Square Dance
Intro:]
People!! It feels so good to be back
Ladies and gentleman introducing the new and improved you know who
[Verse 1:]
Never been the type to bend or budge
The wrong button to push
No friend of Bush
I'm the centerpiece your the Maltese
I am a pittbull off his leash
All this peace talk can cease
All these people I had to leave in limbo
I'm back now
I've come to release this info
I'll be brief and let me just keep shit simple.
Can a bitch don't want no beef with Slim
Noooo
Not even on my radar
So won't you please jump off my dick
Lay off and stay off
And follow me as I put these crayons to chaos from seance to seance
Aw a aw ch a aw
[Chorus X2:]
Yall Cmon now
Let's all get on down
Let's do si do now
We gon have a good ol time
Dont be scared cus there aint nuttin to worry bout
Let your hair down
And square dance with me
[Verse 2:]
Let your hair down to the track
Yeah kick on back
Boo
The boogies monster of rap
Yeah the man's back
With a plan to ambush this Bush administration
Mush the Senates face in and push this generation
Of kids to stand and fight for the right to say something you might not like
This white hot light
That im under
No wonder
I look so sunburnt
Oh no
I wont leave no stone unturned
Oh no i won't leave
Wont go nowhere
Do si do
Oh yo ho hello there
Oh yeah don't think I won't go there
Go to the Beirut and do a show there
Yea you laugh till your mutha fuckin ass gets drafted
While you're at band camp thinkin the crap can't happen
Till you fuck around
Get an anthrax napkin
Inside a package wrapped in saran Wrap wrapping
Open the plastic and then you stand back gasping
Fuckin' assassins hijackin' Amtracks crashin
All this terror America demands action
Next thing you know you've got Uncle Sams ass askin
To join the army or what you'll do for there Navy
You just a baby
Gettin' recruited at eighteen
You're on a plane now
Eatin their food and their baked beans
I'm 28
They gon take you fore they take me
Crazy insane or insane crazy
When i say Hussien you say Shady
My views aint changed still Inhumane
Wait
Arraigned two days late
The date's today
Hang me
[Chorus X2:]
[Verse 3:]
Nothin moves me more than a groove the soothes me
Nothin soothes me more than a groove
that boosts me
Nothin boosts me more
Or suits me beautifully
There's nothin you can do to me
Stab me
Shoot me
Physcotic
Hypnotic product I got the antibotic
Aint nobody hotter and so on and yada yada
God i talk alot of hem de lay la la la
oochie walla um da dah da dah da but you gotta gotta
Keep movin'
There's more music to make
Keep makin' new shit
Produce hits to break
the monotony
What's gotten into me
Drugs rock and Hennessey
Thug like Im Pac on my enemies
On your knees
Got you under siege
Somebody you would give a lung to be
hun ga ry
Like a fuckin younger me
Fuck the fee
I can get you jumped for free
Yah buddy
Laugh it's funny
I have the money to have you killed by somebody who has nothing
I'm past bluffing
Pass the K Y
Let's get ready for some intense
serious ass fucking
[Chorus X2]
[Outro:]
Dr. Dre. wants to square with me,
Nasty Nas wants to square dance with me
X to the Z wants to square dance with me
Busta Rhymes wants to square dance with me
Can a bitch wont square dance with me
Fan a bitch wont square dance with me
Canada bis dont want no parts of me
Dirty Dozen wants to square dance with you YEE HAW!!!
The dropping of a lyrical bomb called Mosh
Mosh is a meaningful and powerful song. Listening to it increased the huge respect I already have for Eminem.
« Mosh » refers to a slam dance as a huge protest against Bush. The song starts solemnly with a couple of kids (including little Hailie) pledging allegiance to the American flag.
A few seconds later, Shady is addressing to the crowd as the powerful personality he actually is with the terrific background of the 9/11 th attacks of the World Trade center.
Marshall's voice imposes respect from his audience: you gotta listen and be ready to start this collective slam dance as a huge form of protest against Bush.
