Luyện nghe bài hát Shuffering And Shmiling

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

Ben Jor] (scat singing)

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

[stic.man]
religion is prison
keep the locked up in different divisions
some of them promise you
but I see a whole lot of ism-scism
in the form of spirituality
slave mentality, reality
what we supposed to 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, then we takin his
what is it worth to the biggest religion
when the people got 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 powder in his
and the elder's council to lead
and the suffer 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 said, but in the name of the bible
how much love is spread compared to how blood is shed

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

[Jorge Ben (scat singing)
(women - and shmiling) x4
everyday its the thing

[Talib
yo
every day I wake up is a miracle, you
religious and the spiritual, thank you
see, I dont be askin in the air, action is a prayer
the bear won't me, I be, attackin the bear, see
in the day I used to work in a bookstore
my job was to find whatever book you for
i one day this lady came for a bible
we was out, so I started showin other titles
share information about a religion
everything that I showed her was written by christians,
she got the hell up the place
wonderin something me shakin her faith
now, knowledge is power, we information
how is your faith? what it take to be shaken?
yo, I think she missed what was sayin
can't your eyes closed to a revelation
you could be speakin in
could be of sons and daughters
my of course, within the water is
beautiful, attractive, my contraption
classified as practice but
what it take to be a man
free the land, crash down on babylon like the sea to the
peace to the fam, we want you all to stay and live long
like a de la song,

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

this way of life, right
pray all day and and don't fight
up, doped up
work three jobs to the gold 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 niggas is
everything we make, they takin it to the
while we sittin up in the church to give
don't you the preacher got bank? (m1 - uhn uh, uhn uh)
don't you know the deacon smoke (m1 - uhn uh, uhn uh)
did you ever think the bible was a (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 in, heaven or hell?
is what you make it, so thats why I rebel
uncle sam, got on his hands
good god, how the devil can
wanna help a nigga
put your together, do it yourself my nigga
don't sit
you have nobody rushin to die
so do something don't just suffer and

[Jorge Ben (scat singing)

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