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Eat to Live
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Talib Kweli
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Yeah, this is a ghetto prayer
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Prayin for all of those who ain't got it
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We gotta get it there, we gotta get it yeah
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Yeah the people starvin for somethin new, we starvin for it
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(My tummy hurts, I couldn't eat)
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Mmmm, mmm, mmm
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(Did you have fun at school today Trey?)
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My little man go to bed so hungry
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Get up, go to school with his nose runny, come home with his nose bloody
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His sister laughin, he like "What's so funny~?"
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'Til she drowned out by the sounds of hunger pains in his tummy
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Nuttin in the freezer, nuttin in the fridge
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Couple of 40 ounces but nuttin for the kids
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Little man know to eat to live but he don't wanna leave the crib
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The kid who punched him in his face house right down the street from his
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He went anyway, more scared to face his moms
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She'll beat him soon as she flip out, seein his face scarred
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Walkin past the dopefiends with they smoke to the place of God
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Hopes and dreams pourin out the holes in they face and arms
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Little man in the face of harm if he don't eat
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He need energy so when he go to school he can compete
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And keep up, all he got is bodegas
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But hey he only got enough a for quarter water and a Now-o-Later
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Anyway, grandma say Jesus'll be here any day
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Good - cause with nuttin to eat it's gettin hard to pray... pray...
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[Chorus: repeat 4X]
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In order to receive, then we need to give
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We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live
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Listen...
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My rhymes got nutritional value
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I get it how I live, it's critical when the conditions allow you
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Do you don't trust the critics who doubt you
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Try to write shit about you, but they can't make a living without you
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Go hungry, you gotta watch what the media feed ya
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And don't be a poisoned animal eater either
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It's harder than it sound, cause nowadays, put that swine in everything
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The white sugar so addictive it's pure 'caine
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They got, pork in the toothpaste, soda in the Sunny D
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Jello brand gelatin is laced with the lecatin
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In Africa they starvin, over here the food hurt you
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Cows goin mad and the chickens crunk with bird flu
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It's too ill how the food kill it's like blue steel
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Lies never set you free, but the truth will
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The truth still matter the proof is in the batter or the pudding
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You can tell we eatin good, we gettin fatter
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[Chorus repeat 4X]
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Listen...
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