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(Planet Asia) |
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The meaning of this song is |
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Never take things on face value |
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The truth shall set you free, yknahmsayin? |
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Truth is the power to resurrect the mentally dead |
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from their state of unawareness |
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So on that note, for all my peoples in the U.S.A. |
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Check it out |
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(Chorus: Planet Asia) + (Goapele) |
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(Up.. side.. down) Uh-huh that's right we gettin down |
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Guess who's comin to yo' town |
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I was lost but now I'm found (up.. down) |
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Now I'm bout to turn America upside down (upside dowwwwn) |
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(Up.. side.. down) Upside down |
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(And if you come down) Upside down, upside down |
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(Up, down, ohhhhhhhhhhhhh) |
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(Verse One: Planet Asia) |
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It's like the great {?} to who made the Egyptian scriptures |
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I'm spiritual cultivation the way my words entered your dome |
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No stoppin once the mission is known |
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You know the topic many prophets can't physically show 'em |
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And many different pedigrees sent from out the heavens to the chosen |
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So the struggle is maintain some integrity |
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And until it's over, I shall remain a soldier |
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Like Aztecs with aspects that they govern, it's on |
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Wanna live, you gotta eat from the tree |
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And reach the degree, the medicine for my peoples is history lost |
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And in religion, the mystery cost |
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Unofficially off brothers who be frosted mentally |
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Black man recognize the science of life |
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It's all you, right and exact, it's actual fact |
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It's all you, everything in existance |
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The sun the moon the stars the galaxy and every dimension |
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Fuck a pagan religion, let's look at the state of our livin |
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And I say it again for all my peoples layin in prison |
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Cause what's the cure if it don't change the condition? |
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If it's holy it's pure, undiluted in any form with no mixtures |
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Many claim a parable and scroll the scriptures |
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But what's the story if you never catch the whole adventure |
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And we want the facts right now |
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Or else we bout to turn America, upside down |
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(Chorus) + ad libs |
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(Verse Two: Planet Asia) |
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Poisonous nights, street life, police lights |
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A whole nation of men women and kids that don't eat right |
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It's freedom or death, kingmanship or slaves to success |
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And why the fuck I owe the government net? |
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They're puttin holes in my check |
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While undercovers put the holes in our chest from |
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Every corner to block they got us posin for death some |
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Get out of this, but most don't even know what the knowledge is |
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Children payin tuition to these brainwashed colleges |
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Still in the same position they had us and still got us in |
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Look at where all the problems begin |
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Where the problem begins, is when you motherfuckers try to pretend |
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And try to act like you ain't really bout the dollars and cents |
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A scholar was sent, to shed some proper knowledge and gems |
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More than Pradas and Timbs, papi came to father his kin |
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I came to add another part to the trend |
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And add the sword to the devil's lapel |
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Cause me and him could never have resemblence |
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Simply cause his level is Hell, never I fail |
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Never will and never shall, forever real |
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'til my words, from now on, 'til I'm dirt |
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Forever with my five fingers put together puttin in work |
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I'm your black star power, the now or never shout of let's get free |
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Your scientist, the future of tomorrow has come |
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And we want some answers right now |
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Or else we bout to turn America, upside down |
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(Chorus) + ad libs |
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(Planet Asia) w/ Goapele ad libbing |
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Uh-huh that's right we gettin down |
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Guess who's comin to yo' town |
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I was lost but now I'm found |
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And I'm bout to turn America, upside down |
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Upside down, upside down, upside down |
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Turn America upside down |
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(Goapele keeps ad libbing) |
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(Planet Asia) |
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Yeah, real people |
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All my real people walkin through life |
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Not takin things on face value, knahmsayin? |