K'naan Lyrics

The Dusty Foot Philosopher (2005)

Wash It Down lyrics - K'naan

When you here in the water and you feel like it's order releasing your tension, the stress and disorder is big in America, Stephanie, Erica, both of them suffer from livin in hari cause,

Livin is very competitive, hassling creditors, hazardous, accidents, driving with negligence, to many beverages, people got to many things on they letters, says tvs deadliest, professing the ugliest, war, war, war, war

What the hell you keep on killing me for, please won't you come and bend down low, let me tell you what little I know, and if it's worth something, spread it indeed like shit and vomit that's under your feet, I was born in a pot boiling black and hot, waiting to be tasted and rapping alot, but justice would not come and eat my flesh, instead I had poverty to feed my stress, until my life became an ode to the gun, not needed like an overcoat to the sun, so I thought I was just made to exist, not to live or, change or resist, but fear will have you believe in fear, paralyze have you believe in tears, this is the therapy needed so use it, music is water, you know how I might prove this, people need music like they need excuses, people need water like kanye needs jesus, so wash it down, (wash it down) wash it down, (wash it down) wash it down, (wash it down), wash it down, (wash it down), wash it down, (wash it down), wash it down, (wash it down) wash it down, (wash it down) wash it down, (wash it down) I know you stressin, this is a little meditation for you to relax and jump in the pool and you know, sink and sing, my people drum on water, drink on water, live on water, die for water, my people drum on water, drink on water, live on water, die for water.

Soobax lyrics - K'naan

Basically I got Beef

I wanna to you directly

I can't ignore

I can't escape

And that's 'cause you affect me

You crippled me

You chagrined me

You shattered my whole future in front of me

This energy is killing me, I gotta let it pour like blood soobax

Dhadkii waa dhinteen nagala soobax

Dhibki waa bateen nagala soobax

Dhiigii waa bateen nagala soobax

Dhulkii waa gubteen nagala soobax

Nagalaa soobax

Dadki waa dinten nagalaa soobax

Dibki waa butten nagalaa soobax

Deegii waa butten nagalaa soobax

So for real who's to blame

We lose lives over the disdain

Disregard for the soul, we just don't give a fuck no more

Left alone, all alone

Settle yo issues on yo own

What to do, where to go

I gotta be a refugee then soobax

Dhadkii waa dhinteen nagala soobax

Dhibki waa bateen nagala soobax

Dhiigii waa bateen nagala soobax

Dhulkii waa gubteen nagala soobax

Nagalaa soobax

Dhadkii waa dhinteen nagala soobax

Dhibki waa bateen nagala soobax

Dhiigii waa bateen nagala soobax

Dhulkii waa gubteen nagala soobax

Mogadishu (Yeah) used to be

A place where there world would come to see

Dasiida suuguumta Lida

Wardeegle iyo Madina

Argesa wasasoo Bardere iyo Berbera

My skin need to feel the same in the sun

I'm tired of the cold goddamn soobax

Dadki waa dinten nagalaa soobax

Dibki waa butten nagalaa soobax

Deegii waa butten nagalaa soobax

Duulki waa guubten nagalaa soobax

Nagalaa soobax

Dadki waa dinten nagalaa soobax

Dibki waa butten nagalaa soobax

Deegii waa butten nagalaa soobax

(Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey, Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey)

I guess I could use the last part to flow

Nomads the never go rondomino

And then they go oh oh now you know

Put a hole in the MC like Jerri o

They don't hear me though

I work for the struggle, I don't work for dough

I mean what I say, I don't do it for show

Somalia needs all gun men right out the door

Dadki waa dinten nagalaa soobax

Dibki waa butten nagalaa soobax

Deegii waa butten nagalaa soobax

Duulki waa guubten nagalaa soobax

Nagalaa soobax

Dadki waa dinten nagalaa soobax

Dibki waa butten nagalaa soobax

Deegii waa butten nagalaa soobax

Duulki waa guubten nagalaa soobax

Nagalaa soobax

Dadki waa dinten nagalaa soobax

Dibki waa butten nagalaa soobax

Deegii waa butten nagalaa soobax

Talking: Yeah, I hope more than language you can translate the vibe cause that right there is a protest song, you know I made a protest song and it's called soobax

Soobax means come out, directly talking to the gunmen and the warlords of Africa

Letting them know that we can't, you know the people can't take it no more, yeah and it's a- it's a soundtrack to a poor man's revolutionin East Africa right now playing for the people y'know and we went to Africa to shoot the video for this, the only way you can translate the vibe y'know Soobax.

Translation:

The people are dying, just come out

The troubles are filled, just come out

The blood has filled up, just come out

The floor is burnt, just come out

Just come out

What's Hardcore? lyrics - K'naan

I put a pen to the paper,

This time as visual as possible,

Guns blast at the hospital,

The walls are white washed with tin rooftops,

To show love you lick two shots,

It's dangerous man,

Journalists hire gunmen there's violent women,

Kids trust no one cause fire burnt them,

Refugees die in boats, headed for peace,

Is anyone scared of death here' Not in the least,

I walk by the old lady selling coconuts under the tree,

Life is cheap here but wisdom is free,

The beach boys hang on the side, leaning with pride,

Scam artists and gangsters fiendin to fight,

I walk with three kids that can't wait to meet God

Lately, that's Bucktooth, Mohamed and Crybaby,

What they do everyday just to eat lord have mercy,

Strapped with an AK and they blood thirsty...

