Article by Jason Ditz, AntiWar.com
Video and song by Lowkey
March 28 2010
Obama Nation by Lowkey
It's the substance within, not the colour of your skin. Are you the puppeteer or the puppet on the string?
THIS TRACK is not an attack upon the American people It is an attack upon the system within which they live Since 1945 the united states has attempted to Overthrow more than 50 foreign governments In the process the us has caused the end of life For several million people, and condemned many millions More to a live of agony and despair
The strength of your dreamin Prevents you from reason The American dream Only makes sense if youre sleepin
Its just a cruel fantasy Their politics took my voice away But their music gave it back to me
The land where their __? Or consumed by consumption Killing themselves to shovel down food and abundance I guess a rapper from Britain is a rare voice America is capitalism on steroids
Natives kept in casinos and reservations Displaced slaves never given reparations Take everything from Native Americans And wonder why I call it the racist experiment
Afraid of your melanin The same as its ever been That aint gonna change With the race of the president
I see imperialism under your skin tone You could call it Christopher Columbus syndrome
Is it Obamas nation or an abomination? Is it Obamas nation or an abomination? Is it Obamas nation or an abomination? Doesn't make any difference when they bomb your nation
O! Say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars through perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming
The worlds entertainer The worlds devastator From Venezuela To Mesopotamia
Your cameras lie Cause they have to hide the savage crimes Committed on leaders that happen To try and nationalize
Eating competitions while the worlds been starvin Beat up communism with the help of bin-laden Where would your war of terror be without that man Every day you create more Nidal Hassans
Kill a man from the military, youre a weirdo But kill a wog from the Middle East youre a hero Your country is causing screams that are never reaching ear holes America inflicted a million ground zeros
Follow the dollar and swallow your humanity Soldiers committing savagery you never even have to see Those mad at me, writing in emails angrily Im not anti-America, America is anti-me
Is it Obamas nation or an abomination? Is it Obamas nation or an abomination? Is it Obamas nation or an abomination? Doesn't make any difference when they bomb your nation
And the rocket's red glare, The bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night That our flag was still there,
O! Does that star spangled banner yet wave O'er land of the free and the home of the brave
I don't care if him and Cheney are long lost relations What matters more is the policies I lost my patience Stop debating bringing race into conversation Occupation and cooperation equals profit makin
Its over - people wake up from the dream now Nobel peace prize, jay z on speed dial Its the substance within, not the colour of your skin Are you the puppeteer or the puppet on the string
So many believe that they was instantly gonna change There was still Dennis Ross, Brzezinski And Robert Gates What happened to Chas freeman (APAC), What happened to Tristan Anderson its a machine that keeps that man breathing
I have the heart to say what all the other rappers arent Words like Iraq, Palestine - Afghanistan The wars on, and you morons were all wrong I call Obama a bomber Cause those are your bombs.
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