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Title: Hey Barack
Artist: G-raf
Album: Delicious Experiment
(L) 2009 Libre Commons Res Juris Divini License
Lyrics (가사):
Verse #1
You might not like this message either
Either you made some promises you can't keep or
You're completely full of shit sir
First of all, we want our public health care
Cause what we got now, it's not fair
It's like pharmaceutical industry welfare
While corporations profit from unhealthy despair
Keeping us sick for a reason
Making it so expensive to treat a disease and
They say robbing a pharmacy is treason
But I can't let an industry keep me on my knees and
Begging for mercy
From a big business pharmacy
Rich as can be
When they see, they're not gonna be pleased
This poet's got type one diabetes
And getting really fuckin angry
About a wealthy pharmaceutical industry
This unhealthy poverty, pharmaceutical slavery,
Nobody's gonna pay for me
Hey Barack, you needs some bravery
To keep a promise you made to me
I shouldn't have to be paid to be
Taking care of myself properly
Health care should be a human right, not an industry
Socialize, universalize that shit promptly
Verse #2
So you come from Hawaii?
Homeland of Queen Lili'uokalani
Who was overthrown in 1893
Hawaii stolen by the US illegally
Taken without signing a treaty, in 1898
Exploited plantation colony became her fate
And in 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state
People given no choice of independence
Political rape, colonial state
Is what you be defending
If you don't at least give independence
To your own motherfuckin birthplace
Hey Barack, you promised to follow the supreme law of the land
So we expect you to give back the land
To all indigenous tribes and nations
That's about sixty percent of the territory on which the US empire stands
It's been an illegal occupation
Genocide of the native population
Survivors suffering forced relocation
Trodding at gunpoint down the trail of tears
And this shit's been going on for more than 500 years
United Nations demanding you to free Leonard Peltier
Lakota activist locked up in a cage for more than 20 years
and he's innocent
Hey Barack, you made some promises you should keep
We could forget what you said, we could sleep
But were staying alive, staying wide awake
Verse #3
Hey Barack, but we know what this says about you promising to end the drug war
Two million people locked up, but what they there for?
Penalized for being poor
Most prisoners locked up cause drugs are against the law
But it's our personal choice, so what you waiting for?
Denying what you promised, selling out like a whore
No jobs, no way out, nothing else in store
But cooking crack in the kitchen
Turn a house into a meth factory
Pack it all up in a sack to be
Smoked up in a alleyway
We got the modern day prohibition
Trying to tell us what we can't and can pursue
And what we can and can't consume
In a so-called democracy
Fuck that, I do what I want with my body
And my life, smoke up everything in a pipe
While timber corporations lobby
To keep the ganja herb banned, it's trife
To be a criminal for having a plant in my hand
That's some shit I can't quite understand
Hey Barack, legalize the herb and I might be a fan
We can grow it and sell it
With wood business getting jealous
Cause they wanna make paper by cutting down a forest
But ganja can make the same amount of paper
In much less than an acre
Natural herb plant growing in the sun
Even when I'm broke, I'll get a whole bunch
Hey Barack, if you legalize ganja, I'm gonna roll you a big ol' blunt
Verse #4
43 American presidents were all Euro-American
People voting, voting, voting and waiting
Thinking when's this racial monopoly on power gonna end
And finally for president, we got a black man
Brother Ali saying you're the man
But the change is just symbolic and nobody's triumphant
Especially cause we STILL GOT a president
Especially cause Barack keeps sending troops to Afghanistan
Deploying more terrorism, sending out the beast
And people really really want peace
Hey Barack, get your troops the fuck out the Middle East
When's the empire gonna cease?
US imperialism in the East and at home
With presidential authority sitting on a throne
Giving life to a private prison industry
Big business getting rich off prison labor slavery
And we really really hate to see
General Electric getting rich off contracts with the military
That's our money and it ain't fair to be
Spending it on nuclear bombs and artillery
The word 'democracy' just sounds silly to me
When the CIA and FBI got their eyes on everybody
Through camera surveillance
FCC trying to tell me I can't say this?
Hey Barack, are you ever gonna listen?
If we really want change, we gotta put more pressure on him
