Empty Promise
On With Literacy and Justice for All: A Benefit for the DC Area Books to Prisons Project
The invisible hand is an iron first, helpless
This distress merits unrest, but a shot in the dark is aimless
This is an entity, a pent up energy
Dissidence will not concede to this homogeny
Dissidence will not concede, to this uniformity
Dissidence will not concede that our dreams can't be realities
Freedom isn't my ability to cope with this predestiny, to choose where I get a degree, or where I spend 40 hours a week
They commodified the air I breathe, and everything that my eyes see--but I've built walls, I've built walls all around me
They're not getting through to me, no--not getting through
If we can only strive to subsist, if we believe that we can't make a difference, if we believe our dreams are meaningless...
Life is an empty promise
Life's not an empty promise