Wake Up Songtext
von Otep

Oh yeah
To all those that came before us
Respect
Come on


Although you try to discredit, you still never edit
The needle, I′ll thread it, radically poetic
Standing with the fury that they had in '66
And like E. Tabla, I′m mad, still no deep in the system shit
Hoover, he was a body remover
I'll give you a dose, but it'll never come close
To the rage built up inside of me
Fist in the air in the land of hypocrisy
Moments come and movements go
Leaders speak, movements ceasе when their heads are flown
′Causе all these punks got bullets in their heads
The departments of police, the judges, the feds
Never did work keeping people calm
You know they went after King when he spoke out on Vietnam
They turned the power to the have-nots
And then came the shot

Yeah
Yeah, I′m back in this

With poetry, my mind I flex
Flip like Wilson, vocals never lacking in finesse
What'll I got to, what′ll I got to do to wake you up?
To shake you up, to break the structure up?
This blood still flows in the gutter
I'm like taking photos, magic kicks open the shutter
Set the groove, don′t stick and move like I was Cassius
Rap for stutter-stutter bombers left upon the fascists
Yeah, several federal men
Who pulled schemes on the dream and put it to an end
You better beware of retribution with mind war
20/20 Visions and murals with metaphors
Never did work keeping people calm
You know they murdered X and tried to blame it on Islam
They turned the power to the have-nots
And then came the shot


I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot

Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
How long? Not long
'Cause what you reap is what you sow