Talib Kweli - Going Hard lyrics

Ugh, ugh, ugh, yeah

I got a part to play
We going hard these days
Fuck the harder way
We doing it the smarter way
To my god I pray, that's how I start my day
When bullets start to spray
The revolution start today
I say the shit these people ain't
Got the heart to say fuck the harder way
We doing it the smarter way
To my god I pray, that's how I start my day
When bullets start to spray
The revolution start today

You say you never scared?
There's kids in other countries
Making jerseys, jeans
And sneakers they could never wear
Parents never there
They busy building homes they
Can't afford to buy
Cars they can't afford to drive
Working jobs that don't support their life
You busy screaming Gangsta Gangsta
All that talk is trife
You already know lost the fight if you
Don't know the cost of life
These kids is forced to fight
A war they can't outrun
Ain't got no shoes but got a gun
Now where the fuck he pulled that out from?
People ask me how we wearing diamonds
When there's little kids in
Sierra Leone losing
Arms for cryin' while they minin'
Probably an orphan whose momma died of AIDS
He built the coffin working often
But he never paid
Forever slaving in the world
That's forever cold
Becoming the man of the house at 11 years old
This reality rap
I get inside the mentality that
Terrorize you like a cowardly act c'mon

I got a part to play
We going hard these days
Fuck the harder way
We doing it the smarter way
To my god I pray, that's how I start my day
When bullets start to spray
The revolution start today
I say the shit these people ain't
Got the heart to say fuck the harder way
We doing it the smarter way
To my god I pray, that's how I start my day
When bullets start to spraybuck!

I was sold to a sick European
By a rich African battlin'
Middle Passages, I can't go back again
Battlin' years of denied history
Lies and mysteries
Wives with misty eyes watchin' their
Husbands be beaten viciously
Battlin' the wilderness of North America
Ran by the river, only stoppin' to pray
Chased by predators
Terrorists with etiquette who fuckin'
Kill their president
Their capacity for evil so
Evident and prevalent
Ain't no hesitation involved
A nation dissolved
While we sit back waitin' to evolve
Those who would trade in their freedom
For their protection deserve neither
Not a name, not tradition, religion
You learn Jesus
Turn the other cheek, inherit the Earth
Just stay meek
Fuck the way you speak, try to run
We chop off your feet
Fast forward to 2004 we selling raw
Yo this ain't what I'm settling
For, I want more, yo

I got a part to play
We going hard these days
Fuck the harder way
We doing it the smarter way
To my god I pray, that's how I start my day
When bullets start to spray
The revolution start today
I say the shit these people ain't
Got the heart to say fuck the harder way
We doing it the smarter way
To my god I pray, that's how I start my day
When bullets start to spray
The revolution start today