(featuring Bilal, Ben Jor, Positive Force & Talib 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 a riot (to those who came before us) keep quiet this time gon' be more than a riot (long the revolution) keep quiet this time gon' be than a riot
[stic.man] religion is like the people locked up in different divisions some of them you heaven but I see a whole lot of ism-scism imperialism in the form of slave mentality, escape what we supposed to just suffer and smile and be sendin our to the clouds? (stic.man - uhn uh) i my heaven now, freedom on earth and if the ain't with us, then we takin his church is it worth to have the biggest religion when the people got miserable conditions? no water, no lights, no all over africa we fight, but we to unite ain't no power in the gospel when the priest puttin in his nostril and the council fails to lead and the children suffer daily need and the can barely eat is it a sin to up to fight against the that put is in handcuffs? goddamn, what happened to the bread, spread love and not what the bible said, but in the of the bible how much love is spread compared to how much blood is
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
[Jorge Ben (scat singing) (women - and shmiling) x4 everyday its the thing
Kweli] yo every day I up is a miracle, thank you seperate and the spiritual, thank you see, I dont be askin in the air, every is a prayer the bear attack me, I be, attackin 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 came for a bible we was out, so I started showin here other tryna information about a religion everything that I her was written by christians, still she got the up outta the place wonderin about me shakin her faith now, is power, we spread information how strong is your faith? it take to be shaken? yo, I think she missed what jesus was can't keep your eyes to a revelation you be speakin in tongues could be speakin of and daughters 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, crash down on babylon the sea to the sand peace to the fam, we want you all to stay strong and live a de la song, c'mon
[stic.man & Kweli] can't quiet time gon' be more than a riot can't quiet this time gon' be more than a can't quiet this time gon' be more than a keep quiet this time gon' be more than a
this way of life, ain't pray all day and night and fight poped up, up work three to fill the gold cup no water, no food, no lights, no no til the people unite it's gone - divison and work us in prison look round, how my is livin we make, they takin it to the bank while we sittin up in the church to thanks don't you the preacher got bank? (m1 - uhn uh, uhn uh) you know the deacon smoke dank? (m1 - uhn uh, uhn uh) did you think the bible 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 what do you believe in, heaven or life is what you make it, so thats why I sam, got blood on his hands good god, how the can dance nobody wanna a nigga put your hands together, do it my nigga don't sit you won't have rushin to die so do something don't just and smile
[Jorge Ben (scat singing)
[m1] (repeats end) africa, africa, is killin africans, africans,