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Deaths, Breaths It’s a country in North Africa Town full of scavengers Innocent passengers Lil kids that will damage you Drugs are illegal Getting higher than the seagulls Killing innocent people. Going swimming with Nemo’s In the Nile River Selling crops for dinner People pockets getting thinner? It’s even hotter in the winter Home of Giza, Cleopatra features They shop with gold And us with gold visas People who love Rice But not Condoleeza If you like rice We know how to treat you Why cheat em If you can’t beat em  Our people Your people You see em I see em  Now leave em with freedom
 * Middle East - Leslie, Giovanna, Britney, Bridget, David** ** - A Million Struggles **

Havin need isn’t the same thing as havin wants Need cash gotta make it fast Ya do or ya don’t Keep ya self afloat Gotta stay on that boat of life That has much strife Livin in a place like that People makin less than $2 a day What kind of way is that to live Government standards low How can they expect to grow People livin in the streets with nothing to eat That’s the effect of a total government defeat People sellin crops all day, everyday Trying to make a way To stay away from the heat The sun bearin down on their backs They gotta stay away from it To reach an uprising There can’t be more patience

A million struggles, a million pains Things are hard, but remain the same How can we just sit around When other countries are going down Deaths, Breaths Deaths, Breaths Lyrics: Chorus: This love's, just like pullin a trigger Baby why can't you see You and me cannot be Cuz our love is not free It's just reality With us, we cannot be together Nor can we be apart Why did we even start If we can't exchange hearts Its just reality Verse 1: Livin with love in a world so full of hate and pain Killin & fightin & stealin, everyone's to blame Only want to be with you which cannot be We are all one human race why can't you see that... Chorus: This love's, just like pullin a trigger Baby why can't you see You and me cannot be Cuz our love is not free It's just reality With us, we cannot be together Nor can we be apart Why did we even start If we can't exchange hearts Its just reality Verse 2: He's from Israel She's from Palestine The love vs. the hate It was a heinous crime That tore them all apart Could no longer be one An uprival of violence Cause them not to become A "we" they had to be Referred to him and to her This isn't a free state But they wouldn't concur That freedom is meant to be Without limitations With no interference Hatred of immigration But back to the topic that of limiting love No one could judge love But our father above So until the world gets right, we'll all feel abducted Wish it wasn't this way but the world is corrupted I'm in love with you and you're in love with me And our love's forever hated by our family Oh I wish, yes i wish baby you and me could be But the world will never see just what our eyes can see -- With us, we cannot be together Nor can we be apart Why did we even start If we can't exchange hearts it's just reality.
 * Middle East - Tiffany, Briana, Nicole, Kristi, Delon - It's Just Reality **

** Its coming faster and faster A very terrible disaster. An epidemic sweeping the nation While looking for salvation. So many crying, far too many dying This world is at war and I feel no peace. I wonder if this place I call home will ever stand up on its feet Fight for what’s right even though this hole is too deep. Drugs and war have taken over everyone run and hide for cover. Killing here, killings there, killing everyone everywhere There must be a change Nothing needs to be done in vain I can hear it in the distance calling my name It is the sound of freedom Finally coming to take me away from all of this pain.
 * Europe - Leah, Shavon, Stephanie, Crystal, Kiara - Shavon's Rap

Danyelle Morgan Mara
 * Africa - Morgan, Mara, Danyelle - In da streets (what yall think)**

DANYELLE:

Kids in the streets Mama and daddy gone Who will help those Kids who are out here all Alone

A fear is what life Is to them No food or clean water They need help yes they do, Government get on your job And do what you got to do

CHOURS:

Come on people start thinking If it's that hard to pay attention then stop blinking These are kids were talking about You wanna save a life well go on help them out The laziness stops here (Simeme Hapa)

MARA:

Walkin' with passports Within our home courts Racial discrimination Within our nation South Africa I feel bad for ya I feel bad for guys like Nelson Mandela Who put out for ya Deraged,Detained We need to rearage The madness, The badness The rich and the poor We can get through this The opportunity's at the door

CHOURS:

Come on people start thinking If it's that hard to pay attention then stop blinking These are kids were talking about You wanna save a life well go on help them out The laziness stops here (Simeme Hapa)

MORGAN:

It's poverty going on in Kenya Little kids sreamin I need ya While ya'll up eating breakfast Ya'll ain't paying attention the news getting da message

People say they want to help out But right now "HELP" is in a drought Kids are over there starving You can go over there, no one's blocking Why let a kid die And they didn't even get a chance to experience life

CHOURS:

Come on people start thinking If it's that hard to pay attention then stop blinking These are kids were talking about You wanna save a life well go on help them out The laziness stops here (Simeme Hapa)

