Give me the fortune keep the fame,
said my man Talib I agreed,
know what he means cos we live the maddest lies
Strive after lives that the cameras will analyze
Glamorize cries from the rapper when the latter dies
A paralyzed predicament, I'm kicking it with dissidents
Addicted to the rhythm flipping tripping up Caligula's
I Figured the carniverous mentalities ubiquitous
So we struggle Uphill Like Sisyphus
Leviticus to Exodus And Joshua to Genesis
I'm Visiting for reference and stocking up malevolence
Existing in the decadence while shopping for the evidence
What are my origins I'm heavenly and devilish
Now are you fresher than a peppermint?
With elegance decrepit like the city of Persepolis
I shan't tell, buried treasure in the very messages I can't sell
In the art that's where my heart dwells.
Now your calling this a civilized world, (world)
Many dying full of hunger, many living like earls (earls)
Dropping bombs on the kiddies where the gritty night whirls
Would we do the same thing if they were little white girls?
Tell me, because it's difficult to understand
Man I aint Alice in and I never been to wonderland
Don't forget that everything is underhand
As if the media were feeding ya
to supplement the gun demand

Chorus

Not strong
But still oppressive
not free
we sit in silence
Never passionate, only polite
Now whose the righteous?
Not us, so we behave
Run away from death yet with one foot in the grave
Now Still praying for better days

Hiding like thieves in the night from life
Illusions of Oasis making you look twice (x2)


Now i'm sure everybody listening agree
That you cannot believe every little thing you see
Whether news or television, ever usual hedonism
Not producers, never looping but they're using repetition
I illuminate the vision of truth, in a position of division
the youth are being put into a prison the proof
is in the pudding but young girls throw it up
She wanted to be a model, stomach hollow growing up
Around the sorrow in her area, it's spreading like malaria
I'm wary of hysteria it's getting even scarier to ride the train
but that's inside your brain, the Government will want you scared
to justify the pain that we have to dealt to the Middle East.
Felt not a little peace, the wealth of my riddle meets minds
Who need rhymes to function, It's guessing games and assumption
You better not protest they'll hit you up with an injunction - It's cold
Souls are sold for fools gold I strolled the whole globe
Just to liberate the bold and brave,
So ashamed by our history of holding slaves
Now the young bust guns and the old behave
Broke homes, post codes where the roads are paved
With bubblegum and blood, but it's troublesome to love
In the rubble of a frozen age, they're cutting down
the forests just to see the solar rays. It's like that ya'all
(Like that ya'll)
Too many mothers at a cemetery clad up in a black shawl
Wrapped all my gifts like christmas eve,
But without the shiny packaging you disbelieve
It's perceived as unusual, the music is unsuitable
but beautiful, reputable and highly indisputable
I'm using it to tutor you, get through to you
and teach, the endless opportunity of freedom of speech
Breach monotony with deep philosophy that I keep
In my pocket so I drop it when your seeking unique
Individuals to listen to, the physical and visual
is killing all the spiritual, and still it is habitual
The pitiful residuals of time, like aboriginals we're left behind
and in decline cos the ritual to climb to the top
Turns minds into rot, eyes rise to the skies your surprised by the plot
Shining brighter than filaments, cyphers live with the brilliance
From the tribal Abyssinians, to fighting Palestinians
The citizens of Earth defiant in their billions
We start wars, till we're dying by the millions


Not strong
But still oppressive
not free
we sit in silence
Never passionate, only polite
Now whose the righteous?
Not us, so we behave
Run away from death with one foot in the grave
Still praying for better days

Hiding like thieves in the night from life
Illusions of Oasis making you look twice (x2)