The Trouble with Scotland
All Lyrics and Vocals by Emcee Lynx
Instrumental by Emcee Lynx
The UnAmerican LP, 2004

(samples)
what are they doing?
.... playing outlawed tunes, on outlawed pipes...
a 1, a 2, a 1, 2, 3, and...

You better give me freedom or give me death
Because I’m spittin insurrection to my very last breath
This song’s a death threat to the powers that be
And I refuse to back down ‘til my people are free!
I’m heart-attack serious, believe this, I’m furious
Meanwhile ya’ll are down in your knees in front of curious
George
I use my words like swords
Make no mistake, I decapitate Lords
Cuz I’m that rebel warrior left out the history books
And when I step on the scene I’m leavin enemies shook
Like shake rattle and roll, undermine their control
This is a bullet aimed straight at every pig on Patrol
I roll deeper then the tides, with the hurricanes rage
to wash away the status quo, and burn sweet like sage
Call me Wolfe Tone reincarnated, Devil Burner
The ghosts of William Wallace and my man Nat Turner..

(samples)
the trouble with scotland....
... is that it's full of scots!

Cuz I’m a Celt: Scottish, Irish, Proud
Doing everything I can to shout my message out loud
' cuz America’s never done shit for my folks
Except work us to death, kill us with factory smoke
From sweatshops to sharecrops’ and cannon fodder
hellfire might be hot but it couldn’t be hotter
Then the rage that I carry up inside of my chest
So I’ll fight to the death, long as I’ve got a breath left
So when I step outta the shadows I spit illumination
Designed to undermine the foundations of this nation
I wrote this for everyone who’s had their history stolen
our languages erased and our fathers backs broken
By wealthy vampires who made us as serfs and slaves
To build their empires and their power depraved
My people black, white, brown, all hear the same sound
the whip snaps on ya back, but we gon’ turn it around!

(samples)
the trouble, the trouble, the trouble with scotland...
...is that it's full of scots!

‘cuz my people – all my people – all colors and shapes
Have seen far too many years of genocide and rape
We’ve been conquered, beat down, whipped and chained
Made slaves to the pain with locks on our brains
I rain justice for my people poor and oppressed
stuck between the power grabs of the right and the left
I take it to the grassroots, in the streets with my folks
spit fire 'n blow smoke to make my enemies choke
The governments the terrorist, and this shit aint a joke
I’d hang everyone in congress if I had enough rope
politicians on a mission to trick us into submission
so I vote with my fists because they’re much more efficient
poor people got nothing to gain from their games
it doesn’t matter how you vote 'cuz the results the same
the politicians get money, and we get fucked
we need to start a revolution, blow this motherfucker up!

samples are taken from the movie "braveheart," as the English King Edward
complains about those damn rebelious scots who refuse to stop fighting for their freedom.....