Verse 1

We're a people under seige
Our possessions they seize
Thru elections
and misguided directions
We're Destined 2 bleed
In this land of the capitalist
Throwing up the blackest fist
Living as a activist
Thru these lyrical passages
The fact of this
Avarice
System we're interacting with
Aiming accurate
At whoever
Ain't having this
Miraculous
How we're distracted quick
From a apparatus
That fascist
And practice it
In front of your face
Passiveness
These times we gon remember it
Engineering degenerate
Children getting ready for prison
won't see the end of it
The mission is possible
to fight back is logical
Remember thru all obstacles
For them our pain is profitable
War
And it's supposed to be
It's being waged openly
Staying strapped with knowledge of self
In your upholstery
never letting up
Can't weigh it in a measure cup
You must be in control of self
Before you ride and let it bust

Chorus 2x
We're a people under seige
From the belly of the beast
From society to the streets
And we're living in defeat

We're under seige yea
And this run deep yea
This to my ppl in the streets yea
Gotta fight out this defeat yea

Verse 2

State of urgency
A crisis
Held captive by our vices
The fee we pay is priceless
Just to live lifeless
the street recruit the youth
Out to seek recluse
In families
but being duped
Tricked in pursuit
Tryna get the loot
The methods wicked
How they're infected with it
Perceptions twisted
The test is ticking
Flesh forbidden
In this wretched system
I break it down
To you patiently
And blatantly
To fill in the vacancies
And brake the squeeze
Of these Racist thieves
Private penitentiaries
Making the cheese
Setting the traps
Watch us fall
Then they rake in the leaves
Mos def it's sick
How most are investing
Into our deficit
definite
A desperate attempt
To be separate
From this detriment
My testament to you
Is to take up your time
With as much progress
And awaken the blind
And you can't wait for the people
To make up their mind
You still love em
And be the reason
That they raise up
and shine

Chorus 2x
We're a people under seige
From the belly of the beast
From society to the streets
And we're living in defeat

We're under seige yea
And this run deep yea
This to my ppl in the streets yea
Gotta fight out this defeat yea