SET LIST TEN (10)
1 History To Me
…………….103
2 Pushing the
Button
3 Heresy Speaks No
Evil……….105
4
Obamafication………….107
5 Shadow
Boxing……………..108
6 Picture Something
Nice
7 Call It
Fate……………..109
8 Pardon
Me………...110
9
Birthright………………....113
10 Shades
11 Intellectual
Property……….114
12 Another History
Lesson………...115
HISTORY
TO ME
I
remember when Ice Cube and T were black
And
rapped...now they act...like crap...
I
remember when The Rock he cooked
And
then he'd call us all funny names
Eye
brow raised with that funny look...
Now
he acts...like crap… it’s a fact…
Everything
is coming back
But
changed...
They're
calling it the same name
But
it's... strange
I
remember when it was cool to say hello
To
somebody new I didn't know
Now
they're all plugged in to their phones
Which
is plugged in where? They don't know...
They
don't care.
I
say hello.
They
don't say hello.
So
I stare...
Uh
Oh...
I
need more than a good chiropractor
To
fix this fractured broken soul
I
need more than skilled psychiatrists
To
bandage up these mentally slit wrists
And
net all these knotted thoughts
I
watch spin and twist out of my control
So
look out… all up, down and around
Both
near and far,
hey
you up there,
look
out below!
Everything
is coming back
But
changed...
They're
calling it the same name
But
it's... strange
I’m
seeing so many faces playing charades
Believing
they’ve found
a
new game in a new age…
Hahaha…
It’s just history to me…
Written
on a fresh page
PUSHING
THE BUTTON
History
won't repeat this
so
I'm gonna say it with a fist
Scratch
my name off the list…
Somebody's
gotta resist
Such
actions without thinking
is
like an alcoholic drinking
One
slip is all it takes
to
start the snowball rolling
and
then it's too late
And
when there's an avalanche below
You'll
be the one who's
covered
by the snow
Covered
from head to toe
They
keep you in suspense
while
hiding behind their fence
And
in the same sense
there
is just no defense
When
all it takes is a fool like you
To
push the button and we're all through
The
whole world's future
and
the whole world's past
One
flick of the wrist
and
it's gone in a flash
With
one press of the button
Were
here and then gone all of a sudden
F&%$#*g
'A' is what I say
I
stopped caring
about
getting blown away
You
can hide under desks
You
can hide behind chairs
But
there's nowhere to run
When
the sirens blare
When
video games turn into real life
You
say goodbye to your children
And
then goodbye to your wife
And
don't forget to pet
Your
dog as well
Right
before all of us
Get
blown to hell
HERESY
SPEAKS NO EVIL
Government
sponsored torture
is
kind of hard to ignore
Especially
when you're held prisoner
of
a misguided war
Lobbyists
sit with
wads
of cash in their fists
For
any politicians who
find
it too hard to resist
Seems
that tax cuts
for
corporations
and
also the rich
Is
the only way to build
true
bipartisanship
For
our money system
The
Fed is privately owned
Backed
by paper not gold
And
everyday us indebt
wage
slaves are sold
When
you're afraid of
not
being afraid
The
"terrorists" win
Their
best weapon is fear
They
watch our civil liberties
become
stripped away so fast
through
the most unpatriotic of acts
Soon
we won't be able to
speak,
see or hear
If
this is the state of the union
I
think a state of emergency
should
be declared
On
second thought...
that's
not such a great idea
And
I haven't even
gotten
to distribution of wealth
Inflation,
funding for education
or
health care
Why
are so many more
concerned
with the
theft
of their identity
Than
the loss of free will,
dignity
and humanity
When
you lack
any
great substance
I
guess you dress to impress
And
fill yourself with vanity
This
misinformation generation
eats
up whatever they feed ya
Be
it Mickey D's, MTV,
shows
based on "reality"
Yum
Yum...
spoon
fed by a controlled media
We're
infatuated by celebrities
and
American Idols
Fox
News, LeBron's shoes,
natural
disasters
and
let us not forget...
the
crazy homicidal
If
this is the state of the union
I
think a state of emergency
should
be declared
On
second thought...
that's
not such a great idea
And
I haven't even
gotten
to distribution of wealth
Inflation,
funding for education
or
health care
I
am growing tired
of
this throw away
disposable
consumer society
Why
are those who say
our
globe isn't warming
Still
trying to lie to me?
