The Culture

from Time to Rise EP by Crimethinkers

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Controlled and helpless like a marionette
You've let them do your thinking, it's become an etiquette
This done over time, without breaking a sweat
Broken through the mind
We've all been confined
To be blind
To choose sides
Those great and new divides
Cause further landslides
World of division
Is bound for a collision
New World Order, tap out, submission
We're beaten down with these labels and categorizations
Which further push our frustrations
To the edge, by certain declarations
When it's about the rich versus the poor
It's hard to ignore
But as the tensions soar
The lore
Seems to be true, and the blood and gore
Presented by your television sets
Are orchestrated by those that you adore
Those that you praise
Are only thinking of how to erase
You from the human race
Money talks
And bullshit walks
As it locks
The culture that you embrace
The culture that will deface
The culture with no taste

Following and not questioning
Following and not wondering
Following and still slumbering
Happy customers of misery
Experiencing through trickery
Lying to ourselves about our destiny
Don't take my words for granted
It’s evident that the world's been slanted
Enchanted
By the ideas of those that seek to enslave
Those that seek to pave the way
Our minds are in grave danger
As these strangers
Want to be the absolute arrangers of our lives
It seems that their obsession thrives
Through this they contrive
Control what you see
Ideas of what you should be
One thing’s for certain though, you are not free
A mere brick in the wall
A leaf browning during fall
A mere child, that's still learning to crawl
In laws we confide
But they cannot be applied
To elite or big daddy gov, access denied
They're the same shit
Just infiltrated with dollar signs and wit
So sit with me and come think a bit

It’s the culture

credits

from Time to Rise EP, released May 27, 2022
Written by Rick van Meijel and Willis the Illest.
Produced by Rick van Meijel and Satori Rewire.
Features audio from ‘’Network’’ by Sidney Lumet.

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Crimethinkers Venray, Netherlands

We are Crimethinkers, an international collaboration between conscious hip hop artists Magic Motley, Rick van Meijel, Satori Rewire and Willis the Illest.