Listen Up Rise Up

Listen Up Rise Up By Yahya Abdul Rahman - Sept 29, 2004 http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/listenup.htm Yo , listen up............. Now we have a bunch of fat-cats Wanting to kill all the poor blacks Possessing weapons of mass destruction Lecturing the world with their pontifical instructions ******** Poverty rampant everywhere No one around seems to care ******** Give the people a voice Give the people a choice ******** War criminals getting a Noble prize Poor people trying to get nutrition on left over curly fries ******** We don't want your racist pity Let's get down to the nitty gritty ******** WE WANT JOBS! ******** We wanna feed our families Have a little bit of security ******** Breathe a little clean air Does anyone reading this even care? ******** They talk about the horrors of terrorism How about the horrors brought about by capitalism? ******** Unfair wealth distribution Meaningless pieces of paper called a constitution ******** Entire nations being ethnically cleansed Kabala reading divas seeing the world through a rose coloured lens ******** We're tired of the hypocrisy We want real grassroots democracy ******** Go ahead and plant you injustice seeds Go ahead and commit your dirty deeds ******** We'd rather die on our feet than live on our knees We want a good life and not collectively bleed ******** You might not like the colour of our face You might not like the content of our faith ******** Well tough We've had enough ******** Go ahead and fabricate history Go ahead and spread your misery ******** If you squeeze a cat you're gonna get scratched If you oppress us we're gonna fight back ******** We're not the ones with guns in our hands We're not the ones who drew artificial lines in the sand ******** A nation has nothing to do with geography A nation is all about identity ******** We know who we are, but do you know what you have become? Treating the rest of the world like a piece of scum ******** Just remember that you reap what you sow And we will rise up and won't take it anymor