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Talib Kweli
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You wish it was you, don't you why you asking?
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Try to break the law of attraction
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Get a piece of my attention like a fraction of a ration
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Or a measly little morsel
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They suck your blood and you believe in the immortals
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We nocturnal like a sleeping disorder
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See the water drawing away from the shore
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This ain't no ordinary storm
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We fighting for a humanitarian cause
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But have yet to show up in Darfur
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The Arab Spring is what it's called
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But they looking at the pride before the fall
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They say it ain't about the spoils of war
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But turn around and tell you how much more the oil will cost
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Steal the land from the Native American and make our missiles Tomahawks
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Make him a mascot, dress up like him for sport
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As a final assault to his beautiful culture
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Scavengers, feasting on the dead like a vulture
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Snacking; how you keeping up with my rapping?
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You barely keeping up with Kardashian
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You caught up in distraction
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It's the living proof you try to make the truth elastic as Mr. Fantastic
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We recycling these rappers
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Truthfully, these dudes is plastic
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Coming through the front door blasting
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I ain't talking bout them e-mails
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That you always send to the masses
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That somehow end up in my trash bin
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The game is distraction
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Give a fuck if the President wear a flag pin
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Rhyming is deep as holes Chilean miners are trapped in
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Or the cracks in the earth under Asia Minor causing disasters
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Deep cuts way above your minor infractions
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Talk to people like children cause that's how they acting
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Hold their hands like minors in traffic
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The captains of industry and the leaders of status quo
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Have a deep-seeded fear of change
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For them it's strange they wanna go
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Back to the 50s, they asking for a return
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But them days is much blacker, for lack of a better term
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We adapted to this culture, but this culture we had to learn
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Came about as as natural as a perm on a pachyderm
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These fascists have had their turn
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We passing them German burners, them Lugers
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The next shooters waiting for Superman, they get nothing but Lex Luthor
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America's nightmare, vivid as Fred Kruger
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Our heroes are dead to us
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Spirit that bled through us
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Endear us with the spirit but the flow is so foolish
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What you hearing is precision
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The people so thirsty, what they seeing is mirages
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But this passion Photoshopping and your YouTube collages
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Coming through like Collossus
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Exposing the false prophet
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Taught how to do the knowledge so I'm never off-topic
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A lie is like a potion
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First it gets you open
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Then you swallow whole straight for the truth
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Fuck the chaser, skip religion and the politics
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And head straight to the compassion
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Everything else is a distraction
Talib Kweli - Get By
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