Yell Fire! - Michael Franti (lyric and YouTube link)

[mcscajun]

Powerful stuff from a man who went to Israel, Baghdad, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip in 2006, and NOT with the USO, either.

A revolution never come with a warning
A revolution never sends you an omen
A revolution just arrived like the morning
Ring the alarm, we come to wake up the snoring

They tellin' you to never worry about the future
They tellin' you to never worry about the torture
They tellin you that you will never see the horror
Spend it all today and we will bill you tomorrow
Three piece suits and bank accounts in Bahamas
Wall street crime will never send you to the slammer
Tell all the children in the arms of their mommas
The F-15 is a homicide bomber

TV commercials for a pop-a-pill culture
Drug companies circling like a vulture
Am-Iraqi babies with a G.I. Joe father
Ten years from now is anybody gonna bother

Yell Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Here we come, here we come
Yell Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Revolution a comin'
Yell Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Yell Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo

A revolution never come with a warning
A revolution never sends you an omen
A revolution never come with a warning
A revolution...

Everyone addicted to the same nicotine
Everyone addicted to the same gasoline
Everyone addicted to a technicolor screen
Everybody trying to get their hands on the same green
From the banks of the river to the banks of the greedy
All of the riches taken back by the needy
We come from the country and we come from the city
You play us on a record, you can play us on a CD
All the shit you given us is fertilizer
The seeds that we planted you can brutalize 'er
Tell the corporation you can never globalize it
Like Peter Tosh said, "Legalize It!"
Girls and boys hear the bass and the treble
Rumble in the speakers and it make you wanna rebel
Throw your hands up, take it to another level
And you never, ever, ever make a deal with the devil

Yell Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Here we come, here we come
Yell Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Revolution a comin'
Yell Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Yell Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhVulmpkw4E

[Forkboy]

1. Everything he's ever done is fantastic.

Going all the way back to his days as the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy right through to Yell Fire.

I'm dying to see his documentary called I Know I'm Not Alone.

Musician and political activist Michael Franti journeys to the Middle East to learn about the human costs of political occupation in this documentary. Franti, who has recorded with the groups Spearhead and the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, took a small camera crew to Iraq with the goal of finding out "what it's like to live under foreign military rule," and with his guitar in hand Franti interacts with Iraqi civilians, chatting with people on the street, speaking with folks in their homes, and joining in for performances with local musicians as he interviews them about the differences between life before and after the American invasion of their nation. Franti also visits American forces stationed in Iraq, wanting to know how the war and occupation has impacted their lives. Later Franti journeys to Israel, speaking to ordinary people and military figures as well as Palestinians in search of similar insights on this long simmering conflict.

Here's a piece from the movie;
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=658112910