Pro-Freedom Rap

[AWoodside]

Hey guys, I'm more or less done with a rap song that was inspired by a very apt comment I read on this board (sorry can't remember who posted it, I've tried searching) a while ago basically talking about how walls can become cages if you aren't careful. It doesn't stay thematically linked to that concept the whole time, but because it was inspired by this board I figured the ACist/Voluntarists would at least appreciate checking out the lyrics, if not others. Constructive criticism of both prose and content greatly appreciated. There are a few poker references too for good measure.


"Gods at the Gate"

[censored] the BBC, [censored] bein' PC
[censored] everybody out there tryin' to censor me
I sport a portrait of Mohammad on my favorite tee
so they blame people like me for all the embassies
that are up in smoke, it's a [censored]' joke
freedom of expression's being [censored]' choked
Saddam's strung up by that very same rope
The worlds mind is closed and its backbone's broke

The walls you want people like me to provide
To protect you, protect your thin-ass hide
Are the walls that these people are hidin' behind
You sanction the game but not the line that they take
You sit at the table then bitch about the rake
You see these extremists and you say you condemn them
But about those cartoons, oh, 'please don't print them'
'Cause it offends you, and your sensibilities
You don't give a shiit if you tread on my civil liberties
To get what you want, suppress what you don't
Hands calloused and raw tightenin' that same fukin' rope

The only difference, between a wall and a cage is the relationship you got with the guard at the gate
The only difference, between a wall and a cage is the relationship you got with the guards at the gate

I'm gettin' fukin' irate, fukin' chompin' this bait
You think oppressin' it's expression will get rid of the hate?
You think this modest misdirection will accomplish your aims?
You let your children play with tigers 'cause they tell you they're tame
You let your children learn from liars 'cause it's keepin' you sane

The only difference, between a wall and a cage is the relationship you got with the guards at the gate
The only difference, between a wall and a cage is the relationship you got with the gods at the gate

'What the [censored],' Zarathustra spake, nobody knows
That everybody wants their leaders wearin' emperors clothes
Everybody's taught by teachers that pretend they don't know
That the world rocks out to meter, no-one dances to prose, so...
The rhetorititians, the psuedo-logic magicians
Handsome men with good diction that prey on base intuition
Can keep on wheelin' and dealin' wieldin' the power we give them
Artificial constructs with potent venom
Protectionism is the new patriotism

The only difference... [fade out w/ hook]