So what's hardcore? Really, are you hardcore? Hmm.

We begin our day by the way of the gun,

Rocket propelled grenades blow you away if you front,

We got no police ambulance or fire fighters,

We start riots by burning car tires,

They looting, and everybody start shooting,

Bullshit politicians talking bout solutions, but it's all talk,

You can't go half a block with a road block,

You don't pay at the road block you get your throat shot,

And each road block is set up by these gangsters,

And different gangsters go by different standards,

For example, the evening is a no go,

Unless you wanna wear a bullet like a logo,

In the day you should never take the alleyway,

The only thing that validates you is the AK,

They chew on Jad it's sorta like coco leafs,

And there ain't no police...

So what's hardcore? Really, are you hardcore? Hmm.

I'm a spit these verses cause I feel annoyed,

And I'm not gonna quit till I fill the void,

If I rhyme about home and got descriptive,

I'd make Fifty Cent look like Limp Biskit,

It's true, and don't make me rhyme about you,

I'm from where the kids is addicted to glue,

Get ready, he got a good grip on the machete,

Make rappers say they do it for love like R-Kelly,

It's HARD, harder than Harlem and Compton intertwined,

Harder than harboring Bin Laden and rewind,

"to that earlier part when I was kinda like"

We begin our day by the way of the gun,

Rocket propelled grenades blow you away if you front,

We got no police ambulances or fire fighters,

We start riots by burning car tires,

They looting, and everybody starting shooting...

So what's hardcore? Really, are you hardcore? Hmm.

My Old Home lyrics - K'naan

So yea basicaly alot of people ask me how life was then... so here it is

My old home smelled of good birth

Boiled red beans kernal oil and hand me down poetry

It's brick white washed walls widdowed by first paint

The tin roof tops humm in songs of promise while time ends

Locked into demonic rythm with the leaves

The trees had the wind huggin them loving them a torturous love

Bug in wind it was over and done the the rounds ment to pocket

Kept the rain drops cool neighbours dwellers spatter in the pool

Kids playing football with a sand in a sock

We had what we got and it wasn't alot

No one knew they were poor we were all inocent to grieve judgment

The country was combusing with life like a long hybernatin volcano

With a long tale of succes like j-lo farmers, fishers, fighters,

Even fools had a place in production teh coral reefs make your days

In reflection the costal line was the place of seduction

And women walked with grace and perfection

And we just knew we were warriors too nothing worried us too

We were glorious?

[Verse:]

And one day it came

Spoiled the parade like rain

Like oil in a flame it pained

The heart attack sudden

Harder then livin

Harder then a punch in the woom

Harder then the lunch you consume for us

It had a cancerous fume war, lust

Men who made killing hobbiest

Sellin powerfully

Like healthy livestock

It made tides rock

With a diligent mock

Confused with the people

Infused in the evil

(profester) reject

Like jews in the sequal

So when it came in the morning

With a warning and without

The hearding was a burden

Only certain was dealt

A mythical tale

No soul knows well

Liberty went to hell

Freedom caught four shells

Fears was the bloke

Keep your to the show

It apears old will

Was right in 84

Half baked brother

Killed mother in a store

But all of us watching

But they don't love her anymore

[Chorus:]

(peed) my poem

Mother was my old home

Good will is looted

In my old home

Religions is burnt down

In my old home

Kindness is shacklled

In my old home

Justice has been raped

In my old home

Murderers hold post

In my old home

The land vomits ghosts

In my old home

[Verse:]

We got pistols with eyes

Curuption and lies

Trust us snakes

And death without breaks

Suspicious new borns

Live in the horn

We used to teh pain

Rack bodies

Not grain

Chop limbs

Not trees

Spend lies

Not wealth

Seek vengance

Not truth

The craziest youth

Moist pains

Are plans

.nigga fuck your plans

[Chorus:]

Bandits are leaders down

In my old home

Rooms are a [? ]

In my old home

Seditives of faith

In my old home

Rapers are praised

In my old home

Demons dress well

In my old home

Infants are nailed

In my old home

Spirits are jailed

In my old home

Grudges grow tails

In my old home

[Bridge:]

Our roads have seen electric hate and

Our women labour, but need no invadin

Our farms produce giulty grubin

Our kids depend on shifty luck see

Our news is like "for death is all"

Don't blame me for the truth I've told

[Chorus:]

Good will is looted

In my old home

Religions is burnt down

In my old home

Kindness is shacklled

In my old home

Justice has been raped

In my old home

Murderers hold post

In my old home

The land vomits ghosts

In my old home

Moment lyrics - K'naan

(Instrumental)

I Was Stabbed By Satan lyrics - K'naan

[speaking]

1.2.1.2

[Chorus:]

I was stabbed by satan, on the day that I was born,

I was promised loving, but instead I was torn,

La la la, la la la, my heart bled fear,

La la la, la la la, I shed tears.

