The Woods - AllttA, 20 SYL, Mr. J. Medeiros

Who controls the past controls the future

Who controls the present controls the past

You see I grew up where the war zone blew up

My view of the statue

Where they chewed up what the news done threw up

And the tube done flashed you

Like a tuba wraps you in a tune that has you marching

I was that dude who you knew from the start

Wouldn’t give into moods with his heart darkened

Flash back to the first attack I had a matchbook in my hand

I had to stash that in the woods

So that we could trap that good again

I mean that fire again

At night we’d thaw around the only light without a firing pin

Desire was our only way to fight the law

Our quiet den

Def to rioting we left our smiles then

We’d get right back to filing in line for bread

And iron men how kind of them to remind us

Of the truth about our future

With a mind so fed their eyes go dead

Till our heads our where their boots are

Singing

Ignorance is strength

Freedom is slavery

War is peace

It’s all they ever gave to me

Ignorance is strength

Freedom is slavery

War is peace

It’s all they ever gave to me

It’s all they ever gave to me

I swear they’ll make a slave of me

Before I’ll ever show them that I care

And the hate in me I bare for the sake that they will never be aware

Of the love that two can make when no ones there

No ones there

Who controls the past controls the future

Who controls the present controls the past

Who controls the past controls the future

Who controls the present controls the past

Want to make us tumble down like lumber

Want to make an urn of our sacred woods

They want to see us cut down from our highest place

And then burnt for the greater good

But we made in a moment

What they never broke in a decade of raids

And we gave no emotion

For those who had shown became decadent slaves

So we headed back to this cave

Where they say where soon to be found

Had to paint for you with these tools we made

Communication was down

I say communication was down

We used the rays of the sun

We used the face of the moon cooling the day that is done

And we made for you these inscriptions

From the eyes yet to have seen

A day of truth outside our minds

Outside the lines of our dreams

Outside the crimes of our brothers

Of what two lovers hide in these trees

Yes its hard to find in each other why we wind the clock at thirteen

Ignorance is strength

Freedom is slavery

War is peace

It’s all they ever gave to me

Ignorance is strength

Freedom is slavery

War is peace

It’s all they ever gave to me

It’s all they ever gave to me

I swear they’ll make a slave of me

Before I’ll ever show them that I care

And the hate in me I bare for the sake that they will never be aware

Of the love that two can make when no ones there

No ones there

Who controls the past controls the future

Who controls the present controls the past

Who controls the past controls the future

Who controls the present controls the past