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Reflection Eternal
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featuring Tae
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[Talib Kweli talking]
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The other day I was walking passing when you was on the way to
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meet my pops you know and this white boy stops me talking
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'bout he be in the National Socialist something or other
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trying to sell me a paper and give me some uh Free Mumia
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pamphlets. So you know I'm in a hurry right and i told him
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right and he tried to check me like 'Have you ever even heard
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of the Black Panthers, and Mumia was fighting so you could go to
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college, and...' All this, and I'm like, "dude, you don't even know
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me, man. I don't even fucking go here, man. I know who the
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fuck Mumia is, man. Innocent niggas get locked up every day, man.
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That ain't nothing new..."
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But, yo, on the other hand, you tell some brothers Mumia's on
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death row, and they think he's making records with Suge Knight.
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I don't know, man, I guess it just really where you at, you know
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what I'm sayin'...Bust it.
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[Talib Kweli]
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Niggas on the street running like slaves
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Trying to eat, yo, we averages
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Twenty one years from the graves, back to baby carriages
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The same hypocrites screaming pro-life and marriages
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Be using religion to justify our savageness
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'How bad is this?'
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You and the creator need a mediator
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Your priest is human
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Your relationship with God is greater
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The men who think they hard
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Steady issuing death penalties
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The people got no right to life cause they all slaves mentally
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You turned'Thou Shall Not Kill' into a sham of a commandment
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Your interpretation I cram to understand it
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Like light
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So if America is majority white
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The the prison's another country like James Baldwin
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Blacks and latinos all in the system
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Like it's a calling to fall in the trap
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That's why our blocks are infested with drugs and gats
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In fact, cats on their throat cause the way they think is illegal
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One thing you can't forget when you're dealing with people
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[Chorus 4x]
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The Human Element
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(scratched)
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"Done somethings bad, done somethings good"
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[Tae]
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I done walked on these streets 24 revolutions
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Gon' start for play me more just from raw evolution
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Fucking up your system like P&D pollution
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Staten niggas free be in (?) institutions
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It's the term of the century
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Ohio got twenty seven penitentiaries
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44,000 for each entity
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See a nigga on the street, snatch him instantly
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Here come the infantry, they shoot to kill intentionally
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word is you could be disturbed mentally
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Police balk, but that's business officially
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What you thought, they supposed to show sympathy
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We born enemies, they sworn to get ridda me
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Protect to serve, you gotta be kidding me
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Eventually, my conscious state made 'em contemplate
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The price of freedom is your life man you compensate
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Now think that all the way through, and let me commentate
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And every common state be seem to dominate
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And man accomodate laws they abominate
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Through bars to combinate
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And guards to confrontate
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Souls are irrevelant
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In cells like melanin
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Judge without intelligence
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Chorus 4x
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[Talib Kweli]
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My nigga starving in prison for bartering with ism
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You tell me which is civilization and which is barbarism
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He fell into the traps he knew was put here by the system
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Some people got the knowledge, but they never apply the wisdom
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If you ain't got it, then replicate it
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Or join the growing ranks of the ill-fated
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Slated to be publicly humiliated
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If you ain't the problem, then the solution you have to be
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We'll start a hoodlum intelligence agency like tragedy
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We majesty, stay focused with thought and meditation
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Deviling this Babylon with strength and dedication
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Like that, and we don't stop
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My A of life gon' remain on top
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It's the Reflection, and we got the sureshot
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And we only drop that pure hip-hop
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This goes out to freedom fighters, graffiti writers
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Innocent lifers, grassroots organizers
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This goes out to single mothers
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Soul bad brothers
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Young lovers of the revolution that solutions
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This goes out to cats raising babies
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The the ones who react, say, when the world get crazy
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Blaze one for the MOVE organization
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Ramona Africa, and those that know truth is liberation
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Chorus 2x
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Hi-Tek put it on 'em
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