| Bad News travels fast | |
| And if it's about you you'll probably hear 'bout it last | |
| But when they press up | |
| And check up | |
| And they ask | |
| You gotta keep perspective on the future and the past | |
| And laugh | |
| While they keep talkin' | |
| Talk, talk, talkin, | |
| Chicken heads keep squawkin' | |
| Power of the spoken word is infinite | |
| You can tell | |
| Cuz people are always talking | |
| Talking on the run, talking while walking, | |
| Talking in line, talking in circles, | |
| Talking in time all over the world | |
| Talkin' 'bout whatever's on their mind- that's fine | |
| Talkin' 'bout who they hawkin, who they watchin, who they clockin, | |
| Who they heard was up to something poppin' | |
| Always talkin' about who they remember and who's forgotten | |
| Who's rockin' the set and who's floppin', droppin' out | |
| Talkin' 'bout people from the cradle to the coffin | |
| Talkin' 'bout people, talkin' 'bout people, talkin' 'bout people, | |
| Talkin' 'bout people non-stop talkin' often | |
| [Chorus] | |
| People talk shit | |
| Their minds reinforce it | |
| Spittin' out words and thoughts that are amorphous | |
| Pushin' sloppy sound out of their vocal orifice | |
| Like it ain't bein' recorded | |
| Sometimes a words scorch is worse than torches | |
| Whats more | |
| Is the talk aint uniform or rehearsed | |
| It's the richest, the poorest, | |
| From CEO boardrooms to porches to alley ways and gutters | |
| From coast to coast, east to west, south to north | |
| It's people talking of course! | |
| Like life is a courtroom | |
| Most bullshittin' from midnight to high noon and back again | |
| Blacks and the Blacker thans | |
| Whites and the Africans | |
| Far to little action far to much satisfaction | |
| In philanderin' usin' sex like a sedative | |
| Repetitive like rhetoric | |
| I'm bettin' ya think ya nice cuz you give free add-vice right? | |
| But unless you got a tight alternative it's best to let it just live! | |
| And raise the octave up to the positive | |
| Even though they try and stop you up | |
| Arteries cloggeded | |
| The Black man targeted that's how they set it off, they said it | |
| But in the end it will be only them that's effected by they negative vibe | |
| I know it hurts, there is no indigestion worse | |
| Than that which comes from having to eat your own word(s), | |
| I heard two(2) people need not bicker in a burning home | |
| But some people know how to live everybodies life but their own so, | |
| Here's the poem dedicated | |
| To the hatred propagated by the ill-fated | |
| Snakes that's waitin' in grass | |
| Those that talk the most got the least to say | |
| But that ain't nothin' new | |
| And it ain't even really all that |
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