Talib Kweli - Hell lyrics
[Talib Kweli - Hell lyrics]
Every Sunday waking up catching
Gossip at it's worst
Couldn't see the difference in the
Baptist and the Catholic Church
Caught up in the rapture of the
First chapter and second verse
If we all God's children
Then what's the word of the reverend worth?
Taught early that faith is blind like
Justice when you facing time
If we all made in God's image then
That means his face is mine
Wait, or it's that blasphemy it's
Logical it has to be
If I don't look like my father then
The way I live is bastardly
Naturally that's confusion to a young'n
Trying to follow Christ
Taught that if you don't know Jesus
Then you lead a hollow life
Never question the fact that Jesus was
A Jew and not a Christian
Or that Christianity was made
Law by politicians
And who was King James? And why did
He think that it was so vital
To remove chapters and make his
Own version of the Bible
They say Hell is underground
Heaven is in the sky
They say that's where you go when you die
But how they know?
I've been to many churches
I've quoted many verses
I've dealt with my base self
I controlled my many urges
I used to study my lessons
That was a blessing not a curse
I found out that heaven and hell
Exist right here on earth, word
Studied with Rastafarians
Found out from the dreads that hell
Is called Babylon and that's where
The crazy boarheads dwell
They got us thinking that Muslims
Like to make bombs
But real muslims believe in
Paradise and resisting Shaitan
So it all sound the same to me
But when they say one's right
And the other is wrong
It just sound like game to me
It's like God skipped past the
Church and came to me
No that ain't vain to me
It's just a particular way that I came to see
The difference between those that claim to be
Religious and those that say they spiritual
And recognize that life is full of miracles
You can see the flow is divine
I glow when I rhyme
Cause it coincide with a growing tide
Of those looking for God that
Know to go inside
Looking for absolution
Living in mass confusion
The gas inducing psychopath created
A last solution based on his interpretation
Of what the words are saying
Looking for God but ended up
Doing the work of satan
Religion create division
Make the Muslim hate the Christian
Make the Christian hate the Jew
Make up rules of faith
That you condition to and gotta follow
God forbid you go to Hell
But, if you ever been to any ghetto
Then you know it well
Peace
Gossip at it's worst
Couldn't see the difference in the
Baptist and the Catholic Church
Caught up in the rapture of the
First chapter and second verse
If we all God's children
Then what's the word of the reverend worth?
Taught early that faith is blind like
Justice when you facing time
If we all made in God's image then
That means his face is mine
Wait, or it's that blasphemy it's
Logical it has to be
If I don't look like my father then
The way I live is bastardly
Naturally that's confusion to a young'n
Trying to follow Christ
Taught that if you don't know Jesus
Then you lead a hollow life
Never question the fact that Jesus was
A Jew and not a Christian
Or that Christianity was made
Law by politicians
And who was King James? And why did
He think that it was so vital
To remove chapters and make his
Own version of the Bible
They say Hell is underground
Heaven is in the sky
They say that's where you go when you die
But how they know?
I've been to many churches
I've quoted many verses
I've dealt with my base self
I controlled my many urges
I used to study my lessons
That was a blessing not a curse
I found out that heaven and hell
Exist right here on earth, word
Studied with Rastafarians
Found out from the dreads that hell
Is called Babylon and that's where
The crazy boarheads dwell
They got us thinking that Muslims
Like to make bombs
But real muslims believe in
Paradise and resisting Shaitan
So it all sound the same to me
But when they say one's right
And the other is wrong
It just sound like game to me
It's like God skipped past the
Church and came to me
No that ain't vain to me
It's just a particular way that I came to see
The difference between those that claim to be
Religious and those that say they spiritual
And recognize that life is full of miracles
You can see the flow is divine
I glow when I rhyme
Cause it coincide with a growing tide
Of those looking for God that
Know to go inside
Looking for absolution
Living in mass confusion
The gas inducing psychopath created
A last solution based on his interpretation
Of what the words are saying
Looking for God but ended up
Doing the work of satan
Religion create division
Make the Muslim hate the Christian
Make the Christian hate the Jew
Make up rules of faith
That you condition to and gotta follow
God forbid you go to Hell
But, if you ever been to any ghetto
Then you know it well
Peace