[Verse 1:]

A poor black ghetto child,

He can't shoot and he can't go run them out,

There's no school and the kids go runnin wild,

The police and the court wanna run them out,

He's so cold, and the po po hate em all,

He ain't seen his daddy since back in '84,

But oh well so it be, now hes in jail,

His mothers stressin just to get him out on bail,

Now sing it out.

[Chorus]

[Verse 2:]

And so the story goes on, There's no glory in the war he takes a tote on

His own body, but his buddies wouldn't of rolled on,

So bloody when the car comes to a stop,

The police with the big glocks, will em out

They say freeze but there's only one comin out,

There's 2 dead with a legal gun to his head,

It's stupid, should of played ball instead,

Let's sing it out.

[Chorus]

[Verse 3:]

So one day, when it's all said and done,

My life will be the bluest rap song ever sung,

My verses will be curses to the rich and all sorts of authority will cease to exist,

My daughters will be free of wars in my honor your fist,

Will raise in the air, in the silence of revolution, my face will appear,

Like the vision of a prisoner with his last beer,

This song is a poem and the whole poem is a tear,

Dropped in your ear.

[Chorus]

[Chorus: with ad libs]

[talking]

So why do kids cry when there born,

Ever ask yourself that, I mean there's no scientific reason explanin that

Well it is said satan stabs a child at birth, as an introduction to pain,

Y'know, welcome to the world right.

My God lyrics - K'naan

My God, can you imagine livin' in a ghetto so hard So facade? This is real oh my God Can you imagine livin' in a city so fierce No police better hand than your own, God Can you imagine this is where the kids don't dance Growin' up to be roughnecks, my God Can you imagine this is where we come from, come from, come from, come from

Smile lyrics - K'naan

My tragedy's different

My life's deep, listen,

Gotta bail, I'm limpin

Walked outta hell's kitchen

Why bother cherishin'

My past is everything, wrong, and my arrogance

Walk down the stairs pissin'

Cop us cause they're bitchin'

Life isnt fair, singin'

Blues and my rap drippin'

Ooze out the blood Sinkin

Deep down to earth thinking

Leave out a nerp chicken

I should run, forfit, and everything I know LISTEN,

I was The misdirected

I was The least expected

Hop on And get rejected

Walk on And feel neglected

I feel Like I'm the message

Unheard But I'm the message

I'm the last prolific remaining offer from the gutter

SHOT was my girlfriend

When We was younger

Her I was scarred yo

Bullets I survived though

Death It's came easy

Truth the games needs me

Never let them see me down, smile while I'm bleeding

Smile When your struggilin

Smile when Your in jail

Smile When your dead broke

Smile And the rents due

Smile You ain't got friends now

Smile And no one knows you

Never let them see you down smile while you bleeding

Smile When he leaves you

Smile Cause girl he needs you

Smile Plenty single mothers cry the tears you do

Smile Dispite the war

Smile despite the pain yo

Never let them see you down smile while you bleeding

To my man Kareem in prison

I can't speak your name

It hurt me that you never listened

It can't be the same

I had to grow my intutision

Had me deep in pain

Cause I knew my options were either broke or the prison chains

I can't do it

I can't see it, look

Damnit, I can't blow it

I got a judge tellin me my lifes key

They will throw it

Nuh-uh, no sir

I plan to have a chauffeur

It seems to me this chopping crack is really going no where

Therefore

I'm resurrected

They call me

The poor Injection

I infect you with the real

The Dustyfeetphilosahectagos

I spit, so sick

I skid out

I'm fallin'

I'm Shit outta luck and I'm trapped but I'll get out

Can You Help me

I'm goin crazy

My mom plays trix and I beat on the floor like bush wick

My fists bloody and blistered

A pair Like I'm balistic

I just stare at the red and smile while I'm bleedin

Smile When your struggilin

Smile When Your in jail

Smile When your dead broke

Smile And the rents due

Smile You ain't got friends now

Smile And no one knows you

Never let them see you down smile while you bleeding

Smile When he leaves you

Smile Cause girl he needs you

Smile Plenty single mothers cry the tears you do

Smile Dispite the war

Smile despite the pain yo

Never let them see you down smile while you bleeding

There are a few things you gotta take into acount

I'm not an entertainer I've never been a clown

I was born where tha mothers give birth while they frown

I would walk with the kids that would bbbrrraaaa a sound ah

Never really thought I'd make it to fourteen

And anybody wanted to fight I was most keen

Plus I had a little temper it was often forseen

Yo say somethin bout my momma id shoot ya dead out clean

But ya gotta keep in mind that I grew up Mogadishu (tell em)

The only law was gun law

And we don't walk with a pistol

You get laughed at for being so insensitive to the environment

Cause how will you be heard when those big boys are firin'

