Omar Offendum's video: Omar Offendum - Years Prod by Sa d - EyeKnowFaces EP

https://offendum.bandcamp.com/album/eye-know-faces Lyrics: I wrote this verse at 30,000 feet En route to Austin Next week Chicago Last week exhausting Speaking about my people & what 6 years cost them Syrian bodies strewn ashore Families who've lost them Brutality the likes of which A child should never see Let alone be subjected to Lonely, poor & destitute Realities the likes of which Our voices never free Freedom marches Across the harshest seas Only to be rejected too I'm appealing to the best of you If my mama didn't raise me right I wouldn't be addressing you I'd be on my knees begging you These babies deserve better Than blurbs in newsletters Or decisions about their futures That help arms dealers earn better In addition to the smugglers & the looters Oil barons & air polluters Killer telecommuters Shooting bombs off drones Offices close enough to home To be dozing off by 8pm with little trauma signs shown Pundits adding to the drama One that flaunts a devil's thumbprint But that index pulling triggers isn't charged When the body it's connected to is in uniformed garb Ain't that something? Trust me, they don't hate your freedom It's the lies they find repugnant It's the wars & the coups The propping up of dictators Short-term memory Long-range missile radius & the craziest election rhetoric imaginable How we would claim a moral high ground Just isn't fathomable ... The fact that Has to even be said is telling Back in '08 It was 'Hope & Change' selling Eight years later Some Great Lakes waters were strange smelling And Syrian lives shattered From a barrel bomb shelling On an hourly basis While our cowardly faces Stared at a camera phone reflection Drowned away in disgrace Hundreds of thousands Were plundered by thundering rounds Of obliterating agony World leaders would rather lead us to believe They were being liberated Actually ... The older I get I find the meaning of 'freedom' is relative It doesn't even mean the same To me & my relatives Democracy on a high horse Or high off of sedatives? Keeping up with the Jones' That ain't being competitive Now I'm no longer in debt But still feel like I'm getting it The misuse of my tax dollars Getting repetitive Meditative retreats Were all that kept me from losing it Now I look in my son's eyes To find what is relevant ... Jibran, the best medicine But if we had tried to immigrate today They wouldn't let us in That's unsettling ... Yeah ... that's unsettling. - - - - - - - - - - - - - Credits: 'Eye Know Faces' EP, released August 4, 2017 Lyrics written + recorded by Omar Offendum | Cosher Ink, LLC Music Produced by Saüd | Brij Entertainment Mixed + Mastered by Apollo Fortune