Wake Up - Cypher X
Yo
They fed us silence and called it peace
They fed us poison and called it food
They fed us lies and called it history
But truth don't sleep forever
Wake up
Breakfast in a box, toxins in the skies
Sugar in the cereal, cancer in the fries
FDA stamping lies like it's gospel
Selling slow death right through your local aisle
Wrapped in smiles while they poison your child
Labels all clean but the truth gone wild
GMOs in the veins of your lettuce
While they gaslight your brain on the news
Don't forget this, food ain't fuel
It's a front line war
Selling slow death right through your store
Fake meat, fake wheat, fake stats they breathe
Even history books got ghosts underneath
They teaching chains as civilization
Erased the real kings and queens from the nation
Wake up, it's a brand new dawn
Truth been buried but it won't stay gone
Open your eyes, don't swallow their song
They've been lying to us all along
Wake up, watch the system crack
Rip the mask, take your power back
They built this world on tricks and theft
But we the ones who got truth left
Before they textbooks, we had sky maps
Medicine wheels and sacred lands they ransacked
They sold our feathers, mocked our prayers
Now they frack the bones of our grandfather's layers
They call it progress, we call it pain
But the spirits rise every time it rains
We ain't forgotten, we still remain
Truth leaves in the blood and it can't be chained
Wake up, it's a brand new dawn
Truth been buried but it won't stay gone
Open your eyes, don't swallow their song
They've been lying to us all along
Wake up, watch the system crack
Rip the mask, take your power back
They built this world on tricks and theft
But we the ones who got truth left
What they buried was not history
It was resistance
What they erased was not the past
It was the future
Our roots grow deep
Even in silence
Clock in, clock out, barely breathing
Built the towers they dine in, still barely eating
They sold the dream, bought every block
Then blamed us when the work got docked
Can't afford meds, can't afford truth
Sell us cages and call it youth
But the real ones see it's all a scheme
And the revolution starts with a dream
Wake up, it's a brand new dawn
Truth been buried but it won't stay gone
Open your eyes, don't swallow their song
They've been lying to us all along
Wake up, watch the system crack
Rip the mask, take your power back
They built this world on tricks and theft
But we the ones who got truth left
Fouls leaked, saw the game first hand
They watch us so while you scroll the gram
Algorithms, blacklists, secret agendas
Controlled through data, controlled through vendettas
But I chose light over silence and fear
Cause truth is louder than the NSA's ear
We ain't crazy, we connected
The veil's lifted, they're infected
Truth's projected, can't be deflected
We the virus to their lies, uninfected
This is bigger than bars and rhymes
This is waking whole nations in real time
This is big mama's prayers, it's underground fire
It's youth in the streets and monks on the wire
It's black, brown, poor, white waking up tight
Realizing the enemy's never been the fight
It's the system, the theft, the myth we gripped
But the veil's been torn and the truth's well equipped
Wake up, it's a brand new dawn
Truth been buried but it won't stay gone
Open your eyes, don't swallow their song
They've been lying to us all along
Wake up, watch the system crack
Rip the mask, take your power back
They built this world on tricks and theft
But we the ones who got truth left
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
