For What It Is Worth (Rap On)

"Upload, the evolution principle
you see a rock on the shore and say
'it's always been there'
download, no responsibility
do what you want, nobody cares"

Implied with this belief
is that evolved means progress
the state of humankind
only gets better
is the power to destroy our better selves?

"Upload, the master race idea
genetically disposed to rule the world
download, future full of isolated
full of isolated, boys and girls"

Not a theme that has just been fathomed
been around since the first nation state formed
the more technology advances
the more excuses to section off the lives

"Upload, the two party system
the lesser of two dangers,
illusion of choice
download, their form of fascism
nothing really ever changes
you never had a voice"

Rulers making laws
above all ensuring that they stay in office
argue about what color suits to wear
who is a citizen, who isn't
while the rest fight for a crust of bread

"If you look, you're sure gonna find
throughout mankind's history
a colonized mind
the one in power makes law
under which the colonized fall
really all it is just the blind leading the blind"

Don't get hung up on the color of the skin
because enslaved by one another
can even be your own kin
the imprisonment I am rapping about
starts with the brain and not pigment

Indeed the richest person can be just as shackled
in those chains
once upon a time we thought
a nation's suffering was just a labor pain
an experiment that was young and just starting life
so many years later we see the same old strife...



Lyrics adapted from the Prince song, "Colonized Mind"