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
time gon' be more than a riot (to the warriors)
can't keep
this time gon' be more than a (to those who came before us)
keep quiet
this time gon' be than a riot (long lived the revolution)
keep quiet
this time gon' be than a riot

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

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

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

[Talib
yo
every day I up is a miracle, thank you
seperate and the spiritual, thank you
see, I dont be askin in the air, action is a prayer
the bear won't attack me, I be, the bear, see
back in the day I used to in a bookstore
my job was to find book you look for
i remember one day this lady for a bible
we was out, so I started showin here titles
tryna share about a religion
everything that I showed her was written by christians,
she got the up outta the place
wonderin something about me shakin her
now, knowledge is power, we spread
how strong is faith? what it take to be shaken?
yo, I she missed what jesus was sayin
can't keep eyes closed to a revelation
you could be speakin in
be speakin of sons and daughters
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, crash down on like the sea to the sand
peace to the fam, we want you all to stay and live long
a de la song, c'mon

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

this way of life, right
pray all day and night and don't
up, doped up
work three jobs to the gold cup
no water, no food, no lights, no
no power til the unite
it's gone - divison and they work us in
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 got bank? (m1 - uhn uh, uhn uh)
don't you know the smoke dank? (m1 - uhn uh, uhn uh)
did you ever think the was a prank? (m1 - uhn uh, uhn uh)
somebody to faint
before they
they had the bible, we had the
now, we got the bible, got the land
and what do you believe in, or hell?
is what you make it, so thats why I rebel
uncle sam, got blood on his
good god, how the devil can
nobody wanna help a
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)

(repeats until end)
africa, africa,
is killin
africans, africans,