I post lyrics to stuff that I'm working on every so often....here's something I started writing on Sunday. Definitely still a work in progress--the verses aren't even the same length yet--but I figured I'd post it....
This won't exactly be a rap, more like very fast spoken word, around 160 bpm....it might take me a while to record it but as soon as I do I'll figure out a way to put an mp3 online....
THREE FURIES
remember! remember! the 11th of September
the innocents dismembered city blocks in embers
the nakedness of emperor the scarlet flames and cinders
burning saints and burning sinners smouldering on thru the winter
dissenters! dissenters! cast in silence bitter
"NOUS SOMMES TOUS AMERICAINS"....but they flushed that down the shitter
terrified by terror roll out the reign of error
the lies could not be barer the truth is so much rarer
flail about for enemies you'll find them everywhere
toss aside legalities and just say everything is fair
a desperate call for allies dragoon Tony Blair
move all of heaven and earth as if the Reds never gave us a Scare
the stolen election the panicky misdirection
making false connections spinning pure confection
not possessing diction spouting constant fiction
surrounded by criminals destined for conviction
oh how i weep for my country
oh how i weep for my species
the Taliban the Taliban we routed the zealots of the Taliban
but before we had Osama we forgot all about Afghanistan
there wouldn't be war in Kurdistan if we'd just taken the bird in hand
instead we're fighting for our lives in blazing foreign lands
the Axis of Evil was propaganda concocted by people
who profit by this upheaval and their excuses are pretty feeble
faux-militants and revenants and sycophants and elephants
fantasists and fascists smear American pacifists
i'm sick of it and i clench my fist but i admit i feel pretty powerless
in the face of this monopolist media's determined arrogance
the politicians whine and belch nonsense unendangered by an audience
handpicked to prevent any misfits from giving the dirigibles pinpricks
FOX broadcasts war porn for masturbating armchair warriors
meanwhile Iraq burns and that asshole's on the carrier
he gets reelected and i can't imagine what could possibly be any scarier
i'm watching and i'm waiting for America to man the barriers
so we sent a gift to Iraq from the mighty US of A
tons and tons of gifts in fact to blow them all away
the geniuses scratch their heads unable or unwilling to understand
why cruise missile diplomacy would be resisted to the end
we tortured them at Abu Ghraib we filled our own mass graves
we've got Frankie Graham running around yelling that Jesus Saves
Saddam installed by CIA 41 betrayed rebels post-Kuwait
and it's about time for 43 to answer for his crimes in the fucking Hague
oh how i weep for my country
oh how i weep for my species
Katrina! Katrina! remember savage Katrina
the devil's vacuum cleaner bested the uselessness of FEMA
negligence and arrogance made all the roofs turn bluer
but the stench of what came next came straight from the John Birch sewer
rampant breathless tales of the depravity of armies of looters
the Superdome was a good joke if you're into that kind of humor
later we find out the stories were mostly foggy rumor
but it gave us a pretty good view inside America's racist tumor
the waters the waters how many lost in rising waters?
C-Plus Nero strummed a guitar as his people were slaughtered
cut short a vacation to exploit a braindead victim
but he'll leave 200,000 poor people to sink or swim
kanye states the obvious and now he's controversial?
the elephants acted like the first two verses were campaign commercials
but you can't find the grandstanders out there in Louisiana
certainly no libertarians and no think-tank Pollyannas
can't find LA National Guard there either
they've been in the desert long enough i think they deserve a breather
the Netherlands spent 8 billion to protect their 8 million
mighty America can't do the same to guard their own civilians
all these countless families thru indifference left hurtin
so they gave all the cleanup contracts away to fuckin Halliburton
rebuilding the Gulf's more important than rebuilding the Sandbox
so why should those shameless frauds get the keys to Fort Knox?
a year later this city still remains an open sore
all those homeowners fleeced--remind me what's insurance for?
the survivors surviving from ruined wasted stores
but the Feds didn't care cause it wasn't part of the new world war
the master of disaster slinging bullshit ever faster
his forked-tongue know-nothing lackeys assigned by central caster
my fury is righteous it's shaking the plaster
i bet mother nature's got more in store i wouldn't put it past her
i tremble and quiver the world must be delivered
from spiteful thugs who'd sell their own mother down the river
compared to the outraged they are outnumbered and weak
the only reason cowards remain in power is cause you refuse to speak
oh how i weep for my country
oh how i weep for my species
you think you can keep running up our tab
but those ain't your kids coming back home in a bag
just because you are surrounded by snipers
it don't mean you can just stiff the piper....