Using
up energy sources
that
will not be soon replaced
Did
you know that plastic
is
gonna be the fossil
of
the entire human race?
Our
seas are overfished
and
rainforests destroyed
Why?
So men can make money
Mother
Nature gets lucky when
people
are unemployed
If
this is the state of the union
I
think a state of emergency
should
be declared
On
second thought...
that's
not such a great idea
And
I haven't even
gotten
to distribution of wealth
Inflation,
funding for education
or
health care
Time
to step off my soapbox
And
walk down the road yonder
But
before I go
two
final questions to ponder:
Might
seven billion people
be
considered overpopulation?
How
can we have
all-you-can-eat
buffets
AND
sufferers of starvation?
OBAMAFICATION
America
wants change
Not
the rhetoric of change:
Yes
we can
But
we didn't
See
sometimes
The
truth is hidden
Sure
some words
Were
surely spoken
The
needle's stuck
Record
is broken
Yes
we can...
Yes
we can...
Yes
we can...
The
rhetoric
Just
keeps getting repeated
Information
Guess
we don't need it
Pick
a war hero
Or
a good neighbor
Suffer
sooner or
Suffer
later
Yes
we can...
Yes
we can...
Yes
we can…
SHADOW
BOXING
Maids
in the morning sweeping up broken glass
Long
lost dreams of a shattered past
As
a cup full of life is spilled to the floor
A
man who once had riches now lives poor
Walking
down the spiral staircase that is my mind
Passing
all the memories that I've left behind
See
the same things enough soon you'll grow blind
Be
careful of what doors you open and what you will find
Some
patterns are so hard to break they end up breaking you
Anyone
who's ever worn these shoes knows this is true
See
enough dope and you're bound to give it a try
See
murders every day and pretty soon you won't cry
There's
blood on the sidewalk
The
scent of death in the air
Yet
you stroll right past
While
others stop and stare
Some
men live long and some die young
Some
carry heavy burdens, some carry none
When
you're shadow boxing you sometimes bruise
When
you fight yourself sometimes you lose
PICTURE
SOMETHING NICE
Homeless
mand in the alley
He's
paying his dues
While
he was sleeping
The
children took his shoes
When
he wakes up
He
looks so confused
His
pride is hurt
What's
left of his ego is bruised
Yeah,
every hour
of
every day
The
faces change
But
the story's the same
You
live it, you breathe it
You
hear it, you see it
You
learn to accept it
And
soon you expect it
Just
as the sun rises
Just
as the moon shines bright
There's
no need to worry
You're
doing all right
Don't
pay attention
Just
walk on by
Picture
something nice
Don't
you bat an eye
It's
not your problem
Someone
else will solve it
It's
not your problem
Someone
else will fix it
You
just leave the worrying to me
I'll
worry about the way thing ought to be
It's
not your problem
So
go on and make your exit
You
think that you're perfect?
In
everything you say
In
everything you do
Some
say what you don't know
Cannot
hurt you
And
you believe it to be true
Oh,
but the price you will pay
You
will find out some day
That
day maybe today
Or
could still be far away
So
you better keep on your toes
Because
there is something
That
everybody knows
Inside
there's a monster that grows
Beneath
your pretty clothes
A
vanity affair
But
there is no one else there
You're
only cheating yourself
A
vanity affair
Either
make amends
Or
keep playing pretend
You're
only cheating yourself
When
you think you win
Then
you really lose
So
either apply some more makeup
Or
think of changing your shoes
A
vanity affair
You're
not just cheating yourself
You're
dragging down
Everybody
else
CALL
IT FATE
Birds
circle around your home
Say
it one more time...
Why
won't they leave you alone?
They
flap their wings from side to side
But
from Mother Nature no man can hide
Being
punished for crimes --
Well,
that may be
For
crimes against humanity
Just
when you thought
There
was no one to see
Now
you look at your life
And
who is to blame?
You
can call it fate
You
can call it a shame
As
your family boasts:
"You're
in the prime of your life"
You
go under the doctor's knife
For
cancer has no name or face
Unfortunately
for you it's too late
Enter
the hospital a dying life
Exit
the church a crying wife
Now
you look at your death
Pondering
who is to blame?
