I fight against the standards of society
I oppose conformity, peer pressure, anorexia, homophobia
I attempt to enlighten society's participants
I fight against society

I fight against the greed in our world
Corporations killing off consumers
Their products depreciated
To make production cheaper
While they make the prices higher
Higher and higher, til the poor can't afford…
They kill off their workers
Pay them less and less
Expect more and more
They couldn't produce without the workers
They know it but don't respect it
They kill off governmental integrity
They fund political campaigns
'til the elected owe them so much
that the corporations become the elected
the corporations become our government
no more checks and balances…
it's all one entity

I fight, accordingly, against the government as well
Our corporate government is a fascist government
Just a tryin' to run our lives…
I ask you:
Who has a right to control you?
Why, you, of course! Nobody else!
Slavery done been abolished years ago…
But the government enslaves us
More and more restrictive laws everyday.
They won't let you use drugs
For only they have the right
To your pursuit of happiness
And they prohibited prostitution…
Imagine that! You can't sell your own body!
Cuz your body is no longer your own…
For it is they who own the own of all citizens

Against this I fight, with all my heart
Most of all people are slaves
It is my dream to forge
A new emancipation proclamation
It is my dream to free
The entire enslaved nation

The media too, they keep us sedate
They feed us apathy
Through music, movies, and MTV
The masses are too caught up
In celebrity worship
Doting over Backstreet Boys
And all them other corporate toys

Greed drives the corporations
The corporations control the government
The government enslaves the masses
Who are sedated by the media

Accustomed are the masses to their society so unfree
It's gonna take a shitload of revolutionaries
To enlighten; to illuminate
And the revolutionaries present,
They are watched by the FBI
Makin' sure they don't take a step too far…
The FBI enforces our slavery
The FBI kills the revolutionaries
They incarcerate
Those who will not be killed
The Black Panthers were locked up
Mumia Abu Jamal will soon be killed
They are our overseers
They oversee our enslaved lives

I come to enlighten the masses
I urge: get up off your asses
Turn off your MTV
Come, join me
As we pave the road to freedom
I have now issued a brand-new
Emancipation proclamation
If you so choose to break your chains…
I declare you will be emancipated

Don't involve yourself in the apathy
That the media feeds us so cunningly
Don't worship their celebrities
Don't spend your money on their CDs
Don't pay the corporations
They ain't done no good for you
Don't participate in the superficiality
Of our damned, enslaved society
And, most of all, to free your soul
Don't obey our government
Let no laws control you
Instead, create your own
Don't let anything control you
You alone must control yourself

Complete my suggestions, and
I Declare You Emancipated
Believe this, know it in you heart
And I declare you ready
To emancipate the world