Cold Duck Complex - Man Hate Man lyrics

[Intro] [Verse 1] This goes out to everyone feeling the melody Feeling the music, being swept up by the energy (right) Say can it be, that we could become one Come to a better understanding 'fore this night is done (yeah) This goes out to everyone living in poverty Living with unequal oppopportunities and inequality It bothers me that while I sit, thinking scholarly People slave away all day just to try to make a dollar, we Trying to follow the dream of those who started this colony Follow me? Cause white's not just a color of a collar see It's not an apology, I won't over-simplify It's more than just a thought, cause we got to empathize And improvise new ways to change the system Survival of the fattest it's all capitalism Next time, when somebody asks for change when you walk by I dare you to take a second just to look that man in the eye And ask, why do I have the privilege to comply And is this guy sittin' here because he just didn't try I know I choose each day to question my immunity Show love, we got no hope without community [Chorus] It's dog eat dog, man hate man Too many people disrespectin' what they misunderstand While our prisons are crammed Politicians'll scam We sit and live our lives like we ain't givin' a damn It's dog eat dog, man hate man Too many people disrespectin' what they misunderstand While our prisons are crammed Politicians'll scam We sit and live our lives like we ain't givin' a damn [Verse 2] Yo I call myself an anarchist for lack of better knowledge Cause how to save the world ain't somethin' they're teaching in college While scholars try to polish off their latest social theory There's still no solace for the hordes of hungry, weak, and weary I'm not sayin' that it's wrong to call attention to the problem But knowledge leads to guilt until we truly try to solve 'em I call 'em how I see 'em and to me it seems so simple I got my right hand on a Bible with a gun held to my temple I'd rather die a violent d**h than let them chain my spirit The soul becomes whole when I embrace instead of fear it How do you justify the gap between the haves and have-nots When stratified society secured with bars and padlocks Someone at the top is gonna swallow the key And we sit through their sh** while being told that we're free But free-thinkers get schuelched for simply offering suggestions If you're still lookin' for answers, man you ask the wrong questions I comply so why am I more than another social Darwin My body's fed, but my spirit stays starving I give a damn for every mother, and every one of her children And I grieve for every 6 feet of Mother Earth that's filled in Built-in perceptions begin to be questioned Do our best interests rest in the quest for possessions? We like wars but instead of sheep's skins we're dressed in Designer clothes by those whose lives we're affectin' [Chorus] [Verse 3] I remember the first time I thought I lost my soul Eagle buring high on a loss of control Out of body out of mind The truth is unkind I couldn't find salvation on the path I'd been a**igned Backtrack to success this is blessed I guess But then explain the pain in my brain and knot in my chest We got pseudo-revolutionaries weened on trust funds Rebels with a cause cause the real heads got one But when sh** gets thick would you sacrifice your privilege? We all want justice but we lost for dividends Businessmen buy and sell our souls like cattle Giving just enough back so that they can afford to battle Militant delitants rage against their parents' lies Just enough so they can look their children in the eyes It's like perspective The point from which we view is so selective Try to see from all angles so your outlook is collective Objective observation now the world can be dissected By the out-going introvert overtly introspective Paradigms perish in my parallel dimension Apparently they puncture on their way down to ascension Attention, grab a shovel dig to reach a higher ground We'll circle what was never lost and leave what can't be found I hear the sound of freedom ringing out off in the distance Lasers grind, children cryin', pleading with insistence Masters move revolutionary thoughts of their resistance Selfishly impose grief suppose to be of some a**istance In this instance all we see is freedom dies Sold into servitude, we're served to feed the lies My television told me so it must be so Round and round the rings of the ma** media we go Collecting consciences come all cause our community's drowning And ashes ashes and yo we all fall down [Chorus] [Outro]