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Ballad Of The Black Gold
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Talib Kweli
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This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it Texas tea
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But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso
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It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies
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Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international
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The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco
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Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than Tabasco
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More than what you bargained for or asked for
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You never see happy hungry people that ain't rational
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They blasting through the gates and they attack you at the capital
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Run up in your palace, find the head of the states and crack a few
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Get a taste of power then they become fascists too
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The fiscal conservatives, don't know what they purpose is
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Money on the war then they cut the goods and services
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Murderous, corporate monsters is breaking records
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Exxon is at 40 billion a year, they raking in record profits, stop it
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How they banking while the auto industry is tanking?
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Leadership is sinking, oil pollution in the water stanking
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Loyalty to petroleum, royalty spoiled the economy
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We won't get it poppin' till we're oil-free
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If you're oil rich then we invade it
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They call it occupation but we're losing jobs across the nation
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Drill, baby, drill, while they make our soldiers kill
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Baby, still, the desert where the blood and oil spill
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This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it Texas tea
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But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso
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It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies
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Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international
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The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco
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Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than Tabasco
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More than what you bargained for or asked for
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Nigeria is celebrating 50 years of independence
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They still feel the colonial effects of Great Britain's presence
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Dictators quick to imitate the West
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Got in bed with oil companies and now the place is a mess
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Take a guess, which ones came and violated
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They oiled up the soil, the Ogoni people was almost annihilated
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But still they never stayed silent
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They was activists and poets using non-violent tactics
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That was catalyst for soldiers to break into they crib
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And make examples of the leaders, executed Saro-Wiwa
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Threw Fela's mom out the window right after they beat her
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In an effort to defeat hope, now the people's feet soaked in oil
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So the youth is doing drive-bys through speed boats
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They kidnap the workers, they blowing up the pipelines
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You see the fires glowing in the nighttime
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This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it Texas tea
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But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso
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It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies
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Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international
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The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco
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Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than Tabasco
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More than what you bargained for or asked for
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History, a slippery creature
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It's full of plot twists and surprise endings like a mystery feature
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This oil shit is slicker than preachers
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It make the problems in the region amplify like victory speeches
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Poison the water and lead the boys to the slaughter
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Go in somebody country and rearrange the order
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And destroy the borders
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You see them dancing through the fields of fire
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World domination, their real desire, the devil is still a liar
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This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it Texas tea
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But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso
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It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies
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Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international
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The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco
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Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than Tabasco
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More than what you bargained for or asked for
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This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it Texas tea
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But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso
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It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies
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Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international
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The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco
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Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than Tabasco
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More than what you bargained for or asked for
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