Once Upon a Time

Ah
 Bring out the marching band
 Tumi, Zubz, Chinese Man
 Sha
 Ah
 Once upon a time in this great land
 European settlers would set off on a cave man quest
 Dutch king summoning Jan Van Beek
 The rest was Queen Elizabeth conquest
 As portrayed quite well by Cate Blanchett
 Great actress, wait, I may digress
 Before that was pyramids and villages
 Where pygmy, little men and other such denizens rest
 Complex systems of living, some fishing, some building and others out killing
 Matriarchy where the kings were tribe's women
 Painted art still seen today in tribe symbols
 It's a cycle, your beginning is your ending or your interim
 Your appearance is a historic coincidence
 But they link it to your incorrect conditioning
 Now everybody screaming racism as a consequence
 Bring out the marching band
 Let 'em play an anthem for our continent
 You went and botched the plan
 Liberate the mind but forgot the land
 Bring out the marching band
 Let 'em play an anthem for our continent
 Why you done botch the plan?
 Liberate the land but forgot the man
 Feel the momentum of an unspent force
 A liberation found another one get lost
 Magazine kept while the gun get tossed
 Perpetual previsions of the sunset clause
 No wonder they demand more
 Nobody planned for
 Brazilian cuts in the pubic crotch of the land court
 In a Mexican stand-off
 Picture a poverty stricken finger
 Twitching on hair pin trigger
 And pause
 Can't deny my stress
 I know better than to blame the wild Wild West
 As to reign the higher address as a mind set
 Bigger the jail the less serious the crimes get
 So the tumbleweed rolls through these empty streets
 They shot the sheriff all we have is the deputy
 And he definitely does not wanna rock the boat
 So we work hard chopping, gloat, and forget we plead
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 Bring out the marching band
 Let 'em play an anthem for our continent
 You went and botched the plan
 Liberate the mind but forgot the land
 Bring out the marching band
 Let 'em play an anthem for our continent
 Why you done botch the plan?
 Liberate the land but forgot the man
 He bought a Range but his aim's off for the plane
 But it ain't take off, JFK straight shot
 Great Lakes paying for it, hate makes the air foggy
 NSA takes notice, play it safe same result
 So David Blaine got the rainbow sold to y'all
 You can rise away 'til the neuralizer tapers off
 Make law, take a farm you get our your acres
 I'd sooner root for that than a handout
 With the arms embargo, it'll be my own Zimbabwe
 So Colin Powell will swallow my bow and arrow and follow that
 With his chosen angle to photograph
 My ass know a power to recover from all of that, nasty
 All about poverty playing that off happy
 Skin too thick, get a little tin of acne cream or Vaseline
 You wait 'til them Somali kids give you a take from that Bruce Wayne alley scene
 Bring out the marching band
 Let 'em play an anthem for our continent
 You went and botched the plan
 Liberate the mind but forgot the land
 Bring out the marching band
 Let 'em play an anthem for our continent
 You went and botched the plan
 Liberate the mind but forgot the land