War is no place for a child

Especially if hes rollin' with an AK and a smile

He had witnesses on mother bloody in a towel

But please, please, please, please

But never let em see you down smile while you bleedin'

Smile When your struggilin

Smile When Your in jail

Smile When your dead broke

Smile And the rents due

Smile You ain't got friends now

Smile And no one knows you

Never let them see you down smile while you bleeding

Smile When he leaves you

Smile Cause girl he needs you

Smile Plenty single mothers cry the tears you do

Smile Dispite the war

Smile despite the pain yo

Never let them see you down smile while you bleeding

Smile When your struggilin

Smile When Your in jail

Smile When your dead broke

Smile And the rents due

Smile You ain't got friends now

Smile And no one knows you

Never let them see you down smile while you bleeding

Smile When he leaves you

Smile Cause girl he needs you

Smile plenty single mothers cry the tears you do

Smile Dispite the war

Smile despite the pain yo

Never let them see you down smile while you bleeding

If Rap Gets Jealous lyrics - K'naan

[Verse 1:]

So good things comes for those wait, sure

I've waited about pop pop pop pop

That's four cousins shot

I got grudges, let's discust this

My music needs no touch ups

I got a long record of fuck ups, trust me

You don't know who has this weight of mine,

Or a life as hard as mine

I had to hustle, chop, sell drugs, grind

Whatever you wanna call it is fine,

But just listen

And don't prejudge

I don't want anyone dissmissin' me as another thug or some shit like that

No sir, if I fall I will get right back

I got circumstances, but let me stop dancin' around the issue

And tell you straight forward, I'm poor

A refugee been in prisson and survived the war

I come from the most dangerous city in this universe

You're likely to get shot at birth

So how could rap quench my thirst? !

I don't even hear verses no more!

I hear jerkin' off punks with lip glosses and purses!

I don't see nobody operating shit anymore I see nurses!

Fuck that! I'm gonna stay alive! I'd rather do a stage dive!

[Chorus:]

And if rap gets jealous

'cause I rock heavy

It don't worry me if motherfuckers don't get it

Yo if rap gets jealous

'cause of where I'm headed

I used to be public enemy, don't forget it

And if rap gets jealous, 'cause rock heavy

It don't worry me if motherfuckers don't get it

Yo if rap gets jealous

'cause of where I'm headed

Aggression! Obsession! With pain! Live a game!

[Verse 2:]

So yeah

Basically I gotta realease, occasionaly

I gotta let you know what's goin' on with me

And facing me, 'are some tough choices

I got a good side and bad side, inside my head

I hear screams and loud voices

And I can't lie I ain't got shit, I ain't got to brag,

I'm hard pressed for some cash to send to my I'll dad

You're so superficial?, of course it's for shizzle?

Now my choice is to piss on you, boy

'Cause my mission is the world

To know, my name, my aim, is plainly success

But I still gotta come fresh!

So how could rap quench my thirst? !

I don't even hear verses no more!

I hear jerkin' off punks with lip glosses and purses!

I don't see nobody operating shit anymore I see nurses!

Fuck that! I'm gonna stay alive! I'd rather do a stage dive!

[Chorus]

That's what it is, it's pain, you know what I'm saying?

I don't know man it's like

You spend years developing your artistry

Know what I'm sayin'? Perfecting your skills

Yeah, you can't do shit with it,

That has gotta be Fucked up!, know what I'm sayin'?

That's gotta be Fucked up, you know

Just imagine like, imagine you build a Fuckin' castle

And you can't live in it, That's what it is

You can't live it, you know

And you got problems, you got family

I got family, moment of truth right?

And I still gotta come fresh!

So how could rap quench my thirst? !

I don't even hear verses no more!

I hear jerkin' off punks with lip glosses and purses!

I don't see nobody operating shit anymore I see nurses!

Fuck that! I'm gonna stay alive! I'd rather do a stage dive!

[Chorus x2]

And if rap gets jealous, 'cause rock heavy

It don't worry me if motherfuckers don't get it

Yo if rap gets jealous

'cause of where I'm headed

Aggression! Obsession! With pain! Live a game!

The Dusty Foot Philosopher lyrics - K'naan

[Intro]

Yo, just imagine, like whistling down a desert or some shit

Don't this make you wanna swing like monkeys outta trees?

[Verse 1]

I don't got no parameters,

This amateur's famous,

All you fame getters,

Hate caterers,

Our main names are date of births,

On a later verse,

Make a nigger play reverse (move backwards),

Marching with some soldiers here,

We coming over there,

The kind of niggers soldiers fear,

You just gotta stare,

You ain't got no option (no),

Please relax son,

I'm taking over like drug dealer cars to auctions,

Oh these are hungry men,

These are angry men,

Heard you got a lot of guts,

They'll call your bluff,

Your shit is laughable,

Why you rapping oh,

Why don't you just wrap sandwiches to earn a capital?

