Empires Fall
Lyrics and Vocals by Emcee Lynx
Instrumental by Jay Peepz of the Live Oak Crew

In this treacherous system the media manipulates
Spreadin misinformation, through all 50 states
Innovate past hate, kick back contemplate
metal minds manufacture a fractured debate
see my enemies’ enemy Is still my enemy
But fools blunt their own vision television Hennessey
can’t see what’s comin, too lost in the spectacle
But a child is more then a bullets receptacle
While we’re “nonviolent” in the streets screaming peace
Bush is bombing babies throughout the middle east
Soon as Sadaam is gone they’ll prop up another puppet
Put the game on repeat, no protest could stop it
time to take it to the next level Up the ante
Watchin Powel and Rice is like Amos and Andy
Money Bleaches but poverty stains
poor black, white, brown all wear the same chains
it’s the rich worldwide holding the reins
and they networked together like a massive mainframe
I’m finna pull the plug Build an army out of “thugs”
Run up on ‘em in the night and light this shit up
Cuz the great are only great, cuz we’re on our knees
and when we stand up, the whole world’ll freeze!

empires fall when the people rise up
how many folks gotta die before we wise up?
getting burned we gotta learn to stand the fuck up
The whole worlds gonna change, soon as we stand up!
Now everybody in the audience put ya fists up
If your ready to make a change and fuck the system up
All a ya’ll against the wall, you better raise it up
Lightin fires in your mind, that’s how we blaze it up

200 billion dollars spent on a war for oil
uranium bullets poison water and soil
killin’ everything that moves in the whole vicinity
tryna impose freedom, like fucking for virginity
to the people of Iraq, invasion ain’t liberty
it’s just another attack on their sovereignty
and self determination, like native reservations
sellin’ off the wealth to these giant corporations
while the world looks on, there’s a slaughter in the making
the rich get richer and the poor face starvation
we facin’ a choice, a line in the sand
between a world revolution or war without end
see, the profit system’s built on endless expansion
they got a finger on the button, holdin’ us ransom
and anyone who dares to speak out’ll get beat down
so we’re livin’ in cages, like dogs in the dogpound
but I’m not down, to live my life on pause
so I attack on the track, w/ sound-bites like jaws
I spit electricity at your brainstem
Got “a modest proposal” I wrote with the same pen
Fuck nations, it's time to change and rearrange them
and bring self-determination from Iraq to Ireland

Empires fall…

First step, we abolish nation-states
Second step – organize to create
Third step, we rebuild the infrastructure
Replace skyscrapers with permaculture
Sustainable homes made from the straw-bale
Makin’ homes for the homeless as we impale
The heads of politicians on spikes on city gates
‘cuz the people have the power now, and it relates
to the powerlessness that we’ve felt in the past
open up the prisons with dynamite blasts
CEO’s get beat down, and executed
In retribution for the world they polluted
Recycle the cars, tear up the roads
Set up trains and streetcars to carry our loads
Bring democracy into the workplace
Syndicate it democratic in order to erase
the positions of power, privilege, and oppression
'cuz freedom is more then the right to ask questions
It’s physical, emotional, sexual, spiritual
expressed differently by every individual
it's not defined by your clothes or what’s in your purse
I use the second amendment, when they take away the first

Empires fall….