You Cant Be Neutral On A Moving Train song by Vinnie Paz from Primary Album Album not found. The music is composed and produced by Joel. Genre is Hardcore, Boom Bap, East Coast music. The Record company is unknown. Released on None.
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You Cant Be Neutral On A Moving Train Meaning
| [[Intro: Howard Zinn] Governments lie all the time. Well, not just the American government, it’s just in the nature of governments. Well, they have to lie. And since they don’t represent the people, and so since they act against the interest of the people, the only way they can hold power is if they lie to the people… [Ophelia of the Spirits] You don’t know what I know You can’t see the spreading stain of deception I am cruel to myself Things will never be the same [Howard Zinn] If they told people the truth, they wouldn’t last very long. [Ophelia of the Spirits] I will hold my silence Like a weapon in my hand If I used it I would murder myself You could never understand [Verse 1: Vinnie Paz] Columbus came ashore, greeted with nothin’ but niceness Sailin’ west in attempt to find gold and spices Dominated by the popes in frenzy for ices The Catholic church expelled Jews and claimed it was righteous The first man to see land would get a reward And get a yearly pension for life, clearly from God A young sailor saw land, said, “We isn’t far!” Columbus lied, said he saw it the evening before They touched ground, they were greeted by the Arawak Columbus had them locked up as prisoners in an hour flat He wanted to find they source of gold and that was that And when they thought that wasn’t fair then he stabbed they back When there was no more gold, he took slaves instead And left a quarter million Indians in Haiti dead The men died in mines, the women died at work The children died from lack of milk and they died in the dirt They were just takin’ advantage of a passive people They were just bein’ the savages of massive evil That’s the church work, that’s the path of massive ego That’s the blood of Abraham bein’ stabbed by the steeple , [Verse 2: Vinnie Paz] In 1619 they were patiently waitin’ For a ship that carried slaves that was changin’ the nation The white man was a cannibal, prayin’ to Satan Hatred, contempt, a pity of patronization That’s the cornerstone everything racism based in The African had a more advanced civilization Black was slave, master was white, rationalization Fifty million dead, that’s Western civilization At first they appeared in the north And they were helpless in the face of superior force And all of them were chained together, they really was lost Racism isn’t natural, it’s merely divorce Before the slave trade, black was considered distasteful By the Oxford dictionary, I find it disgraceful It’s not a natural tendency to be bitter and hateful It’s the natural enemy of the critical staple Slavery grew as the plantation system grew The reason for that’s kinda easily traceable Society of helpless dependence was capable Of saying, “Fuck a slave master! You in slavery too!” [Verse 3: Vinnie Paz] Seven slaves were put to death for murderin’ Master Fear of slave revolt had them developin’ faster You a Cataline killer, ineloquent bastard I would burn the white man while smellin’ the ashes From time to time, white man was part of the resistance White indentured servants wanted no part of the system King Philip’s War showed that if people would listen Then they could maybe break the complex chain of oppression Tyranny is tyranny, but that’s a concession But the women, they was treated like that of possessions Black women had it worse ’cause they was abused That’s the white justification, the Aryan blues The next move was to dominate the Mexicans James Polk dominated them like they was next of kin He sent Colonel Cross to lie to them and let them in Eleven days later his skull was crushed, so message sent “We take nothing by conquest,” that was the mantra The military wasn’t human, they was just monsters Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his taxes Denounced the Mexican War and got locked in shackles , [Verse 4: Vinnie Paz] The twentieth century opened, anger re-emerged Reality of ordinary life was bein’ heard Anarchists and feminists came from factory work Communism, socialism, seemed to be re-birthed “War is the health of the state” is what Bourne said And if you was born around that time, you was born dead The Espionage Act had people confused ‘Cause it was double talk, and they ain’t know how it’d be used Supposedly it was an act against spyin’ Dubois knew that that was bullshit and they was lyin’ Charles Schenck was arrested in Philadelphia For printin’ and distributin’ leaflets ’cause they was helpin’ ya He was indicted, tried and then found guilty And spent six months in jail, don’t that sound silly? Had his freedom taken away by his own nation But there’s a lesson, do not submit to intimidation The act still exists today and this shit is real Supposedly, Kennedy tried to have that shit appealed Eugene Debs did ten years for no purpose He obstructed the recruiting and enlistment service [Verse 5: Vinnie Paz] The post office started takin’ mail privileges Of magazines who printed anti-war sentiments A Socialist named Fairchild had it right He said that, “They can shoot me, but they can’t make me fight!” They sentenced him to a year in jail and that was reckless Sixty-five thousand men, conscientious objectors They were sent to army bases to work there They were treated sadistically and were hurt there They were strangled with the hemp rope till they collapsed And officers punched they stomach and they lower back A garden hose was placed on they face with a nozzle About six inches from them so they couldn’t swallow The war ended in nineteen hundred and eighteen The government was just tryin’ to wipe the slate clean Hemingway wrote ‘Farewell to Arms’ Dalton Trumbo wrote ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ The war was over, but they didn’t learn they lesson Twin tactics of control, reform and repression The patriotic fervor of war had been invoked That’s why the country that you live in is a fuckin’ joke! , [Outro: Vinnie Paz] You cannot be neutral on a moving train This is a story about the lies that your teacher told you This is real, actual, factual No lies in the whole record If you don’t believe me, look it up! I’m tryin’ to share the shit that I learned with y’all Do the knowledge! Your government does not care about you The people in power do not care about you Understand that! Power to the people! [Howard Zinn] War is like a fix. You know, you get high on war — “We won! We won!” — and then you look down on the ground again and you need another fix, you need another war. Why do you think we’ve had war after war after war after war? Every war, they say: “This is the end. This is the last war.” In World War I, they said: “This is the war to end all wars.” And then, not long after that, was World War II. And then soon the United States was waging war in Korea, and then Vietnam. If you study history, what you learn is that wars are always accompanied by lies. Wars are always accompanied by deception.] |
