(Talib Kweli) And what the say? We wanna live it up And what the people want? Please us And what the people Hey... I got that,
Kweli] I call these baby seals, cause they club you to death I call 'em Navy SEALs, cause they government feds What become of the vets? They drugged up, fucked up, they in debt ain't no love and no respect, it's like a gang it's like a club or a set the new WWF What do you rap or do you wrestle? Niggaz to forget We got til it's gone, you think you on, you still hustlin Your topical norm a storm, it's a fuckin disaster Back to the topic we on, it all at Rawkus They couldn't the words to describe me so they resort to the shortcuts Is he a backpacker? Is he a mad An or the author of the last chapter We in these times of love and cholera Synonymous with the apocalypse, look up the clouds is We got ten years left say meteorologists, shit We waitin for the Congress to acknowledge this~!
[Chorus: Kweli & singers in the background] What the people want? deliver us We wanna live it up, deliver us Th-th-this is the, th-th-this is the, is the hostile gospel I'm reaching through the fire - deliver us I'm preaching to the choir - please us Just keep it real with us, you scared to spill your Your words rung hollow, we need to follow
Kweli] You ain't promised tomorrow, so get paper up You always just borrow and asks for favors bruh Stand on own two, never covet thy neighbor's stuff Karma's a so watch your mouth and what you sayin bruh I start a based on general observation is not a nation, take it to population Niggaz got a lot to say when inside the belly of Satan Awaitin trial debatin how the hell I got in this system Am I a or just a product of indoctrination? They exploit it and use me like a movie product placement You hear the this is the hostile gospel The truth is hard to swallow it'll you scarred tomorrow it honest our motto, these niggaz keep it bottled I'm the writer who reach the fighters like speeches by Cus DJs stickin to like "Fuck Serato" Suppliers who ride around the block, in the custom Ballin the struck the lotto you know who the cleanest is A keep it reeich with the stitch and greedy geniuses I'm not a hipster, but I flip it a sneaker pimp Expose the game, it like a bitch Smack out these hoes, cause they snitch and tap wires while I plead the fifth You can't trust a soul in the biz, so be who you eatin with and sleepin with and who you chiefin with You know they might've added in secret ingredients
[Talib Freedom's a road that's seldom traveled, watch unravel Right before the eyes of the who fell in battle The single mother who her daughter to bear the sacred water And not take the hand of every man who a offer To black wishin they white kids, when they close they eyelids Like, "I bet they neighborhood like this" White kids wishin they black kids, and wanna talk rappers It's all it's identity crisis The industry inside us is vipers with trying to bite us Drug suppliers is the health care We cakin, makin narcotics outta household We ain't workin out 'til we exorcise the that's inside us Plus they to just provide us with enough rope to hang ourselves Enough dope to slang ourselves, enough toast to bang It's officially nigga season, these is bleedin That's why I'm spittin we had enough of trigger squeezin
[Outro: In tryin days and times All I is to be free I do it on my own can you deliver me? There are still to come salvation that I need So I'm to the sky can you deliver me? us... Deliver us, Deliver us, Oh, us us Ohhhhh us yes us, deliver us, deliver us Yeah yeah yeah, ohhhhhhhhhh... [ad to fade]