Worlds Apart - J-Live

They say the first world NATO

Second world Soviet

Third world neutral but the Cold War’s over

NASA vs. Sputnik, space technology

Can’t solve poverty but got a Mars rover

Old world Europe, new world Americas

Third world countries face mass hysteria

Old world hardly, new world not even

Third world where they both stay thievin'

First world problems, third world repercussions

Concussions and cuts direct cross can bandage

Every vantage point show who at a disadvantage

Boss the whole globe around but still can’t manage

To take care of our own, treat our home like a broad

So disrespected, the rights selected

To be protected leaves so many wrongs neglected

America’s dream shake shop, reject it

Can’t atone for the disenfranchised

You’re not even contrite to the disrespected

Blood on your hands runs deep, can’t disinfect it

The sins of the father give resurrected

They say the old world brought up a new world order

And ran up in the third world and divvied up borders

Tribes were divided by countries that were thought up

Economically held back and never caught up

Power corrupts and the oppressed get slaughtered

Mothers and fathers’ll lose sons and daughters

Brothers and sisters denied human rights

And can’t even guarentee themselves clean drinking water

First world speaker, second world spoken to

Third world who they conversatin' about

Hardly even got a voice in the conversation

So the words fall on deaf ears and get drowned out

But uh, speaking as the first person, I can’t take it

Speaking to the second person, you on some snake shit

Speaking for the third person, they ain’t gon' make it

But who are we to talk 'cause it’s really our fault

They say the opposite of love is not hate, it’s apathy

So lack of self-love ain’t self-hate, it’s apathy

We so desensitized by travesty and tragedy

How we supposed to realize humanity’s majesty

Need to set straight the presiding magistrate

Then eperate mankind’s fate from the acts of hate

Can’t afford to wait to get facts straight

The lies hit so hard facts break

The white man’s burden still the brown man’s backache

It’s like the justice just missed the bus because

They say murder has no statute of limitations

But genocide does or is that just us, come on