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Lupe Fiasco
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[Verse:]
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First off say peace to Pine Ridge
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Shame at all the damage the white man wine did
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Ghost dance, Trail of Tears, 5 million beers a year
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And all that other crime did
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More peace to the teachers of blind kids
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To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big
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Say everything's hostile
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Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels, emaciated models
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With cocaine and blood pouring out their nostrils, they got to
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Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you
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Straight hair, high heels and a handbag
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Crucifixes, racism and a land grab
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Katrina, fema trailers, human body sandbags
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A peace sign and a pants sag
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A money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dash
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A friend request following a hash tag
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Now everybody want it like the last laugh
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A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask
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Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class
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Stable is when the Ba'ath had Baghdad
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But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad
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War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat
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Cause that's just more dinosaur for the Cadillac
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[Hook:]
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Live from the other side what you see
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A bunch of nonsense on my tv
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Heaven on Earth is what I need
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But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe
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Reporting live from the other side what you hear
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A bunch of nonsense all in my ear
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Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay
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Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way
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[Verse 2:]
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And we marvel at the state of Ottoman
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Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can
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America's a big motherfuckin' garbageman
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If you ain't know, you're part and parcel of the problem
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You say no you ain't, and I say yes you is
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Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is
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You say no they didn't, and I say yes they did
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The definition of unnecessary-ness
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Manifested
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Say that we should protest just to get arrested
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That goes against all my hustling ethics
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A bunch of jail niggas say it's highly ineffective
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Depart from Martin, connect on Malcolm X tip
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Insert Baldwin to similar the separate
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To me, the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit
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Or finding really fast internet to have some s** with
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It's all one song short of a set list
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Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast
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Or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish
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So absurd word to Chief Bone Necklace
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Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino
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A whole culture boiled down to giving you paquino
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I go as left as a heart in the chest
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Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death
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[Hook:]
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Live from the other side what you see
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A bunch of nonsense on my tv
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Heaven on Earth is what I need
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But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe
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Reporting live from the other side what you hear
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A bunch of nonsense all in my ear
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Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay
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Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way
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[Verse 3:]
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An all white Los Angeles, the dream of Mr. Chandler
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Hope and pray they take Columbus day up off the calendar
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South Central an example of God's gifts
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So shout to all the mothers raising babies in spa 6
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The projects of Oakland city, Detroit ghost towns
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Monopolies on poverty where D-boy coke bound
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It's parts of Manilla like the video for Thriller
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But the us Embassy is reminiscent of a villa
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If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla
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Then what's the flavor of the Sunday preacher's pedophilia
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Cash rules everything around these niggas
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As classrooms everywhere around me wither
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Hither you can be Mr. Burns or Mr. Smithers
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The tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle
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Of the extremes of America's dream
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Freud fighting Neo, Freddy Krueger refereeing, naaa...
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[Hook:]
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Live from the other side what you see
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A bunch of nonsense on my tv
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Heaven on Earth is what I need
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But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe
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Reporting live from the other side what you hear
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A bunch of nonsense all in my ear
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Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay
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Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way
Lupe Fiasco - Around My Way [Freedom Ain...
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