed* up Give me the data chips I'll reverse gravity So mad they'll flip Show these *kcuffer's* the light The adequate side of the scene, natty dips Mankind should feel the effects As he rips through the environment Mash up the Earth's power as if It were required The whole things blowin a cold heart Stand as he asks where the fire went Trapped in an Ice age and while you're defrostin' I kick open the door and let some Holocaust in Then I remain sober in the galaxy Take the form of the sun So I can shine emphatically Then I shed light on the tragedy Step aside just to make way for remorse and apathy Then I perform something you can all see As I change the climate from cold to balmy As temperatures rise I squeeze acid water out of the skies To burn out your eyes Cause you could never see what I devise And get your five lives and nine tries But usually nobody survives cause I Elevated far above and beyond So you could be bombed, crushed to dust You can be harmed You can be armed with shanks and tanks Bayonettes, Missile Threats Yet I still launch lyrical text That gets so intense It could disa**emble all of those other meds So you should fear what the god invents Since I was sent under the name of Lif Which means to upLif It's my never ending duty to attempt to shift your mind From one train of thought to a more positive state So then in turn you can create Control your own fate Rather than having those with wealth dominate and complicate Living to the point where we're all imprisoned People we should all pick our minds Its's Time! Look at how the world is designed It's major We should all walk out of our manger And start to educate the nearest stranger Ignorance has no remainder I manifest, prophesize visions of danger With seven lines I show you seven signs Time's of the essence Choose before you lose your physical presence Perpetuate wickedness or walk along the path of god The force from which we were all created Stand amongst prosperity Or fall devestated Another victim of hatred In a land where nothing is sacred Except for these thoughts that I share With no fear - to make you all aware of the nightmare I see you puttin in a little work but we're not quite there Climb out of your darkness, the light is quite clear We're still to concerned with j**els and hype gear But I'mma drop my thoughts until you open your eyes...Arise It doesn't matter what your color creed race or size...Arise