Systems are in place
Promoting our oppression
To go against the grain
Pay the price for your transgression
Treated as a number
Not an individual
Challenge what is set in place
Will cast you as a criminal
Vision of the governed
Altered and askew
Continues to eradicate
All that has defined you
Now is the time to fight
Question everything
Open up your mind
Now is the time to rise
Look beyond their rhetoric
And read between the lines
Never disregard
The ones that you must govern
Represent the heroes
Be a preacher or a mother
Define the line and
Where you'd like to stand
Formulate solutions
Create the master plan
Protect our dreams don't keep them from reality
Build us up don't tear us down
From our individuality
Now is the time to fight
Question everything
Open up your mind
Now is the time to rise
Look beyond their rhetoric
And read between the lines