The Undercover Hippy - "Eyes Wide Open"

Listen to more tracks from The Undercover Hippy here:    • The Undercover Hippy - A Solution [Audio]   Subscribe to the YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/undercov... Drum and Bass MC turned singer-songwriter Billy Rowan, aka The Undercover Hippy, is definitely not your average singer songwriter. Described by Tom Robinson (BBC6Music) as being “like the love-child of Steel Pulse, Kate Tempest and The Sleaford Mods”, his music brings together powerful messages, infectious reggae rhythms, and the lyrical delivery of a skilled mc. Combining intelligent, provocative lyrics with dangerously catchy hooks and a feel good groove, this is music for the thinking man to shake his arse to. Think Natty meets Eminem…on a protest march…at the Edinburgh Fringe. Website: http://www.undercoverhippy.com Twitter:   / billyrowanmusic   Facebook:   / undercoverhippy   Instagram:   / theundercoverhippy   Bandcamp: https://undercoverhippy.bandcamp.com Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3vORx... Apple Music:   / the-undercover-hippy   Lyrics: I’m doing my best to communicate these ideas to you express my fears to you in a way that quite honestly should take years to do but here I am. Trying to get it across in five minutes like five lyrics will suddenly silence these sly cynics but still I go cos I know that if I succeed my single track could have more impact than a stack of books you’ll never read or maybe you will you’ll take the red pill maybe this song will inspire you to go even deeper still and when you do and the truth is laid out before you in all it’s glory don’t be surprised when they ignore you cos facts are not enough to distract this wolf pack from cutbacks to services we already lack so take back the power now is the hour if we allow another minute they’ll devour the world with us in it there’s no limit to their greed it’s infinite unlike the planet so dammit you’d better panic CHORUS and you say that I'm a dreamer my eyes are wide open to reality I'm done waiting for a leader this time it’s up to you and me yeah I'm a believer and I know we can handle this calamity but only if we take the time to dream now I'm a child of the 1980’s iron lady, nestle babies terrified nuclear bombs would annihilate me and i’ve been learning lately how the era that made me also marked the beginning of a shift in power that affects us daily but now it’s failing and the edifice is falling and we don’t have much time left to heed the warning, so I keep recording I keep repeating all these worthwhile new ideas I’m meeting trying to see a future past the weekend We sow these suicidal seeds and yet our kids will do the reaping Sold out a generation in the name of keeping it cheap and cheerful keep em fearful hooked on credit, so they don’t regret it, start forgetting what they’re here for You’re here to service the machine and as long as we keep spending they keep lending just to keep alive the dream until this whole murderous scheme just bursts at the seams I hate to say it but it’s worse than it seems well you say CHORUS We need to learn from the past not yearn for the past No matter if you’re a believer in the markets or a reader of Marx Cos we’re not dealing the cards the hand’s down and this is hands down the most blinkered way of thinking since Bill Clinton took his pants down a man’s sound is way more mighty than his sword so when you’re fighting to be heard and getting tired of always being ignored You need to join your voice together with the chorus cos when voices are united there’s no way they can ignore us and I'm sure as long as I can hold a tune well I’ll be fighting on the front lines and shooting for the moon and I’m certain that a change is coming soon and what it is well that’s up to you So say that I’m a dreamer CHORUS