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Blood Money

by Raushan

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1.
Babylon 05:18
V1 I know the way this story will end and knowing the world of men, our arrogance won't let us repent that cursed "Land of Sin" called Babylon has managed to rise again manipulated by Satan, it was a pagan civilization now it's a culture, not a location, passed along throughout the ages like the Romans and the Persians, following false gods and a lust for war they built empires of power and wealth, destroying their neighbors to plunder more now we've become"Tthe Whore", feeding on the blood of the world's civilians seducing them with peaceful visions, while our armies are bombing their cities killing their children, stealing their riches, then we're conquering their cities but as long as the oil's flowing, people ignore the blood we're spilling trying to emulate the Romans, though the Romans slew the Christians like America does the Muslims, while they distract us with television making us idolize celebrities, we're trapped in illusions of ecstasy obsessed with sex and greed, we live in a dream, forgetting our destinies and as long as we can keep material things, we allow this treachery and they legalized our vices, so we're too occupied to see this is the very culture the Prophets preached against, and yet you love it so you ignore the repercussions while embracing the Devil's corruption literally tempting God's wrath, determining that He's merely bluffing why must Man continue to walk this path, inviting his own destruction? Chorus You're rushing to the end, by living in sin I know the one who's to blame, riding a dragon of flames she & Shaytan are the same, the wretched beast with the name "Babylon" V2 I know what you're really after, I see past the smiles and the lies you're trying to prepare the masses for the coming of the AntiChrist but i realized the "AntiChrist" is not a person but a state of mind that's the opposite of the divine life the Prophets told us to find now your artists sing its praises, convincing you it's ok to question God and worship the Devil, rejecting everything that's sacred evil's made to seem desired and to be righteous now is "lame" treating pornstars like "goddesses" while virgins are treated with shame boys are trained to root for the villain, told it's ok to pimp our women living a life obsessed with violence, even our games are centered on killing girls are trained to want the bad boy, fantasies of a vampire lover that's a creature raised from the dead that survives by drinking the blood of others (there are) entire industries devoted to greed, lust, and killing things demonic imagery, bombarded with death and destructive tendencies thinking mercy's for the weak, you slaughter your enemies for the glory never turning the other cheek, you're Christians in name only if the Devil gained flesh, how many of you would choose to follow him? or seek his acknowledgment? or think it'd be fun to bring the Apocalypse? I'm positive some women would sleep with him and share his stories many of you are Anti-Christians, following him and don't even know it Chorus V3 Every empire crumbles and this one will be no different how will you react whenever your lives are wiped from existence? cuz your cherished Land of Sin will be destroyed by forces within not from terrorists but negligence, born from the greed of men and see it's already started happening, the middle class is collapsing infrastructure's falling apart and the masses can't afford their actions ruined roads, aging bridges, how many levees must break from the weight of record flooding? disasters in every state and relief ain't coming, cuz they can't profit from it 3 trillion dollar budget yet they refuse to help the public?! the masses have become the needy, millions with cancer and other diseases yet these doctors do nothing unless they can profit from selling the treatment where's your capitalism now?! where's the Devil whenever you need him?! you sing their praises when you're healthy but they abandon you when you're bleeding the jobs are never returning, the leeches have already retreated stealing the wealth of entire regions, the leaders try to calm the people then (boom!) another disaster strikes, but this time it's the greatest of all now watch your leaders get frantic, then panic as enemies breach the walls the citizens cry for help but nobody's there to answer your desperate calls you'll have to save yourselves as you watch this latest Babylon fall Chorus
2.
Marinate 05:00
Chorus Laid back, knowing that when I throw my stress away life ain't even bad, stop, let it marinate cuz what I'm trying to say is I know there's a better way so everyday I'm trying to make it to Heaven's Gate V1 Life is a breeze, now picture yourself relaxing on the beach sipping tea, sitting beneath the shade while waves soak your feet it just seems incredibly hard because you stress over worldly things but if you focus on your needs and forget the rest, you'll be at ease but so many would rather live instead with new cars a massive debt a 50 inch with 200 channels, yet they're still living check to check got 20 pairs of shoes but you've run out of food and you've still gotta pay your rent next month you'll do it all over again, the companies love it, investors win just throw it away, you can but you won't, you'd rather remain i the newest of clothes the price that you pay is measured in time, you've worked your whole life, so why are you broke? I know this state of mind cuz several times I've worked a 9 to 5 so yeah, I realize sometimes we're bored and want an escape, that's fine so turn off the cable, take a walk or go the park, read poetry or learn to draw or play a guitar, most of these things are free or cheap and maybe you'll finally be at peace, but if you really just can't relate then calm your mind, rewind this verse a few times and let it marinate Chorus V2 Sometimes I dream of moving away and buying a thousand acres of property inviting my friends, then building a city that's based on true equality where everyone works together as teams, and health care and education are free and everyone's guaranteed a place to sleep and food for their families to eat but if you want to have finer things, you can work for a couple of days a week securing our streets, or it can be in schools, farms or factories and once expenses are