And have the shit that you spit,

And even have sick,

If you was doing my physical you couldn't have my shit,

Back to my verse flow,

I don't get shit yo,

My skills so bright when I spit my lips glow,

[Chorus]

The dusty foot philosopher

Ripping up kilometers

Winking at you officers da dum da dum da dum

The dusty foot philosopher

Sicking up the monitor

Waking up the auditors da dum da dum da dum

[Verse 2]

And I've seen war and some,

Survived the slaughter son,

Kids play cops and robbers and not with the water guns,

So yeah yeah picture me,

And big brotherly,

Walking through the fire,

We came to claim our victory,

And I roll with a harder pen,

I might start a trend,

Beat down a wack MC cause you know there's a lot of them,

Wait till my shit crashes,

Rip asses,

Women who give me neck suffer from whiplashes,

I frighten the masses,

Cause I'm that nasty,

I heard to get a deal you had to give lap dances,

This shit is serious,

Sincere it is,

The people wanted something real,

Well yo here it is,

My rhymes push records back like a belly button dirty rutting,

I got stiff neck steady nothing it aint nothing,

I got the track laid like I'm fucking,

The only balls you got is made outta cotton,

[Chorus x2]

The dusty foot philosopher

Ripping up kilometers

Winking at you officers da dum da dum da dum

The dusty foot philosopher

Sicking up the monitor

Waking up the auditors da dum da dum da dum

[Verse 3]

This is what you waited for,

Glad you stayed the chorus,

Cause a lot of rappers is getting treated like lady whores,

And I don't like Babylon,

I don't like your song,

I don't like hearing that fake accent from Dylon,

The industry commentator,

Fuck it I'm a hater,

My mind is like your life straight up cause it's made up,

I'm strolling like babies with big gas ladies (yeah),

That rock more fellahs than ten thousand daisies,

Harder than harbour and Bin Laden inside the bottom compound with Donald Rumsfield and Bush blood,

Moving along like people who don't want it,

Even if I had jewels I'd be the type who don't run it,

They call me dusty cause my feet have been through a lot,

The wisdom of my survival that's just due to a lot,

So I'm not gonna sit here and whine like crushed grapes,

My mind leaves you speechless like duct tape,

[Chorus x2]

The dusty foot philosopher

Ripping up kilometers

Winking at you officers da dum da dum da dum

The dusty foot philosopher

Sicking up the monitor

Waking up the auditors da dum da dum da dum

Strugglin' lyrics - K'naan

[Verse 1:]

I start out just to vibe out I ain't about to bow out. I'm more gangsta then u r but I ain't about to row out. My season will come it has to, honestly I feel like I'm 10 months pregnant, I'm past due. Sencierly, untouchy these days I can't take nuttin. I'm tryin to treat my record like the Lord shit I'm tryin to brake somthin'. N mostly I'm up n stressin when other folks sleep n believe I know struggle n struggle knows me. My life owes me like an oven dose I'm slowly driftin to the arms of trouble n trouble holds me n nothin else is close to me more than pain unfortunatly, like a self-fulfillin prophecy I'm supposed to be...

[Chorus: x2]

I'm strugglin n it's troublin in the circumstance I'm dwellin in to find myslef in the corner huddlin with some angry men n I gotta settle shit again before they gotta kill again

[Verse 2:]

I should be chillin on beaches instead my bone freezes duckin glocks n Iwas n 12s like Jesus The realest thing to me is since I was defeatedis the only break I ever got was at recess so legitematly I remain very little releaved n that thug rappas I remain very little entriged n can u blame me with how we lived in the late 80's throwin rocks at the crazy ladies n when we played these crazy games the whole crew had crazy names we even had a crypper we called him lazy legs but my faith remains untouched n unchanged still in my block you hear more shots then a gun range

[Chorus x2]

[Verse 3:]

More to the truth no writin just me recordin in the booth forced by the loop n the guitar but I'm the boss of the group I speak truth deep roots remain equal danger the pain in my song is crazy but the sequal is stranger

Hey man I'm from the oddest hardest progress then departed I'm now known as a recordin artist spittin what little remains of your memories in your process bigger or little making your name into a colossus believe me I'm thankful my brothers still with me n ain't much changed Bobbys still troublin with me I'm? still mom n pory but we always dently I got a little recordin gig but evidentally

[Chorus x2]

In The Beginning lyrics - K'naan

YOW!

So -

In the beginning there was hum

From a poet whose pulse felt

DRUM DRUM DRUM!

He would perform prayers and all

Till one day he heard a voice call

COME COME COME!

Just because he moved it was his cost

Just because he thinks he was a little lost.

People get held back

By the voice inside 'em.

Yo -

The voice said a voice speak inside you,

Rejoice and please let me invite you.

To evil greed and lies too.

Yeah

Confusing days he moved in ways it soon became hakuna

Koon Koon Koon.

And knock on his door the lord is no more

And knock on his door his soul is no more

La la la la la la la la... yeah

La la la la la la la la... that was in the beginning

La la la la la la la la... as the story goes on

La la la la la la la la...

So, so so-

The poets got a proposal

He would always hope but never know

What it feels to be free.

