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[ver:v1.0]
[ti:Open Your Eyes]
[ar:Immortal Technique]
[al:The 3rd World]
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[00:01.836]Open your eyes before you die （WAKE UP ）
[00:07.648]Open your eyes before you die （We're here because of you）
[00:13.716]Open your eyes before you die （We're here because you were there）
[00:19.964]Open your eyes before you die
[00:23.400]We've arrived from every corner of the planet to this nation
[00:26.148]To seek the fullfilment of a promise of America
[00:29.767]We were promised a better life in our home countries
[00:32.583]Where we were told that privatising water and electricity will make things run more efficiently
[00:36.519]Instead the quality remained almost the same and the price was increased until it became an unaffordable luxury
[00:43.467]Some corporations are more efficient than government
[00:47.335]But their motivation is not the health or the well being of the people
[00:51.648]It's only about profit everything else their image
[00:54.215]Their human resources their public relations only exist to protect the reality behind it
[00:59.771]Once upon a time we were told that nationalisation would prevent growthy by limiting competition
[01:05.835]That our countries were nothing without the companies that invested in us and so they privatised everything
[01:11.269]Everything in our country was owned by people that had no connection to our culture
[01:16.717]By those who never had our interests at heart
[01:19.401]They didn't care about our survival or well being
[01:21.966]They just wanted to turn a profit by raping our land
[01:24.718]By exploiting our people our industry and our resources
[01:27.648]They took everything we built and made it theirs
[01:30.838]First by creating racism to justfiy slavery
[01:33.587]Building the capital for capitalism and then when they gave us what they call liberty
[01:38.586]Everything we had was still owned by them
[01:41.771]Our governments told us that socialism was the real enemy and that we would have freedom
[01:47.148]But the foreign powers and corporations were the ones with real freedom
[01:51.720]The freedom to take all the wealth generated by our work and our land
[01:55.773]And give us only a small percentage of the scraps from the table
[01:59.470]Their lust for power and their greed drove them to betray not only us
[02:03.408]But themselves and the word of their own God
[02:06.022]（Open your eyes before you die）
[02:08.837]And while some used missionaries and donations to off set this abuse
[02:13.273]Other countries and companies were blatent with their crimes using war
[02:16.649]Disease and sanctions that killed millions
[02:19.522]They supported corrupt governments that were almost like the old slave masters in their opression of the people
[02:25.773]Because their loyalty was to those who enable them
[02:28.721]Enstored them and kept them in power
[02:31.093]They became the bastard children of American industry
[02:34.089]Kleptocracy government's of thievery
[02:36.909]They protected the corporations and went to war against their own people to preserve those profits
[02:42.841]The puppet rulers were given billions of US tax dollars to fund cival wars
[02:47.525]Right wing death squads execute political dissidents
[02:51.277]Sympathetic clergy and even overthrow democratically elected governments
[02:55.842]And so the age of revolution began again
[02:59.024]They painted it as godless terrorist verus the free world and the market
[03:03.221]But the free market has never been free
[03:06.220]Because the market does not regulate itself
[03:08.971]It is manipulated like a puppet and it survives because of its image
[03:12.903]Destroy the image and the enemy will die
[03:15.720]Such is the same in the rap industry
[03:18.524]But the major label super powers treat the underground like the 3rd world
[03:21.972]When they needed new assets new artists to prostitute or sing and put on the shelf to use their songs
[03:27.904]When they needed new concepts music and publishing to steal from the producers
[03:31.276]They came to the underground to the 3rd world
[03:34.719]They took our culture our property and our industry and our resources
[03:39.092]Even using our own people to help them exploit us
[03:42.028]But behind the mask of efficieny they claimed that we need to succeed
[03:45.969]They're no better than us they're economic advertising was always a lie
[03:50.903]A few got rich but most were given an illusion of wealth almost as if it was designed for failure
[03:56.403]Opportunity comes at the price of soul and the music
[04:00.221]So remember what they are underneath the fancy architechture glittering rented jewellery the cars the IMF loans
[04:07.155]The seeds with suicide genes 20 year contracts and oil bloody money
[04:11.655]Build your defences my independent brothers and sisters
[04:16.653]They'll stop at nothing to get what they want
[04:18.778]They paint the 3rd world underground as savage and backward
[04:21.027]But the super powers are no less corrupt
[04:23.655]They've just learned to disguise it better
[04:26.095]Cause they fix elections too they embessle tax money
[04:29.475]They go to war for resources they fund terrorism for their own benefit
[04:33.529]And when there's enough at stake
[04:35.841]History's taught us that they'll even assassinate their own president
[04:40.154]（Open your eyes before you die）
[04:44.158]（Open your eyes before you die）