[ti:Open Your Eyes] [ar:Immortal Technique] [al:The 3rd World] [00:00.02]Immortal Technique - Open Your Eyes [00:00.52] [00:03.02]Open your eyes before you die (WAKE UP!) [00:04.73]Open your eyes before you die (We're here because of you) [00:11.46]Open your eyes before you die (We're here because you were there) [00:18.56]Open your eyes before you die [00:22.26] [00:22.80]We've arrived from every corner of the planet to this nation [00:25.32]To seek the fullfilment of a promise of America [00:28.40]We were promised a better life in our home countries, [00:31.56]where we were told that privatising water and electricity will make things run more efficiently [00:36.91]Instead the quality remained almost the same and the price was increased until it became an unaffordable luxury [00:43.48]Some corporations are more efficient than government, [00:46.46]but their motivation is not the health or the well being of the people, [00:49.60]it's only about profit, everything else, their image, [00:53.49]their human resources, their public relations, only exist to protect the reality behind it [00:59.11]Once upon a time, we were told that nationalisation would prevent growthy by limiting competition, [01:05.14]that our countries were nothing without the companies that invested in us and so they privatised everything, [01:11.14]everything in our country was owned by people that had no connection to our culture, [01:15.99]by those who never had our interests at heart, [01:18.40]they didn't care about our survival or well being, [01:20.87]they just wanted to turn a profit by raping our land, [01:23.80]by exploiting our people, our industry and our resources [01:27.04]They took everything we built and made it theirs, [01:30.03]first by creating racism to justfiy slavery, [01:33.14]building the capital for capitalism and then when they gave us what they call liberty, [01:38.76]everything we had was still owned by them, [01:41.40]our governments told us that socialism was the real enemy and that we would have freedom, [01:46.17]but the foreign powers and corporations were the ones with real freedom [01:50.10]The freedom to take all the wealth generated by our work and our land [01:54.09]and give us only a small percentage of the scraps from the table [01:57.44]Their lust for power and their greed drove them to betray not only us [02:01.67]but themselves and the word of their own God [02:04.29] [02:04.74](Open your eyes before you die) [02:07.88] [02:08.32]And while some used missionaries and donations to off set this abuse, [02:12.63]other countries and companies were blatent with their crimes, using war, [02:16.20]disease and sanctions that killed millions, [02:18.91]they supported corrupt governments that were almost like the old slave masters in their opression of the people, [02:24.73]because their loyalty was to those who enable them, [02:27.71]enstored them and kept them in power, [02:29.95]they became the bastard children of American industry, [02:33.03]kleptocracy, government's of thievery, [02:36.06]they protected the corporations and went to war against their own people to preserve those profits [02:41.45]The puppet rulers were given billions of US tax dollars to fund cival wars, [02:46.65]right wing death squads, execute political dissidents, [02:50.70]sympathetic clergy and even overthrow democratically elected governments [02:54.79]and so the age of revolution began again, [02:57.94]they painted it as godless terrorist verus the free world and the market [03:02.94]But the free market has never been free, [03:05.25]because the market does not regulate itself, [03:07.82]it is manipulated like a puppet and it survives because of its image, [03:12.21]destroy the image and the enemy will die [03:14.60]Such is the same in the rap industry, [03:16.85]but the major label super powers treat the underground like the 3rd world, [03:20.84]When they needed new assets, new artists to prostitute or sing and put on the shelf to use their songs [03:26.66]When they needed new concepts, music and publishing to steal from the producers, [03:31.24]they came to the underground, to the 3rd world, [03:34.08]they took our culture, our property and our industry and our resources, [03:38.37]even using our own people to help them exploit us [03:41.93]But behind the mask of efficieny, they claimed that we need to succeed, [03:45.38]they're no better than us, they're economic advertising was always a lie, [03:49.98]a few got rich but most were given an illusion of wealth, almost as if it was designed for failure [03:55.29]Opportunity comes at the price of soul and the music, [03:59.36]so remember what they are underneath the fancy architechture, glittering rented jewellery, the cars, the IMF loans, [04:06.67]the seeds with suicide genes, 20 year contracts and oil bloody money [04:11.39]Build your defences my independent brothers and sisters, [04:14.73]they'll stop at nothing to get what they want, [04:17.10]they paint the 3rd world, underground, as savage and backward, [04:20.61]but the super powers are no less corrupt, [04:23.13]they've just learned to disguise it better, [04:26.23]cause they fix elections too, they embessle tax money, [04:28.86]they go to war for resources, they fund terrorism for their own benefit, [04:33.28]and when there's enough at stake... [04:35.46]history's taught us that they'll even assassinate their own president. [04:38.81] [04:39.32](Open your eyes before you die) [04:44.51](Open your eyes before you die) [04:46.63] [04:47.16]End [04:47.82] [05:49.02]Immortal Technique - Open Your Eyes [05:55.52]