Take it Back - Patrick Park

Well the airwaves ring loud

With all the things they don’t say

You writers, you pundits

You’re the Judas today

'Cause you sit back and watch

While the world catches fire

And then you don’t say a word

While the stakes just get higher

The nsa’s listening in There’s a war that won’t end

But you fill up my head with all matter of spin

You twist a simple truth 'til it’s not what it seems

And The illusion of freedom, it’s the real American Dream

So people you’ve gotta turn your voice to a shout

You gotta open your eyes up and look what’s happening right now

'Cause there’s a coup going down oh and this is a fact

Soon if you wanna be free you’ll have to take it back

If you wanna be free you’ll have to take it back

To the callous politician

Who sends boys on killing missions

And then sits back and smiles while the blood money keeps drippin'

Don’t say you serve me or anyone else

You’re a fuckin' bloodsucker

You’re just serving yourself

You send the truth on vacation

And the age of misinformation

Has dawned from the north down to the old slave plantations

And liberty, democracy and all the rest

Are just words that meant one thing

And now mean so much less

But you talk like a saint, so righteous and pure

But while people, they suffer, your pockets get full

You want me to think that you keep this world turning

While the smoke that keeps rising is our future burning

So people you’ve got to turn your voice to a shout

You gotta open your eyes up and look what’s happening right now

'Cause there’s a coup going down oh and this is a fact

Soon if you wanna be free you’ll have to take it back

If you wanna be free you’ll have to take it back

When I finally look out on my last setting sun

I wanna leave the world a better place then when I did come

The time for doing nothings long since come and gone

People open your eyes look at what’s going on