The first verse is a fist to punch Bush's face. The same man who once grew up in a fatherless home and who used to be constantly broke has become an amazing entertainer, a responsible father and an astute entrepreneur. Those words are huge encouragement for single parenting homes who are so often underprivileged in one of the richest countries of the world. Eminem is a living example that you can make it, no matter where you come from.
Marshall is a self made man: his overwhelming success and his fortune have increased his power within a few years: when Eminem raises his voice, you can be sure that he will be heard. Often being criticized for his leftist opinion, Marshall doesn't fear the Bush administration. He is ready to show his opposition to a government that fully disgusts him.
Words from Eminem's mouth have the power to open some bricks in the wall of incomprehension left by the American government and to give people some hope for a brighter future (without Bush, of course).
Shady is like the leader of a huge movement that rallies 10 million people of different nations, ages, backgrounds and races. Are you ready to mosh pit?
Come on, follow him and trust him in his rightful rebellious mission. He knows how to guide you with sincerity and will let you see the end of the tunnel, as he expresses it very well:
"Come along follow me as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark that we need to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength
Come with me and I won't steer you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
To the light at the end of the tunnel
We gonna fight, we gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march
Through the swamp, we gonna mosh through the marsh
Take us right through the doors (c'mon)
All the people up top on the side and the middle
Come together lets all bomb and swamp just a little
Just let it gradually build from the front to the back
All you can see is a sea of people some white and some black
Don't matter what color, all that matters we gathered together
To celebrate for the same cause don't matter the weather
If it rains let it rain, yea the wetter the better
They ain't gonna stop us they can't, we stronger now more than ever
They tell us no we say yea, they tell us stop we say go
Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell we gonna let em know
Stomp, push, shove, mush, Fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home (c'mon)"
All you have to do is trust him and fight along with him. He won't guide you wrong and promises an end to the nightmare people owe President Bush.
A sea of people is united for the same goal with a strong call: carry the US troops home!
Marshall is calling for unity. His song is here to open your consciences and make you realize how much America needs to get rid of Bush in order to be ready for a new start.
Enough civilian victims from a worthless Iraqi war on both sides. Enough blood has been spilled for nothing on both sides.
The words of Mosh are much more than a huge wake up call in front of blind and stubborn American citizens who keep supporting Bush despite his hypocrisy.
I would also like to raise my own voice along with Eminem's in reaction to some statements like those coming from some Americans: « Bush's election is only an American matter. The rest of the world shouldn't care about it. »
What? The rest of the world shouldn't care about it?
People coming up with such stupid statements have really no idea about geopolitics. Everybody should be aware of the consequences of Bush's actions on the world's nations destiny. Fatal errors can lead to a domino effect in no time.
Not only had the drama of September the 11th tragical consequences for America, but it also weakened Europe economically and increased unemployment.
Some of you may not have noticed it, but Mosh also sounds prophetic. Through a « monster » like Ossama Ben Laden, God is trying to send us a message: Americans are responsible of the situation. They allowed Bush to take power and to commerce with Ossama which lead to the tragically situation we already now.
It is high time for anybody, no matter where we come from to stand up and to fight for our rights. It is more than a duty for American citizens to vote against the worst American president in history and it is very important for people from other countries to show their opposition even in words. We have the power, the obligation and the duty to refuse a president who endangers the whole world for his own selfish commercial interest.
« No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil »
No more blood for oil, no more blood just to get Bush some more cash.
No need to feel guilty when you don't want to lose your young life in a bloody war in order to satisfy a dictator's madness.
Eminem's last lines from the third verse are strong:
"Let me be the voice in your strength and your choice
Let me simplify the rhyme just to amplify the noise
Try to amplify the times it, and multiply by six...
Teen million people, Are equal at this high pitch
Maybe we can reach alqueda through my speech
Let the president answer a higher anarchy
Strap him with an Ak-47, let him go, fight his own war
Let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil
No more psychological warfare, to trick us to thinking that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country, we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes its all lies
The stars and stripes, they've been swiped, washed out and wiped
And replaced with his own face, Mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you know why,
Cause I told you to fight."