You
can call it fate
You
can call it a shame
In
the next room of the hospital
Is
a mother's joy
The
prize of a life - a baby boy
The
parents counted the fingers
Then
the parents counted the toes
But
what's in the soul nobody really knows
Food,
love and shelter - baby got his fill
So
no one knows why he grew to kill
You
can look at their deaths
And
who they blame
You
can call it fate
You
can call it a shame
A
man dresses in the mirror
As
he flashes a smile
In
a two-thousand dollar suit
He'll
wear at the trial
He
asks the judge to cut his client a break
Starts
preaching about
How
we all make mistakes
The
judge, on these words, reduces bail
Keeps
a guilty man away from jail
His
freedom is gained but what's been lost?
Will
he do it again?
They
keep their fingers crossed
PARDON
ME
I
just got a pardon from the president
Because
I did not admit
to
what I knew they'd submit as evidence
And
I just made a friend
who
will do what it takes
And
be there to the end
or
at least until he fixes mistakes
I
think we may have just set a new precedence
Since
it is so clearly evident
That
politics is no place for benevolence
When
we can't trust the president
That
means we can't trust the government
Who
often sells out its residents
Giveth
and taketh on false precedents
Since
some just take whatever they need
With
greed...what's important is the numbers on
Not
the names of dead presidents
I
have come to believe
Not
everyone is entitled to be free
Because
a handful of money is all you need
To
put people in your pocket to guarantee
That
when trouble comes it'll let you be
When
you buy a judge
You
can throw out the jury
The
system's become corrupt
Manipulated
through misdeeds
Someone
should do something
'Cause
there's a document I've seen
Saying
they're vetting Ann Coulter and Satan
To
run together in 2016
Just
remember that
Every
candidate has a rhyme
Around
election time
Saying
we'll do just fine
If
you wave this sign
Standing
on a pedestal
Waving
a fake gold medal
Just
rubbing on their crystal ball
Saying
they've been here and there
They've
seen and done it all
Only
after the choice has been made
And
you've dealt them the ace of spades
While
thinking that politics isn't a game
And
you haven't been played
But
finally after all
the
promises have been made
You
found that the scale of honesty
Has
never been weighed
As
they've forgotten all that they've said
Speaking
this while doing that
They
placed one foot on the platform
And
then they fell flat
The
train they boarded straight to the top
The
engine failed; the track got derailed
And
when the conductor was jailed
The
bail they collected was never mailed
Yet
every opinion they stated
Was
quoted as fact
Saying
that proof was in the eye
And
they said it with such tact
Even
though no
Evidence
ever backed
But
numbers can lie
Once
you've developed the knack
So
everyone signed on the dotted line
Without
ever reading the pact
And
now you're complaining
About
paying so high a tax
Once
you sign a deal with the Devil
There's
no turning back
However,
there's a new path unpaved
So
it's up to me and you
We've
been taught to
follow
the leader
Sadly,
it's true
It
can't be that way anymore
Time
for us to settle the score
Start
pushing the stale old values aside
No
more can we run and hide
The
government that rules us
practically
everyone is a liar
Words
catching on
And
now it's spreading like a fire
They've
talked and talked
Talk,
talk, talk 'til they're blue in the face
Just
follow me and I'll show you the way
Going
to Washington D.C.
Time
to see the true enemy
But
beware...for their twisting tongues
will
tell you it's me
Don't
listen to them if you want to be free
Join
us - every color and race
Speed
up! - We've got to quicken the pace
Million
man march - huh - multiply that by ten
History,
we're going through it again
Do
it for the homeless you meet
Do
it for the children on the street
Think
about the hungry, the ill, and the sick
We'll
dismantle the system brick by brick
Tell
it straight and don't beat around the Bush
We
tried to pull now it's time to push
It's
nine for them and one for us
It's
their turn to sit on the back of the bus
The
politicians look us right in the eyes
While
their words are full of lies
So
it should come as no surprise
What
happens to them after they die
They
care not for us only I
They
tell me, "Well, just because..."
When
I ask why
They
say, "They learned it from their peers...
That
true honesty has disappeared."
So
true has come our biggest fears
There's
no one left who really cares
I'm
going to give each one a mirror
So
they can see what we see
Then
I'm going to run for president
So
I can show what's evident
I
will answer questions truthfully
And
you can think what you want of me
I'll
hide behind no mask at all
Not
forced to sit I will stand tall...
