Title: Not Happy John

Band: Grassroots Street Orchestra

Lyrics: Surya

Verse 1 – Surreal, Steve Back-ups

Workin nine to five grind, three sixty five

Hard times, trynna survive

My eyes blind to the sky

Haven't seen the sun shine bright in ages

No limelight, in hindsight I'm caged

My mind dies in stages

Giving minimum wage

Haven't read a sentence for days

Living off adrenaline and rage

Since I been in this cage

My boss a racist old man

I hate his scoldin

But take it jokin

Coz those who make commotion

Don't make promotion

Treated like an animal

Every movement mechanical

No time to question leaders who damage you

This is their plan for you

This is master and slave

Grave-shifts till his casket is made

His hairs past lookin grey

And he passes away

My grandfather played his cards

Till his last breathe of the struggle

I play the cards I was dealt

But my deck wasn't shuffled

I know the master of my fate

Is my choice, the path I take

But it's a stark fate, with no choice

Behind these bars and hard gates

Yo, my heart breaks and scars

My dreams help me escape

But I'm told that they won't take me far

Chorus: Surreal and Steve

We need to get loud, while we're rappin this song

So everyone up in the crowd scream "we're not happy john"

We need to get louder, while we're rappin this song

So every-one up in the crown scream "we're not happy john"

Verse 2 – Surreal, Steve Back-ups

It's the rat race, we all dwell here

But who the hell cares, God's dead

Got no healthcare, thrown off the welfare

You think that hell's fair

Inside of your mind?

The Devil's horns, three sixes

The sign of the times

Some tyrants designing your life

Trynna to just silence our minds

Confusin the youth and the masses

Abusing the future, but who's the

human few to choose to move

In the direction of change

If it's you and me then lets prove it

Leave the system in flames

Our ambitions and aims

When we choose to improve on this shit

Overpower these cowards coz Howard's a useless bitch

I'm in the mood for a revolution

Of heart, acceptance and faith

The masses are wired and stressed from the pain

Hired then fired, required to step in the rain

Disrespected and shamed

Never getting no gain

but this is not game

Work choices is like describing

Aussie battlers, battered molested and caged

Repressed and enraged

Draconian laws strippin away

Rights it took decades to create

Don't forget what I say

When I say the PM of the day

Is blunderin here

Yeah, they've plundered for years

Propaganda thundering ears

Encouraging fear

This man has left the land down under in tears

Stunned and just scared, yeah

Chorus: Surreal and Steve