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Theives In The Night
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Talib Kweli
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"Give me the fortune, keep the fame," said my man Louis
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I agreed, know what he mean because we live the truest lie
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I asked him why we follow the law of the bluest eye
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He looked at me, he thought about it, was like, "I'm clueless, why?"
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The question was rhetorical, the answer is horrible
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Our morals are out of place and got our lives full of sorrow
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And so tomorrow coming later than usual
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Waiting on someone to pity us while we finding beauty in the hideous
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They say money's the root of all evil but I can't tell
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You know what I mean, pesos, francs, yens, cowrie shells, dollar bills
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Or is it the mindstate that's ill?
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Creating crime rates to fill the new prisons they build
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Over money and religion there's more blood to spill
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The wounds of slaves in cotton fields that never heal, what's the deal?
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A lot of cats who buy records are straight broke
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But my language universal they be reciting my quotes
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While R&B singers hit bad notes, we rock the boat of thought
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That my man Louis' statements just provoked
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Caught up, in conversations of our personal worth
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Brought up, through endangered species status on the planet Earth
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Survival tactics means, busting gats to prove you hard
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Your firearms are too short to box with God
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Without faith, all of that is illusionary
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Raise my son, no vindication of manhood necessary
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Not strong (Only aggressive)
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Not free (We only licensed)
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Not compassionate, only polite (Now who the nicest?)
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Not good but well behaved
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(Chasing after death, so we can call ourselves brave?)
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Still living like mental slaves
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Hiding like thieves in the night from life
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Illusions of oasis making you look twice
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Hiding like thieves in the night from life
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Illusions of oasis making you look twice
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Yo, I'm sure that everybody out listening agree
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That everything you see ain't really how it be
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A lot of jokers out running in place, chasing the style
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Be a lot going on beneath the empty smile
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Most cats in my area be loving the hysteria
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Synthesized surface conceals the interior
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America, land of opportunity, mirages and camouflages
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More than usually, speaking loudly
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Saying nothing, you confusing me, you losing me
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Your game is twisted, want me enlisted in your usury
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Foolishly, most men join the ranks cluelessly
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Buffoonishly accept the deception, believe the perception
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Reflection rarely seen across the surface of the looking glass
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Walking the street, wondering who they be looking past
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Looking gassed with them imported designer shades on
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Stars shine bright, but the light rarely stays on
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Same song, just remixed, different arrangement
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Put you on a yacht but they won't call it a slave ship
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Strangeness, you don't control this, you barely hold this
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Screaming "brand new", when they just sanitized the old shit
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Suppose it's, just another clever Jedi mind trick
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That they been running across stars through all the time with
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I find it's distressing, there's never no in-between
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We either niggas or Kings, we either bitches or Queens
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The deadly ritual seems immersed in the perverse
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Full of short attention spans, short tempers, and short skirts
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Long barrel automatics released in short bursts
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The length of black life is treated with short worth
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Get yours first, them other niggas secondary
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That type of illing that be filling up the cemetery
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This life is temporary but the soul is eternal
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Separate the real from the lie, let me learn you
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Not strong, only aggressive cause the power ain't directed
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That's why we are subjected to the will of the oppressive
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Not free, we only licensed, not live, we just exciting
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Cause the captors own the masters to what we writing
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Not compassionate, only polite, we well trained
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Our sincerity's rehearsed in stage, it's just a game
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Not good, but well behaved cause the camera survey
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Most of the things that we think, do or say
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We chasing after death just to call ourselves brave
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But everyday, next man meet with the grave/Great
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I give a damn if any fan recall my legacy
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I'm trying to live life in the sight of God's memory like that y'all
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A lot of people don't understand the true criteria of things
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Can't just accept the appearance, have to get the true essence
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(They ain't looking around)
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Not strong (Only aggressive)
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Not free (We only licensed)
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Not compassionate, only polite (Now who the nicest?)
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Not good but well behaved
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(Chasing after death, so we can call ourselves brave?)
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Still living like mental slaves
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Hiding like thieves in the night from life
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Illusions of oasis making you look twice
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Hiding like thieves in the night from life
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Illusions of oasis making you look twice
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Stop hiding, stop hiding, stop hiding yo' face
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Stop hiding, stop hiding, cause ain't no hiding place
Thieves In The Night
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