met, profits are invested in the community and then the cycle's complete, becoming a self sufficient economy which means developing industries and using renewable energies instead of our enemies, we'll spend our free time searching for inner peace i probably should've told you this but I'm a socialist and that's why I believe a nation's wealth should be used to help its people and serve their needs now some might say it's a foolish dream, but this is the way that it used to be when families banded together and started new villages working in unity I'd rather try and see than be a slave to somebody else's greed and this, we can achieve if only enough are willing to walk with me Chorus V3 I used to watch you from a distance, the most captivating of women beautiful smile, well spoken and a magnificent figure used to love hearing you talk, though I'd get nervous whenever you'd call couldn't believe you'd hang with me, and yeah, i'd stare when I'd see you walk you always smiled whenever you saw me, always playful, never judged always treated me like your equal when it was obvious you were above me you taught me to care for others, then helped me become a man so my plan was to get rich, start a business and buy some land then i finally would've been good enough to ask you for your hand i was such a fool, fresh out of high school, i was too young ot understand that you already loved me, tried your best to save my soul but i was too caught up doing shows, and couldn't get rid of my worldly goals so i never told you that i loved you, and in time we grew apart it broke my heart whenever you found somebody else to play my part but your daughter needed a father and you deserved to be a bride so I just wanted to thank you Dawn, you changed my life and opened my eyes Chorus
3.
Blood Money 04:07
V1 Blood money is just the price you're willing to pay to make the ultimate sacrifice the price you'll take for selling your soul, the price you name to take a life and most of the time you'll think it's the deal of your life, and yeah! you should've declined! instead you'll find, you already lost the second you signed the dotted line cuz the Devil and his minions own the riches in this society and they never give them away for free, there's always a catch and the second you think you've finally paid your dues, they'll come around demanding sacrifices bribing you to comply, reminding you of the price if you choose defiance now you're stuck in a bind, you think of your family's safety so you comply and when the time arrives, you go with their plan and somebody dies you try to drink away the guilt, you can't even look your wife in the eyes but she can read between the lines and see the crimes you're trying to hide like the salary you take in order to stay as one of their soldiers then you were ordered to assassinate the leader that fights these horrors all life is precious but you see death as just a business but when Judgement finally comes, how can you expect to be forgiven? Chorus Your obsession with power's made money your only master buying the life of the world at the price of the Hereafter choosing money over life, your fate has now been written the day you leave the living the angels will get vengeance V2 For what price are you willing to sell your soul? I know that most will say a couple of million but no I've seen it happen for less, cuz even the best can be blinded by their goals selling themselves for petty change, pretty things and diamond rings some will just for a shot at fame and others because they have bills to pay like the lawyer taking a case whenever they know their opponent's innocent or know their client's guilty yet they still continue defending him or the doctor stopping your treatments cuz you cant afford the expenses or the woman that sleeps with her landlord so her rent can get an extension did I mention during the night she's selling body while she's stripping to the customers that offer her a thousand to finally hit it should've went to their wives and kids, instead they bought sex with no commitment then the stripper spends 400 to abort their unborn children then you're giving cash donations, guaranteeing her "right" to kill them but refuse to spend a penny so that child can join the living though all life is precious, some see death as just a business but when Judgement finally comes, can you even be forgiven? Chorus V3 The reason I hate money the most is cuz of the way it changes people you can see it in their eyes whenever they're scheming, like they're demons and if money is truly evil, then some people seem possessed choosing money over their health, they literally work themselves to death husbands fighting with their wives because of a mortgage or the evening gown she bought while she was out cheating with a richer guy she was seeing if your toddler breaks your tv, then you're seething so you beat him choosing money over your families? you can replace it, what are you thinking?! pushed your daughter to be a model so you can make some easy cash pressuring her to show her body, hoping she gets a contract money's turned you into trash, man some people truly disgust me like the pimps and cartels selling sex slaves by the hundreds or the church giving out hush money to settle molesting charges or the suicide bomber taking cash to be a martyr look, all life is precious but sometimes I just don't get it when Judgement finally comes are you even trying to be forgiven? Chorus
4.
Fade Away 04:02