He would be the frozen imposed as the toes on all of the posin'

But it would be greed.

That's got him there

He's bound, hungry and, proud too.

People don't care, people just scared,

People don't care, people just prayer.

La la la la la la la la... yeah

La la la la la la la la... that was in the beginning

La la la la la la la la... there was a hum

La la la la la la la la... and things changed

La la la la la la la la... yeah, yeah

Say-

It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark

In the eyes of the youth there are question marks

Like freedom, freedom for the mind and soul

We don't see em,

See them for their worth at all.

That's why we lead em

Lead em to these wars and what is it we feed em

Feed em our impurities and who it is we treat em

Treat em like the enemy humanity will need em

Need em like the blood we spill and where freedom

Freedom for the hearts we fill

Mislead em

They hunger for the love we give but we cheat em

The guys beat em and all he wants is his feedom em

So they defeat em

Whatever spirit he's got

Beat em

And they teach em the rest of the world don't need him

And he believes it's a disease that he's heathen

Put up your fists if all you want is freedom

Put up your fists if all you want is

La la la la la la la la... that was in the beginning

La la la la la la la la... and things change

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We keep holding on,

And we keep being strong,

And we keep going on,

And on and on and on.

[x3]

{And we keep holding on,

And we keep being strong,

And we keep going on,

And on and on and on.}

Hoobaale lyrics - K'naan

Nee kaatru, naan maram, yenna sonnaalum thalayaattuven

Nee mazhai, naan bhoomi enge vizhunthaalum enthikkolven

Nee iravu, naan vinmeen, nee irukkum vare thaan naan iruppen

Nee alai naan karai enne adithaalum ettrukolven

Nee udal naan nizhal nee vizhavendaam naan vizhuven

Nee kilai naan ilai unnai ottum varaikkum thaan uyirthiruppen

Nee vizhi naan imai unnai serum varaikkum naan thudithiruppen

Nee swaasam naan dheham naan unnai mattum uyirthoda anumathippen

Nee vaanam naan neelam unnil naanai kalanthiruppen

Nee ennam naan vaarthai nee sollum pozhuthe velippaduven

Nee veyil naan kuyil un varugai paarthu thaan naan isaippen

Nee udai naan idai unnai urangum pozhuthum naan uduthiruppen

Nee pagal naan oli endrum unnai mattum saarndhe naan iruppen

The African Way lyrics - K'naan (feat. Mwafrika)

[Verse 1]

I take it home

I take [?]

Don't think about it, just take it from my rule, it's done

I am sick about it

I feel like I am surviving alone

I got a record and I am not afraid of cops at all

I am like a Ja-Rule poster, cuz I am off the wall

Yo, basically the revolution is here

K'Naan and Mwafrika, there's no solution and fair

Yeap, I'm taking it back like clothes that don't fit

That you purchased in a happy-make-home and old shit

I'm so sick my rhyme book throws a fit

I need a vaccination just so I can spit my own shit

Hard to be, when I release these rhymes out of me

I am so ridiculous, I got to compose this

I am sorta a reporter strapped to a little recorder

The warder having a order not to let me in, in order

For me not to cause a slaughter

Lyrically, I am flowing water

Take it easy on me suckers

Harrass more niggas then a sleazy undercover

But seriously, I remember when I was 7

When rap came mysteriously and made me feel 11

It understood me, and made my ghetto heaven

I understood it as the new poor people's weapon

But now it tap ass like a chick with one butt cheek

Dusty foot philosopher came to change things, trust me

From Ethiopia, Tanzania, Somalia

Heathrow airport and customs in Laguardia

Uganda, Kenya, my people, up in Ghana

Kingston, Jamaica, big up, because you know it's time for the African way

[Chorus]

It's the African way [5x]

What more can I say

It's the African way [5x]

Live from Revolution radio, welcome East Africa's illest Mwafrika

[Mwafrika Rap Verse]

Na watu wameng’ara ma mini na nini

Kushinda wakizifuruta chini na chini

Utashindwa maana yao kuzivaa ni nini

Vumbi wakati wa jua matope wakati wa mvua

Potholes huwa ni lazima kawaida kwa njia

Nairobi city mji wa Mathree fiti fiti

Boardi zimejazwa graffiti

Ndani speaker biggi biggie za kulipua hiyo muziki

Na AK47 ndio utacheki kwa mikono ya polisi

Wala kutafoutisha na wezi si kitu rahisi

Wote wanataka pesa yako

Na ukikataa wataichukua toka kwa mfuko wako

Bling bling nazo huwanga kwa mashing za ma MC

Na hata nazo kushine kwa MIC bado hawawezi

Na ikiwa sauti yangu yangu ikiwa unlimited kwa vichwa zao empty

Nikiwaambia hata waking’ara NiKE kwa usahihishi wa lyriksi hawataona hiyo tiki

Mwafrika na K’naan Canada to Kenya

Hatubabaiki

Cuz we doin' it like

[Repeat Chorus]

Mwafrika na K'Naan

Canada to Kenya

[Verse 2]

I got a plan to reclaim all of my fam

I got brothers in Japan now that order my damn

I got record-propelled spit more [?]