They show the will of an engaged rapper to strenghten our own voice in this world. Marshall tells us to fight and he em-powers us through his insightful speech. We have no reason to feel week and to accept to be the prisoner of Bush's psychological manipulations.
Mosh has been written for America and the world's sake. It offers us a new definition of American patriotism and makes people understand that it is not necessary be a victim of Bush's military policy to be a good citizen.
Eminem is taking power against Bush and his words will tear the current Mr President in people's mind like the teeth of an alligator.
Lyrics to Mosh
pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
And to the Republic for which it stands
One nation under God
Indivisible….
It feels so good to be back..
I scrutinize every word, memorize every line
I spit it once, refuel and re-energize and rewind
I give sight to the blind, my insight to the mind
I exercise my right to express when I feel it's time
It's just all in your mind, what you interpret it as
I say to fight, you take it as I'mma whip someone's ass
If you don't understand, don't even bother to ask
A father who has grown up with a fatherless past
Who has blown up now to rap phenomenon that has
Or at least shows no difficulty multi-task
And in juggling both perhaps mastered his craft
Slash entrepreneur who has held onto few more rap acts
Who's had a few obstacles thrown his way through the last half
Of his career typical manure moving past that
Mr. kisses ass crack, he's a class act
Rubber band man, yea he just snaps back
Chorus:
Come along follow me as I lead through the darkness
As I provide just enough spark that we need to proceed
Carry on, give me hope, give me strength
Come with me and I won't steer you wrong
Put your faith and your trust as I guide us through the fog
To the light at the end of the tunnel
We gonna fight, we gonna charge, we gonna stomp, we gonna march
Through the swamp, we gonna mosh through the marsh
Take us right through the doors (c'mon)
All the people up top on the side and the middle
Come together lets all bomb and swamp just a little
Just let it gradually build from the front to the back
All you can see is a sea of people some white and some black
Don't matter what color, all that matters we gathered together
To celebrate for the same cause don't matter the weather
If it rains let it rain, yea the wetter the better
They ain't gonna stop us they can't, we stronger now more than ever
They tell us no we say yea, they tell us stop we say go
Rebel with a rebel yell, raise hell we gonna let em know
Stomp, push, shove, mush, Fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home (c'mon)
Chorus.
Imagine it pouring, it's raining down on us
Mosh pits outside the oval office
Someone's tryina tell us something,
Maybe this is god just sayin' we're responsible
For this monster, this coward,
That we have empowered
This is Bin Laden, look at his head noddin'
How could we allow something like this without pumping our fists
Now this is our final hour
Let me be the voice in your strength and your choice
Let me simplify the rhyme just to amplify the noise
Try to amplify the times it, and multiply by six...
Teen million people, Are equal at this high pitch
Maybe we can reach alqueda through my speech
Let the president answer a higher anarchy
Strap him with an Ak-47, let him go, fight his own war
Let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our own soil
No more psychological warfare, to trick us to thinking that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country, we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes its all lies
The stars and stripes, they've been swiped, washed out and wiped
And replaced with his own face, Mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you know why,
Cause I told you to fight.
Chorus.
And as we proceed,
To Mosh through this desert storm,
In these closing statements, if they should argue
Let us beg to differ
As we set aside our differences
And assemble our own army
To disarm this Weapon of Mass Destruction
That we call our President, for the present
And Mosh for the future of our next generation
To speak and be heard
Mr. President, Mr. Senator…
Do you guy's hear us…hear us…*laughing
Will the Mosh generation stand up and kick Bush out of his office?
« Bush started a mess, I want him out and I hope Mosh wasn't too little, too late. » (Eminem)
America, attention please! Since the release of The Eminem Show, Marshall Mathers has some insightful messages and precise political and social analysis to deliver to your citizens.
White America and Square Dance reflected a detailed analysis of the post September the 11 th syndrome…it offered some open and offensive criticism of Bush's policy. Marshall stood up for the right to say something the government might not like at all. Eminem voiced his opinion and started opening many people's consciences.
