The Woods (feat. 20syl & Mr. J. Medeiros)

Past, future, present

He who controls the past, controls the future

He who controls the present, controls the past

You see I grew up where the war zone blew up

My view where the statue where they chewed up

What the news done threw up

And the tube done flashed you like a tuba wraps you

In a tune that has you (Marching)

I was that dude who you knew from the start

Wouldn't give into moods with his heart darkened

Flashback to the first attack

I had a matchbook in my hand

I had to stash that in the woods

So that we could trap that good again

I mean that fire again

At night we'd thaw around the only light without a firing pin

Desire was our only way to fight the law

Our quiet den

Deaf to rioting

We left our smiles then

We'd get right back to filing in line for bread

And iron men, how kind of them to remind us of the truth about our future

With a mind so fed their eyes go dead

Till our heads are where their boots are

Singing

Ignorance is strength

Freedom is slavery

War is peace

It's all they ever gave to me

Ignorance is strength

Freedom is slavery

War is peace

It's all they ever gave to me

It's all they ever gave to me

I swear they'll make a slave of me

Before I'll ever show them that I care

And they hating me

I bear for the sake that they will never be aware

Of the love that two can make when no one's there

He who controls the past, controls the future

He who controls the present, controls the past

He who controls the past, controls the future

He who controls the present, controls the past

Wine makes me tumble down like lumber

Wanna make an urn out of sacred woods

They wanna see us cut down from our highest place

And then burned for the greater good

But we made in the moment

And never broke in a decade of rage

And we gave no emotion for those

Who had controlled been ticketed slaves

So we headed back to this cave

Where the safe was soon to be found

Had to paint for you with these tools we made

Communication was down, I'd say

Communication was down, we use a

Razor the sun we use a face of the moon cooling

The day that is done

And we made for you these inscriptions

From the eyes yet to have seen

A day of truth outside of minds

Outside the lines of our dreams

Outside the crimes of our brothers

Of what two lovers hide in these trees

Yes it's hard to find in each other

While we wind the clock at thirteen

Ignorance is strength

Freedom is slavery

War is peace

It's all they ever gave to me

Ignorance is strength

Freedom is slavery

War is peace

It's all they ever gave to me

It's all they ever gave to me

I swear they'll make a slave of me

Before I'll ever show them that I care

And they hating me

I bear for the sake that they will never be aware

Of the love that two can make when no one's there

He who controls the past, controls the future

He who controls the present, controls the past

He who controls the past, controls the future

He who controls the present, controls the past

Future, past, present, present

He who controls the future, present

He who controls the past, present

He who controls the past, controls the future

He who controls the present, controls the past