Thunder

Living under the thumb of oppression for decades
We're nothing but messengers suffering under the sting of aggression
Needing compassion, beating and smashing
Scraping and crashing
Seething we're gnashing our teeth at the sight of our leaders who lead us asunder and cheat us
Gobble and eat us, claiming they feed us but we know the truth is like leeches they bleed us
All of our teachers, all the believers playing the scene out like harlequin theaters
All of the preachers, all the deceivers, taking their leave finally breaking like fevers
Cholera features, towering wall but we shake it to pieces
Hovering pall but each time that we see these infectious diseases
We fight till they cease and release us

I'm packing up, I'm taking off
I can't give all to sink under
I can't give up, I'm standing tall
Not backing out
I breathe thunder
I breathe thunder
I breathe thunder

Waking up to the sound of the traffic attacking
Running for cover with satellite tracking
Burning the cities down with corporate backing
Anything goes in a cultural vacuum
Anything goes when greed is motivation
Standing on skulls and call it elevation
Holy temple walls are built on decimation
Time for a basic reconsideration
The time is gone for patient conversation
There's no more room for any hesitation
The time is called the age of information
The time is now for global liberation
And I can't stay comfortable within these limitations
Sitting back inside the hovel watching trials and tribulations of my brothers of different nations
Lovers with different faces
The struggle of another is obligation

I'm packing up, I'm taking off
I can't give all to sink under
I can't give up, I'm standing tall
Not backing out
I breathe thunder

I'm packing up, I'm taking off
I can't give all to sink under
I can't give up, I'm standing tall
Not backing out
I breathe thunder

The outer world reflects the shade of inner coloration
I can't separate the vista from my personal frustrations
Countless imperfections, hopeless in depression
Trying to see it clearly from the point of intersection
But the confluence is messy, ever convalescing
At the center of a hurricane of stressing manifesting
The avalanche is resting
The tidal wave is cresting
The cancer is infesting and aggressively progressing
The consciousness is like a compass always realigning
And the world is a projection that it's constantly designing
So I rise above the din
I always need reminding through the chaos that I'm in
The stars are always shining and I'm finding
I can't do it alone remaining silent
My family isn't only in the home they're right beside me
My sisters and my brothers take my side in every weather
There's nothing that can ever keep us tethered down together

So I'm packing up, I'm taking off
I can't give all to sink under
But I can't give up, I'm standing tall
Not backing out
I breathe thunder
I breathe thunder
I breathe thunder
I breathe thunder
I breathe thunder