Lupe Fiasco - In lyrics

I was born in a small village
I was still a child when
We were raided by soldiers foreign soldiers
Torn from my elders
I was made to speak their language
With each new post, my masters changed
Along with the words they made me speak
With each change, I changed too
My thoughts, personality
How I saw right and wrong words can kill
Time and again
The country was ruled by a foreign tongue
When he was a young boy
He lost his native language
The bedrock for any developing child
His country, his family, his face
His identity everything was stolen from him

Meet me on the corner, I be waiting on you
Thousand years of better right into forever
Fire on my feathers, fall from out of heaven
Fight without a weapon, life without a lesson
Lost, I'm my own boss, pay my own cost
Fill my own goals, see my own hopes
Tired of all of this, wish I had a switch
One kiss then you cut me off
Knowledge is the power
College is for cowards
Hollering for hours, swallowing the sour
Skin stuck around the rims
Peeking in on a life so sweet
The other side made it, why don't we?

From ancient times
Every civilization's ruler has had the
Same idea when people unite under one will
They become stronger than the sum of their
Parts and what do rulers use to
Bring people together? Language "This world
Will become one, I have found
The way race, tribal affiliations
National borders - even our faces will be
Irrelevant the world that the boss
Envisioned will finally become a reality and
It will make mankind whole again

Found a friend in the words and
My words and it works
Take away the pain, take away the hurt
Make a way to make a change, make it sane
Specially if you plan on
Staying on this Earth
Low to the lows, high to the highs
Eyes to the sky, strive to revive
Dying to survive
Pool full of cries but it's cool
I'm still alive
And every breath is every left soul
And the family never kept whole in the slum
Want to quest to be the best of being less
Never let go, the best road to the next level
And the scenes where it's mean
To do the right thing
Not to be a good king but the best devil
So, it's horns for the crown
Torn from the ground
Roses by the roots stolen from
The roofs on parade days
Look at them rain down
I was brought here a slave
But, I leave here a pharaoh

America is a country of liberty
A meeting of immigrants
Instead of simply assimilating
It's citizens live alongside others
So the major sought a
System that used information
Words to control the subconscious
In his eyes, the greatest symbiotic parasite
The world's ever
Known isn't microbial - it's linguistic
Words is what keep civilization, our world
Alive

If you are what you say you are, the coolest
Won't you just shine down?
You are what you say you are, the coolest
Won't you just shine down?