Talib Kweli - 2000 Seasons lyrics

Yeah Hi Tek for who do we aspire to
Reflect our own people's death
For who's entertainment shall we sing of
Agony? In what hopes?
That the destroyers aspiring to extinguish
Us will suddenly
Suffer remorse at the sight of
Their own fantastic success?
The last imbecile to dream that dream is dead
He was killed by the saviors of his own dream
Armah, 2000 seasons

I'm not a human being getting
On some spiritual shit
A spiritual being manifested as
A human that's it
When I spit I spray thoughts
That's representing my life
Yo I step into the spot
Leave niggas open like mics
Take on em on a tour


Explore psychologies of war
Things you can't imagine if you've
Never seen em before shorties come back raw
Straight out the c- 74
I welcome them back to the world
They think is run by laws
The world is run by men
Who use laws for tools
But, I come thru war tactics like Shaka Zulu
Mcs is soft like play doh i shape 'em
Smash em to pieces volunteer
Slaves crave the words I'm painting
The masterpieces
You hear em on the radio babbling
The truth is traveling with the word
I sent flying through the air like a javelin
Unraveling like a verdict
Pound it in your chest like a
Gavel in the highest court
In Bablyon, let's travel on
If the world is foul
And you think foul is how you got to live
Then from the get your ass was foul
And foul just is how you is no excuses see
Life's dilemnas are set up like a mirror
Just to show you all your faces
Now your understanding is clearer
You had your chance for evolution
You let it pass you by that's why
I'm dissing wack mc's till the day that I die
Reflection getting you high
We stand our ground with the believers
The leaning tower of Pisa and
The Pyramids of Giza no comparison
The way I flip it is embarassing
Tis the season ain't no caroling

All knowing
Flowing like spring water in the desert
Balling through the barren land
Where niggas take a stand
Like castles made of sand free falling
For anything
Nothing but a plan to fail for they selves
No sense of delf
Needed daily affirmations of self help
Yo it's right in front of yo
Grill stop looking everywhere else
Speaking of planning hustling and scheming
Looking for hookups took up too much time
Like a fiend for rocks that got cooked up
God bless the child that got his own shit
I got my team's
So the fiends now become opponents
They the opposition
Stronger from competition
Shining like a golden shower
Your face I'm pissing in
Completing a genocide mission like
The Warren commission
Like fathers was supposed to be missing
While our sisters were supposed to be whoring
Save it for a rainy day, money is pouring
Under grey clouds
Black butterflys still be soaring
Flying in frienldy skies
We classifying the highs
Blood be flowing in the streets like
Crimson tide in my eyes
The thai be having me drowsy
But, I get mellow with the chronic
Intellectuals embarrased cause we
Discussing ebonics i'm on a roll like sonic
In an age that the
Plague got bubonic proportions
Yo I call it reparations
But they call it extortion whatever
Just give me mine but caution
You've been warned for the very last time
I'm not telling you again
So relay it to your crew
You gotta actually to do
Forget the drive in
Driveby and drive through you've got to
Get out the car humble yourself
Tilt your head back, and look at the stars
Shining over someplace very far
From where you standing
When the night is clear
You understanding just who put them there
What you know about the space you get lost in
Your peoples can't hear you in the distortion
The desert is absorption
And you sucked and you stuck
Off American freezing for like 2000 seasons
Upon your return from
Raping and crossbreeding
Your own people accuse you
Of deceiving and misleading
Causing mass confusion drug abusing
Now you all caught up in institutions
At this time you've got to break it
Down and be showing and proving
An A&R told me that I
Use too many catch phrases
True I'm trying to catch all my
People in all different stages all
Different phases

It's like that y'all