Chanda Mbao - Open Your Eyes [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Verse 1: Chanda Mbao]
Knock knock, who barbarianized you?
God sent us here to civilize you
De-spiritualize and Christianize you
It was also ordained we’d commoditize you
And rip apart your families, destabilize you
But we’re here for your good, we’ll industrialize you
By the way, that smell, we’ll deodorize you
And domesticize you, de-energize you
Anesthetize, frustrate, anonymize you
Then creolize you, until your own people don’t recognize you
Acclimatize you, to inferiority, desensitize you
Thank us, we legitimized you
But you have to live in slums, unless we authorize you
And if you protest we’ll deunionize you
We can accept you but first we have to corporatize you
We will own you, monopolize you

[Hook: Chanda Mbao]
Open your eyes
Open your eyes
Open your eyes
Open your eyes
Tell me when you’re going to open them
Tell me when you’re going to open them
Tell me when you’re going to open them
Tell me when you’re going to open them

[Verse 2: Chanda Mbao]
Come in, we need to consumerize you
Urbanize you, we need to televise you
We’ll typecast and categorize you
And once we advertise, monetize you
Yes, I’ve got it, commercialize you
Accessorize you, give you gaudy jewelry, ricidulize you
Throw you to the fickle mob to angelize you
And for a short while they’ll idolize you
But it won’t be long until they criticize you, to humanize you
They’ll scandalize you, demonize you
Catechize you before they chastise you
For now, we’ll animalize you
Give you drugs and tranquilize you
Then sit and watch, as the they brutalize you
Put you in a line up, alphabetize you
We’ll make you lose hope, demoralize you
Apostatize you
Savages, we will cannibalize you

[Hook: Chanda Mbao]
Open your eyes
Open your eyes
Open your eyes
Open your eyes

Tell me when you’re going to open them
Tell me when you’re going to open them
Tell me when you’re going to open them
Tell me when you’re going to open them

Tell me when you’re going to open them
Tell me when you’re going to open them
Tell me when you’re going to open them
Tell me when you’re going to open them
Tell me when you’re going to open them
Tell me when you’re going to open them
Tell me when you’re going to open them
Tell me when you’re going to open them