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Enough Praying

from Rewild Or Die (2012) by Zack de la Rouda

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My buddies say that peoples' nature is to blame for the problems of our system,
but I disagree. My studies lead me to believe we've been deceived by our politics
and history. Just listen, please. When I'm speaking I'm pleading for equality,
and happiness and harmony, and partying, but also I am praying to God that
what I'm saying aloud will make sense, and some of y'all will grok it.
Acknowledge knowledge that's not taught in any colleges.
You try to talk about this but they call it inappropriate. Really it just boggles
my mind how we all follow the lines, we're living in a culture of lies.
It's shocking me how often we fight, if we're wrong or we're right,
we are all either deaf, dumb or blind. We just rest all the time, like,
"Let's go get high and fucked up," that's what's up when you're stressed from the grind.
We messed up our lives. I'm depressed because I think I'm better than a goddamn 7-to-9.
I'm fed up with signing my name by the fine print and I ain't
ever even been offered a dime for my music. I do this for the truth like a prophet.
What we got's a problem and we really got to stop it now, knock it down
and get out alive. It could not stand the test of the process of time.

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Civilization is unsustainable 'cause it requires exploitation in order to maintain
a crop-space; perpetual growth that it needs to float, murder we wrote, what this means is we're all slaves. With your shocked face maybe you are trying to say that this is our fate, that we been following these steps to space because we got faith. I'm saying, please, we must stop sleep. Enough praying.

We've existed for 2 million years healthier than any superfluous modern doctor could imagine. We had no vaccines, no IVs, no cancer, no diabetes, no lie, fam.
Now we're chilling with 10 thousand years of illness, getting worse from the moment we embarked along this path. What we eat, how we live, how we teach
our kids to compete, and hold heat, it's bad, man.
And these machines have only been here for a minute.
Imagine the damage they already inflicted.
Try to fathom what happens when you sacrifice a planet on the altar of progress and privilege, and, it looks a lot like this: an audience filled with lots of lost kids.
What i'm talking to you about is often hushed up cause we ain't even wanna to know what the cost is. Still, we are pawns for a price. We feel small but we say
it's all right, like, we ain't wanted this, but we got it now, and it's all just
struggle or die. But we must realize what the real lies are. Feel my bars, they were built by god, and captured on tape to reveal my thoughts, saying,
honestly, the system is the problem.

(CHORUS)

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from Rewild Or Die (2012), released November 4, 2012

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Zack de la Rouda Portland, Maine

i write songs and rap about weird stuff like love self-actualization civilization depression anarchism and taoism i like to eat from the garbage even though it's kinda hard to find organic stuff there i spend a lot of time alone somehow i am still releasing music ... more

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