**Africa - Lauren, Koreko, Deanna, Erinn - You Got Me ** (song and lyrics ) African Social Justice Song Lyrics 1:

I was so confused
**//A Way//** **//To Change!//** You look at my country and you think it’s nice Where the truth to your life is like a sacrifice When you look all around you think it’s a paradise Living here everyday for some is like a fight You think about your country and you think about human rights Lives are not protected lives are lost; Police do anything to forget about the cost. The government dose not seem to care people are screaming for their help everywhere Where do we go? What do we do? when the government do not even really seem to care people are screaming for their help everywhere where do we go what do we do when nobody Seems to want to help you. What do we do? Can you see why were struggling we need somebody to Help us we need a chance. Our families do everything they can but their Actions are buried under the sand. The tropical breeze blows in a path for destruction The crime is too high it needs a reduction. Poverty and homes are lost every year Hunger and water that’s served from a tear! The lost of the Amazon Rainforest would be Devastating to the globes environment It helps clean our air but how can we stop it Poverty creates violence in this world for People to survive. Even children get abused Just look at the sadness in their eyes But does this really come as a surprise When the truth in every country is what we try to hide Change echoes across the land But people do not do everything they can The echo just gets silenced And everything remains the same!! The basic necessities can mean a lot But over here it is something that we barely got Our people have a big lack of knowledge and it’s a shame Half of our people can’t even write their own name Illiterate is written across the land Do not know how to use the pencil in our hand Hoping to change this fact maybe one day Where we can write all of the issues away Hope flies far and it’s hard to receive When no one else here seem to believe That we can become anything A cry for help across the nation screams And hopefully a sight in the future we can change But if we don’t try it will remain the same And remain the same is what it will do But in truth a change starts with YOU Over 50% of Brazilian people are in poverty That’s over 50% of Brazilians that can’t eat Children sit around in dirt and play Blow a kiss to the sky wishing for a better day. What can we say when the world turns this way? Barely having a place to sleep Dirt blown in our eyes we can barely even see; The way to change It seems like it just remains the same!!! A solution has not even been put into action So many people have negative entertainment as a distraction We need to put our hands together where we all belong Help each other to help make our nation strong Brazilians do have good qualities But in order for them to be successful we need to believe We will one day overcome all of the negative ways But to make a change for tomorrow We need to start TODAY Change echoes across the land But people do not do everything they can The echo just gets silenced And everything remains the same!! Written By: Ashley Wilson Sung By: Ashley Edward Rappers: Trisha Pierson, Dersha, and Ashley Wilson Beats: Tupac song “changes”
 * South America - Ashley W, Ashley E., Trisha, Dershae - DAT **

Group B

Chorus It’s a struggle (8x)
 * South America - Latia, Aria, Danielle, Shanna, Kati - It's A Struggle **

Now lil Alex is only 10 years old Tryin figure out why the world is so cold Why he lives dark and noboby seems to like him Every where he go people always tryin to fight him His brothers wont listen and nobody will kiss him Always wonderin if his momma gonna miss him Livin in the park every day and the night Brothers telling him every thing ll be alrite No food to eat makes him a lil slim Prayin every night wish he lived with Jim He tries to runaway but he just cant leave them Telling them he rich but nobody will believe him Now he stuck up in the world all alone Force to think that hell is a place called home Now he works all of his child hood away Wishin that he could jus see a better day. It’s a struggle (8x)

**__Verse 2 (It’s a Struggle)__** Now Lil’ Pablo’s just 11 years old Tryna figure out why he aint got a home Workin all day just to help support his family Mamas tryna work cuz they aint got no daddy Cuz his skin is dark, he be feelin all the hatred Wanna go to college, but he cant afford a payment Water is a shortage, so you know it aint no bathin Kids runnin ‘round all they do is misbehave and He wanna make a difference but he don’t know where to start wanna help his family bcuz they in his heart All day prayin that his life would just get better Little sister thin cause nobody ever fed her Now he stuck up, in a world all alone Forced to think that hell is a place called home Now he works all of his childhood away Wishin that he could just see a better day It’s a stuggle (8x)

