Artist: Cale Sampson Album: The Big Picture Song: Reach Up Typed by: @Cale_Sampson [Chorus] ( People ), it's time to unite Time to reach up and defend all our rights ( We know ), there's so many people in pain It's time to reach up, time to create a change ( People ), it's time that we speak Time to reach up and demand world peace ( We know ), that we've all got to believe We've got to reach up if we want to be free [Verse One] The top one percent of the population Owns forty percent of the wealth Over thirty thousand children die every day In poverty from lack of health This wealth gap keeps increasing between rich and poor There's more slavery now than ever before Although democracy's supposed to be equal Government is controlled by a small group of people Bankers and corporations are in charge They finance presidents who then help them make laws All the candidates are really pre-selected So it doesn't matter which party ends up elected Central banks control the money supply The crazy thing is that they're all privatized Every dollar that's printed and ever exists Is a loan that we need to pay back with interest The fractional reserve system's a scam That keeps the whole nation in debt and that's the plan This is happening across the whole entire World, it only leads to global empire The U.S. uses the world bank and I.M.F. To pay off politicians and put countries in debt That debt's so big, they can never repay So they're forced to sell all their resources as a trade At the end of the day, it's all nothing more than Economic bribery and extortion So more and more people are becoming desperate Potential terrorists that can be arrested And your home can be searched now without a warrant You can be detained indefinitely and tortured These laws are designed to destroy our liberties So when we fight back it limits our abilities [Chorus] ( People ), it's time to unite Time to reach up and defend all our rights ( We know ), there's so many people in pain It's time to reach up, time to create a change ( People ), it's time that we speak Time to reach up and demand world peace ( We know ), that we've all got to believe We've got to reach up if we want to be free [Verse Two] We live in a system based on profit Regardless of what the environmental cost is So in this society, monetary gain Always comes first before people's well being Now think about the theory of supply and demand Everything is worth more the less of it that's on hand If the goal's to make money by any means It makes sense to deny people of what they need In reality, energy is abundant There's no need for anyone to die of hunger Everyone on earth could be housed if we wanted But technology that could help isn't funded Instead businesses that control market share Purposely keep all our resources scarce People are forced to fight, cheat or lie Cuz' there's not enough money for us all to survive When greed and corruption is rewarded It means our whole value system is distorted We need to think critically, change our perception Almost everything we've been told is a deception For centuries, things like race and religion Have been used to keep us focused on division We've been conditioned to see ourselves as different From everything else and that's the point were missing Humans are trained to look at disparities That are trivial compared to our similarities And not just with people, were talking about Completely detaching from nature itself Our planet's a system that's interconnected Everything we do, something else is affected Without animals, elements or plants We can't survive on this earth, humans have no chance So look at everything as an extension of you Atomically were all the same it's just a different world view And the faster this realization spreads The better off the world will be moving ahead [Chorus x 2]