Andrew Michael Bogut (born 28 November 1984) is an Australian professional basketball player who plays for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Bogut was selected first overall by the Bucks in the 2005 NBA Draft. The 7-foot (2.13m), 260-pound (118 kg) center was a star at the University of Utah for two years before declaring for the draft. Bogut is the first Australian player to be drafted number one overall. He was also the second Utah player to be drafted number one overall.
Bogut was born to Croatian immigrants Mišo and Ankica (née Jurišić) Bogut in the Melbourne suburb of Endeavour Hills. His father is from Osijek and his mother was a native of Karlovac. Bogut grew up playing Australian rules football and tennis in addition to basketball. In his childhood, he patterned his basketball game after Toni Kukoc. As a 15-year-old, he was cut from the Victoria junior state representative team. That experience apparently drove him to improve; he later went on to attend the Australian Institute of Sport, with whom he would tour the United States in 2001 and 2002. In his last season at AIS, he averaged 29 points, 14.5 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game while competing in the SEABL. He went on to lead the Australian team that won the 2003 FIBA Junior World Championships, and was named the tournament MVP.
This is human condition
Of resource scarcity
We've always been fighting
To sustain our needs
Life is beautiful
But we're outside our means
And with another generation
The stresses won't recede
[Chorus]
Your birthright brings...complacency
Position in life...bourgeosie
You cannot interpret...what you see
Your vision is clouded...by prosperity
Population rising
Just like the morning sun
Life for lineage
From the father to the son
This is the whole world fighting
Cultures mass appeal
Sustainable break point
Thou shall not kill
Without alarm, destruction creeps
And silently takes apart our ability to see
Everything we, we say we stand for
And everything we, everything we hold dear
And if this is just the beginning
Then I don't think i ever want to see the end
Cause it looks so much like it's slipping away
Like a tall tree as it's roots...
[Chorus]
Decay
Like a heartland union town
Decay
Like the leftwing underground
Decay
As another man hits the ground
And his life is brought right out from under him
Big business is gonna be the end
Big business is gonna be the end
Big business is gonna be the end
Of everything we thought we knew so well
Big business is gonna be the end
Big business is gonna be the end
Big business is gonna be the end
Of everything we thought we knew and loved
You think we have a soul,
You think we have a choice?
It's a material world
And convenience is the goal
And i fell it in me, the need for more
Born to want, and consumer to the core
And if this is just the beginning
Then I don't think i ever want to see the end
Cause it looks so much like it's slipping away
Like a tall tree as it's roots...
Rock and roll,
Expand and contract
Redisgn repackage and shove it all back
Into your face, false release
Reassign perspective put it all in it's place
Well the notes are for profit
And the violence is a whore
Corruption sex and power stand for rock and roll
Pay to play
Expand and contract
Redisgn repackage and shove it all back
Into your face, false release
Reassign perspective put it all in it's place
Well the notes are for profit
And the violence is a whore
Corruption sex and power stand for rock and roll
From '55 to '99, what was once rebellion got
Consumed
Alive
Recreated, replicated, mass apeal you
Synthesize
Emotion but you still can't feel
The sound of the street isn't here anymore
Rap stole the bite from the working class poor
From '55 to '99, what was once rebellion got
Consumed
Alive
Recreated, replicated, mass apeal you
Synthesize
Emotion but you still can't feel
Rock and roll,
Expand and contract
Redisgn repackage and shove it all back
Into your face, false release
Reassign perspective put it all in it's place
Well the notes are for profit
And the violence is a whore
Corruption sex and power stand for rock and roll
The sound of the street isn't here anymore
Give up, dumb down
Forgetting all your dreams
So buy in, take out,
And grabbing all you see
You sold out your ideals
When they got in your way
Forgot about compassion
When it affected your pay
So 1..2..3..and all i want to know
Is money all you see
When you let your eyes close?
So go, and sell it, your life is what you make of it
So go, and sell it, this is the only life ive got and im not gunna waste it.
[Chorus]
Go..fight..know your rights..demand your society provide a better life
Nice house, nice car, nice life, nice yard
Pre-planned outline, it's not that fucking hard
Well everyone can do it if you follow all the rules
Be tough, believe in god, and graduate school.
Something for nothing?
Well look at whose paying
Something for nothing?
Well look at whose paying
Your freedom is the currency
And you spend it so fast
With an artificial urgency, cause you know it
So go, and sell it, your life is what you make of it
So go, and sell it, this is the only life ive got and im not gunna waste it.
