Luyện nghe bài hát Shuffering And Shmiling

(featuring Bilal, Jorge Ben Jor, Positive & Talib Kweli)

Ben Jor] (scat singing)

[stic.man]
(to the ancestors)
can't keep
this time gon' be more than a (to the warriors)
can't quiet
this time gon' be more than a riot (to who came before us)
can't keep
this gon' be more than a riot (long lived the revolution)
keep quiet
this time gon' be than a riot

[stic.man]
is like prison
keep the people up in different divisions
of them promise you heaven
but I see a lot of bullshit ism-scism
in the form of spirituality
slave mentality, reality
what we supposed to just suffer and smile and be
sendin our prayers to the (stic.man - uhn uh)
i want my heaven now, on earth
and if the ain't with us, then we takin his church
what is it worth to have the religion
when the people got miserable living
no water, no lights, no
all over we fight, but we have to unite
cause ain't no power in the
when the priest powder in his nostril
and the elder's council fails to
and the children from daily need
and the can barely eat
is it a sin to up
to fight against the ones that put is in
goddamn, what happened to the daily bread, love
and not the bible said, but in the name of the bible
how much love is spread compared to how much is shed

everyday my people get the bus
(women - and shmiling)
its the circle
(women - and shmiling)
everyday my get inside the bus
(women - and shmiling)
everyday its the

Ben Jor] (scat singing)
(women - and shmiling) x4
everyday its the thing

Kweli]
yo
every day I up is a miracle, thank you
religious and the spiritual, thank you
see, I dont be askin in the air, every action is a
the bear won't attack me, I be, the bear, see
in the day I used to work in a bookstore
my job was to find book you look for
i remember one day this came for a bible
we was out, so I started showin here other
tryna share information about a
everything that I showed her was written by christians,
she got the hell up the place
wonderin something about me shakin her
now, is power, we spread information
how strong is your what it take to be shaken?
yo, I think she what jesus was sayin
can't keep your eyes closed to a
you could be speakin in
could be speakin of sons and
my reflection of course, within the is
beautiful, attractive, my contraption
classified as unusual but
thats it take to be a man
free the land, down on babylon like the sea to the sand
peace to the fam, we you all to stay strong and live long
like a de la song,

[stic.man & Kweli]
can't keep
this time gon' be more than a
can't keep
this time gon' be more than a
can't keep
this time gon' be than a riot
can't keep
this gon' be more than a riot

this way of life, right
pray all day and night and don't
poped up, up
work jobs to fill the gold cup
no water, no food, no lights, no
no power til the unite
it's gone - and they work us in prison
look round, how my niggas is
we make, they takin it to the bank
while we sittin up in the to give thanks
don't you know the preacher got (m1 - uhn uh, uhn uh)
don't you know the deacon dank? (m1 - uhn uh, uhn uh)
did you think the bible was a prank? (m1 - uhn uh, uhn uh)
bout to faint
before they
had the bible, we had the land
now, we got the bible, got the land
and what do you in, heaven or hell?
life is what you make it, so thats why I
sam, got blood on his hands
good god, how the devil can
wanna help a nigga
put hands together, do it yourself my nigga
don't sit
you won't nobody rushin to die
so do something don't suffer and smile

[Jorge Ben (scat singing)

[m1] (repeats end)
africa, africa,
is killin
africans, africans,