Update 10/31/04 – I’ve decided to add the other links to this post in case I have trouble today creating other posts — it’s hard to blog right now with so much activity on the server. Links to my mirror of the Eminem video (you should download this to your computer and watch it full size if you can), his SNL performance of “Mosh”, and the other song he performed on SNL are all available right here. (These aren’t full size, like the .mov file of the video, but they’ll play back better from your own computer. There’s too much activity on the server, and they’re not playing back very well right now. Bit torrent folks: please do your thing!
People have been telling me to check it out all week, but it wasn’t until I heard that Eminem was going to be on Saturday Night Live tonight that I thought to record it and check out
the video for myself. (This link goes to GNN website.)
“Mosh” was directed by Guerilla News Network’s Ian Inaba.
I’ll be storing a mirror of it soon…and putting up the Saturday Night Live performance.
Eminem is with us guys! The video says it all.
The video is out getting the message across on the Web, while he gave the same message on live television just moments ago:
We have to vote Bush out of office.
We’re going to do it this Tuesday.
We’re going to turn out in such numbers, that our decision will be incontestable.
Here are the lyrics (courtesy of
Internet Veterans For Truth)
Lyrics to ‘Mosh’ (courtesy of
Internet Veterans For Truth)
Eminem – Mosh
Intro:
(Kids: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America..
(BOOM)
(Kids: And to the Republic..)
Eminem: People..
(Kids: For which it stands..)
Eminem: Hahaha..
(Kids: One nation under God.. Indivisible..)
Eminem: It feels so good to be back!
Verse 1:
I scrutinize every word, memorize every line
I spit it once, refuel, re-energize and rewind
I give sight to the blind, my insight’s through 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’ma whip someone?s ass
If you don’t understand, don’t even bother to ask
A father who has grown up with a father-less past
Who has blown up now to rap phenomenon
That has, or at least shows, no difficulty multi-taskin’ and juggling both
Perhaps mastered-his-craft slash entrepreneur
Who has helped launch a few more rap-bags
Who’s had a few obstacles thrown his way
Through the last half of his career
Typical manure, moving past that
Mister kiss-his-ass-crack, he’s a class-act
Rubber-band man, yeah, 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 wont steer you wrong
Put your faith in your trust, as I guide us through the fog
To the light at the end of the tunnel we gon? fight
We gon’ charge, we gon’ stomp
We gon’ march through the swamp
We gon’ mosh through the marsh
Take us right through the doors
Come on..
Verse 2:
All the people up top, on the side and the middle
Come together, let’s all form this 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
No matter what color, all that matters we’re gathered together
To celebrate for the same cause, no matter the weather
If it rains, let it rain
Yeah, the wetter the better
They ain’t gon’ stop us – they can’t
We’re stronger now, more then ever
They tell us “No”, we say “Yeah”
They tell us “Stop”, we say “Go”
Rebel with a rebel yell
Raise hell – we gon’ let em know
Stomp, push, shove, mush..
Fuck Bush
Until they bring our troops home, c’mon, just..
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 wont steer you wrong
Put your faith in your trust, as I guide us through the fog
To the light at the end of the tunnel we gon’ fight
We gon’ charge, we gon’ stomp
We gon’ march through the swamp
We gon’ mosh through the marsh
Take us right through the doors
Come on..
Verse 3:
Imagine it pourin’, it’s rainin’ down on us
Moshpits outside the oval office
Someone’s tryin to 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 pumpin’ our fists
Now, this is our final hour
Let me be the voice, and your strength and your choice
Let me simplify the rhyme just to amplify the noise
Try to amplify it, times it, and multiply it by sixteen million
People are equal at this high pitch
Maybe we can reach al CIAda through my speech
Let the president answer our high anarchy
Strap him with a 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 our hero
Look in his eyes, its all lies
The stars and stripes, have been swiped
Washed out and wiped and replaced with his own face
Mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight, you?ll know why
‘Cuz I told you to fight
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 wont steer you wrong
Put your faith in your trust, as I guide us through the fog
To the light at the end of the tunnel we gon’ fight
We gon’ charge, we gon’ stomp
We gon’ march through the swamp
We gon’ mosh through the marsh
Take us right through the doors
Come on
Outro:
Eminem: 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..
(Kids: Hear us, hear us?.. Hahaha)