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Intro: |
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Take a piece of America back |
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It's called truth |
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Verse 1: Talib Kweli |
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We the last of the vintage flowers, we carry it on our shoulders |
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I keep my friends close and the devils a lot closer |
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When the Freedom Riders approach them, their appetite is vulturous |
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Soldiers of fortune ain't never no match for soldiers of culture |
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My flow is so fucking honest, you said you wanted to hear it |
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You're lying, cause all you wanted was for me to lift up your spirits |
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The truth is too fucking ugly and trust me the shit got layers |
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You touch me, you think you tough, leave you toothless as rugby players |
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From sufis to soothsayers discussing the true saviours |
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We move with the gangstas |
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You niggas sweeter than the fruit flavors, the booth slayer |
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Proving it's futile to hide from us |
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You misguided as missiles so a suicide bombers |
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Taking orders from the mullah and waiting for karma to pull up |
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Their stones are no match for bullets, Israeli rachets are fuller |
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Gotta race to meet Allah like they chasing them with a cop car |
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Like there's honor in being a martyr and a terrorist is a rockstar |
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Dodging the Abu Dhabi or dodging the paparazzi |
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Still probably as popular as Swastikas for nazis |
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The cops protect the property properly when they crack your heads |
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Murderers get as cocky as Perseus when the kraken dead |
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I wonder what be running through these crackers' heads |
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So my niggas is spilling more blood than |
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Cincinnati caps, black and red |
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I'll take an Actifed, go back to bed, allergic to the fumes |
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Having a funeral for the news cause the facts is dead |
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The trust is gone from the neocons to Barrack Obama |
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America eats its young from Casey Anthony to the Octomom |
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Fix it and mix it up, like martial Law for the Octagon |
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I spit the fire til it burn down Babylon |
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Hook: |
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Take a piece of America back |
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You will learn |
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It's called truth |
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Verse 2: R.A. the Rugged Man |
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Death by suicide bomb, protestants, Bibles, a Koran, or Islam |
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From Genghis Khan to Vietnam I can smell the napalm |
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Rape victims, ripped stockings |
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Redneck clan members doing church bombings |
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Innocent fetus' being aborted with no options |
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Human governments ruin 'em |
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Worrying what weapons could be used to be nukin' 'em |
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Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem |
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Slaves treated like property, to Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima to Nagasaki |
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Adolf Hitler, to every murderous Nazi |
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To the Gambinos, to the Gottis, to every mafia atrocity |
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Child pornography, babies starving and dying in poverty |
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Serbians fighting Croatians in Yugoslavia |
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Muslim women being raped, up to 40,000 in the war in Bosnia |
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The 50 million killed in the second World War |
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The government's poisoning the minds and the bodies |
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Of the babies that are born poor |
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Airplanes blown up by Islamic extremists |
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In religion there's always drama |
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Whether worshipping the Prophet Mohammed or Jesus |
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Small pox to Napoleon's troops dying from typhus |
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From the Spanish flu to the black plague, today its AIDS virus |
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Bodies in coffins, political extortions |
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Racist mobs murdering, Willie Turks, Michael Griffith and Yusef Hawkins |
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Check the murder rate, is it human nature to murder and hate? |
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The Catholic church claimed women were witches andburned 'em at the stake |
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Pedophile predators attacking |
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.38 Beretta used by Ghandi's assassin |
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16 bullets in Malcolm, it happened uptown Manhattan |
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And the homicide, Reagan '80s epidemic of crack |
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And soldiers in action dying in Iraq and never coming back |
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And now let's |
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Outro: |
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Take a piece of America back |
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You will learn |
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It's called truth |
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It's called truth |
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You will learn |
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It's called truth |
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It's called truth |
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