(featuring Bilal, Jorge Ben Jor, Positive Force & Talib Kweli)
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[Jorge Ben Jor] (scat singing)
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[stic.man]
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(to the ancestors)
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can't keep quiet
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this time gon' be more than a riot (to the warriors)
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can't keep quiet
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this time gon' be more than a riot (to those who came before us)
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can't keep quiet
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this time gon' be more than a riot (long lived the revolution)
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can't keep quiet
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this time gon' be more than a riot
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[stic.man]
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religion is like prison
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keep the people locked up in different divisions
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some of them promise you heaven
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but I see a whole lot of bullshit ism-scism
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imperialism in the form of spirituality
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slave mentality, escape reality
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what we supposed to just suffer and smile and be content?
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sendin our prayers to the clouds? (stic.man - uhn uh)
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i want my heaven now, freedom on earth
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and if the preacher ain't with us, then we takin his church
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what is it worth to have the biggest religion
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when the people got miserable living conditions?
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no water, no lights, no rights
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all over africa we fight, but we have to unite
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cause ain't no power in the gospel
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when the priest puttin powder in his nostril
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and the elder's council fails to lead
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and the children suffer from daily need
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and the people can barely eat
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is it a sin to stand up
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to fight against the ones that put is in handcuffs?
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goddamn, what happened to the daily bread, spread love
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and not what the bible said, but in the name of the bible
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how much love is spread compared to how much blood is shed
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chorus:
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[Bilal]
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everyday my people get inside the bus
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(women - shuffering and shmiling)
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everyday its the circle
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(women - shuffering and shmiling)
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everyday my people get inside the bus
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(women - shuffering and shmiling)
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everyday its the circle
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[Jorge Ben Jor] (scat singing)
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(women - shuffering and shmiling) x4
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everyday its the same thing
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[Talib Kweli]
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yo
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every day I wake up is a miracle, thank you
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seperate religious and the spiritual, thank you
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see, I dont be askin in the air, every action is a prayer
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the bear won't attack me, I be, attackin the bear, see
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back in the day I used to work in a bookstore
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my job was to find whatever book you look for
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i remember one day this lady came for a bible
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we was out, so I started showin here other titles
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tryna share information about a religion
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everything that I showed her was written by christians, still
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she got the hell up outta the place
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wonderin something about me shakin her faith
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now, knowledge is power, we spread information
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how strong is your faith? what it take to be shaken?
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yo, I think she missed what jesus was sayin
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can't keep your eyes closed to a revelation
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you could be speakin in tongues
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could be speakin of sons and daughters
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my reflection of course, within the water is
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beautiful, attractive, my musical contraption
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classified as unusual practice but
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thats what it take to be a man
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free the land, crash down on babylon like the sea to the sand
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peace to the fam, we want you all to stay strong and live long
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like a de la song, c'mon
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[stic.man & Talib Kweli]
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can't keep quiet
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this time gon' be more than a riot
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can't keep quiet
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this time gon' be more than a riot
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can't keep quiet
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this time gon' be more than a riot
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can't keep quiet
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this time gon' be more than a riot
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[m1]
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this way of life, ain't right
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pray all day and night and don't fight
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poped up, doped up
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work three jobs to fill the gold cup
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no water, no food, no lights, no rights
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no power til the people unite
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it's gone - divison and they work us in prison
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look round, how my niggas is livin
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everything we make, they takin it to the bank
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while we sittin up in the church to give thanks
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don't you know the preacher got bank? (m1 - uhn uh, uhn uh)
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don't you know the deacon smoke dank? (m1 - uhn uh, uhn uh)
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did you ever think the bible was a prank? (m1 - uhn uh, uhn uh)
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somebody bout to faint
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before they came
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they had the bible, we had the land
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now, we got the bible, they got the land
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and what do you believe in, heaven or hell?
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life is what you make it, so thats why I rebel
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uncle |