Ballad of the Black Gold-Reflection Eternal

[00:24.039] This is the ballad of the black gold [00:26.364] They call it Texas tea [00:27.789] But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso [00:30.664] It's deeper than a black hole [00:32.235] Create monopolies [00:33.954] Except they collect your fee when you pass Go [00:36.811] Crisis international [00:38.328] The government de facto [00:40.541] We got no control of this fiasco [00:42.890] Darker than the back roads [00:44.569] Bubble hotter than Tabasco [00:46.621] More than what you bargained for or asked for [00:48.807] You never see happy, hungry people - that ain't rational [00:52.015] They blasting through the gates and they attack you at the capital [00:55.101] Run up in your palace, find the heads of the state and crack a few [00:58.199] Get a taste of power, then they become fascists too [01:01.339] The fiscal conservatives, don't know what they purpose is [01:04.301] Spend money on the war, then they cut your goods and services [01:07.144] Murderous, corporate monsters is breaking records [01:09.654] Exxon is at 40 billion a year, they raking in record profits. Stop it! [01:13.700] How they banking while the auto industry is tanking? [01:16.618] Leadership is sinking, oil pollution in the water stanking [01:19.806] Loyalty to petroleum royalties spoil the economy [01:23.282] We won't get it poppin' till we oil-free [01:25.821] If you're oil-rich then we invadin' [01:28.261] They call it "occupation," but we losing jobs across the nation [01:31.672] Drill, baby, drill, while they make our soldiers kill, baby still [01:35.274] The desert where the blood and oil spill [01:37.612] This is the ballad of the black gold [01:39.650] They call it Texas tea [01:41.141] But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso [01:43.928] It's deeper than a black hole [01:45.737] Create monopolies [01:47.214] Except they collect your fee when you pass Go [01:50.155] Crisis international [01:51.817] The government de facto [01:53.786] We got no control of this fiasco [01:56.146] Darker than the back roads [01:57.948] Bubble hotter than Tabasco [01:59.902] More than what you bargained for or asked for [02:02.274] Nigeria is celebrating 50 years of independence [02:05.346] They still feel the colonial effects of Great Britain's presence [02:08.582] Dictators quick to imitate the West [02:10.720] Got in bed with oil companies and now the place is a mess [02:13.727] Take a guess, which ones came and violated [02:16.464] They oiled up the soil, the Ogoni people was almost annihilated [02:21.552] But still they never stayed silent [02:23.483] They was activists and poets using non-violent tactics [02:26.606] That was catalyst for soldiers to break into they crib [02:29.404] Take 'em from the kids and try to break 'em like a twig [02:32.362] And make examples of the leaders, executed Saro-Wiwa [02:35.711] Threw Fela's mom out the window right after they beat her [02:38.718] In an effort to defeat hope [02:40.487] Now the people's feet soaked in oil [02:42.617] So the youth is doing drive-bys in speed boats [02:45.104] They kidnap the workers, they blowing up the pipelines [02:47.993] You see the fires glowing in the nighttime [02:50.229] This is the ballad of the black gold [02:52.864] They call it Texas tea [02:54.419] But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso [02:57.162] It's deeper than a black hole [02:59.114] Create monopolies [03:00.499] Except they collect your fee when you pass Go [03:03.328] Crisis international [03:05.068] The government de facto [03:07.135] We got no control of this fiasco [03:09.469] Darker than the back roads [03:11.353] Bubble hotter than Tabasco [03:13.278] More than what you bargained for or asked for [03:15.599] History, a slippery creature [03:17.521] It's full of plot twists and surprise endings like a mystery feature [03:21.472] This oil shit is slicker than preachers [03:23.657] It make the problems in the region amplified like victory speeches [03:27.411] Poison the water, lead the boys to the slaughter [03:29.700] Go in somebody' country, rearrange the order and destroy the borders [03:33.509] You see 'em dancing through the fields of fire [03:36.367] World domination their real desire [03:38.092] The devil is still a liar [03:39.623] This is the ballad of the black gold [03:41.790] They call it Texas tea [03:43.269] But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso [03:46.072] It's deeper than a black hole [03:47.980] Create monopolies [03:49.317] Except they collect a fee when you pass go [03:52.253] Crisis international [03:54.020] The government de facto [03:56.040] We got no control of this fiasco [03:58.232] Darker than the back roads [04:00.203] Bubble hotter than Tabasco [04:02.034] More than what you bargained for or asked for [04:52.722] This is the ballad of the black gold [04:55.016] They call it Texas tea [04:56.543] But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso [04:59.395] It's deeper than a black hole [05:01.161] Create monopolies [05:02.772] Except they collect your fee when you pass Go [05:05.411] Crisis international [05:07.242] The government de facto [05:09.283] We got no control of this fiasco [05:11.614] Darker than the back roads [05:13.522] Bubble hotter than Tabasco [05:15.425] More than what you bargained for or asked for