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Jean Grae
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[Verse One]
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Listen
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I don't wanna preach or come off bitter, this is a commentary auditory
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Editorial, about the state of things, state of mind and state of being
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What the fuck is goin on? How the fuck we gonna make it out?
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It's hectic, from asbestos filled classrooms
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to the stench of death that's still in New York
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The air is thick with it, but it reaches further
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Like the world murder rate
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Circulate, cultivate your mind and soul, your heart and your body
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So stagnant; niggaz, get off your block and travel
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Stop actin like your flesh is metal and your hood's a magnet
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We need to globalize, further spread on this earth
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to appreciate the full value of individual worth
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To realize how ridiculous the thought of ownership is
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and protectin your turf - that's bullshit man
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That's how we got colonized
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Missionaries create foreign schools and change the native way & thinkin
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So in ten years, we can have a foreign Columbine
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in some small village in the Amazon, c'mon man
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[Chorus]
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You need to get out your house, get off your block, and see somethin
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Go do somethin, go CHANGE somethin, or else we fall for nothin
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You need to, travel the world
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And when you come back, tell your girl and your girl and your girl..
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and your man and your man and your man.. you understand?
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So spread the word
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[Verse Two]
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It's every man for himself
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That's why the black community is lackin in wealth, there's no unity
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We soon to be chillin with rich white folk
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and that means that we made it
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Let our kids go hungry before our wardrobe is outdated
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Rap careers are drug related, ballplayers, we need more lawyers
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More housin and job created, why we waitin for it to be given?
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We need to get up, and get out, and make our own livin
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Instead of just makin more, inner-city children
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More doctors in your building, righteous cops next door
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If the system's corrupt, then change it
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Fought for the right to vote, don't even use it
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Forget electoral winnin
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The way the world's goin, we in the ninth inning
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Heh, and we still aren't up to bat
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Niggaz is happy just to have the rights to sit on the bench
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Like floor seats is alright, and that's as far as we reach
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Materialistic values, not morals, that's what we teach
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I see it in the youth, hungry for fame and money
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Not for knowledge and pursuit of the truth
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Pick up a book or a newspaper
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Take a free class in politics or human behavior
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We need to stop actin victimized, it's like we're day-walkin blind
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Open your eyes, there's a whole world out there
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[Chorus]
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[Verse Three]
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And you don't have to agree, or just be happy
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Content and lose your hunger, push further
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Cause I don't believe that pipe dreams exist
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The world is what you make it, your life is all that you got
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So take it to the limit
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Why would you deny your spirit growth and happiness?
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And if your peoples hold you back, they not your peoples at all
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You know the, misery cliche
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Ladies, know your worth; the way we givin it up
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We might as well auction ourselves on eBay, to the lowest bidder
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So what if his dough is better? Money doesn't make the man
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Maybe self-sufficiency would better make you understand
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Let's get it together
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There's so much promise and it's just goin to waste
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We turn crude, lack of class, lack of taste
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And trust, they laughin at us
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It's slow genocide
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And I don't care how many bottles of Cristal you pop
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It won't un-expose you as a known pedophile
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Native child, runnin wild, to the ends of the earth
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I'll see y'all at the last hundred miles, bet
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[Chorus] - repeat 2X
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