[Intro - Spoken Word Over Dark Beat] Bombs falling on Tehran right now as I record this Smoke rising, missiles flying, for what purpose? Before you pick a side, before you share that post Let me take you back to where it started, coast to coast Gonna tell you this is new, gonna say "this is fine" Turn this up, I need your ears, need a minute of time This ain't propaganda, ain't left or right This is what they did, what they hid, brought to light [Verse 1 - Rap] Nineteen fifty-one, man named Mossa-deg People chose him, rose with him, gave them back their bread Said the oil beneath our soil belongs to our own hands Not some British company bleeding dry our land The British been running the whole show Took the profits, left the people nothing left to hold So he took it back, said we're claiming what is ours For one brief moment, Persia felt its power [Chorus] You need to know the truth, never taught you in class They had democracy, the West said not so fast From the coo to Kha-men-ay, from the Shah to today Long shadow on Iran that never goes away [Verse 2 - Rap, Intensity Building] Nineteen fifty-three, Operation Ajax came CIA and MI6 playing regime change games Showed up with suitcases full of cash Bought the press, hired mobs, brought it all to crash Three hundred dead, blood running red, streets of Tehran All to put the Shah back on his throne again Locked away, thrown away, democracy erased West got forty percent of the oil space [Chorus] You need to know the truth, it's all about the cash They erased a nation's future for its past From the coo to Kha-men-ay, from the Shah to today Long shadow on Iran that never goes away [Verse 3 - Rap, Aggressive Delivery] Twenty-five years under the Shah's iron hand Secret police terrorized the land They trained them, chained them, taught them how to break a soul Billions worth of weapons, total US control Modernized the surface, underneath the pain Tortured and slaughtered, thousands slain People's anger grew like fire underground Seventy-nine, that's when it all unwound [Verse 4 - Rap, Storytelling Flow] Kho-meini took power, students seized the embassy Four hundred days of hostage crisis on your TV What they never told you in your history class Revolution grew from that coo decades past We backed Saddam in the Iran Iraq war Gave him guns and intel, million dead or more Chemical weapons, deadly lessons, just looked away Sowed the seeds of every war we reaping today [Bridge - Melodic Rap, Reflective] Fast forward through the sanctions and the suffering Obama made a deal, nuclear reckoning Iran agreed to limits, put it on the shelf Trump tore it up, blew it up, better off ourself Twenty-eighteen, maximum pressure game Enriching, tensions itching, right back to the same Killed Sol-eh-mani, drone strike in the night Action, reaction, pushing closer to this fight [Verse 5 - Rap, Urgent Delivery] Twenty-twenty-six, bombs falling, death calling US and Israel striking, smoke above the town Protests shook the nation, people fought for rights Answer from the West was even more airstrikes Talks collapsed, hope relapsed, fell apart Oman Carrier groups and fighter jets running with the plan Iran firing back at bases cross the Gulf Whole region bracing, asking is this enough Trump says combat operations, sound familiar Echoes of Iraq, another war to kill ya Calls for regime change, take over your government We tried that once before, look at how it went [Outro - Slower, Emphatic Delivery] Need to know the truth, bombs falling as we speak Same old story, history repeats From the coo to Kha-men-ay, Shah to right now Long shadow falls on Iran, will we ever learn how Ask yourself what they don't want you seeing today What files got buried while the missiles flew away Epstein names still hidden, but we got funds for war Funny how bombs drop when the questions get too hard Wartime president can never lose his seat Rally round the flag, don't look beneath your feet Need you angry, need you scared, need you picking sides Never stop to wonder what the smoke is there to hide Same hands dropping bombs, pulling cons, for years Don't let them fool you, don't let them use your fear Silence makes you complicit in the shame When the dust settles, can't say you didn't know the game Wake up
