Once Upon a Time (feat. Tumi & Zubz)

Ah, bring out the marching band

Tumi, Zubaz, Chinese Man

Yeah

Ah, once upon a time in the great land

European settlers would set off on a caveman quest

Dutch king summoning Jan Van Beek

The rest was Queen Elizabeth conquest

As portrayed quite well by Cate Blanchett

Great actress, wait, I may digress

Before that was pyramids and villages

Where pigmy little men and other such denizens rest

Complex systems of living

Some fishing, some building and others out killing

Matriarchy, where the kings were tribe women

Painted art still seen today in tribe symbols

It's a cycle your beginning is your ending and your interim

Your appearance is a historic coincidence

But they link it to your incorrect conditioning

Now everybody screaming racism as a consequence

Bring out the marching band

Let 'em play an anthem for our continent

You went and botched the plan

Liberate the mind, but forgot the land

Bring out the marching band

Let 'em play an anthem for our continent

Why you done botch the plan?

Liberate the land, but forgot the man

Feel the momentum of an unspent force

A liberation found another one get lost

Magazine kept while the gun get tossed

Perpetual previsions of the sunset clause

No wonder they demand more

Nobody planned for

Brazilian cuts in the pubic crotch of the land court

In a Mexican stand-off

Picture a poverty-stricken finger

Twitching on a hairpin trigger

And pause

Can't deny my stress

I know better than to blame the Wild Wild West

As to reign the higher address as a mindset

Bigger the jail, the less serious the crimes get

So the tumbleweed rolls through these empty streets

They shot the sheriff, all we have is the deputy

And he definitely does not went to rock the boats

So we work hard chopping, bloat, and forget we plead

Bring out the marching band

Let 'em play an anthem for our continent

You went and botched the plan

Liberate the mind, but forgot the land

Bring out the marching band

Let 'em play an anthem for our continent

Why you done botch the plan?

Liberate the mind, but forgot the land

He bought a Range, but his aim's off for the plane

But it ain't take off, JFK, straight shot

Great Lakes paying for it, hate makes the air foggy

NSA takes notice, play it safe same result

So David Blane got the rainbow sold to y'all

You can rise away till the Neutralizer tapers off

Break a law, take a farm

You get our your acres I'd sooner root for that

Than a handout with the arms embargo

It'll be my own Zimbabwe

So Colin Powell will swallow my bow and arrow and follow that

With his chosen angle to photograph

My ass know a power to recover from all of that, nasty

All about poverty playing that off happy

Skin too thick in the middle tin of acne cream or Vaseline

You wait till them Somali kids

Give you a take from that Bruce Wayne alley scene

Bring out the marching band

Let 'em play an anthem for our continent

You went and botched the plan

Liberate the mind, but forgot the land

Bring out the marching band

Let 'em play an anthem for our continent

You went and botched the plan, hey

Liberate the mind, but forgot the land