Smoke - Up In Flames lyrics

[Travis T] Stop the presses and strike up the band Cause I came to send a message with the mic in my hand People fighting over resources, dying for land And we just let the evil empires try and expand We can bury our heads or draw a line in the sand, Against the ones ready strike and lay you right where you stand Live a firestarter, die a martyr, sayonara Ain't no time for waiting on a knight in shining armor The planet's gotten rotten at the surface and the core And the people walk around without a purpose anymore The tip of the melting iceberg, it's just getting warm We'll need one hell of an umbrella to weather the sh** storm You gotta ask yourself what your gonna do When we see world war three and civil war two And quite frankly I don't know about you But when sh** hits the fan I won't be trying to stay cool [Hook] Said one, two, one, two Said I don't know what to do So many problems to solve No time for getting involved My only hope is there's a future for kids Forced to grow up on a planet where it's hostile to live [Courage] Earth Mother, god we failed in so many ways Look to the skies, they're polluted and gray Clear-cut forests bald-headed, totally shaved Topsoil erodes and all the animals fade How we make it to this horrible phase? Corporatocracy clench the whole world, sell their soul for what pays We're a virus like the bird flu and AIDS Educated with good grades, still we don't know how to behave There was a time when fresh water was still drinkable Now that be unthinkable, Pepsi bottle it and sell it to you There's nothing in the world like sitting under a tree But carnage be the only thing that I see, and tree stumps Cause we dumps pollution into oceans and streams Transforming them to toxic it seems There's no regard for other living beings, just the diamonds and bling Infatuation with material things [Smoke] The world going down in kerosene dreams Conflict diamond in the rough, sipping poison out of streams It's progress, baby, I mean deformed babies Monsanto thanks thee for consuming the virus. Now let's contaminate the dirt, extrapolate the worth Laminate the hurt, dominate and intoxicate the Earth Word to wasteland, industrial taste, waste bland Pa** the petrol chemicals so I can build castles out of radiated sand Bathe in blood bank, bailout, fractional-reserve system, sell out Genetically modified monster made out of carcinogens and fallout Now fill out these forms Big Brother is watching you getting high off the toxins Of course, better open your eyes before you wake up And hear the sound of troops boots marching