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Mourning In America - Brother Ali |
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I don't usually use those big words |
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Cause I don't usually deal with big people |
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I find you can get a whole lot of small people |
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And whip hell out of a whole lot of big people |
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Murder murder murder kill kill kill |
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Cannibals walk the earth and get ill blood spill |
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Eyes sunk deep in their skull their bone chill |
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Few for survival most for the thrill |
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Terrorism is the war of the poor |
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Hold up a mirror so the script get flipped |
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Cause when it's in reverse it ain't wrong no more |
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Warfare's the terrorism of the rich |
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Who's the true guerilla |
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When the bomb on your body killing innocent civilians |
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But a life is a life and a killer is a killer |
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You're at a desk chillin' push a button kill a million |
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See the anguish of the parents |
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When they're carrying the body of the baby that they cherish |
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When innocent people perish |
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It's a very thin line between a soldier and a terrorist |
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Murder murder kill kill kill |
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Death and destruction a cap get pealed |
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Harm or heal destroy and rebuild |
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Shots still ring out the blood still spill |
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Murder murder kill kill kill |
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Death and destruction a cap get pealed |
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Harm or heal destroy and rebuild |
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Shots still ring out the blood still spill |
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Overseas we can mutilate and mangle |
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Let me give you an example what our troops are coming back to |
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Cold cities where the youth are getting strangled |
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The community in peril and our future looking narrow |
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Your school already failed you |
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The boys in blue will nail you they salute you with a barrel |
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The streets are a certified dead zone |
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Decorated with chalk lines and headstones |
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All the way live and every night the bullets flying |
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Even if you ain't dying you a traumatized survivor |
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When you grow up in a climate of overriding violence |
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You will never get beyond it it's always alive inside you |
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And death just surrounds you |
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Fallen classmates' ghosts haunt you |
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Crime just calls you cause you look at what you walk through |
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Ain't certain if you'll make it ain't sure you even want to |
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Murder murder kill kill kill |
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Death and destruction a cap get pealed |
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Harm or heal destroy and rebuild |
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Shots still ring out the blood still spill |
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Murder murder kill kill kill |
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Death and destruction a cap get pealed |
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Harm or heal destroy and rebuild |
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Shots still ring out the blood still spill |
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Tears and sorrow block the sunlight |
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Head low heart broke eyes closed tongue-tied |
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Waters raise the tide is climbing |
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Speeding time the sky is crying |
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Shots are fired bombs and sirens |
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War and riots mourning in America |
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Now that society forgot you |
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And they locked you in an obstacle course where nothing's possible |
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If you slip up and they caught you |
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They got boxes where they lock you make a million dollars off you |
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They rule you too rude to school |
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They screw you in a booth shoot electricity through you |
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Or inject death into you |
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On a television set and let it ooze through you |
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Every time a leader tries to stand up for our freedom |
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Someone claps them with the heater their brain and back leaking |
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A shame their family grieving the only way to see them |
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Is a displaced dream displayed in a museum |
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They say they built our nation for a reason |
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Then they stained it with the bleeding of the slaves that never seen it |
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I ain't hating I still want to believe it |
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And I'm not trying to leave it I just call it how I see it |
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Murder murder kill kill kill |
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Death and destruction a cap get pealed |
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Harm or heal destroy and rebuild |
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Shots still ring out the blood still spill |
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Murder murder kill kill kill |
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Death and destruction a cap get pealed |
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Harm or heal destroy and rebuild |
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Shots still ring out the blood still spill |
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They haven't got anything to lose |
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And they've got everything to gain |
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And they'll let you know in a minute |
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It takes two to tango When I go you go |