Chorus Life ain't given, that's the point of living strive to be your best, never stopping until you fade away I stay driven. trying to lead a million guiding you to Heaven, my message will never fade away V1 I gaze upon the stars, reflecting on life, as i wonder why some are chosen to be leaders while others remain blind still I know that when my time has arrived, I'll get to shine an be an example, guiding all of mankind from his decline never again will I be silent, cuz silence signals compliance so the plan's for me to be fighting with those that rely on violence but the pen's a better weapon, defiantly I'll be writing spreading the truth and nullifying the lies that keep us divided an if I can reach the youth, i can teach them to seek the truth and still be righteous after seeing the evil that people do some will tempt you with their money and power, but don't accept it cuz the gifts from our Creator are greater, so please reject it God opened up my eyes, allowed me to walk amongst the villains so i could grasp their true intentions and expose them with precision now my vision is to get you to fight for a better living and if I die from what i'm revealing, oh well, that's my decision cuz Chorus V2 Now the nemesis of those with ambitions to become magnificent has whispered to the spirits of Man since the days of Genesis he slithers in, stalking his victims, exploiting their ignorance and then he spreads his venom, delivering doubt and insolence their innocence is tainted, he's blatantly gone and twisted it devoured their peaceful nature, replaced it with the ways of the hypocrite the lamb is now corrupted, it's purpose is now destructive such a shame how something so lovely's been reduced to something disgusting it's reminding me of the dove, that was born to soar above the clouds and out of jealousy, the other animals plotted to bring her down and so they broke her wings, forcing the dove to crawl on the ground alone enduring a life she shouldn't have to endure, and live in a world where she doesn't belong she struggled through the years, the others laughed as she stumbled by she was always gazing at the sky, remembering her former life her wings had long since healed, but she never realized the only thing that held her down was the fact that she never tried to fly Chorus V3 I know the plight of the teacher, the leader, and the preacher looking at their people, trying to figure out how to reach them knowing that evil is lurking, so I'm speaking to the believers, warning you of the Great Deceiver he's your enemy, don't fall for his lies you don't have to sell your soul for anything cuz all it buys is the life of the world, but the cost is when you die you've sacrificed your chance at Heaven, and that's never worth the price stay true to yourself and stand proudly in the Light and purge your grudges, your hatreds, insecurities and vices give to charity, cherish life and love all humanity help your family, and maybe then you can stand with me society leaves the good to fend for themselves so the snakes can gather around, trying to tempt you with their wealth but if the righteous stick together we can build a better living and if life is truly a game, (then) thanking God's the key to winning, yeah Chorus
5.
Chorus "American only", that's what they told me that we were chosen so the world really owes me wait, that just doesn't seem right why do so many have to die for our lies? (it's up to us) America owes me, that's what you don't see exploiting the people while they stole all the proceeds they get away with their crimes and that's why the people have to fight for their rights (it's up to us) V1 Fresh off a plane from the Hamptons, his chauffeur shines off his gators then they head to a late fundraiser for the mayor got a mansion in the burbs, 2 kids and a wife 2 Bentley's in the driveway, this is the life! got a mistress in Brazil, 50 million in the bank fully paid for his kids to go to Princeton, and the day he gets bored, he'll retire from the business he inherited and hey, maybe one day he'll even run for President but 20 miles away on the other side of town whole neighborhoods in ruin, foreclosures all around bodies found but the cops wont investigate the killings vacant buildings full of crack fiends, shelters full of children no jobs, no hope, no future worth living some turn to prostitution, others sleeping under bridges to the people in the streets, the "American Dream" is nothing more than some rich man's scheme they'll never see Chorus V2 Look how quickly we've forgotten, the last 400 years the oppression of the natives, the enslavement of our peers how's it the "Land of the Free" when you slaughtered all the Indians? and used slave labor to build it, such hypocrites the innocent have always been exploited for your greed took 100 years of protests to gain (our) equality the majority, threatened by the rise of minorities, figured out a system to destroy our communities they legalized the process, labeled it "the projects" then like cattle we were rounded up without our knowledge segregation and suppression were the objects then injected drugs and guns to sabotage any progress assassinated our leaders then replaced them with demons that would teach us to be drug dealers, pimps, and false preachers now they sit back laughing as we're poisoned from within trapped within a life of sin, so we can never rise again Chorus V3 Meet your local police chief, king of the bigots rebel flag in his yard, hates every other religion says he can't accept the fact that a black man's President so he's "taking his country back", using his badge as his weapon then the tested it by locking up the minority residents trumped up the charges and falsified the evidence the feds caught him on tape shooting 2 illegal immigrants but instead of protecting the innocent, they praised him for his vigilance the families were outraged and people wanted vengeance so reluctantly, the jury finally sentenced him to prison but he didn't serve a minute, walked free on a technicality but in reality, we're just as bad cuz we'd rather be thugs than scholars, the power of the dollar turns brothers into killers and makes strippers out of our daughters there's more black men in prison than in college and a whole generation of our kids, that'll never know their fathers it's appalling, and you wonder when the leaders don't bother cuz we'd rather kill ourselves over land that ain't ours and man, we stay balling, wont solve our own problems Malcolm X would be depressed by how far we've fallen like the people of Moses, freed from oppression then turned around and thanked God by pissing on his blessings our arrogance led us to destroy our heritage we do more damage to ourselves than the Klan ever did Chorus

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released July 1, 2011

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Raushan Nashville, Tennessee

The progressive rapper Raushan is a true musical visionary, effortlessly mixing complex rhyme schemes with provocative topics and ever-changing beats. He aims to expose the side of reality that societies try to hide. But, the point is to teach & inspire, not to divide or anger. So even when speaking on controversial topics, it's simply meant to get others to understand the problem itself. ... more

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