Minimum Wage Slave

from The War On Mediocrity by Apollo Quad

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lyrics

I'm battled tested my story will be written as a message
that if we form a vision we can see beyond the wreckage
The sight will not come from a crooked politician
The vision will be given from a lyric tactician
stuck inside a prison of a monetary enemy
the dollar bill rules every part of my identity
it never betters me the all ruling entity
reminding me that freedom is a well hidden memory
With every single second
a battle is waged to topple the maze
and break minds out of the daze
i'm just another pawn i stand alone with a microphone
speaking revolution but the message never hittin home

Cause I'm a minimum wage slave
low grade and under paid x3

and I don't need to be paid come on!

cause I don't want a normal life
I wanna battle til the microphone
falls from my cold dead head as an old man
weathered by the battle for a better way of living
defined by a cause to which everything is given
the only way to find true balance in life
is to seek a real challenge and just live for the fight
I wanna push my voice to the height of being
and never live for money try to find a better meaning
be the voice that is leading the people out of poverty
and bringing us together working on our comradery
so we can come together break the tight tethers
make our lives better rise with a vendetta
to obtain freedom at last forgetting the past
and moving towards the present on our newly paved path

Chorus x2

I wanna release my rage my hatred and pain
and focus pressure on the chains that are keeping me tamed
i'm enslaved by material judged by managerial
fear filled and weak willed pawns of the dollar bill
They got me so tight ill never be free
until the puppeteer's hand comes to terminate me
then a grunt like me will wither and die
and be swept into the wind in the blink of an eye
another nameless face now nothing but a digit
with no vision of living I'm stiff cold and rigid

Chorus

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from The War On Mediocrity, released March 21, 2014
Written by Apollo Quad
Engineered mixed and mastered by Adam Schmid

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Apollo Quad Chicago, Illinois

We are Apollo Quad - a Hip Hop band ! We have released two full length albums; "Come Alive" and "No Gods, No Masters". We have opened for national acts such as Snoop Dogg, Bone Thugs N Harmony. The road is a familiar place for us we have played Los Angeles (at the legendary Whisky A Go Go), New York, Chicago & Nashville. We mix many different elements from all walks of music. ... more