Slo-Speed Songtext
von Foreign Beggars

We live in the days of wars waged on different planes
African kids in shanty towns ridden with AIDS
Surviving on government hand-me-downs but still get erased
Cause money′s more valued than life using the system in place
There weren't no UN resolutions when they took Saddam
In favelas in Brazil kids are wielding arms
Innocent fingers rest on triggers facing soldiers armed
Politicians feed their hunger when they close the farms
Street dealers sell the coke cause they don′t wanna starve
Until they see a best friend overdose on it hard
Go for a job, get fired, end up broke and go rob
I seen mothers bury their youths and openly sob
The tsunami's brought a new meaning to boxing day
No coffins, just dead bodies swept off in the wave
Apocalypse looms, if change is coming it's gotta be soon
But they′ll probably try to find a way to profit off doom


We′re tryin' to speak to a nation of people who don′t heed
The future's a state of pure evil with no peace
The truth is we need to use reason to slow speed
But all we ever do is sit back and smoke weed
We′re tryin' to speak to a nation of people who don′t heed
The future's a state of pure evil with no peace
The truth is we need to use reason to slow speed
But all we ever do is sit back and smoke weed

Yo, gas mask civilians, militants looking scared now
As we tear down Babylon, carry on fills the fairground
I swear down, the vile sound of sirens serve as lullabies
While brothers lie nestled in the gutters while their mothers cry
Judas, more time we find the fight useless
But left with no choice we riot because the shoe fits
It's you and I, looking at each other like it′s do or die
Blood I′m on the verge with all my senses calling suicide

It's two thousand and five, the devil′s got a breath of his own
And he's known to switch up face to leave his presence unknown
He′ll swing a racist axe to slay a black so check where you roam
Happy slap till you're handicapped it′s fresh on his phone
It's not the devil it's the evil in us, the greed and lust
Beliefs and such, they fill us with the need to crush
And we vote for governments that love deceiving us
Cause our solution to the problem′s getting weeded up


We′re tryin' to speak to a nation of people who don′t heed
The future's a state of pure evil with no peace
The truth is we need to use reason to slow speed
But all we ever do is sit back and smoke weed
We′re tryin' to speak to a nation of people who don′t heed
The future's a state of pure evil with no peace
The truth is we need to use reason to slow speed
But all we ever do is sit back and smoke weed

I walk these streets like a stormtrooper risen from the grave
Eyes glazed over, I'm tired of living like a slave
My mind craves a safe place but till then it′s pure warfare
My thoughts bear the burden of my forefathers′ torment
My youth spent cussing out all things complacent
I walk with an image of honesty on my face
It's the one that most furtively suffer even the faintest glimpse
Of hope fades away as our freedom′s easily tainted
With the blood of our brothers yes we're living on pure greed
I′ma keep spitting, hit existence at full speed
I'ma keep spitting till this vision of truth gleams through
Children who′ll be giving their future to two thieves
Who's free, there's no plans, there′s no damn conspiracy
Religion, sects, governments and banks that tax communities
Capitalist faculties subsist off cash from you and me
The only way to speak the language of affluence is fluently

We′re tryin' to speak to a nation of people who don′t heed
The future's a state of pure evil with no peace
The truth is we need to use reason to slow speed
But all we ever do is sit back and smoke weed
We′re tryin' to speak to a nation of people who don′t heed
The future's a state of pure evil with no peace
The truth is we need to use reason to slow speed
But all we ever do is sit back and smoke weed