This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it Texas tea
But it's bigger than a
cowboy with a lasso
It's deeper than a black hole,
create monopolies
Except they collect a fee when you
pass go crisis' international
The government de facto we
got no control in this fiasco
Darker than the back roads,
bubble hotter than Tabasco
More than what you bargained
for or asked for
You never see happy hungry people
that ain't rational
They blasting through the gates
and they attack you at the capital
Run up in your palace,
find the head of the states and crack a few
Get a taste of power then they
become fascists too
The fiscal conservatives,
don't know what they purpose is
Money on the war then they cut
the goods and services
Murderous,
corporate monsters is breaking records
Exxon is at 40billion a year,
they raking in record profits, stop it
How they banking while the auto
industry is tanking?
Leadership is sinking,
oil pollution in the water stanking
Loyalty to petroleum,
royalty spoiled the economy
We won't get it poppin'
till we're oil- free
If you're oil rich then we invade it
They call it occupation but we're
losing jobs across the nation
Drill, baby, drill,
while they make our soldiers kill
Baby, still, the desert where
the blood and oil spill
This is the ballad of the black gold,
they call it Texas tea
But it's bigger than a
cowboy with a lasso
It's deeper than a black hole,
create monopol ies
Except they collect a fee when you pass
go crisis' international
The government de facto we got
no control in this fiasco
Darker than the back roads,
bubble hotter than Tabasco
More than what you bargained
for or asked for
Nigeria is celebrating
50 years of independence
They still feel the colonial effects
of Great Britain's presence
Dictators quick to imitate the West
Got in bed with oil companies
and now the place is a mess
Take a guess,
which ones came and violated
They oiled up the soil,
the Ogoni people was almost annihilated
But still they never stayed silent
They was activists and poets
using non- violent tactics
That was catalyst for soldiers to
break into they crib
And make examples of the leaders,
executed Saro- Wiwa
Threw Fela's mom out the window
right after they beat her
In an effort to defeat hope,
now the people's feet soaked in oil
So the youth is doing drive- bys
through speed boats
They kidnap the workers,
they blowing up the pipelines
You see the fires glowing in the nighttime
This is the ballad of the black gold,
they call it Texas tea
But it's bigger than a
cowboy with a lasso
It's deeper than a black hole,
create monopol ies
Except they collect a fee when you pass
go crisis' international
The government de facto we got
no control in this fiasco
Darker than the back roads,
bubble hotter than Tabasco
More than what you bargained
for or asked for
History, a slippery creature
It's full of plot twists and surprise
endings like a mystery feature
This oil shit is slicker than preachers
It make the problems in the region
amplify like victory speeches
Poison the water and lead
the boys to the slaughter
Go in somebody country
and rearrange the order
And destroy the borders
You see them dancing
through the fields of fire
World domination, their real desire,
the devil is still a liar
This is the ballad of the black gold,
they call it Texas tea
But it's bigger than a
cowboy with a lasso
It's deeper than a black hole,
create monopolies
Except they collect a fee when you pass
go crisis' international
The government de facto we got
no control in this fiasco
Darker than the back roads,
bubble hotter than Tabasco
More than what you bargained for or asked for
This is the ballad of the black gold,
they call it Texas tea
But it's bigger than a
cowboy with a lasso
It's deeper than a black hole,
create monopolies
Except they collect a fee when you pass
go crisis' international
The government de facto we
got no control in this fiasco
Darker than the back roads,
bubble hotter than Tabasco
More than what you bargained for or
asked for
Reflection Eternal 
