Caged in a zoo Lyrics

In this world

There will be people who want to bring you down

But do me a favour, son, and keep fighting

Don't listen to their writing

You better shut your mouth, you better shut it now

You better stand down, before I put you down

You better shut your mouth, you better shut it now

You better shut your mouth, you better shut your mouth

There's hell in your paradise

When we're trapped inside

Your zoo

Even the wildlife

Is trapped inside

Too

We're all parked in your view

So you can tell us what to do

You can abuse

But then just accuse

Us of accusations when we're saying that's what you do

Target the women, they're your victims but paint them as the villains

When they stand up to you

Decide who gets more rights, but then talk about an equal life

You just want to deceive then pretend you're for the people, right

But just know I see through your evil lies

You've got a lethal mind

Everything you do is illegal, crime

Lays within

But I'm not scared, I'm prepared to stand against this

You better shut your mouth, you better shut it now

You better stand down, before I put you down

You better shut your mouth, you better shut it now

You better shut your mouth, you better shut your mouth

In this zoo, we're all your animals too, but we're the ones getting clawed

Keep us caged, take our rights away, you must be above the law

But then we're all a part of an hierarchy

And the powerful man is in charge of the land we live in

There's no justice when we're all fish in the shark's sea

And he's the fucking shark that likes to visit

So enjoy your visit before he comes

Because as soon as he does

He'll eat you up

And if you don't like it here, you're asked to leave

I guess it's a sin to be aware of how they deceive

Don't point out the discrimination or cruel ways

Or you'll be facing a cruel face

So go along with their wrongs

But it's alright

If you're a man who happens to be white

They'll like you

But if you're from a minority group

Be prepared to get looked down on

Remove that smile and put a frown on

The person above you doesn't love you, he's got a God complex

Which is ironic as I only see the devil in red

So how is he blessed

Everyone goes along with what the powerful man says

Well I say fuck that

I'm going to stand up to that

I'm going to break out

Of my cage now

I'm not gonna shut my mouth, I'm not going to step down

But you better shut yours now, you better get down

You better shut up, you better keep your mouth shut

I'm prepared to stand against the heard, my heart is amber

But that causes for hateful words, they've lost their temper

They're using intimidation, to get away with discrimination

They sweep the complaints and other conversations under the rug

They use tears to fill up holes that have been dug

But their tears are crocodiles tears, they want to stop our smiles here

You lose your confidence as fears do kill your soul, they've taken your courage

They just want compliments, so they rewrite complaints so they can flourish

They've removed your petals, and set fire to your roots

Without a giving it a thought or mind

They've undone everything we fought for, life

Feels burnt out

But still the smoke won't settle, it lingers around to suffocate you

As we fall six feet under burnt ground

When's it going to be their turn now

Is the question our minds ask

But we know it never will be when they're the fire extinguisher and the striked match

They're the smoke detector and the white gas

But they deny that

But they will write back

But their letter, is just them reinforcing that they're the alpha, better acknowledge

That those in power, will take ours until we are abolished

Yes, they're trying to take our rights away

But I'll fight today

And every day for that matter

I'm more than just a rapper

I'm a fighter, a survivor of the hatred

I used to have the stripes of a zebra, but they turned into stripes of a tiger, I've rewritten my pages

But you painted me and everyone as crazy

Whenever we critique your ways

You just want us caged

I'm not gonna shut my mouth, I'm not going to step down

But you better shut yours now, you better get down

You better shut up, you better keep your mouth shut

Communication is the key

That'll set us free

But whenever we try to tell you how we feel

You tell us to keep our mouths sealed

You want to keep us chained

You put us in a cage

As you write your own novella

We're wishing on a star or well, as

You turn us into an animal farm

You play the instruments and we're forced to listen and witness the harm

You say we've became soft, but life is hard

You're fishing for compliments, we're going to go fish in the wells for luck

But we ain't playing cards, we're just showing the one's we were dealt

But you never gave a fuck about how we felt

Everyone deserves human rights, which is why, you cage us like animals

Because then we're not humans at all

But you don't let people see this side, instead you speak in lies

You say you're for all, but your actions don't show it

You trip women over and cause for them to fall, that or you follow them

Maybe even both, now women are fighting for equal rights like it's an action movie