I heard hip hop started with (sorta death scam)

A lot of people is ignorant and don't understand

They separate it and they celebrate it (part of the plan)

I got my people consider [?]

I break a needle in pieces and eat them like reeses

Y'all are just cheesing

Y'all are hate

Y'all are just teasing

Y'all don't believe in the African (y'all just sleeping)

I am sick and tired

I am on a riot

I'm [?]

Rap it, like a lion [?] (taste me)

I am so ridiculous, can you believe how vivid this shit is

Got theories like conspiracists, this shit is sick

A lyricist before I even spoke a word of English

I'm serious

I got it locked and y'all are just visitors

Just get busy

And snap your neck back and forth till you get busy

And tell your mother, tell your brother and tell your Aunt Lizzy

And you know you got to know some things before you get with me

Just break it down

Before I was born, I knew I was the shit

I used to kick so much, I was born with a broken hip

I had a twin brother, I used to battle day in

But I was so sick, the little nigga stayed in

I knew the doctor was shocked when I was first dropped

Cuz I had a gold chain, a fade and a high tie

Be buoyant, rocking around, ego destroying

I won't chill, till I hear the people enjoying

[Repeat Chorus till fade]

Voices In My Head lyrics - K'naan

Eh yo, welcome to my world, please listen

HEY!

[Chorus:]

Poison in my veins, inside I'm torturing my brains,

And still I try, aiaiai

Voices in my head, am I alive or am I dead,

Alone I cry, aiaiaiai

[Verse 1:]

The shit that I'm in and the pain, I'm literally going insane

I'm frightened, my heart and my head have been fightin

I'm certain that it's hurtin the rest of my body

Them voices as loud as manhattan come chattin,

They say? and you kno you better than al of these replicates screamin they represent

C'mon man c'mon man

And the people inside me say they wanna see me go on tragically

And it's evil, cause I'm only 20 something working for a crumbs n some bread

[Chorus]

[Verse 2:]

The harder the struggle the deeper the trouble,

Come out of the bubble, I'll teach you to cuddle,

With demons inside me, what demon is not me,

These demons inside me they got me, they stop me from feedin,

And eatin and keepin it even, and even my reason for breathin this season,

Sleetin in a danger, my nose when I'm readin, it's bleedin on paper,

It's bleedin on paper,

And I'm tired of this violence, so tortured inside?, akward and overly open inside, have I already died,

Has mom already cried? And why do I feel like I'm over this life,

I'm not hateful, I'm grateful, my girlfriend is tasteful, livin it up,

I might even blow, like a leak in a truck, with a torch and a clutch,

And explosion that leaves a whole? of dust, and the people,

Inside me saying, they wanna see me go tragically,

And it's evil, cause I'm only twenty something, working for some crumbs and some bread

[Chorus]

[Verse 2:]

I'm still awake, and it's quarter to six,

I'm trying to write and I ain't thought of no shhh,

I live with guilt like I slaughtered the sick,

I live with shame, like my daughter a bitch,

I don't make living but I still persist, I could sell out but I still resist,

So don't tell me about no pain and shit,

I was born and raised in poverty bitch,

And I smile all the while and don't complain,

I'm something like gail scott heroine,

Do you know what it feels like to lose a friend, again and again and again, again

The bitterness in the killer the poet, the river of blood within the mess flowin,

I'm the bitterness in the killer the poet, the river, the blood will keep on flowin,

People inside me say, the wanna see me go on tragically,

And it's evil, it's evil, cause I'm only twenty something years old working for a crumb or some bread or nothin

[Chorus: until end]

Boxing My Shadow lyrics - K'naan

[Verse 1:]

It's like writing to the dead, dear people, I don't know if you'll hear my last plea,

But somebody needs to be a little concerned about me, it's like I'm standing on the edge of a high tower by kanie,

Ya'll are rootin me to jump, nobody stoppin me,

It's like a drug filled rock n roll documentary,

Just wait till the world knows what's inside of me,

Cause you ll be sorry when I'm gone, and I'll be gone so very soon,

If the pressure on my diaphragm keeps resisting,

If the feds keep my brothers stompin up and down prisons,

If you can't understand my offerings and deep mission,

No label is willing to see my unique vision,

If metro housing keep threatning my poor mother with eviction,

You'll be sorry, (you'll be sorry),

You'll be sorry if I stay so poor I can't afford my own medicine to cure my ulcer,

And get vexed at every rich person that walks passed, that won't blast, just yet I don't even have enough gas to pass the exit, so don't laugh, (don't laugh) I think a smile is a charity, but fuck don't laught my anger, (resulted) from pressure, (exhaustion) my boys be (orphans), my voices, (is all bent), I'm tired (I'm coughing) my daddies, (divorcin), my momma (is hopin), my eyes be (so open), for chances, (I'm walkin), I'm walkin an

Talkin and boxing my shadow.

