I ain't got no home, ain't got no shoes Ain't got no money, ain't got no class Ain't got no friends, ain't got no schooling Ain't got no hurt, ain't got no job Ain't got no money, no place to stay Ain't got no Programmed inequity, it's in the nervous system Listen, watch the words, how they twist 'em Two thirds of the world turned victim Subtle energy, they capture and block chi The unseen violence behind the democracy Some call it hypocrisy, turn freeman into property And logically justify not treatin' 'em properly Invisible ink in the constitution Meant to preserve the institution, unequal distribution Of wealth, goods and services Revolvin' door, no floor, just anxiety and nervousness Trapped in circuses Herds of us, not understandin' our purposes When appetites and psychological types Get caught in the hype, it's tight from morning 'til night I'm demanding my rights Women's suffrage then black suffrage Or Jim Crow, the KKK American terrorism Murders and beatings on television It's in the cells now, you thought that was yesterday? But the compression stays, trauma still got most afraid Stuck in the memory, fear gives birth to lethargy Generations of children in jeopardy History written in jealousy, scribes full of heresy Full of barbarians, ch-ch-check out my melody Musical therapy, reprogram Africa full of coltan Coltrane was a cold man Black genius in a cold land tryna be the whole man Heal the homeland Past time for our own land Where a grown man can be a grown man The system has benefit for robbery is robbery You can't run from it, God is a natural monopoly Divine creator stuck in monotony Bureaucracy, psyche on poverty Self-esteem broken like pottery No more, not me, codename anomaly Cause there's just no match for the prodigy Sovereignty, the god in me Walking university, living cosmology Without apology I've got life I've got laughs I've got headaches and toothaches And bad times too like you, you, you OK The more you suppress life the stronger it gets With death life the longer it gets I know it's hard to admit That you follow some bullshit Swallow the wrong pill looking for mr bill Repression, oppression: same thing (same thing) Fear the shadow that's the main thing (main thing) They keep running from Every action yields an equal and opposite one Yes that means the consequence comes Fields of cumbersome back breaking labor Can't be healed with just a cummerbund I was homecoming queen call me number one Yep that's another one, now give the drummer some Tell every mother's son expression can Be far more powerful than a hundred guns See my Kalashnikov lyrics with the safety off Now dance around these niggas like Baryshnikov Street sweeper my words are my keeper It's in the ether, now what you trynna tell these preachers, It's done It's done let loose your tongue Gifted, black and young Watch these devils run They knew a change was gonna come Sinner man looking for a place to run Tell the truth in tongues' enemy reduced by one's Thousands 2 can put 10, 000 in flight Speak truth to power every 24 hours Ain't got no life, no experience No clothes, no country No hat, no student No friends, no nothing Ain't got no love (Ay let me tell you) Imperialism is a form of Jihad They killed and enslaved millions for gold bullion, in the name of God The children of mammon called it spiritual famine Can we examine How they stole bauxite, rubber, labor, diamonds and platinum? The building blocks of society and Economy, broke humanity to build the colonies Using reverse psychology to keep us from knowing our quality No more human tragedy, no more mis-recognition, no more addiction Let's accurately diagnose our condition 400 years of the abuse and misuse of religion Don't give me another person's prescription! I need what I need, my deeds are my deeds As a man thinketh so is he, Mezanmi Take the land back, every child, woman and man back Reevaluate history, expeditiously Can't live my life in apostasy Emulate the apostrophe hang with S, you can rock with me I come in love and truth (truth) Look at what I went through Now it's time to acknowledge just what I give you: life Ain't got nowhere, no partner No food, no home I said I ain't got no clothes, no job No nothing, ain't got time to live I ain't got no love, nope Ain't got no There's a whole lotta wrong to be righted, I get excited I'ma kick this shit off like I'm on Manchester United and my Attention is undivided, so you can't divide and conquer me I'm sitting comfortably in a SUV Up in my SUV taking artistic liberties Making musical history, a lil' acupuncture, structural integration My meditation, liberating a generation, and beyond that I'm taking the bomb back. I'm splitting atoms for freedom America needs more FREED men, able to talk right Not prone to GREED men (it's just not what you need man) Let your words and deeds line up, master the mind, young king man Put your signs up, intelligent designs up Plant your seeds Keep your dimes up, 'cause no man knows when the time's up It's elemental like Solomon in the temple Ark of the Covenant, accountable to a higher government I'm looking for love (in all the wrong places) Somebody tell me, where them brothas went, reclaim your wealth No more giving the enemy help No more sympathy for the devil, let'em hang himself Get all the billion Black people out of these bottles Suffer while grown people get coddled, you know the novel What that I got? Ah, what that I got? Let me tell ya what I got The almighty armageddon wave, that you wanna I've got my hair on my head, my prance My ears, my eyes, nose, and my mouth I've got my smile I got tongue, chin, neck, my boobies My arm, soul and my gas I've got my sex I've got my arms, my hips My fingers, my lips My feet, my toes, and my liver Got my blood I've got life, I've got laughs I've got headaches and toothaches And bad times too, like you I've got life, I've got laughs I've got headaches and toothaches And bad times too, like you

Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't Now I don't As I look at what I've done The type of life that I've lived How many things I pray Father will forgive One situation involved a young man He was the ocean and I was the sand He stole my heart like a thief in the night Dulled my senses and blurred my sight (And i used to love him) I used to love him but now I don't Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't I chose a road of passion and pain Sacrificed too much and waited in vain Gave up my power ceased being queen Addicted to love like the drug of a fiend Torn and confused wasted and used Reached the crossroad which path would I choose Stuck and frustrated I waited debated For something to happen that just wasn't fated Thought what I wanted was something I needed When momma said no I just should have heeded Misled I bled till the poison was gone And out of the darkness arrived the sweet dawn Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't Father you saved me and showed me that life Was much more than being some foolish man's wife Showed me that love was respect and devotion Greater than planets deeper than oceans My soul was weary but now it's replenished Content because that part of my life is finished I see him sometimes and I look in his eyes Is one of a man who's lost treasures untold But my heart is gold I took back my soul And totally let my creator control The life which was his to begin with Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't Now I don't I used to love him but now I don't

My world it moves so fast today The past it seems so far away And life squeezes, so tightly that I can't breathe And every time I've tried to be What someone else thought of me So caught up I wasn't able to achieve But deep in my heart The answer, it was in me And I made up my mind To define my own destiny Oh, no I, I look at my environment And wonder where the fire went What happened to everything we used to be? I hear so many cry for help Searching outside of themselves Now I know that His strength is within me And deep in my heart The answer, it was in me And I made up my mind To define my own destiny And deep in my heart Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh Ah-ah-ah No, no, no No, no, no And deep in my heart The answer, it was in me And I made up my mind To define my own destiny

Put your lips close to mine As long as they don't touch Out of focus, eye to eye 'Til the gravity's too much And I'll do anything you say If you say it with your hands And I'd be smart to walk away But you're quicksand This slope is treacherous This path is reckless This slope is treacherous And I, I, I like it I can't decide if it's a choice Getting swept away I hear the sound of my own voice Asking you to stay All we are is skin and bone Trained to get along Forever going with the flow But you're friction This slope is treacherous This path is reckless This slope is treacherous I, I, I like it Two headlights shine through the sleepless night And I will get you, get you alone Your name has echoed through my mind And I just think you should, think you should know That nothing safe is worth the drive And I would follow you, follow you home I'll follow you, follow you home This hope is treacherous This daydream is dangerous This hope is treacherous I, I, I I, I, I I, I, I Two headlights shine through the sleepless night And I will get you, get you alone Your name has echoed through my mind And I just think you should, think you should know That nothing safe is worth the drive And I will follow you, follow you home I'll follow you, follow you home I'll follow you, follow you home I'll follow you, follow you home This slope is treacherous I, I, I like it