Live For Now Performed by A Global Threat

I see you everyday on your way home from work
Your feeling run down in your slacks and company shirt
Rotting in a cubicle that’s 5x4
I can't stand this fucking job anymore
A mindless puppet staring at the screen
So all this is the American dream

A ten hour day and a six day week
You've got no life, You let them control you

Fuck the future live for now
Who can you say there will be a tomorrow with forty years gone
What do you have left?
You lost all respect through corporate theft
You lent them your mind and they sold your soul
Your life is a waste now
You're just another prole

It's never too late so just remember
You're not a person to them, your just a number
You don't need the boss, the boss needs you tell him to fuck off
Your time is through

This song is fairly simple, discussing the necessity for immediate change, but to me, it represents more. More is the implicit idea that all the theories about revolution are actually making those who would fight for a global change weak and subservient. Change much be enacted in the streets, instead of through one leader that has made eir fame and fortune through writing tracts. Instead of the incremental change that is the goal of more moderate groups, a true revolution (from the Latin, turning things around) must be struggled for, a complete turning of the mores and attitudes of the leaders of society around. At no point, for A Global Threat or me for that matter, can you be deemed too far in the system to save. You could be the President of the United States (well, maybe not THIS President) – “it’s never too late” to change things for the better. You are never powerless, and that people honestly believe that they are powerless is why the system still remains in power. Smack someone in the face when they say “I can’t change anything, I’m only one person”. Change begins at one person and one person can honestly achieve anything that they put their mind to, given a chance. I’m a piece of shit white trash from a shitty city in the middle of Ohio – I made this issue of my magazine, I’ve done concerts and CDs, and the only thing that will stop me from doing what I am doing is death.