57th Min / Power and Glory

For the sun gets ready for a set

And the sea's an oily wet

Snow on the 1st of August

3:1 if you like to bet

Our animals are polluted and then killed for the food

While we kill ourselves while we eat

And a multitude

Die from lack of grain as it's eaten by the fattened beef

Seems like we got ourselves into some heavy shit mischief

Set alight the flowers that can definitely help some cure

For the cancers in my body and brain

We must endure

As the space is needed for grazing war of the meat

That you consume for thick blood and a less than healthy heartbeat

Only you can criticise and bring it all to shame

But time runs out, it's almost gone, and still goes on the game

Sensible of the world, they've been in charge and got it right?

That's why some starve while others seem to party through the night

And Mr Bullshit has it made, as I sit in his green office

He talks to my friends and family, and he treats me like a novice

Every time I explain how late the time has got

I'm told I'm a boring pessimist who should be happy but I'm not

As the radiation level is safe but past my head

My children started coughing and my chest is full of lead

The way to make it better, well, at least so I'm told

Let business hold some cold cash, and so that I can fold it and stand on my gain

And that I will be taller

And the air I breathe is pure, it's high over the radiation border

Let them rule nature and now you get off it

As natural's always meant the protection of the profit

The 57th minute of the 23rd hour

57th minute of the 23rd hour

57th minute of the 23rd hour

Three minutes ain't long, but it's all we got, the power

Son of the night and day, I'm grey

That's right, the spirit was born this way

Use the youth to attack the truth

Or take part in the story

Power and the glory

When they shout no, I think of Biko

A yell in a cell meant hell and his face swell

Crack the liberty bell to impose their will

They kill and they will until

We reject the gift

Not to understand command

And hold tight to the story-teller hand

The story is strong

The spirit lives on

They try and crush it now

It won't be gone

Appeal for silence

These men of violence put freedom in a prison and they call it terrorism

Join the fight nearing its height

Shine a light in the night, expose the friend from the foe

Power and glory

Heed the story

Power and glory

Heed the story

Future years hears my fears

Democracy hazy

We got lazy

Let them rule us, they went crazy

Police and posses

Economic mess

Catch a rash

Handle blood money cash

Diamonds and pearls from the tears of little girls

Paper gold link so the people don't think

Seen corn from the day you were born

Dictating where you live

The destiny you give

Your place and race, the pace of the dreams you chase

A world on reprieve and still we weave

Confusion, pollution

Seeking absolution for a new day and a new way

N gave the sign

Quick, drop on nine

Thoughts come and go

Peace may mean the video

No secret left to tell

Crave heaven and we make the hell

Power and glory

Heed the story

Power and glory

Heed the story

In the west come quest who say push it along

It's a native tongue heard singing a song

War on shines, it'll never be gone

Till we push together

Time we carry the global dream

One-world scene, variation on a theme

Jazz exercise, improvise, then rise

The local problem and the global ties

Helping each other till we all grow wise

Spreading the word, dissing the lies

Past is burning the heat of the 9 0 beat

Put on the pressure, pressure from the street

Can't stop now till it's all sweet

Rap a component, rapper exponent, stuck like a leech in the wheel of the speech

Respect the past, the poets would last

Siefu Jalal

Conga natal

Time that it come, sound a funky drum

Destiny hailed

Love train derailed, it's time to call a cab

Well, love can't fail

While deep in the lost and ground

Stand now

Common ground

Doug and Jean, they tell a story

Power, ooh, and the glory

Power and glory

Heed the story

Power and glory

Heed the story

Power and glory

Heed the story

The power and glory

Heed the story

Power and glory

Heed the story

Power and glory

Heed, yeah