(feat. Stza)
Run, cover
Here comes la migra
Run, cover
Here comes the cops
Hiding in shadows, here comes la migra
Two days in the desert, here comes the pigs
We came as inmates through Ellis Island
We spread as a virus that killed through this fine land
A nation of subjugation and alienation
Black, yellow, Indonesian, Puerto Rican and Haitan
A chain of command and they're all under orders
While many slave and die to cross invisible borders
I challenge with one simple solution
Tear down the walls, rise up, revolution
Revolution, revolution, revolution
Go, go, go
[Chorus:]
The war at home, the war's abroad
All soaked in blood and lies and fraud
The genocide that we ignore is right outside your fucking door
Conquistadors across the seas have come ashore to spread disease
Imprisoned in suburban homes you will rot sick and die alone
Run, cover
Here comes la migra
Run, cover
Here comes the cops
Hiding in shadows, here comes la migra
Two days in the desert, here comes the pigs
Capital and National aligned and intertwined
First (First) world (Wide) wealth confined
To the business aligned allies and the G8 defined
Exploitation, exposition, resource request denied
Diffuse, resist, react and refuse
React, reject, collest and abuse
Border patrol sets out to condition and control
Slay el cabellero before it affects the status quo, go
Revolution, revolution, revolution
[Chorus]
Run, cover
Here comes la migra
Run, cover
Here comes the cops [x4]
To live without a heart
Another migrant family is torn apart
The xenophobia's here
But life inside a bubble that is full of fear
Will crush your soul inside
Another empty shell full of national pride
To live inside a cage
Cutting grass or washing dishes for a slavery wage [x2]
Let's go
I raise my hand cause
I've got another question
Teacher can you tell me
Why the cops harass me
When I only wanted their protection
Why do I have to work for the rest of my life
Face to the grind at a job i never liked
Who created this convention
[Chorus]
Take it all back, turn it around
The medium is the message
And it's more than just
Sound.
Take it all back, turn it around
I raise my hand cause I'm still confused
Never understood why we still make use
Of a system that's founded upon greed
You can explain away but I can't believe
I'll never agree with the way that you see
Cause it's leaving people sleeping in the streets
[Chorus]
Winds of charge are blowing
Harder than you've ever seen before
They're pushing and they're pulling
Straight to the company door
It's like a blank page under white light
The contrast is so high it's like day versus night
It's so easy to follow when it's all so clear
Outline is set and the deadline is here
Hey mr. public, what you gunna do?
When the third world starts starts starts starts
Looking for you
Gonna claim you saw the light
And it turned you to the right
And it made an honest man of you
Hey mr. public, what you gonna say
When the third world starts starts
Asking you to pay
Gonna claim you saw the light
And it turned you to the right
And it made an honest man of you
[Chorus]
No more, listen to yourself
Everything you take comes from someone else
No more, listen to yourself
Everything you take comes from someone else
No more, listen to yourself
Everything you take comes from someone else
This is not yours to give
Break it all down, spread it around
Do it all just as fast as you can
Break it all down, spread it around
If it's done right then we won't hear a sound
As traditional cultures are slowly
But surely replaced
With the methods
And machines that the business men embrace
With your hand on the pot
And your finger in the stew
Thousands of lives are relying on you
So please do what you know is right
Hey mr. business man what do you have to say
Cause the world can't just keep look, look,
Looking
Away
As you take what isn't yours
And you sell what you don't own
And you profit from the pain that others endure
Presented like a product,
Placed in a black box
The promise of salvation,
Is enough to make us watch
There is no thought,
And there is no concern
We can't retrace our steps
Across the bridges that we burn
But were content to be
Getting what we're getting for free
So we lock our chains
And we throw away the key
But the free comes at a price
That we'd rather not think about
The free comes at a price
We'd rather not think about.
Well we don' think much
About much these days
So the chance of that happening
Quickly fades away
Into another haze of emotion,
Another blur of product
Far from any pretense
And removed from any context
But nothing really seems
To be in context anymore
We sold our integrity
And now we are the whores
With our blue plastic checking cards
And silicone implants
Our pre-constructed world
That has all us trapped
[Chorus]
(and) All we are...
Is a tool to be used to pay
For someone else's rent
A profit gain of 23%
(and) All we are...