Many people still don't realize it, but America is lead by a dictator and a mass murderer who is ready to sacrifice so many young lives for his highest political and commercial interest.
Matter of fact: Bush started a mess and he doesn't even want to face the consequences of his foolish actions.
Eminem has raised his voice so many times as a huge protest against a policy that is a huge disgust to him:
« The boogie monster of rap, yeah, the man's back
With a plan to ambush this Bush administration, mush the Senate's face in, Push
this generation of kids to stand and fight for the right to say Somethin' you
might not like… » (Eminem, Square Dance)
Those incisive lines from Square Dance hammer into people's consciences…but this isn't enough. Further on, Eminem puts the consequences of the drama of September the 11 th in front of the listeners like a scary vision. In Eminem's visionary mirror, you will be able to watch America's anthrax fear:
« Yeah, you laugh till your muthafuckin' ass gets drafted, while you're at Band
camp thinkin' the crap can't happen
Till you fuck around, get an Anthrax napkin, inside a package wrapped in saran
wrap wrappin'
Open the plastic and then you stand back gaspin', fuckin' assassins hijackin'
Amtracks crashin'… »
Marshall Mathers' sociological analysis of a sick American society that lives with the menacing specter of Ben Laden and the nightmare of terrorism and destruction is very insightful.
In the middle of the reign of such a mental chaos - the after-drama aera-, the rapper raises his voice as a prophet : he wants people to understand how far Bush has gone in endangering a prosperous country like America, hitting the whole world with a worthless war policy.
« White America » and « Square Dance » reveal and analyze America's society's weaknesses and unease with terrorism threat.
Eminem's engagement is admirable and in the continuity of Public Enemy's fight. « White America » also appears to be a huge protest (from a white American man's mouth) against racial discrimination.
America is a multicultural country, but Bush doesn't take racial minorities' needs into account and it also seems like there is a different kind of justice whether you are Black or White, for instance.
Mosh is another step in Eminem's fight against Bush. Call it a protest, I'd rather name it a revolution, a powerful fist against Bush.
Did Mosh come too late, as Marshall seems to fear it in his recent Rolling Stone statement ?
Despite the strong message displayed in the Mosh video, reuniting so many people from different ages and backgrounds, Bush has been reelected. For four more years.
So is it actually too late? No, I don't think so. It is never too late to appeal to people's consciences.
The only trouble is that a country like America is lead by some rich, narrow minded and conservative people who will always stay blinded in their insights and who will make their old fashioned point of view law.
Many parents from the right wing will try to maintain their kids in their ignorant patriotism, blindly supporting a tyran, a man who -obviously- is wrong:
-Wrong in his total misunderstanding of Islamic culture: each Muslim is not America's enemy. Many American Muslims are loyal American citizens.
Islam is a religion. Terrorism has to do with religious fanatism. Don't make a dangerous terrorist of each Muslim.
Don't make a threat for Chistianity of Islam either.
Those are the kind of stupid confusions in Bush's mad mind that will lead our world to the hugest catastrophes.
-Wrong in his misconception of his war concept. Bush decided to attack Saddam Hussein…He engaged America in a bloody and stupid war that he takes for an « infinite justice operation ». Why should Europe follow him? Why the hell does he want Europe to engage its citizens for his foolish hegemony will?
-Wrong about Saddam possessing chemical weapons…did we really need that attack?
Bush thinks he's a cow boy, a kind of hero like a « good man » fighting « evil people ».
« He's painted to be this hero, he's got our troops over there dying for no reason. I haven't heard an explanation yet that I can understand. Explain to us why we have troops dying over there dying. » (Eminem)
Some people pretend that « Eminem hates America » . I'd say that Mosh is his love song for America.
With Mosh , Eminem made young people realize how much they were manipulated by the government to be sent to war.
And I think the younger generation doesn't need another post Vietnam syndrome.
The powerful song has started assembling a huge crowd of people fighting for peace and unity.
Now it is up to the « Mosh generation » to stand up and to fight for its rights and to kick out a man who leads a beautiful and prosperous country like America to a nightmare.
Eminem and politics 
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