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Better Spaceships

from The Woods by Olmecha Supreme

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Build Better Spaceships, and look after the world you've got.

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Better Spaceships

I was the first to see the war before the war began,
but they wouldn't heed my warnings
in the time of man.
mostly because the fuzzy promises were made to man
about the future and
how it would be okay
to trade today tomorrow's light
hold the polluters hand
and tell him it would be alright

they say there's not enough water
while they're polluting the water
sterilizing our daughters
and hypnotize for the slaughter our sons.

funny how the money trail
it leads to the star on the tree
eye in the sky with a finger in the pie..

well, you don't have the faculty to be god
if it's just for the perks you step up for the job it's odd.

true kings belong to us all
and if he ever stumbles
everything falls down

so can you bear the weight of the crown
knowing the fate of everyone around
is sitting on your brow?
come on now...

tell the truth and
pass it on now
to the youth them

they're not ready!
but you de-fund education
and you don't defend them
instead you send them
to the occupation
and then abandon them
when they return,
it might take a special hell to burn you...

(horns)

but I was the first to see the war before the war came
walking amongst the trolls soiled souls in war games
hiding the violence in their hearts
behind the screen names
digital karma for every sprite i slaughtered
and every burning tower, it's just a spectacle
put those instincts in a robotic receptacle.

tell me a story about heroes and burning swords
and watch the willing children hanging on your every word
say it's crucial conflict that we must overcome
cut they're kicking in the door at aiming guns
at what have we become,
and what have we become?

agent provocateurs and all the reactionaries
or false flags flying high over the red herrings

doubt first, it's too late man, you pulled the trigger.
following orders instead of following something bigger.

I just know if there's no just dealing justice
and the corruptions so deep it's corrupted
the science and clergy man
the medecines for the money man
the police the justice of the peace again
let he without sin cast the first stone
self delusion about the things that we have done
or every single rock would fall straight to the ground
under the sun.

(horns)

I was the first to see the war
before the war was here.
I would have warned them all
but they told me to disappear.
how'd you get so greedy you would watch us all die?
believe in dreams that you could possibly get so high..
that you could fly away,
while the rest of the world won't see another day.

I guess he helps those who help themselves.
fat man at the banquet and they said help yourself.

choke on it, I would watch.

can't eat a dollar any more than you can eat your own thoughts.
it's too heavy, I don't want to think about it no more.
in fact, I've decided we don't even need this war.
I'm too handsome, there's too many pretty girls,
to let them hold it all for ransom,
when love rules the world.

not you.

I was the last one who heard the war was over.
I cradled in my hands the head of the last soldier.
he told me all the things he'd seen
all the different amazing ways to end the life of human beings.
life's simple, put a wall in the way
and life will crawl over the wall
if it can't punch right through it.
I think he wanted me to ask him why'd he do it,
instead I smiled at the child and let him have his last moment.

the blast opened up the side of the spaceship
and his body got dragged into the void.
I said to the sun that we create and destroy
and the sun just smiled and said "BOY!"
"I watched you grow from a seed to a sprout to a tree.
I watched you be against the odds that you would never be.
and through it all you heard the call
of the moment when the morning would come
when there's no warning
and the warning of the war was done...
Maybe it's to fight space aliens,
but how'd that work out for indigenous Australians?
Just build better spaceships, and look after the world you got..."
Just build better spaceships and look after the world you got.

Love.

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from The Woods, released May 1, 2015

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Lead by Captain Imon Starr, Olmecha Supreme is outstandingly versatile. This is music. Rooted in traditional rhythms of Reggae, Jazz, Blues, Dub and "world music", traveling to the frontiers of slamming soundscapes, and riding the vehicle of hip hop hard lyric and improvisation, Olmecha has coined the phrase Afro futuristic roots music to give the uninitiated an idea as to what to expect. LISTEN! ... more

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