**North America - Jazmyne, Nolisha, Dedrick, Daniele, Jasmine - If I ruled the world** (Verse 1) Aids is killing a nation Devastation For instance A man name Rolando Was try`na handle some business Chillin in the club; just living his life Didn’t no that later own he Would be cheating on his wife That one night stand One he just couldn’t forget That night with Juan Cortez Is the night he most regrets? Layed down in that bed Didn’t think what he was doing Didn’t no that his own life Was the one that he was choosing To KILL That’s real At home he wishes he would’ve stayed Cause he layed down in that bed And got up with AIDS! (Chorus) If I ruled the world I’d free all my sons And cure them from aids (baby) How? I’m not for sure (imagine that 2x) If I ruled the WORLD (Verse 2) Waiting around all day Trying to make a way To help his self be free From this disease But it’s so hard When he doesn’t have a bus card To get where he’s gotta go And he doesn’t even no  If the medicine needed Will be supplied So he looked at the man And cried Felt like he had died Wishing he hadn’t lied Looking in da mirror He sees himself All alone (pause) with no place To call HOME He no’s that while he’s down There’s no where to go But up  But What if while he’s down He keeps his eyes shut Wishing he was cured Counting down da days Opened up his eyes still living with AIDS (Chorus) If I ruled the world I’d free all my sons And cure them from aids (baby) How? I’m not for sure (imagine that 2x) If I ruled the WORLD (Verse 3) His wife leaves him His babies need him There all alone Because he aint at home Got locked up trying to provide for his home He’s feeling disappear He pulls up chair Pops every pill that he found in there A Place he called home Know he’s all alone But what is he to do Dying slowly, but surely Made the mistake of a fool 3 days later he was on the news He killed a inmate do to his rage Rolando Lopez was going insane (Chorus) If I ruled the world I’d free all my sons And cure them from aids (baby) How? I’m not for sure (imagine that 2x) If I ruled the WORLD (Bridge) You see, he recognizes….. his mistakes. sits behind those bars once again, watching life going on……without him. mistakes cause the pain to everyone who loved him. So You see, He’s sitting here, behind the bars, once again. He'll be living with thooose mistakes for years to allllll of yall out there: Please listen to what- we- say. Please stop…. think of what you doing before its too late. Please stop …think before you make….that final mistake and end up with a lifetime of AIDS. **(Chorus)** **If I ruled the world** **I’d free all my sons** **And cure them from aids (baby)** **How? I’m not for sure (imagine that 2x)** **If I ruled the WORLD**

**Europe - Erinn, Tyesha, Reginald - District 13 ** District 3

I'm 16 yrs old All left out in the cold A wall build up all around me My parents is nowhere to be found I'm overan by drugs and violence Scared and Shook I just stand there and be silent Not Knowing what to do Hoping and Wishing these gray clouds turn blue I'm hur, abandoned, and so confuse I ask God, Why I'm being abuse

We was treated like bums Force to live in the Parisian slums Everyone walled off and left us Now we have no one to trust Wanting and Needing police protection Hoping for closure and some affection, We ask Why are we being treated this way?? We get no answer, We all hope this ccome to past someday I been around the world, I been around the block,I been to Australia where the homeless don't stop. Like the census night the stats was took to the top. I a give you a pain if you take a watch. Let me put you on game cause' people sleepin' on rocks.Picture that like Heath Ledger & Courtney Cox.The government think its a wrap, but the people still upset. Demanding oil like the U.S taking oil from Chavez. The country was eye-candy for the ACIL. Hopped to the trading system where they know they go fail. They know they(wouldn't get far) 1.3 bill can't get'em that (FAR) How they get that (FAR). All the new projects trying to set a new platform. But how the new platform gon' feed the poor. They real deceiving, but behind closed doors they do whatever it takes to keep the homeless people ignored.
 * Australia - Domonique, Kenneth, Jamel - Wouldn't Get Far **

(Chorus)

(You wouldn't get far) Homeless with no cars, you know who you are put ya hands up Australia. (You Wouldn't get far) If you keep ya mouth closed (it would be just a waste of time) ...But you know ... (You wouldn't get far) Homeless with no cars, you know who you are, We wrote this song for you (for you) for you (for you) and you (and you) For all y'all.


 * Australia - Latavia, Justin Saffal, Rahmann - Uptown **

SAME ALL AROUND THE WORLD, GOT ME MAD 'N STRESSIN'// FROM DETROIT 2 AUSTRAILIA, YO, IT'S MAD OPPRESSION// AND THINGS NEVER GOTTA GO IN THAT DIRECTION// SEE MY FLOW AND RAP IS RECKLESS, BUT YOU KNOW I GOT THE MESSAGE// ON THE BLOCK THEY SELLIN' DOPE AND PACK PROTECTION// YEA YOU FIGHTIN' FOR YOUR RIGHTS CAUSE YEA THE VOTE COULD ROCK ELECTIONS// THIS IS WACK, WHY WE STRUGGLIN', WE ALL EQUAL// DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN, WE ALL PEOPLE// BUT POVERTY REALLY BOTHER ME, HONESTLY// I COULD BE HATIN' THESE RACIST FOR FACIN' THE INEQUALITY, BUT// OF COURSE, I BEEN TRAINED TO WORK THE HARDEST// BELIEVE IN THAT, IM CLOSIN' THE ACHEIVEMENT GAP// IM LIKE A FIEND FOR CRACK, ITCHIN AND I NEED TO SCRATCH// STAY WILD BROTHER, EVEN WAY DOWN UNDER// TECH CLASS, SO YOU KNOW I HAD TO KILL IT B// ORIGINAL MAN SOMETHIN' LIKE THE ABORIGINIES// THIS HATRED FROM THESE KIDS WANNA SCAR ME// BUT I HEAT 'EM UP LIKE SCHRIMP ON THE BAR-B// NOW THEY WANNA GET ME// BUT WE FIGHTIN' FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE FROM SAGINAW TO SYDNEY// GOT IT COMIN' DOWN LIKE A HAILSTORM// FROM MICHIGAN, ALL THE WAY TO MELBOURNE// J-ROCK, FowL MIC CAUSE IM NICE// LA-LA, RA-RA, TELL 'EM FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS...AYEE!!! 