Pieces of paper to be torn into shreds
A small piece of capital to be worked until our death
Salvation in consumption
Is an absurd way to live
Products as religion
Is too much to give
So we fill our lives with useless items
To make up for ourselves
And we fill our heads with excuses
To justify our wealth
But the greed that fuels our consumption
Seems to be accepted
And not just as a fault,
But as a trait to be respected
How we got to this point
Is a question without answer
We can blame it on TV,
But we set the standard
All of this hypocricy
Just leaves me more confused
Expecting something more
When i should just be amuzed
At the pettiness, the irony,
The ignorance, and abuse
The individual twines we braid
Into one collective noose
Cause at the age of 24
You can't expect me to accept
That the standards of humanity
Coul possibly be less
All we ever wanted
Was to be something more than this
All we ever wanted
Was to be something more than this!
Oppressing you, Oppressing me
The bane is called technology
No one is free, thought crimes a sin
with chips that slip beneath your skin,
barcodes tattooed behind your eyes
all seeing cameras in the skies
upgraded forms of mind control
upgraded life, downloaded soul.
Rise up and stand up, and get up and go
It's your last chance move quick get out while no one knows
R.F. ID I-C chips clipped deep within your bones
gps locater on your wire tapped phone
Taking down democracy one brick at a time
Leaving the facade but it's hollow inside
right hand, palm down barcode on your wrist
left hand raised- (right back!) we will resist
in the name of what once called liberty
We now hold tight to our security
Take a deep breath the plastic in your lungs
Take a fresh battery and touch it to your tongue
Too proud to take too proud to shape to make a sound
mistake replace the tape the time is running down
so everything we ever see is makeup and a blue screen
recut re-edit just to recreate the social scene
synthesized flesh designed to impress upon the rest of us
6 a.m. the clock goes off,
The cycle is started and it never ever stops
Until your useful life is gone
You get up for school, you get up for work
You sit there in your desk as the minutes jerk
Until your youthful life is gone
I don't have the time (to give to)
I don't have the time (to give to)
I don't have the time (to give to you..)
[Chorus]
No more time...for petty insecurity
No more time...for social inequality
No more time...for being who we want to be
No more time is the time we're gunna give to you (waste of time)
Clock hands wind, and life is spent
The minutes seconds hours
All counting down your death
But you still act like you don't care
You can work your way up, and pin it down
But we all end up lying in the same ground
Regardless of your salary
I don't have the time (to give to)
I don't have the time (to give to)
I don't have the time (to give to you..)
..(to you!)..(to you!)
[Chorus]
Working for your freedom
Is the best way to get trapped
You can't call it independence
If it needs to be paid back
No fuckin' compromise
No more racist, sexist lies
Today we fight, tomorrow unite
I'm saving all my harshest words
I'm gonna focus my attack
Gonna spit like nails right through my teeth
and take this world back
These words are like a fuckin' weapon
And the point is down your throat
We're past the point of compromise
If we want to stay afloat (so come on!)
Fight, unite, we're all citizens of the world
And when we have the numbers we can hold it to our terms
Fight, unite, we're all citizens of the world
And when we have the numbers we can hold it to our terms
If we're gonna fight (we have to win)
Momentum lost (supposrt gives in)
So pick your battles and choose your fights
The left is dead and the center's gone right
And labored breath the world tips just a little more
(feat. Stza of Leftover Crack)
All the time we spend alone are the receding tides
50 friends that died today from 50 suicides
I can't always scrape enough to get something to eat
You can always make a buck from dying in the street.
Well we tried to speak our minds of our squandered aspirations
We tried to live a rural life and you declared civilization
Angry and hungry we just want peace and quiet
So we're gonna break your corporate necks and put ya'll on liquid diets
Molotov!
Goodbye to this wicked empire
Goodbye, Goodnight
When the setting sun burns a hole in the towers
I want to see them crumble
Now we're set to run amok in all your fance stores
All the cops and narks are dead from 1,000 civil wars
Now the rich are set to flee in all their fancy planes
The pilot is a friend of ours so you must feel the pain
It's a wheel of betrayal it's a static emotion
It's the will to survive with an inborn devotion
When we all realize that we let the people down
America it will explode in every fkn burning town
Goodbye to this wicked empire
Goodbye, Goodnight
When the bottom falls out from this rotting country
We'll watch the cities burning
Goodbye to this wicked empire
Goodbye, Goodnight
When the setting sun burns a hole in the towers
I want to see them crumble
I'll feel ground zero rumble
They'll wipe the crime scene clean
America, America polluted sea to sea
America, America just a fascist colony
And when you stop to look around your on a sinking ship
All the water's rising fast take another toxic sip
Fucks!
