[00:03.200] Intro:
[00:03.700] Take a piece of America back
[00:05.570] It's called truth
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[00:10.630] Verse 1: Talib Kweli
[00:11.140] We the last of the vintage flowers, we carry it on our shoulders
[00:13.420] I keep my friends close and the devils a lot closer
[00:16.230] When the Freedom Riders approach them, their appetite is vulturous
[00:18.710] Soldiers of fortune ain't never no match for soldiers of culture
[00:21.460] My flow is so fucking honest, you said you wanted to hear it
[00:23.990] You're lying, cause all you wanted was for me to lift up your spirits
[00:26.890] The truth is too fucking ugly and trust me the shit got layers
[00:29.590] You touch me, you think you tough, leave you toothless as rugby players
[00:32.320] From sufis to soothsayers discussing the true saviours
[00:34.830] We move with the gangstas
[00:36.270] You niggas sweeter than the fruit flavors, the booth slayer
[00:38.400] Proving it's futile to hide from us
[00:40.310] You misguided as missiles so a suicide bombers
[00:43.010] Taking orders from the mullah and waiting for karma to pull up
[00:45.780] Their stones are no match for bullets, Israeli rachets are fuller
[00:48.320] Gotta race to meet Allah like they chasing them with a cop car
[00:51.000] Like there's honor in being a martyr and a terrorist is a rockstar
[00:53.850] Dodging the Abu Dhabi or dodging the paparazzi
[00:56.430] Still probably as popular as Swastikas for nazis
[00:59.230] The cops protect the property properly when they crack your heads
[01:02.280] Murderers get as cocky as Perseus when the kraken dead
[01:04.930] I wonder what be running through these crackers' heads
[01:07.420] So my niggas is spilling more blood than
[01:08.980] Cincinnati caps, black and red
[01:10.420] I'll take an Actifed, go back to bed, allergic to the fumes
[01:13.070] Having a funeral for the news cause the facts is dead
[01:15.680] The trust is gone from the neocons to Barrack Obama
[01:18.430] America eats its young from Casey Anthony to the Octomom
[01:20.930] Fix it and mix it up, like martial Law for the Octagon
[01:23.640] I spit the fire til it burn down Babylon
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[01:26.920] Hook:
[01:27.440] Take a piece of America back
[01:30.750] You will learn
[01:31.790] It's called truth
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[01:37.290] Verse 2: R.A. the Rugged Man
[01:37.740] Death by suicide bomb, protestants, Bibles, a Koran, or Islam
[01:40.450] From Genghis Khan to Vietnam I can smell the napalm
[01:42.230] Rape victims, ripped stockings
[01:43.470] Redneck clan members doing church bombings
[01:45.270] Innocent fetus' being aborted with no options
[01:47.130] Human governments ruin 'em
[01:48.880] Worrying what weapons could be used to be nukin' 'em
[01:50.460] Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem
[01:52.430] Slaves treated like property, to Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima to Nagasaki
[01:56.180] Adolf Hitler, to every murderous Nazi
[01:58.260] To the Gambinos, to the Gottis, to every mafia atrocity
[02:01.010] Child pornography, babies starving and dying in poverty
[02:04.190] Serbians fighting Croatians in Yugoslavia
[02:06.070] Muslim women being raped, up to 40,000 in the war in Bosnia
[02:09.250] The 50 million killed in the second World War
[02:11.400] The government's poisoning the minds and the bodies
[02:13.220] Of the babies that are born poor
[02:14.570] Airplanes blown up by Islamic extremists
[02:16.560] In religion there's always drama
[02:17.840] Whether worshipping the Prophet Mohammed or Jesus
[02:20.030] Small pox to Napoleon's troops dying from typhus
[02:22.500] From the Spanish flu to the black plague, today its AIDS virus
[02:25.320] Bodies in coffins, political extortions
[02:27.250] Racist mobs murdering, Willie Turks, Michael Griffith and Yusef Hawkins
[02:30.830] Check the murder rate, is it human nature to murder and hate?
[02:33.430] The Catholic church claimed women were witches andburned 'em at the stake
[02:36.100] Pedophile predators attacking
[02:37.840] .38 Beretta used by Ghandi's assassin
[02:39.170] 16 bullets in Malcolm, it happened uptown Manhattan
[02:41.780] And the homicide, Reagan '80s epidemic of crack
[02:44.150] And soldiers in action dying in Iraq and never coming back
[02:46.880] And now let's
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[02:48.270] Outro:
[02:48.770] Take a piece of America back
[02:51.370] You will learn
[02:52.750] It's called truth
[02:54.070] It's called truth
[02:59.930] You will learn
[03:00.670] It's called truth
[03:03.890] It's called truth
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[03:08.750]End