Willie Evans Jr. - I Heard It Today lyrics

[Verse One] As the woe of the common man grows I suppose I should flow Think of all the things that we should know The hood grows out to the burbs Too many words to describe how we've gotten what we didn't deserve The nerve of these leaders to cheat us Dangling the sweetest opportunities for home ownership Then flip Now it's over Foreclosure Four soldiers died in Iraq Stumbled in a trap Ain't no bringing em back I'm swinging the axe to chop off, whatever pops off The Nasdaq drop off But people are not soft We're pissed off, f**ed over, overlooked Overbooked for unemployment Lost and ready to destroy sh** B- Boy sh** That's what I remain on I stay strong Call me up, my name rain napalm You're funding a war But you can't fund us? And you plan to turn the planet to dust? I heard it today! [Verse Two] It started when the planes hit home Then it really hit homes Now we're out in the street With no shoes on our feet So I turn to the beat Keep my mental physique Functioning at it's peak Til you call me elite Then I repeat the steps Give some change to vets They caught you with bullets They caught us with debt I step silent In attempts to side step violence Tap into my brain so I can remain timeless I'm just, out here trying to cope Try to eat a little food, try to buy a little smoke Choke a couple politicians Cause I've got a couple dollars missing Buy some lotion so my skin'll glisten Missile hissin' Direct hit when you didn't expect All ordered by a president we didn't elect So I'm hoping that the DJ will give this some play So the people that'll listen can say We heard it Today! [Verse Three] They were willing to give people with bad credit loans Cause they knew within a few years We're out of our homes And they can buy up all the same properties they sold us For the wealthy and maniacal the sh** was a gold rush They told us rates could fluctuate But they didn't say they could spike Now our credit is like "How we gonna get another place?" Look at our face Distress at best And yes Anger manifests When our president Sees us drowning in the elements He really doesn't give a f**, so he acts with hesitance Bush offered only one tenth of us paupers Relief That may or may not decrease grief He'd rather help the lenders Original offenders That sent us off to get job number 3, humbly sacrificing education and health care He'd rather just perpetuate the war cause there's wealth in it Health benefited, heavily tinted windows of CEO's Rols (Royce) Remain closed So they never have to listen to those who oppose the path that they chose To slow economic woes They'll prey upon our desperation Instead of seeking elevation sh** is catastrophic in my estimation It happened during a Republican reign And some of y'all still went and voted Mc Cain? I heard it today!