[ Featuring Chuck D ]
I wonder what the future holds
This is the dawn of the new era
We the people who duck, dive and weave
Were led to believe that we're all naive
Alienation of a radio TV movie nation
No patience in this land of patients
Out of sight make that White House right
And you know what they doin' just ain't right
See the world's growing hard to vision
When you lost this world and your ass in a mission
Apart from the Bin Laden they're worlds apart
Eighty percent of America's got passports
Watch the Patriot Act keep both camps back
Lords of the pause and the contract
No chance of why their seeds be dancin'
Keep draftin', yeah, I think they're passin'
Draft law, send the poor the caskets
In the name of war, bastards
Iraq, yeah that whole thing is whack
You don't know? So what, are you under a rock?
So I rock, shut the whole damn block
No bird, no train, no dance soul plane
This is the same thing you're all used to playin'
Same style as Saddam Hussein is insane
Shock and awe, let me explain
Me and Z-Trip is to rock it to your brain
And so I rock
Rock, rock on, rock, rock on, rock, rock on
Shock, shock on, shock, shock on, shock, shock on
Shock and awe
It ain't just rappers, the world today
If you wanted to follow us yesterday
But very few cats got something to say
Kept back and stuck to them same old ways
Hate spendin' to pretendin' to be your friend
Making them a goddamn beer wagon
If peaceful revolution ain't possible
Then violent revolution is inevitable
It's suicidal to believe I'm your American Idol
If you can't eat, what the hell is entitled?
Critics don't give no credit to the lyrics
Hypocrites, conflicts, beyond how to hear it
Goin' yeah to the gangsta because of the distance
Pentagon is gettin' gone because what they spend
And you babble on because you invested in Babylon
What happens when it's too far gone?
Things are happening by no mistake
When the walls crumble and the earth shakes
You may pledge allegiance to the goddamn states
God waits for no one, for God's sake
Then pray to God when they're preying on you
When you're praying to God, they're playing with you
Fight the power, the gin and juice
In three years you're for the devil get loose
So you wanna rock?
And we wanna rock, rock on, rock, rock on, rock, rock on
Shock, shock on, shock, shock on, shock, shock on
Shock and awe, shock and awe, shock and awe
Come on, awestruck, awestruck, awestruck
Revolution for your mind, body and soul
Drownin' in the sea of the big dope Saddam
No past, no future, don't go on for a while
Ain't gave them nothin' but robbed a child
From substance don't care for them up with style
Like hip hop's loyalty or well like wow
Turned the game and made them a goddamn shame
Hell with history, you don't even know my name
I ain't the same thing that you all used to playin'
I'm that nonstop rock embedded to your brain
Chuck D, Public Enemy number one
Z-Trip got ya awestruck, awestruck, awestruck
Shock and awe, shock and awe, shock and awe
Shock and awe, shock and awe, shock and awe
Rock it to your goddamn brain
