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50. Get Up Right Now

I really think the war on terror is a bunch of horse junk
that's why I'm takin politics and mixing it with space funk
we're all human family from Pittsburgh to Pakistan
a drone attack is SO whack that should be plain as day m'man
and I'm sick of the war machine and sick of all the wars
sick of seeing youth sent back to do another tour
sick of private prisons, and violent police
who should pay for these abominations, dude don't look at me
because brother I ain't GOT a dirty dime that you can borrow
You think life's unfair today? Wait'll'ya see tommorow
It's really feelin 11th hour / In this media shower
the world's been waiting for YOU / to / come back into your power
somehow some way this great melting pot / got
to 90% hypocracy and 10% democracy
we got a party to screw you fast a party to screw you slow
just to insho' you're screwed whichever way you go
they claim represent the people? So then tell me what's the reason
they look at the people and see treason?
the imperial senate will not sit still they'll get ill
but don't bother bout that we can get up still

Get up, gotta get up, gotta get on up
gotta get up don't stop, rising to the top
lift yo head up so high that you know
up's the only way we can go
Gotta get up right now!
Gotta get up right now!

I don't like to talk I'm gonnas, I much prefer I dids
like I did on the daily help to raise up awesome kids
and I learned a lot of things, and I live a lot of life
and saved some of my best for my daughter and my wife
common law any way, they take me to a brighter day
doing right by your family's great for your mental state
every day I feel we are raising such a diamond daughter
that it seems like me and Sophie deserve some sort of trophy
so help me Bela Bee be y'may be be my only hope
but not for sharing days with you I dunno how I'd cope
that's why I'm so selective, with what we get into
time wasted on uselessness could be time with you
and I'm not gonna lie yo, I don't got a lotta time
I might not make it to your meeting but I made it to these rhymes
if you're gonna have a meeting is it gonna make sense
are you gonna make change or you gonna make rent?
we letting infiltrator agitators hijack the show
or are we gonna say no and find a new way to go
and I ain't tryin'a get arrested, you can if that's your deal
but me and my bank account can't take that hit for real
so I set sights on what can do, and do it when I can
ain't nobody gotta tell me that it's time to fight the man
youngins don't fret about the future, if you ain't gon lift a finger
You can't have the eye of the tiger AND pray to Bob Iger
or Xbox or pewdiepie not tryin to tell you what to like
but time spent on distractions does detract from time for action
there's a real world out here that needs you up in it
fully present, mad creative and in it to win it
we all have got to get on up

Get up, gotta get up, gotta get on up
gotta get up, don't stop, rising to the top
lift yo head up so high that you know
up's the only way we can go
Gotta get up right now!
Gotta get up right now!

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from Space Beats: and other sonic treats, released May 1, 2016
music and lyrics by My Rap Name is Alex

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My Rap Name is Alex Buffalo, New York

My Rap Name is Alex. I'm a story teller from Buffalo, New York in North America. These days I tend to focus on stories having to do with how we can treat ourselves, the beings around us, and our environment much better than we have been.

For more info on me please check out my Patreon link below.
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