Gabriel Commissaris - Start to Read [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Hook: Gabe]
Turn off the news and start to read
The media is full of racism and rich mans creed
They plant lies in our head like sunflower seeds
Its time to open our eyes and see peoples needs
Books are our allies because of the knowledge they feed
The media is full of racism and white mans greed
The only way for us to succeed
Is if we open our eyes and start to read

[Verse 1: Gabe]
When I look at the Media all I see is xenophobia
Endless stereotypes empowering the colored dystopia
Their authority over the way we think prevents our evolution
Because if awareness were to spread there would be a revolution
Everyone in the Middle East is considered a terrorist
But in reality it’s our system that has prejudice
Teaching people of color to hate who they are
To keep them separated from the same cultured jar
Sugarcoating the message just like they did in Walt Disney
This shit is faker than the ingredients of a diet pepsi
So many lies right before our eyes
How could we be so blind and not see through their disguise
BlackFace redface yellowface and brownface
They’re all part of a concept that we must erase
Do yourself a favor and start reading some books
Then you will understand why I write these hooks

[Hook: Gabe]
Turn off the news and start to read
The media is full of racism and corporate greed
They plant lies in our head like sunflower seeds
Its time to open our eyes and see peoples needs
Books are our allies because of the knowledge they feed
The media is full of racism and the white mans greed
The only way for us to succeed
Is if we open our eyes and start to read

[Verse 2: Rahman Jamaal]
What is literacy? I mean literally
But the ability to hear & see lyrically
The conspiracy of a language we're experiencing
When transparency's disappearing mysteriously
Behind the mirrors of the TV's and mass produced CD's
And DVD's that make you think we live freely
To receive what we need, believe it or not, it isn't free weed
If it isn't leadership in the street for kids to achieve
And get education better than the racism spread in the fed and state prison
System of legislation and private corporations in bed with the nation, let us be patient
What? They'd let us be patients of sterilization without consent?
And they kick people out to build new apartments leaving them homeless with no house to rent?

[Verse 2: Gabe]
What about the extent that they're willing to go
To not teach us what they're unwilling to show
They teach biology but they won't teach us about eugenics
How the disease of white supremacy is an epidemic
They only talk about one Holocaust
American Indians & the Maafa have all been lost
They don't teach us how to live outside of capitalism
So just for saying this you probably think it's radicalism

[Hook: Gabe]
Turn off the news and start to read
The media is full of racism and 1%ers greed
They plant lies in our head like sunflower seeds
Its time to open our eyes and see peoples needs
Books are our allies because of the knowledge they feed
The media is full of racism and white mans greed
The only way for us to succeed
Is if we open our eyes