De-Cipher

(a song by The Eyedealists - Adam Gottlieb, Ty Lee, and Carla Starla)

so what is this Babylon? what is our battle on?

before we babble on, rattlin off another angry song,

let’s give a definition so the listeners get a handle on

this rasta vernacular, give us an example mon,

men beating and dominating women – That’s Babylon
weakness, scared into submission – That’s Babylon
fear of the other; superstition – That’s Babylon
ignorance over intuition – That’s Babylon
relentless ruthless rhetoric – That’s Babylon
"average is all you're gonna get" – That’s Babylon
battles fighting over stupid shit – That’s Babylon
victories with both sides spent – That’s Babylon

mind-control media matrix – That’s Babylon

corporations being people without faces – That’s Babylon

soldiers & the governments they kill for – That’s Babylon

McDonald’s brainwashing you with billboards – That’s Babylon

a WalMart on a sacred native landmark - That’s Babylon

sports teams with Indians for mascots – That’s Babylon

U.S. colonization of Puerto Rico – That’s Babylon

Fear, craving, arrogance & ego - That’s Babylon

Babylon is man gone mad, satan’s battle on

sanity, it’s taxes payin for guns & atom bombs

to massacre dads & moms in places like Bagdad from

behind fancy desks in places like the pentagon

Babylon is famine on a land that shouldn’t happen on,

it’s damaging the planet’s atmosphere to make a massive profit,

it’s the corporate bastardization of rap songs,

it’s capitalist sacrilege, Christ turned Santa Claus.

Babylon is Monsanto gangsters putting patents on

seeds that they manufacture just to take advantage of

the have-nots, it’s savage jobs in factory cattle farms,

the animal food industry making us fat & cancerous,

Babylon is the white man’s battle on the black & brown

man, cops modern slave-captors, crackin down,

gavel on the stand, do you hear that, that’s the sound

of practical kidnapping: prison business cashin out

Babylon is media distraction blocking access from

the truth, news reports where more than half of the facts are wrong,

FEMA standing back while Katrina wreaked havoc on

New Orleans, and calling that disaster an act of God

the factory in Shanghai where a child put the apple on

your macintosh laptop/fashion fads & those who tag-along,

fabricated fears, a politician working as a pawn

of cash, in fact practically everything bad is Babylon

now you know what we mean by the word “Babylon”:

everything that ravages nature – and it’s rather strong.

that’s the bad news, the good news is that it’s passin on,

we can decide to decipher it - pass it on