Prologue | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Epilogue
Part 6
DANCE OR DIE
Back to the Future
The streets are filled with animals breaking free from their cages, as well as animals who have come for war. Some are mad at their imprisonment and, now freed, embark on an aimless rampage. Zombified animals fill up the streets chasing some of the freed ones off, or turning them too into zombies. Cyborg animals march with weapons, destroying all in their path. Calling it war would be an understatement… this is chaos. And Sky-M’s posse walks straight through them, marching to the beat of the drum, singing1:
PlayGoat:
Cyborg, android, d-boy, decoy, water, wisdom, tightrope, vision, insight, stronghold, heartless, ice cold, mystery, mastery, solar, battery
Sky-M:
Some will pull the gun because they want to be stars
Snatching up your life into the blink of an eye
And if you see your cloning on a street walking by
Keep a running for your life cause only one will survive
War is in the streets and it’s an eye for an eye
Run on for your life or you can dance you can die
She’s praying in the sand like she’s the last samurai
It’s a stick up stick up and a pick up pick up
Telling lies and telling lies will put your face on fire
Run and tell your friends to never dream, never win
Ghettos keep a crying to the street full of zombies
Kids are killing kids and then the kids join the army
Rising and a waking, yes sir here comes the sun
March into the war and with the kick of the drum
The wiser simians have got the bombs and the guns
So you might as well keep dancing if you’re not gonna runA long long way to find the one
We’ll keep on dancing till she comes
These dreams are forever
Oh these dreams are forever
And if you wanna wake the sun
Just keep on marching to the drums
These dreams are forever
Oh these dreams are foreverNow I’m not sayin’ it’s better to bailar
You can pull the trigger or you build you an ark
My words are rather kind you keep them held in contempt
Looking for a nine and then a droid you can tempt
Zombie, zombie, zombie, where do dreams come from?
A little bird keep chirping and she’s singing a song
She’s shaking ‘em and waking ‘em and giving ‘em mas
As the clock tick tocks and the bodies drop
I’m gonna lay myself so far way down right in your chops
Modern day example of the wolf vs flock
Freedom necessary and it’s by any means
Frozen they were stolen all the kings and queens
Sudanese and Congolese who put the roll in the rock
From here to Sudan, Metropolis to Iraq
It’s a minute to the dawn and yet the sun ain’t back
It’s a war in all the streets and yes these freaks will dance or dieA long long way to find the one
We’ll keep on dancing till she comes
These dreams are forever
Oh these dreams are forever
And if you wanna wake the sun
Just keep on marching to the drums
These dreams are forever
Oh these dreams are forever
Oh these dreams are forever
Goat:
Angel, blossom, gunshot, dodging, dream, bright, beat, light, breathe, live, help, give, focus, trance, wake up, dance!
Sky-M:
I’m praying for the man sitting without much time
May he understand the clock will never rewind
Wisen him and sharpen him and give him a motto
Hate no more, said he must hate no more
You see the daylight comes into the kingdom
But the kingdom’s full of ignorant men
Just keep rebellin’ away, you gotta dream it away
Because the weatherman you seein’ ain’t creating the weather
This man wants to see a jubilation
And that man wants us in emancipation
And then there is a man who wants a stronger nation
But you see we really got to and I think that we ought to
Protect the mind from degradation
Sow in the seeds of education
They run from us, are we that dangerous?
There’s a war in all the streets and yes the freaks must dance or die!
1. Janelle Monae (feat. Saul Williams) – Dance or Die
