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Patience (Sabali)
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Here we are, here we are, yeah
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This one right here is for the people
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye
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Ni kera mogo
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni (Hey, yo, D, let's go all the way in on this one)
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Ni kera mogo
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Some of the smartest dummies can't read the language of Egyptian mummies
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Plant a flag on the moon and can't find food for the starving tummies
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Pay no mind to the youths 'cause it's not like the future depends on it
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But save the animals in the zoo 'cause the chimpanzee them make big money
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This is how the media pillages, on TV the picture is savages in villages
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And the scientist still can't explain the pyramids
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Evangelists making a living on the videos of ribs of the little kids
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Stereotyping the image of the images and this is what the image is
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You buy khaki pants and all of a sudden you say a Indiana Jones
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And thief out gold and thief out the scrolls and even the buried bones
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Some of the worst paparazzi's I've ever seen and I ever known
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Put the worst on display so the world can see and that's all they will ever show
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So the ones in the West will never move east and feel they could be at home
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Get tricked by the Beast but where them gon' flee when the monster is fully grown?
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Solomonic linage where them can't defeat and them could never clone
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My spiritual DNA that print in my soul and I will forever own, Lord
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte (yeah, that's patience, it's what the old folks told me)
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye (can you get with that?)
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Ni kera mogo
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte (discoverin' the world before this world, a world buried in time)
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni (uncovered with rhymes, it gets no realer)
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Ni kera mogo
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We born not knowing, are we born knowing all?
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We growing wiser, are we just growing tall?
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Can you read thoughts? Can you read palms?
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Can you predict the future? Can you see storms coming?
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The Earth was flat, if you went too far, you would fall off
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Now the Earth is round, if the shape change again, everybody would start laugh
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The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of
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And still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of
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Scholars teach in universities and claim that they're smart and cunning
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Tell them find a cure when we sneeze and that's when their nose start running
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And the rich get stitched up when them get cut
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Wanna heal them broken bones in the bush with the wet mud
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Can you read signs? Can you read stars?
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Can you make peace? Can you fight war?
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Can you milk cows even though you drive cars?
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Can you survive against all odds now?
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte (it's crazy)
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye (when you feed people the truth, you don't know how they gon' react)
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Ni kera mogo
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte (you scared of wrong-doers, people that's just ignorant)
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni (and scared of the truth, we patient for now)
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Ni kera mogo
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Who wrote the Bible? Who wrote the Qur'an, and was it a lightning storm
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That gave birth to the Earth and then dinosaurs were born?
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Who made up words? Who made up numbers, and what kind of spell is mankind under?
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Everything on the planet we preserve and can it, microwaved it, and try it
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No matter what we'll survive it
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What's hu-? What's -man? What's human?
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Anything along the land we consumin', eatin', deletin', ruin
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Tryin' to get paper, gotta have land, gotta have acres
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So I can sit back like Jack Nicholson, watch niggas play the game like the Lakers
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In a world full of fifty-two fakers, Gypsies, seances, mystical prayers
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You superstitious, throw salt over your shoulders, make a wish for the day 'cause
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Like somebody got a doll of me, stickin' needles in my arteries, but I can't feel it
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Sometimes it's like, "pardon me, but I got a real big spirit"
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I'm fearless, I'm fearless, don't you try and grab hold of my soul
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It's like a military soldier since seven years old
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I held real dead bodies in my arms, felt they body turn cold, oh
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Why we born in the first place ff this is how we gotta go? Damn
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte (yeah)
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye (yeah, yeah, what)
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Ni kera mogo
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte (this goes to all the wisdom and knowledge seekers of the world)
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni (Sabali, patience, yeah)
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Ni kera mogo
Patience
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