Talib Kweli - Learn Truth lyrics

[Produced by Mr. Green] [Intro] Take a piece of America back It's called truth [Verse 1: Talib Kweli] We the last of the vintage flowers, we carry it on our shoulders I keep my friends close and the devils a lot closer When the Freedom Riders approach them, their appetite is vulturous Soldiers of fortune ain't never no match for soldiers of culture My flow is so f**ing honest, you said you wanted to hear it You're lying, cause all you wanted was for me to lift up your spirits The truth is too f**ing ugly and trust me the sh** got layers You touch me, you think you tough, leave you toothless as rugby players From sufis to soothsayers discussing the true saviours We move with the gangstas You n***as sweeter than the fruit flavors, the booth slayer Proving it's futile to hide from us You misguided as missiles so a suicide bombers Taking orders from the mullah and waiting for karma to pull up Their stones are no match for bullets, Israeli rachets are fuller Gotta race to meet Allah like they chasing them with a cop car Like there's honor in being a martyr and a terrorist is a rockstar Dodging the Abu Dhabi or dodging the paparazzi Still probably as popular as Swastikas for nazis The cops protect the property properly when they crack your heads Murderers get as co*ky as Perseus when the kraken dead I wonder what be running through these crackers' heads So my n***as is spilling more blood than Cincinnati caps, black and red I'll take an Actifed, go back to bed, allergic to the fumes Having a funeral for the news cause the facts is dead The trust is gone from the neocons to Barack Obama America eats its young from Casey Anthony to the Octomom Fix it up and mix it up, like Martial Arts in the Octagon I spit the fire til it burn down Babylon [Hook] Take a piece of America back You will only learn It's called truth [Verse 2: RA The Rugged Man] d**h by suicide bomb, protestants, Bibles, a Qoran, or Islam From Genghis Khan to Vietnam I can smell the napalm Rape victims, ripped stockings Redneck clan members doing church bombings Innocent fetus' being aborted with no options Humans government ruinin' Worrying what weapons could be used to be nukin' 'em Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem Slaves treated like property, to Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima to Nagasaki Adolf Hitler, to every murderous Nazi To the Gambinos, to the Gottis, to every mafia atrocity Child p**nography, babies starving and dying in poverty Serbians fighting Croatians in Yugoslavia m**m women being raped, up to 40,000 in the war in Bosnia The 50 million k**ed in the second World War The government's poisoning the minds and the bodies Of the babies that are born poor Airplanes blown up by Islamic extremists In religion there's always drama Whether worshipping the Prophet Mohammed or Jesus Small pox to Napoleon's troops dying from typhus From the Spanish flu to the black plague, today it's the AIDS virus Bodies in coffins, political extortions Racist mobs murdering, Willie Turks, Michael Griffith and Yusef Hawkins Check the murder rate, is it human nature to murder and hate? The Catholic church claimed women were witches and burned 'em at the stake Pedophile predators attacking .38 Beretta used by Ghandi's a**a**in 16 bullets in Malcolm, it happened uptown Manhattan And the homicide, Reagan '80s epidemic of crack And soldiers in action dying in Iraq and never coming back And now let's [Outro] Take a piece of America back You will only learn It's called truth It's called truth You will only learn It's called truth It's called truth