Rise up
Listen children; pay heed to these words,
for the future is truly in your hands.
Though you may be unaware,
you are the key to the future.
Put down your X-box;
Put down your facebook;
move away from your keyboard
Think of what you are doing.
Is this the life you want to live?
Rise up, rise up and reclaim
what you have never known
Freedom calls and beckons
but do you heed the call?
Are you deaf to what is there to hear?
McDonalds, coca cola,
Kfc and mainstream TV
are there to seduce your soul,
And you say
Everything is A ok!
Everything is A ok!
And you say
I'm alright Jack
I live the highlife
but does this extend to your fellow man?
Can’t you see what is being done to you?
Can’t you see the plan is working well?
I tell you with joy and happiness,
with a heart flowing over with love
I know that it's not too late.
The youth are not the enemy
as they are portrayed,
but forget ye not
oh children of the future
for the future is in your hands
and this opportunity that you have,
don't let it slip between your fingers
as you forbears have obviously done
it's not too late, it's not too late
you are not impotent
You are important;
you are the most powerful
creative creatures alive today
Don't let it slip away.
Don't let it slip away.
Nor mock the elders
we are none of us without sin
be it avarice or greed
or inaction and weakness
but let not the sins of the father
be revisited upon the sons,
rise up, rise up, rise up.