Killer Mike, Brother Ali, Immortal Technique, Chuck D - Civil War lyrics

Like anybody, i would like to live a long
Life longevity has it's place
But I’m not concerned about that now
I just want to do God’s will
And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain
And I’ve looked over
And I’ve seen the Promised Land
I may not get there with you
But I want you to know tonight
That we, as a people
Will get to the Promised Land
So, I’m happy, tonight
I’m not worried about anything
I’m not fearing any man
Mine eyes have seen the glory of
The coming of the Lord

The ghetto is like a
Prison with invisible bars
No matter where you at
It always follows you where you are


And it's hard out there for a
Pimp to get out of
But it's harder for the hooker that
He beat the shit out of
I got niggas underground in
The Confederate states
Ironically runnin' from slavery
That prison creates so, I never hate on the
South: I respect they vision
I just hate on niggas that promote Samboism
And white execs that love to
See us in that position
They reflect the stereotypes
Of America's vision they want us dancin'
Coonin' and hollerin'
Only respect us for playin'
Sports and modelin'
More than racism: it's stay
In your place-ism more people are trapped
In practical blackface-ism
So fuck a Civil War between
The North and the South
It's between field niggas and slaves that
Are stuck in the house

Civil war for the soul of a nation
This is a struggle to save civilization
Demonstrations overthrowin' the occupation
The annihilation of mental colonization
Civil war for the soul of a nation
We fight for the future of our civilization
Destroy the corrupt government organizations
Tryin' to survive cultural assassination

Crip niggas, Blood niggas, eses, Asians
Why the fuck we warrin'
With each other's population?
The devil wanna dead all our population
People and Folk Nation, why the separation?
Why we got Jamaicans hatin' on Hatians
When the British and French
Raped both nations?
Mexicans and Blacks kill each other
Straight hatin'
While the government profit's
From prison population
If you on the bottom, be you Anglo or Asian
You gotta recognize the realness
Inwhat I'm sayin'
You gotta recognize another G
Ain't the enemy
When the police ride and kill us frequently
We gotta make the youth see
Where the truth be
If you a G, then grow and develop GD
50 years of gangs and our people still poor
If we really run the streets
We should really end war

Civil war for the soul of a nation
This is a struggle to save civilization
Demonstrations overthrowin' the occupation
The annihilation of mental colonization
Civil war for the soul of a nation
We fight for the future of our civilization
Destroy the corrupt government organizations
Tryin' to survive cultural assassination

Our hearts were torn apart
Just like y'all was
Watching towers full of souls fall to sawdust
Every time we called your
Office you ignored us
Now you holdin' hearings on us
All inside of Congress
Microscopes on us, ask if we're jihadists
My answer was in line with
All of the Founding Fathers
I think Patrick said it best:
Give me liberty or death
I shall never accept anything less
You claim innocence, you play victimless
But you gave the kiss of death
In the name of self-defense
Slavery and theft have brought our
Nations to the end
Of pacifying your citizenry with excess
We believe in freedom, justice, security
But they're only pure when
They're applied universally
So certainly if I rage against the machine
My aim was only to clean the
Germs out of the circuitry
Urgently puttin' fear inside your heart
Make you burn Qu'rans and tell me
Not to build a mosque me, my wife
And babies we ain't never made jihad
We just want to touch our heads to
The floor and talk to god
Ask him to remove every
Blemish from our heart
The greatest threat of harm doesn't
Come from any bomb
The moment you refuse the human
Rights for just a few
What happens when that few
Includes you? Civil war