Lupe Fiasco, Ayesha Jaco - THE LION'S DEEN lyrics
Lupe Fiasco [Wasalu Muhammad Jaco] Chicago, Illinois, U.S. 🇺🇸
[Lupe Fiasco, Ayesha Jaco - THE LION'S DEEN lyrics]
Drill music, pop that pill music, kill music
Desecrating the temples in the ghetto
Funeral processionals increase
Their frequency
Because we can't break the spell of Geppetto
No one knows
And scrolls of obituaries contain
More words than dictionaries
That will define how lions in
Zion became alley cats
Who traded their baseball bats
For gats that spat
Blood of the people across steeples
And concrete jungles that turn
Playgrounds into graveyards
That buriеd generations of Black and Brown
Men who lеft their post
Because they were misguided by ghosts in
The land of the living ready, aim, fire
Wanna be the block, but can't buy the block
Bulldozin' the block
Makin' the Red Sea choke on bones of drones
Sent by PPP loans to see
How you spent the money
Left, left, right, left
To figure it out while
The ancestors watch and
Aid those who call out to them
Through altars, pay phones, saxophones
Bottles of liquor, glasses of water
The sum of a son and
A daughter equals new life, the holy trinity
He was a baby boy, but he was kin to me
Born to Basimah in hands of the lion who said
"Store your water in the
Basement, because one day
It will be scarce and polluted"
He said, "One day
Grocery stores will be baren
Learn how to grow your own food
And don't get caught starin'
Down the barrel of a gun
Learn how to run underground drills in Zion"
To be reborn lest you be scorned
By the ways of the wicked
Who pillage our communities and
Natural resources for profit
He said, "My children
Each of you are prophets"
Don't let money be the sum of your deeds
Pull the weeds from your mind
Look to the front, the side, and behind
You each have blades that will
Drill a new earth
Manifest the new world that
Columbus thought he found
Band together to reverse the weather to
Unite the seeds of the oppressed
Stand together and work righteously
To be blessed for generations to come
Drill down, Zion is in you
Desecrating the temples in the ghetto
Funeral processionals increase
Their frequency
Because we can't break the spell of Geppetto
No one knows
And scrolls of obituaries contain
More words than dictionaries
That will define how lions in
Zion became alley cats
Who traded their baseball bats
For gats that spat
Blood of the people across steeples
And concrete jungles that turn
Playgrounds into graveyards
That buriеd generations of Black and Brown
Men who lеft their post
Because they were misguided by ghosts in
The land of the living ready, aim, fire
Wanna be the block, but can't buy the block
Bulldozin' the block
Makin' the Red Sea choke on bones of drones
Sent by PPP loans to see
How you spent the money
Left, left, right, left
To figure it out while
The ancestors watch and
Aid those who call out to them
Through altars, pay phones, saxophones
Bottles of liquor, glasses of water
The sum of a son and
A daughter equals new life, the holy trinity
He was a baby boy, but he was kin to me
Born to Basimah in hands of the lion who said
"Store your water in the
Basement, because one day
It will be scarce and polluted"
He said, "One day
Grocery stores will be baren
Learn how to grow your own food
And don't get caught starin'
Down the barrel of a gun
Learn how to run underground drills in Zion"
To be reborn lest you be scorned
By the ways of the wicked
Who pillage our communities and
Natural resources for profit
He said, "My children
Each of you are prophets"
Don't let money be the sum of your deeds
Pull the weeds from your mind
Look to the front, the side, and behind
You each have blades that will
Drill a new earth
Manifest the new world that
Columbus thought he found
Band together to reverse the weather to
Unite the seeds of the oppressed
Stand together and work righteously
To be blessed for generations to come
Drill down, Zion is in you