Luyện nghe bài hát Shuffering And Shmiling

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

Ben Jor] (scat singing)

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

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

[Talib
yo
every day I up is a miracle, thank you
seperate religious and the spiritual, you
see, I dont be askin in the air, every is a prayer
the won't attack me, I be, attackin the bear, see
back in the day I used to in a bookstore
my job was to find whatever book you for
i remember one day this lady for a bible
we was out, so I started showin here titles
tryna share information a religion
that I showed her was written by christians, still
she got the hell up outta the
wonderin something about me her faith
now, knowledge is power, we spread
how is your faith? what it take to be shaken?
yo, I think she what jesus was sayin
can't keep your eyes to a revelation
you could be in tongues
could be speakin of sons and
my of course, within the water is
beautiful, attractive, my contraption
classified as practice but
thats what it to be a man
free the land, down on babylon like the sea to the sand
peace to the fam, we want you all to strong and live long
a de la song, c'mon

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

this way of life, right
pray all day and night and fight
up, doped up
work three jobs to fill the cup
no water, no food, no lights, no
no power til the people
gone - divison and they work us in prison
look round, how my is livin
everything we make, they takin it to the
while we sittin up in the church to give
don't you know the preacher got (m1 - uhn uh, uhn uh)
don't you know the deacon smoke (m1 - uhn uh, uhn uh)
did you ever think the was a prank? (m1 - uhn uh, uhn uh)
somebody bout to
before came
they had the bible, we had the
now, we got the bible, they got the
and do you believe 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
nobody help a nigga
put your hands together, do it yourself my
sit there
you won't have nobody to die
so do something just suffer and smile

[Jorge Ben (scat singing)

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