There's no men to save the day

The good ones have been caged away

But women don't need saving from the people hurting them it's true we

Are hurting them, burning them, turning them insecure

But there's only one person is to be blamed, but they shan't be named, like voldemort

We're all in his pot, I wish I had a magic wand to help fix this hellish nation

But sadly not even magic can fix the discrimination

We're rolling in their schooling,

We're skates on their platforms, they're sharks

They're so full of hate even though we share the same parts

They're training us how they want us to preform

And there's ableism and misogyny

In your hierarchy

You're supposed to be for people from all walks of life

Instead you discriminate and intimidate even though that's an awful crime

But it's never a police matter, when the men in blue don't help

People want to know if it'll get better, but time won't tell

No matter what happens, we know nothing goes well

This prison has been rewritten into a hotel

Well, they're tricking us into thinking this

We're all on board a sinking ship

Blink and you'll miss it, but they won't allow us to put the blinkers on

You want us to be restricted

There's disrespect, you're starting to attack, you're to blame for the killing

As you step all over the women like they're a matt, they're in need of healing

We've gone back to 1975

So much for being welcoming to people from all walks of life

Women keep getting stepped on, or stared at

Heaven's stairs collapse as they turn to a slope that leads to hell

The respects gone, and we won't get the care back

When every stare causes women to lose hope in men

So yet again we've fell

But you say you can help

We just have to make a visit to your city

But when there, if we don't follow your rules, you sock it to us

You're causing us to lose our footing

We've been stripped bare, you've gotten cruel, it's gotten too much

Nothing is looking up

The sun bares heat, but your darkness brings more

You won't listen to our songs but we have to sing yours

But your tune is the opposite to the key of freedom

You make a fortune from other's misery, but yet we're still visiting

You're so damn evil, you don't want us to grow as people

But I want to grow like a tree now

But you chop me down

Or cage me so I can't leave now

You turnt my leafs brown

I want to go back to my roots

But you prevent me and instead give me the black thoughts

But you can't chop my trunk to chunks when I'm an elephant in the room

I'm bringing up the conversations that need to be brought

I'm not going to be a sheep like you want

But still everyday that we're caged, we beg for change but you can't bare the thought of us needing adjustments

You are the polar opposite of us then

Causing our moods to change when you're near

When you are close by, we get enraged with fear

Which is something else you can't bare

You're the only one who's allowed to get grizzly

As this is your city

Or from the mere fact, you're the big cat

And we're the billy goats, but you didn't know, that we'll end up being the greatest of all time

And when we are, we won't let your hatred slide, we will swing high, we won't be parked in your view

We'll have more fuel so I will drive the story in a different direction

You will see my stripes like a tiger, the fighter in me is tired of being messed with

You won't be the main character, I'll be the lion at the ending

Meaning I'll switch to the main, roar my name, I'll never go extinct

I will bring all the dinosaurs back from the ashes like a phoenix

I'll set fire to your city, as I spread my wings big

I'll make sure you actually do a 360 unlike an owl's head

I'll help everyone out of their shell, the turtle will beat the hare as the story is now set

I have an eagles visionary, I'm going to write history

Like Martin Luther, I have a dream

I'm removing the dark land as I see a brighter future

Where I will create an area everyone can play in

My opened mouth

Won't be closing now

You will know every word I'm saying

I'm not gonna shut my mouth, I'm not going to step down

But you better shut yours now, you better get down

You better shut up, you better keep your mouth shut

Even though I'm yet to go to war, the battle has been won

Because I'm prepared to fight for everyone

And I'm going to build an army to go to war with

And once we've started

There's no losing

Because my movement

Will represent escaping the zoo's tricks

I'm not gonna shut my mouth, I'm not going to step down

But you better shut yours now, you better get down

You better shut up, you better keep your mouth shut

In this world, there'll be people who want to take you down

But if we all stand against those trying to shut us up

We won't fall silent to their words