Marathon - Langston's Motto lyrics

rate me

Buildings, subways, city sidewalks: formerly our public canvas. <br />

Now coated with glossy plastic faces bleached with one intent: manufacture illness. <br />

My body's retching from this plague of images. <br />

I need to vomit back these toxins, cleanse my mind before they can digest. <br />

But it wasn't always like this, debate once seethed across these blockades and our voices spoke through paint-stained hands, and it's coming back-the people's voice on the attack. <br />

Hands are drowsy. <br />

Tongue is stretching. <br />

Rise and shine. <br />

Thoughts slumber in hiding. <br />

Opinions wanting out. <br />

Release them now. <br />

Quickly skulking through the darkness, dripping verse over product slogans. <br />

Poets for a better world. <br />

This is our vaccine. <br />

I don't want consensus, I just ask you to release your ideas into the air to counteract this sick monotony. <br />

I hope you'll be joining me. <br />

Rise and shine. <br />

The idea marketplace only sells one fruit today. <br />

It's time for you to claim some space. <br />

Rise and shine. <br />

Turn it around. <br />

Rise and shine. <br />

Put your theories on parade your words will detonate against the corporate cityscape. <br />

What's that? <br />

I can't hear you. <br />

Wake up now. <br />

We're getting up. <br />

Get up now. <br />

What's that? <br />

I can't hear you. <br />

Get up now.