Goodbye to this wicked empire
Goodbye, Goodnight
When a civil war breaks out in this nation
We'll be spun up in lies
Goodbye to this wicked empire
Goodbye, Goodnight
When the bottom falls out from this rotting country
We'll cheer the tables turning
We'll watch the cities burning
In the name of those who came before
And all the soldiers that died on foreign floors
Was it worth the cost of human life?
A folded flag for your kids and widowed wife
[Chorus: x2]
Do you hear the new call up... international
No sir I cannot take cover
Send my dog tags to my father
Torn apart within the fodder
Tell my son it was for honor
There is a call that goes without a cause
A call for violence for a plight of no resolve
And still today they have the face to say
We are born into the world
With a blank slate for a mind
Capacity for learning,
And tightly closed up eyes
The learning comes so quick
That we have no time to choose
Our own set of standards
And our own set of rules
So we learn, and we learn young
No one thinks you're hard
If you turn and run
We learn, and we learn young
No one dismiss you
When they're staring down your gun
[Chorus]
So all along the city streets
I'm scared to walk alone
In the dirty alleyways,
I'm scared to walk alone
And I admit I've never lived
The life that you must know
But violence towards innocents
Won't fix your broken homes
(you reap the seeds you sow)
We determine what we think
Based on what we're shown
A lack of education leaves the world unkown
So all we have to go on is the world that we see
A world based on violence
And a world based on greed
So we learn, and we learn young
No one thinks you're hard
If you turn and run
We learn, and we learn young
No one dismiss you
When they're staring down your gun
I'm a fucking anti-Christ
I believe in no god and won't follow advice
You make lists and rules for you
I'm not going to change your perception of truth
I am the enemy
I believe in science over hypocrisy
Let reason and tolerance be the catalyst
We fight these battles to survive and exist
You believe what, - you want
Don't shove it down our throats
Your lies taste, - like poison
We're not gonna choke,
We don't wanna hear, we don't wanna hear,
All your crooked lies,
We're not gonna be, we're not gonna be,
Fucking hypnotized.
I am an anarchist
'cause I got my own standards and don't value "success"
Appropriated lifestyle and a higher wage
You let the world suffer while increasing your pay
We fight for one and all
Ingrained acceptance leaves invisible scars
Hunger death shelter fear guilt and regret
They pave the way to hell and then they chain us to debt
You believe what, - you want
Don't shove it down our throats
Your lies taste, - like poison
We're not gonna choke,
We don't wanna hear, we don't wanna hear,
All your crooked lies,
We're not gonna be, we're not gonna be,
Fucking hypnotized.
The news on your TV is a parasite you host
The corporate sponsored anchor is just a commercial ghost
Spin equals lies and they're beaming straight at you
When a lie repeats enough you'll think it is the truth
You believe what, - you want
Don't shove it down our throats
Your lies taste, - like poison
We're not gonna choke,
We don't wanna hear, we don't wanna hear,
All your crooked lies,
We're not gonna be, we're not gonna be,
Like a rock through a mosque in Jerusalem
A bullet through the head in Vietnam
A cannon through the wall at Antietam
Or the army through the people in Tiananmen
Well our history is rife (that's right)
With examples of our disregard for human life
So we imitate what we see (TV)
And we follow this culture
Right down to our knees
And I don't see it getting any better today
Until we replace our priorities over our pay
And the only world that we ever seem to know
Is based on aquaintances and TV shows
Another degredation, self revelation,
Rocks through the veil of one antoher liberation
[Chorus]
Response...to action
Trigger...synapses
Conditioned...reaction
Is this what you call free?
Like a rock through a mosque in Jerusalem
A bullet through the head in Vietnam
A cannon through the wall at Antietam
Or the army through the people in Tiananmen
Well our history is rife (that's right)
With examples of our disregard for human life
So we imitate what we see (TV)
And we follow this culture
Right down to our knees
And I don't see it getting any better today
Until we replace our priorities over our pay
And the only world that we ever seem to know
Is based on aquaintances and TV shows
Another degredation, self revelation,
Rocks through the veil of one antoher liberation
In the name of those who came before
And all the soldiers that died on foreign floors
Was it worth the cost of human life?
A folded flag for your kids and widowed wife
[Chorus: x2]
Do you hear the new call up... international
No sir I cannot take cover
Send my dog tags to my father
Torn apart within the fodder
Tell my son it was for honor
There is a call that goes without a cause
A call for violence for a plight of no resolve
And still today they have the face to say