R.A. The Rugged Man, Talib Kweli - Learn Truth lyrics

Take a piece of America back
It's called truth

We the last of the vintage flow-ers
We carry it on our shoulders
I keep my friends close and
The devils a lot closer
When the Freedom Riders approach 'em
Their appetite is vulturous
Soldiers of fortune are never no
Match for soldiers of culture
My flow is so fuckin' honest
You said you wanted to hear it
You lyin' 'cause all you wanted was for
Me to lift up your spirit's
The truth is too fuckin' ugly and trust me
The shit got layers
You touch me, you think you tough
Leave us toothless as rugby players
From sufis to soothsayers discussin'
The true saviors we move with the gangstas


You niggas sweeter than fruit flavors
The booth slayer provin' it's futile
To hide from us you misguided as missiles
So are suicide bombers
Takin' orders from the mullah
Waitin' for karma to pull up
Their stones is no match for bullets
Israeli rachets are fuller
Gotta race to meet Allah like they
Chasin' 'em with a cop car
Like there's honor in being a martyr
And the terrorists is the rockstars
Dodging the Abu Dhabi or
Dodging the paparazzi
Still probably as popular as
Swastikas for Nazis
The cops protect the property properly
When they crackin' heads
Murderers get as cocky as Perseus
When the Kraken dead
I wonder what be runnin'
Through these crackers' heads
And why niggas is spillin' more
Blood than Cincinnati caps, black and red
I'll take an Actifed, go back to bed
Allergic to the fumes
Havin' a funeral for the news
'cause the facts is dead
The trust is gone from the
Neocons to Barack Obam'
America eats it's young from Casey
Anthony to the Octomom (Wow)
Fix it and mix it up like
Martial arts in the Octagon
I spit the fire 'til we burn down Babylon

Take a piece of America back
You will only learn
It's called truth, it's called - it's called
It's called truth, you will only learn

Death by suicide bomb, Protestants
Bibles, a Quran, or Islam
From Genghis Khan to Vietnam
I can smell the napalm
Rape victims, ripped stockings
Redneck Klan members doin' church bombings
Innocent fetuses being aborted
With no options humans government ruinin'
Worryin' what weapons could be used
To be nukin' 'em
Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem
Slaves treated like property
To Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima to Nagasaki
Adolf Hitler to every murderous Nazi
To the Gambinos, to the Gottis
To every Mafia atrocity child pornography
Babies starvin' and dyin' in poverty
Serbians fightin' Croatians in Yugoslavia
Muslim women bein' raped, up to 40
000 in the war in Bosnia
The 50 million killed in the Second World War
The government poisonin' the minds
And the bodies
Of the babies that are born poor
Airplanes blown up by Islamic extremists
In religion there's always drama
Whether worshippin' the Prophet
Mohammed or Jesus
Smallpox to Napoleon' troops
Dyin' from typhus
From the Spanish Flu to the Black Plague
Today it's the AIDS virus
Bodies in coffins, political extortions
Racist mobs murderin', Willie Turks
Michael Griffith and Yusef Hawkins
Check the murder rate
Is it human nature to murder and hate?
The Catholic Church claimed
Women were witches
And burned 'em at the stake
Pedophile predators attackin'
38 Beretta used by Ghandi's assassin
16 bullets in Malcolm
It happened uptown Manhattan
And the homicide
Reagan '80s epidemic of crack
And soldiers in action dyin' in
Iraq and never comin' back and now let's

Take a piece of America back
You will only learn it's called truth
It's called truth you will only learn
It's called truth it's called truth