Sometimes my hope slips away
I go through the day
Without a way to see passed the decay
To say a better day is coming got me running my mind
Wondering if Iâm cunning enough to find
A new pattern of though designed
So I can deal with this land of concrete
Cause them facts are iâll yo weâre facing defeat from the trees to the sees to the seeds of the ghetto
The fleas on the dogs back have already settled in
Wonât allow no meddeling cause they shoot
Do anything for the loot
Wicked politicians making wicked decisions
Straight lying to the public so they can begin another mission of war
Man eyes are sore
Shitâs hardcore
We can all make a change what we waiting for?
Thereâs a million other people who feel like I feel
Too many cats are ending up with the raw deal for real
But, I read a boek take a look
Put it all in perspective ignore the crooks
Who be rocking their politricks, while running for president
If we want their asses kicked, then letâs set a precedent
See itâs not you versus me
But itâs you and me versus the war-industry
If youâre asking me what it is that we can do
Agaist idiots like G.W. itâs follow through
Chorus:
Itâs what makes you cope
Itâs what makes you grow
Itâs what makes you go against the grain
When they tell you no
But youâve got to show
Your friends and foes itâs time for change
Itâs what makes you cope
Itâs what makes you grow
Itâs whats makes you go against the grain
But they canât tell you no
Because now you know the healing when you get hope
Iâm holding on like someone pushed me over the edge
So sometimes when I rhyme it just go overyour head
I try to bring it down to earth wothout sounding berserk
Itâs for the people high and mighty and them down in the dirt
Put it work like Iâm nickle and diming
Standing on the corner religious like a shaman I aint thicking with rhyming
The punchlines, while they tickle your spine
They picket the line
And Iâll never font for you, you aint getting consigment people hope to get signed but to they suprise
The industry falling down right infront of they eye
On my block brothers donât live brothers survive
Mothers pray through the night and hope they son is alive
Check the stoop, then the corner, then he hospital
The citymorgue, matter of fact shit
I got to go
To my sonâs school
Where they call me brother Kweli
No time for crying
Waiting and hoping like Buddy Holy
Chorus:
Itâs what makes you cope
Itâs what makes you grow
Itâs what makes you go against the grain
When they tell you no
But youâve got to show
Your friends and foes itâs time for change
Itâs what makes you cope
Itâs what makes you grow
Itâs whats makes you go against the grain
But they canât tell you no
Because now you know the healing when you get hope
Iâm hoping for better days and better ways to express
Iâm hoping for spiritual growth and some mental progress
Hoping Iâll wonât be choking when itâs time to take the test of the time
As Iâm standing in the limelight and rhyme
Will I shine? Will I be remembered as a person who took the time and opportunity to find the goodness of his own kind?
The kindness of this mankind
The kind that makes the cynic in me just relax and unwind
Itâs the state of mind you can find me in
When Iâm kicking back and Iâm chilling
Lookin at playing childeren, impressive buildings
And Iâm thinking that we more that the money hungry idiots
Mass-marketing cats claim we be
Man they canât get whit us itâs the fuss of living
Looking for a balance between taking an giving and making a living
Whitout making a pre-emptive killing, shit has go to stop
I hope weâll find the revolution back in hiphop
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