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Yo this tangled web we weave you know I'm sayin' |
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We judge based on what only we believe |
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And not on what god believe all of us man we just people |
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We're just trying to get through this thing called life man |
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All of us made mistakes keepin' making mistakes |
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We made being conscious into a religion instead of a tool man |
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I was trapped deep in this judgmental thing too |
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I'm come at it like this |
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I had some thoughts about the black conscious scene |
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The red the black the green afrocentric routine |
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Whether we be consciously or sub-consciously aware or keen |
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Or just knocked on conscious |
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Now of course it's great to feel great about your race |
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Your nose your face your country even your state |
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Your spicy foods your unique attitudes |
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What makes me me and you you |
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But all roots come from just one source the creator |
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That's the missing link that justified having slaves for the enslaver |
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Thinking one is lesser and the others greater |
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One's lost the other the savior |
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On the conscious scene you'll find more greetings instead |
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Than in a hallmark store where hellos are said |
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And the brother nods his head and what's next is his fist to his chest |
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How you doing god oh I'm blessed |
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In the conscious |
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In the conscious scene there's more blessed human beings |
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Than there is grass that's green at least that's how it seems |
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Bingo sayin' blessed has become just lingo |
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'Cuz stressed is how it really goes |
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And we think deep down and when no one else is around |
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In the conscious scene we take things to the extreme |
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We won't call a sista sista we call the sista queen |
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But a queen is royalty so we should treat her that way |
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But if you ask does she feel like a queen I wonder what she'd say |
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If she's conscious she'd probably say I'm blessed I guess |
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Even if her relationship's a mess |
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In the conscious scene we don't confess |
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Anything that's not perfect |
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It don't mean wack stuff ain't goin' on |
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We just quilt our covers to be strong |
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And cover up |
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And incomprehensible our seemingly righteous wrongs |
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Now the conscious scene will judge you quick |
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If you now use rollers when you used to use a pick or opposite |
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One day a perm the next all natural |
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But what change did you're heart undergo |
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Is the good heart determined by a fro |
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What if the kkk wore fro's would dey suddenly have soul |
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If I don't hug you on both sides am I truly off balance |
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If I shake with my left hand did I truly disrespect the man |
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Man o man it's hard to be a conscious african |
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If you're conscious of the double stand |
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I mean double standards understand |
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Oops I mean over stand there it goes again |
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I guess it's just the way of the world |
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Or may be just the way of the words |
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Speakin' of words the conscious scene is ain't down wit the way |
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Tupac and biggie did dey things now ain't that sumpin' |
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They're just more blatant wit their womanizing statements |
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While we're more slick but will make booty calls just as quick |
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Like atari both of us controlled solely by our joysticks |
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We diss the white man for being so materialistic |
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Yet we the only ones going ballistic to get his materials |
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We ice friends to make cream |
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We pass around a pipe just to have a dream |
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We pass around a pipe just to have a dream yeah god |
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I know god is higher than we are |
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But not higher than we are get it |
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We can stop calling' each other niggas |
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But won't guns still have triggers |
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And won't our hands still have fingers |
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And won't we still be finger lickin' eatin' chicken black folks |
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We must be proud of our roots but there is no substitute |
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But the fact we're all wack |
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Whether white jewish asian hispanic indian or black |
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The truth is we're all ruthless |
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And our love is as conditional as medical insurance |
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And without the man jesus we're hopeless |
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I say the man not the slave ship |
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But the one spoke of in god's manuscript |
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And not the one painted wit a pale face at yo grandma's crib |
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And surely not the one at dem churches that's all preach and no live |
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If we're gonna be conscious let's start really being conscious |
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About treatin' our wives with respect not takin' dey welfare checks |
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And start puttin' all fake jokas in straight up check |
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No more thinkin' wit our joysticks |
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No more takin' chick flicks at freak nic |
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While we way that the white man is so sick |
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'Cuz until we stop being' such hypocrites |
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We gonna continue to be knocked on conscious can you dig it |
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Can you dig it can you dig it can you dig it |
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Can you dig it |
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Can you dig it can you dig it can you dig it |
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Can you dig it |
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Can you dig it can you dig it can you dig it |
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Can you dig it |
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Can you dig it can you dig it can you dig it |
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Can you dig it |
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I been wonderin' isn't it for us to wrong |
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Standing out here all alone when we can go home |
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I been wonderin' isn't it for us to cry |
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Makin' moves just to get by seachin' for the light |
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I been wonderin' isn't it for us to wrong |
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Standing out here all alone when we can go home |
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I been wonderin' isn't it for us to cry |
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Makin' moves just to get by seachin' for the light |
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On Conscious - Arrested Development |
