Hawaii's history and globalization

We live in the belly of the beast
reflecting its rage
through drugs and alcohol
sending kids to war
our schools don't tell us shit
that remnants of the spirit
still within

we still livin
breathin

Imagine
through our actions
respond differently
create community
where we can think together
on our own terms
make music that tells
our sharp analysis

superferry chains
that island's
imprisonment
from schofield to pohakuloa
the practice on us like killing fields
kids dream of bullets
and mothers birthin soldiers
schools to make our minds
like factories
our bodies perfected to a technique
of cash registering
and this fake aloha spirit
complacence, non-confrontation
propaganda to silence us

I speak with a sharp tongue
to tell the effects when they come
reflect on the self
and histories of displacement
look on faces men, women & children
blood runs through each of us
streams in an ecology
we grew together planted by scattered seeds
uprooted from stolen lands
nanas and tatas got struggle written in their hands
hold them like a book
cause knowledge is wealth
eternal
in our selves.