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Akrobatik
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feat. Chuck D, Brenna Gethers
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[Intro - Chuck D]
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This is Chuck D. The effects of slavery have had a far reaching
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effect on black people in America
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The scars run deep
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Not just the physical, but the emotional and psychological scars as well
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And they still hurt today
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It's been said before, that we can't know
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where we are going, without knowing where we have been
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Follow along, as Akrobatik takes us on a journey
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back to how things started for us here
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And links topics to what we're dealing with, to this day
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[Akrobatik]
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It took me six years to build up enough courage to run
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and only six hours to be facing the barrel of a gun
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Not knowing if it's the last time I'd ever see my sons
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and that's punishment enough, still the pain has just begun
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Life flashes, whether from the whip lashes
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he's threatening to burn me in my own ashes
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Brown skin is now purple, it comes full circle,
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when the pain that I'll endure is the pain I have to work through
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For now my body lies listless
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wishing that my wife wasn't forced to witness
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Wishes she wasn't forced to be master's mistress
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wishes she wasn't forced to be under this disstress
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How did we ever get into this mess
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we came from kings, now we're wearing rags
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eating unmentionable things, the stings
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from the welds on my back make me wanna attack
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and be a martyr for blacks, but then the whip cracks
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and brings me back to reality, madness brutality
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that leads to fatalities
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And if he knew I was reading books and getting smarter
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it would only make him whip me harder
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Sometimes I thank God I never had a daughter
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but even if I did it might definately connect
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through the pain, our soul's kindred
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[Chorus - Brenna Gethers]
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Hmm-mm-mm, we are kindred
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through our name
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[Chuck D]
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Hurricane Katrina and her aftermath
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have long since been forgotten by many of those unaffected by her wrath
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felt in 2005
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Once again our people have been displaced by the thousands
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and were left to fend for themselves
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while those more fortunate were able to escape
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Let's take a look at what may have been going on
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through the mind of victims of America's most infamous natural disaster
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[Akrobatik]
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I'm on my rooftop, sick and thirsty, asking God for mercy
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please spare my wife, she's only thirty
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Schoolbuses float atop murky waters, could they have
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used them to at least evacuate our sons and daughters?
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We sleep because we have no choice, dehydrated
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and we can't scream for because we have no voice
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Crying for what the helicopters never dropped us
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the stench of bodies in piles is evident for miles
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Broke with little home, laid off with little income
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ghetto life is no joke, I'm broke and then some
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My son is on his stomach, body riddled with heavy shakes
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I guess we now know what happens when the levee breaks
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For now my body lies listless
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whishing that my wife wasn't forced to witness
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Whishes she wasn't forced to be without me for Christmas
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whishes she wan't forced to be under this disstress
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How did we ever get into this mess
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we came from kings, now I feel I truly know why the caged bird sings
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He sings to keep his mind of the pain of things
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but the way that we were left to remain, it stings
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Stings like the welds on the back of my kin
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now replaced by the toxic water attacking my skin
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I bet CNN is broadcasting this slaughter
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as gasprices rise like the water
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I thank God I never had a daughter
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but even if I did it might definately connect
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through the pain, our soul's kindred
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[Chorus - Brenna Gethers]
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Hmm-mm-mm, we are kindred
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through our name
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