I'll
be myself and wear no veil
With
my left hand on the bible:
"I
smoked pot and I inhaled!"
BIRTHRIGHT
I
had a glass of wine and I felt fine
Yeah,
so I had a couple more…
I
went out looking for a good time
Like
Marco Polo – I wanted to explore…
Had
no idea what it would bring
Maybe
something great
or
perhaps nothing…
The
only difference
between
the pauper and the king
Is
just birthright
and
the size of the diamond ring…
Change
the substance not the shadow
Or
else you’ll find that change is hollow
Let
the light in open the window
Lead
the people and they will follow
What
do I do…
If
not this?
What
do I share?
If
not this gift?
What’s
the best present
To
give to our kids?
I
say a future world
Left
better than when we
First
came into it?
But
leading by example
Is
the hardest thing to do
To
reserve and hold your judgment
Until
you walk one day without shoes
Singing
the song of someone else
Well,
it only goes to prove
That
one man’s country song
Can
be another man’s blues
What
do I do if not this?
I
could go back to being a hypocrite
Hello
dear…(fake smile)
Hi
my love…(kiss, kiss)
Change
the substance not the shadow
Or
else you’ll find that change is hollow
Let
the light in open the window
Lead
the people and they will follow
Here’s
something those of you
With
two jobs already know
This
bitter pill has become
Too
hard to swallow
Healthcare’s
gone for good
And
Social Security will follow
They
want you to pay for today
So
they can own you tomorrow
Overworked
and underpaid
Slowly
dying from minimum wage
Swimming
in debt
as
the cost of living
It
rises over your head…
so
you try to forget…
But
I won’t let you forget:
Change
the substance not the shadow
Or
else you’ll find that change is hollow
Let
the light in open the window
Lead
the people and they will follow
SHADES
What
color are your eyes?
To
me that’s as important
As
the color of your skin
About
this I am quite certain
What
color are you inside?
That’s
what really matters
What
we can see outside
Are
just shades and spatters
Shades
from mighty bright white
To
midnight black or blacker
To
me it’s a mitigated factor
Much
like the clothes of a good actor
For
it’s just a tiny fraction of the whole
Something
that’s beyond all of our control
Gives
no insight to the depths of the soul
Might
show where we’re from -
But
not where we’re gonna go…
INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY
Graffiti
scribbled on the side of a building
Obscenities
aimed at the passing children
Yet
these simple words can have
Such
a complicated effect
On
an empty vessel of thought
Dependent
on a world filled with neglect
With
the wind picking up
There's
trash blowing all over the ground
There's
three guys under 'neath a bridge
Passing
the bottle around
I
see weeds sprawling across the sidewalk
Crawling
up through the cracks
I
watch a kid on his way home to a broken home
Walking
alone along the tracks
Things
are heading south
No
matter which way you face
What
is bitter to your eyes
Can
give your mouth a bad taste
Seems
that everywhere I look
There's
something that hurts my eyes
They
say another day, another dollar,
Which
each new day comes a new surprise
It's
not just the inner city
Where
things are getting worse
When
the intellectual property of so many
Needs
to be torn down or reinforced
ANOTHER
HISTORY LESSON
So
just what do you want from me?
Another
bloody lesson on history?
I
am but one man can't you see
Will
there be anyone behind me
When
I finally make my stand?
Could
I see a show of hands?
For
I've grown sick and tired
Of
laying way back in the cut
When
your conscience burns with fire
You
reach a point where enough's enough
No
more playing follow the leader
I
just fell off of the societal ladder
History
is cyclical and I'm a big reader
Many
say I'm madder than the mad hatter
But
to me those vicious
Tongues
only flatter
Only
what my people say
That's
all that really matters
I
try to make a difference everyday
Don't
let my ego go run off and play
For
it may come home
Broken
and shattered
I
dress myself in rags and tatters
For
people see me
More
clearly this way
It's
a small price to pay
To
help keep the monsters at bay
For
there's very little that I need
To
be free of jealousy and conceit
Just
my one true love
And
our little ones at our feet
Then
I'd sleep well
Knowing
I've made a difference
At
least to most
Of
the people I meet
That's
my definition of winning
Living
in a box
Saying
everything sucks
Now
to me that's sinning
Such
unfulfillment
Would
be my defeat
A
human retreat
Having
to start all over again
At
the beginning
