Akira The Don - You‘re Oppressed lyrics

Okay, so here's a problem There's a big problem here The problem is it's true {Chorus} You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed God only knows why You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed (God only knows why) Maybe you're too short or you're not as beautiful as you could be Or your grandparent was a serf Likely, 'cause almost everybody's great grandparent was And you know, you're not as smart as you could be, and you have a sick relative, and you have your own physical problem Frankly, you're a mess Frankly, you're a mess And you're oppressed in every possible way, including your ancestry and your biology The entire sum of human history has conspired to produce victimized you With all your individual pathological problems It's like yes True! {Chorus} You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed God only knows why You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed (God only knows why) Okay, but the problem is, that it is true And so if you take the oppressed, you have to fractionate them and fractionate them, fractionate them, and fractionate them and it's like, “You're a woman” “Yeah okay, well, I'm a black woman” “Well, I'm a black woman who has two children” “Well, I'm a black woman who has two children, and one of them isn't very healthy” And then, “Well I'm a, I‘m a Hispanic woman and I have a genius son who doesn't have any money so that he can't go to university. My husband is an alcoholic brute.” It's like, well yeah that su*ks too and so Let's fix all your oppression, let's fix all your oppression Let's fix all your, fix all your, fix all your oppression And we will take every single thing into account, and then we'll fix yours too We'll take every single thing into account No you won't, no you won't, no you won't Because you can't, you can't, it is technically impossible {Chorus} You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed God only knows why You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed (God only knows why) First of all, you can't even list all the ways that you're oppressed Second, how are you gonna weight them? Third, who's gonna decide? That's the bloody thing Who's gonna decide? Who's gonna decide? That's the thing You have to fractionate the oppressed all the way down to the level of the individual Oh, that's what the West figured out It's not an accident that the axiomatic Western individual is someone Who was unfairly crossed and tortured It's like yes, right, exactly! {Chorus} You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed God only knows why You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed You're oppressed, you're oppressed, you're oppressed (God only knows why) So what do you do about that? Well, I thought about that for a long time, too It's like, well you don't get together in the damn mob All that does is allow you to be as horrible as you can possibly imagine and suffer from none of the consequences That's a bad idea, so how about we don't do that Well, there's a deep idea in the West, too It's like pick up your damn suffering, and bare it! Try to be a good person, so you don't make it worse! Well that's a truth, you know?