[talib kweli]
Yo, we been through this before right? (word, word...) so we
Figurin , if we gonna do it, we gotta freak it, y know what i m sayin?
(true, true, true...) cuz everything gotta go up from here, right?
So hi-tek, turn it up a notch...
Hip hop, modern time, flossy and raw so self-absorbed, immature
I can t remember being this bored
Fake bonanza, there come real wars
Bullets burn through the candy on the driver side door
Long investigations and no firm lead, billion dollar flow
And black life is still cheap
Your rent skyrockets and y all prospects plummet
Ten...
Somewhere over the rainbow way up high
In the land that I heard of once
Once in a lullaby
Well someday I ll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops that s where you ll find me
Somewhere over...
And the tears fall like rain
Down my face again
Oh the words you wouldn t say
And the games you played
With my unfoolish heart
Oh i should have known this from the start
Oh the winter and spring
Going in hand in hand
Just like my love and pain
How the thought of you cuts deep within...