Have you ever seen the rain? - creedence, duh

Someone told me long ago, there's a calm before the storm.
I know, and it's been comin' for some time.
When it's over, so they say, it'll rain a sunny day.
I know, shinin' down like water.

I want to know, have you ever seen the rain?
I want to know, have you ever seen the rain
comin' down on a sunny day?

Yesterday, and days before, sun is cold and rain is hard.
I know, been that way for all my time.
'Til forever on it goes through the circle fast and slow,
I know, and it can't stop, I wonder.

I want to know, have you ever seen the rain?
I want to know, have you ever seen the rain
comin' down on a sunny day?

Everything - Murs

1... 2...

[Verse 1:]
She was only 15 and loved [? ] RNB
She had to have vision cause she saw the star in me
Encouraged me to write about the drama in my life
To most I seemed strange like something wasn't right
I used to fall a victim to the lunchroom comedians
Something like an outcast, started smoking weed and then...
I sort of fell in to my own
Kind of felt at home when behind a microphone
But on the busride home, that didn't mean a thing
Harassed by thugs, on the corners they would hang
I got banged on, I got beat down
Carrying the golf club, walking up the street now
They respect me, they call me crazy
At least I'm not getting punk'd out on the Daily
And when I look back, I wouldn't change a thing you know
Why d'you think I found this trip, I'm speakin to yo'all

[Chorus:]
I'll take everything...
(your hopes and your dreams and your hate and your lies)
Umm... ummm... ummm... in this life... I'll join everyone...
(from the old and the wise to the young as they fly... fly... fly... fly...)
When I die...

[Verse 2:]
God is love, then Hatin' is Satan
This anti-patience has got me sittin here waitin
For the day when it's ok to love
When black men won't pretend they're thugs
When teachers and doctors are treated like celebrities
You could get a job even if you got a felony
Check out my melody, let's live in harmony
We're in this together, no man has a conomy
No man is an island, immune to the violence
This rap race is no place to raise a child in
What's wrong with smiling? What's wrong with peace?
What's wrong is squashing people before they label you deceased?
Swallow your pride before you choke on your issues
I know you got family and folks that'll miss you
So don't misuse this gift you've been given
This life's but a dream, you're blessed to be livin

[Chorus:]
I'll take everything...
(your hopes and your dreams and your hate and your lies... lies... lies... lies)
Umm... ummm... ummm... in this life... I'll join everything...
(from the old and the wise to the young as they fly... as they fly... fly... fly...)
When I die...

[Reprise:]
Basically man, I'm just a dude that tries to do right.
You know, I try to make my... my tomorrows better than my yesterdays.
Without... wothout hurting anyone else in the process.
Cus if you leave the world a better place than it was when you got here
Then we all win... we all win!

[Verse 3:]
That is birth and is death but the space in between
Is where the journey takes place and you give it all meaning
It's waitin on us all. There's no need to pretend
No freedom in the feeling where you're fearin the end
All good things come to it. Walk, don't run to it
Times you want to end it all yourself - don't do it.
Be original, be different
Be the one that stands up and shuts this system!

[Chorus:]
I'll take everything...
(your hopes and your dreams and your hate and your lies... lies... lies... lies)
Umm... ummm... ummm... in this life...
I'll join everyone...
(from the old and the wise to the young as they fly... as they fly... fly... fly...)
When I die...

I'll take everything...
Umm... ummm... ummm... in this life...
I'll join everything...
Cause... old [/all?]... men... die...

Rise - Flobots

Is this the call to arms for a certain interpretation of ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE 2012? Hopefully?

So much pain we
Dont know how to be but angry
Feel infected like weve got gangrene
Please dont let anybody try to change me
Me
Just me
In the middle of a sea full of faces
Full of faces
Some laugh some salivate
Whats in your alleyway
Recycling bins or bullet cases
Its not equal
Its not fair
Were different people
But were not scared
We aint never scared
To pave a new path
Make a new street
Build a new bridge
Say can you see by the dawns early light
Free slaves running
Songs words werent right
Now a new days coming
The few stay stunning while the many are handsome
Your soul is alive but they want it for ransom
The base drumming is the anthem
We step to the heartbeats of our granddaughters and grandsons
And
Rise together we
Lost hope and found need
Grounded by our surroundings
Did the walls scream universities
Or you and i verse the tees
React automatic and we burst when squeezed
And make 9-11 each emergency
Urgency amber to red like the turning leaves
Oh please let the hurting cease
Don't let apathy police the populace
We will march across
Those stereotypes that were marked for us
The answers obvious
We switch the consonants
Change the sword to words and lift continents
If you believe in redemption
I'm calling to you from another dimension

Freedom Ain't Free - Brother Ali

[Hook:]
Ain't no where to run
There ain't nothing here for free

[Verse 1:]
I don't like my life I gut it, rebuild it
Keep nothing from God and my children
I kill the devil wherever he resides
Even if he hide under me he got to die

I killed little Jason he was only fifteen
Sewd his good traits together, made Ali
Feeled his lungs with the Koran until he breathe
Let him walk but kept him on a short leash

Here he stand now seventeen year old man child
Ain't ask nobody for a mother fucking hand out
He trying to carry heaven on his back
Jumped the broom with a stranger, he ain't never look back

What he know about how the world spin?
Bless his heart he a virgin never even had a girlfriend
Want to be a man so bad that he can taste it
His family fell apart and he's tryin' to replace it

You'll find in him a heart that is second to none
But I know old soul that his lessons ain't done so
I stand willing to kill him again
If to grow he got to shed his skin then let it be done

[Chorus/Hook:]
Ain't no where to run
There ain't nothing here for free
See what I see and know that freedom ain't free lord

Ain't no where to run
There ain't nothing here for free
He'll see what I see and know that freedom ain't free

[Verse 2:]
One half of all the two leggeds on the scene are too timid to dream
Cos failure is far too depressing it would seem
So they take whats given
Thats your decison, I just don't consider that living

If I'm to die whether or not I try
I might as well let the dice fly
I'm hot knifed through butter in the nights sky
It shouldn't take a genius to see theres hunger in my eye

So I use blood and sweat to butter my bread
Cos this cold world couldn't give a fuck if I'm fed
I ain't curled up in my bed
If I dont set the world ablaze trust it ain't because of nothing I did

Listen I dont think God's obligated to touch you
If your ass would rather live ?? and workers shovel
I refuse to let the sun set on me again
Til' the end I'm a one man army, friend

[Chorus/Hook: x2]
Ain't no where to run
There ain't nothing here for free
See what I see and know that freedom ain't free lord

Ain't no where to run
There ain't nothing here for free
You'll see what I see and know that freedom ain't free