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[Intro] |
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[Verse 1] |
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[Hook] |
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[Verse 2: Talib Kweli] |
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Kweli say, "Everybody act according to the season that they born in" |
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Some are the night, some are the morning, some at noon |
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Some in winter, some in June |
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It's our code, it's the natural |
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The science is a jewel |
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For me and mines, yours and you |
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Let's move, tell you a little about mine, yo |
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I was born in a season where the world was quiet and cold |
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Celebrations were going on |
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Some were happy, some were sad |
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Some felt bad from being good |
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Some felt good from being bad, feelings pass and change |
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But they never leave, they here to stay |
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Holiday, holiday, happy birthday |
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Teenage love, the first cut run deep |
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Soul on flesh, this is the Brooklyn streets |
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Year of the Ox, seven and three |
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M.D., the history (come on) |
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Every soul's got one of these (yes) |
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It's where you been and where you be |
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And without understanding you cannot proceed |
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Complete, the start and the end |
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Then it just go round again |
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Again and again, brand new |
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Again and again, so fresh |
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Again and again, newness |
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I was born in the decade of decadence where they worship what they have |
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Ford was president, do the math |
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The war was ended when the Vietnamese stormed the city of Saigon |
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We was like, bye; we was gone, let bygones be bygones |
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I'm gone, spread love, it's the Brooklyn way |
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Where the hug you with the firearm, try it on |
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Like new school clothes, Black Star official |
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Smash when we do a show, it's facts, no mystery |
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I'm down with the crew like Mussolini in Italy |
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I rock with the Roots like the Giving Tree |
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Powerful, bigotry at work, me and my people got history |
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These rappers dumb it down considerably |
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We get it poppin' like a hit chorus |
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The flow is historic, they can't get rid of us |
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Ubiquitous, and we lay the law like Leviticus |
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Ten years ago we made history so they missing us |
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And don't call it comeback in particular |
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We will never blend into ephemera or |
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Fade into peripheral, transition of the minister's original |
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We're broadcast clear without diminishing |
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Black Star so tight, burning soul temperatures and ministers |
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Alkalines, aminos and minerals essentials |
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Served over Dilla time signatures |
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It's miracle material, remember it's right now foreverness |