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What the hell have they done, to us-/
Channeling their hate, 'til it comes through us-/
-We would never discover petty difference in one another/
If they didn't put 'em right in our face, so I'm asking-//
What the hell have they done, to us-/
Waiting for the day, that they come for us-/
-We would never be driven by the petty fears within us/
If they didn't come and make it that way-//
---What have we, done-/
Reaping every last, crumb from the planet that we, want-/
--Now the damage has been, done-/
-The smog is thick, now and we can't even see the sun-/
--Where the hell did we go, wrong-/
-Jeopardise our life on this rock that we float, on-/
-While we're fighting a nation of no, one-/
Terrorism is a new cold, war that can go, on-/
Indefinite, Libya Iraq, ain't seperate-/
Knock it all, down, rebuild, resettle it-/
-But they don't care about their whereabouts it's evident-/
They just get the presidents, more dead, presidents/
Create laws, impose sanctions and set, prescedents-/
Take oil, for souls, tallying dead, residents-/
-Boil, their blood, dry, and claimed terrorists-/
-Soil, got sucked, dry, then they exited-/
Bush, found, guilty of war, crimes that's irrelevant/
No government can counter the power that he inherited/
Never be extrodited convicted or jailed, benefits/
Of walking out the president's suite with the same, memberships-/
-CFR, TC, think i'm dropping names-/
There the biggest gangs, in the whole, motherfucking game-/
-Killing and torture is justice in their corrupted brains-/
Millions are slaughtered and shoveled into their unmarked graves-//
Welcome to the/West Bank, reporters enter with their vests strapped-/
-The settlers would never step inside the death, trap-/
--This is ain't a blood or crip set-/
This an unabridged, genocidal government, threat-/
-They try stopp-in us, we fire roc-kets up-/
-They crop, dust, the block, with white, phos-phorus-/
-They try knock, us off, we throw, molotovs-/
-And handmade, grenades, to take, off ya top-/
-Off-icer knock-ing the door, off, of the/
Hin-ges kick it in now I'm on the floor, shocked, in a/
Choke, hold, lock, and I don't, know, what-/
-I did, to be hauled, up in my own, home, locked-/
In handcuffs - they say I'm a terrorist-/
They say this ain't my country and I don't deserve a claim in the benefits-/
They say I'm an immigrant, they say this nation would be better/
Without us they treat us like we ain't even citizens-/
I think that they're hypocrits-/
-They're trying to take my family's land from me on the basis of religious significance-/
--But in the knowledge we got similar ties-/
-They won't acknowledge me or give me my rights-/
They keep on spinning the lies, they don't acknowledge what we did to survive-/
You know the media don't listen they won't give us no time-/
The bull-dozers come around we throwing rocks from the crowd-/
Then foot, soldiers coming back to lock the neighbourhood down-/
Ain't no one saving us now, the Gaza strip is like a prison and/
They're basically already putting names in the ground-/
They built a wall around the city that they're carving us out-/
Blocking United Nations aid and now they're starving us out-/
-The children grow around the killing and the weekly threats-/
-Their will to live is non-existent their belief is dead-/
-And all the promises of martyrdom can seem the best-/
Option when you're watching people die and can't perceive and end-/
--Sleep with a rifle underneath the bed-/
--If you don't wanna be the one that's leaving next-/
--If you don't wanna be the one that meets your death/
Evicted from your land and see it being repossessed-//
Cortext has been putting pen to page for over a decade, developing and honing his unique style and performance. Taking roots
in South West WA, he boasts a prolific resume that includes 4 studio albums and countless online releases, and has shared the stage with the likes of Cypress Hill, Immortal Technique and Atmosphere. He brings to the game a message of positive change and a hunger for more...more
supported by 4 fans who also own “Take it Away/Welcome to the West Bank”
this album is fucking awesome love your early stuff sever honestly a legend in the Australian hip hop scene. TPW is means everything to me thankyou to you and the whole Perth scene oltimo