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Illegoaliens - Fres Thao - Portrait of Evolution

from Blank Canvas (illegoaliens) by Fres Thao

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PORTRAIT OF EVOLUTION

Hidden bomb shelters, global warming and hospitals
Nine double one more warning to guide you
Small pox viruses, dicing you with a knife too
Sawed off shotguns, automatics and semis
Full blue suits with a happy face, torn families desperate, living in disgrace
Place to place, hate doesn’t discriminate
Plate full of food, ready to go to waste
Now stay outta school if you aint ready to die
Welfare, yea, well share, fuck it we don’t care
Healthcare, climb up stairs and jump off
Insurance fraud, go pray to your own god
Paint another section with a frayed toothbrush
Tubes full of color, smothered on one pallet
Confused all together, minds, thoughts, scrambled and scattered
Feelings unapproved, images beat and battered
Dark nights, thunder lightning, full moon frightening
Tip toe in silence, swaying from left to right and,
Stiff legs walk with long broad steps, looking forwards towards
Memorable moments hoping emerald cities invitations got your name

Patience, pacing, clock stuck at midnight
Waiting on a rock, a faded moonlight
Stains on the smock, ready to paint the sunrise
But time flies by with broken butterfly wings and these tearless cries
Show a smile on that canvas
Swords drawn with sketched palms and stretched arms
Rock climbing with knots tied to time clocks
Spot lights on hot pipes destroy laughter
Tragedy, fire with intoxications
Man woman child with animal instincts
Rapes burglaries, affordable plastic surgeries
Prostituting teenagers dropping babies at nurseries
Mass hysteria, glass, crash and smash
Alcoholics anonymous, curroupt police departments getting away with violence
Silence, these environmental disasters
World trade centers, secret hidden agendas
Tsunamis, mudslides, fast food, obesity, supersize them fries
Cancer, diseases, envelopes with anthrax, murder suicide
End it with a handclap
Weapons, mass destruction, need another distraction
Corrupt administration with defective polls
Tearing off the head of terrorists that we know
If they didn’t know us then, they’ll definetly know us now
Mad cow, bad economy, time to showcase, homebase
That’s reality, catch it all on the tube
While the rich getting rich, and the poor get confused
Politic tock pictures and its all over the news
See the masquerade parading all over the streets
Pollution airwaves, its all in what we breathe
Reproduce, make way, and get out of my reach
Its time to act afraid, evolutions finally on two feet

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from Blank Canvas (illegoaliens), track released January 1, 2007
Written and Performed by Fres Thao
Produced by Kshksh and Fres Thao

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Fres Thao Minnesota

I am a Hmong American poet, Hip Hop artist, multidisciplinary artist, activist and educator. My life long love of poetry, Hip Hop and storytelling has spawned eight albums, including Illegoalien’s ‘Blank Canvas’ and a vinyl release of my ‘Mind Full Of’ album, and one book, Lullabies for Happiness, A Manual for Love and Peace. ... more

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