If Not Now, When?

Someone stuck me on the losing side
Everything is someone else's fault
We're not good enough for me to care

And the mantra is
"Too much effort, there's never time"
And your sole solution is a high pitched whine
It's not red-hot coals, it's not busted glass
There's no Mau-Maus after your sweet pink ass

So (if not now when?) * 3
If not you, who then?

No one wants to be the first to fail
I won't play unless you guard my back

And the mantra is
"Change the system, and please arrange it
to change some way that I feel no change"
It's not flaming necklaces, household spies
There's no market bombings, no bullets fly

So ((if not now when?) * 3
If not you, who then?) * 3

Bosnia, oh Bosnia
Try spelling "Herzegovina"
Where money talks and bullshit walks
The bullet or the ballot box

Babylon, oh Babylon
We babble on in Babylon
The TV blows, the music sucks
The bullet or the ballot box

We're not good enough for me to care

And the mantra is
"Leave the gun on the table loaded
The first to grab it's as good as voted in"

((if not now when?) * 3
If not you, who then?) * 6


The Individualist

gather round childrens
i got a tale to tell ya

there was a time when i couldn't bust a rhyme
had yet to hit my prime
cause my mind was such a young mind
and first you got to unwind 
the mystery of your soul, it's like a black hole
the gravity is too thick
 you got to learn to lighten up a bit
it's such a frightening thing to realize
every time you close your eyes
you been cut down to size
cause you're stuck with yourself
ain't nobody else in there to compare yourself to
it's just you
and then you ask yourself, "what's it all about?"
so you try to figure it out
and that's when you'll be tempted to believe foolish things
and decieve yourself by lettin someone else
do your thinkin for you
when they havn't got a clue
but you can't relive the hype, don't ya see?
cause i got a special answer meant just for me
somewhere in my immediate vicinity

(And if there's time enough to get it
Then in time I'm gonna get it) * 2

(cause i am the Individualist) * 8

check my references
wherever you are now you know i been there done that
don't need to sling the scat cause my resume is too fat
change my name to some funky fresh dingbat
like "the artist formerly known as TR-i"
i got to laugh when they try to figure out what it's all about
and they doubt i'm so devout
but it's something i can't do without
i got to know why i wanna know what i wanna know
why do i go where the others won't go?
my eye is on the prize that's in disguise
that you can only theorize but i can utilize
to rise above the lies about reality
cause you can't relive the hype, don't ya see?
i got a special answer meant just for me
somewhere in my immediate vicinity

(And if there's time enough to find it
Then in time I'm gonna find it) * 2

(cause i am the Individualist) * 12

(Here come the Individualist) * 8