[Chorus: x3]

I hate you!, I hate this

I hate food, I won't eat,

In case you, Offend me

I wait you, so don't sleep

[Verse 2:]

It's like the possibility of making it in the industry is just around the corner now,

It's just about your ability, but see it's like an enigma,

An insomniac singer, a dream a figment of your imagination it seems,

Itll never be succesful, please protect your neck before they squeeze,

I'm your biggest hater you suck, and even if you don't,

You know your luck you'll probably get runover by a truck before your first label meeting,

Meeting is the issue you prick, yo yo you really make me sick, no no you make me sick,

I can't stand this argument, see this is what happens when my mind starts to dwell

And my strenght starts to fail,

And I get an anxiety (resulted) in panic attacks (exhaustion)

I might as well look for (a fence), my health is (dissolving)

I am tired (I'm coughing) my wife is (divorcing), my girlfriend, (is open)

Cause I gotta so (open) over these niggas, (walkin) I'm walkin and talking,

And boxing my shadows.

[Chorus x3]

[Verse 3:]

And now I sing about the poor, and I sing about the war,

And how can I not represent, when I'm the most critically acclaimed,

Put most emcees to a lyrical shame, get some um fame,

Express my pain and still keep this shit raw, how can one person be so poor,

Look at it, your better off, (without me), I mean even I (doubt me),

My own dreams, (mock me) the snicker and talk, (about me),

They want me to suffer, [? ], take my life around me, (rob me),

They got me boxing my own shadow!

[Chorus x3]

For Mohamoud (Soviet) lyrics - K'naan

You know my closest friend got killed

And the way I used to see him

He was like the dusty foot philosopher

It means the one that's poor

Lives in poverty but lives in a dignified manner

And philosophizes about the universe

They talk about - they talk about

Things that well-read people do and they've never read

They've never been on a plane but they can tell you

What's beyond the clouds

And that's who the dusty foot philosopher is

Until The Lion Learns To Speak lyrics - K'naan

[Verse 1:]

Until the lion learns to speak

The tales of hunting will be weak

My poetry hales with in the streets

My poetry fails to be discrete

It travels across the earth and seas

From Eritrea to the West Indies

It knows no boundaries

No cheese

It studied in parts of Greece

(runtaa hadii kale waxaan lahaa aaheey)

I am sick as far as lyrics

And with this far as gimmicks

I spit par age and limit

The shit they talk in rapid

I am hip the hop as living

I skip the obvious woman

Don't get what I am presenting

No rims my mind spinning

(runtaa hadii kale waxaan lahaa aaheey)

[Verse 2:]

I was born and raised in a place

Where torn of flame would place

Where the foreigners not embrace

Where they warn you jog and pace

Where loners low what they gaze

Where the corners slow at a chase

Where they tarts and turn in the maze

With the pistol upon your face

(runtaa hadii kale waxaan lahaa aaheey)

So come with me to my longs

The death and deal we run

With passion see how I come

No cash I am free in the slums

The past can we overcome

I am asking we be the ones

To actually be the ones

To free our people from gun

(hadii kale waxaan lahaa aaheey)

[Verse 3:]

I was born and raised in a place

Where torn of flame would place

Where the foreigners not embrace

Where they warn you jog and pace

Where loners low what they gaze

Where the corners slow at a chase

Where they tarts and turn in the maze

With the pistol upon your face

(runtaa hadii kale waxaan lahaa aaheey)

So come with me to my longs

The death and deal we run

With passion see how I come

No cash I am free in the slums

The past can we overcome

I am asking we be the ones

To free our people from gun

(hadii kale waxaan lahaa aaheey)

[Verse 4:]

Until the lion learns to speak

The tales of hunting will be weak

My poetry hales with in the streets

My poetry fails to be discrete

It travels across the earth and seas

From Somalia to the West Indies

It knows no boundaries

No cheese

It studied in parts of Greece

(Hadii kale waxaan lahaa aheey)

Say I am sick as far as lyrics

And with this far as gimmicks

I spit par age and limit

The shit they talk in rapid

I am hip the hop as living

I skip the obvious woman

Don't get what I am presenting

No rims my mind spinning

(runtaa hadii kale waxaan lahaa aaheey)

Blues For The Horn lyrics - K'naan

In a conservative form

I wanna ask you a few things before I conform

To the popular belief about where I was born

Are they still illin', still killin' poppin' the corn?

How's the horn, how's the love wavin' the ocean morn'?

How 'bout the young, do they still possess the poetry tongue?

And do they still greet sincere like the depth of the lung"

How's the nomad, did the herd graze well this year?

From the news to what I know, the growin' gap ain't clear!

How's the earth, how 'bout the stars under we conversed?

Do you still await on change like a new moon's birth?

Does it still flood ancient wisdom parallel with blood?

Do you still see the pain of vision holy/only scriptkeeper?

Or did you fight off the plight of the colonized mind?

What of the rainy season, do the kids still bury seeds?

And get taken with uncertainty like me scared of leavin? '

How are the poets, the women and the orphans torn?

I miss 'em all like, old opportunities gone

What of the elders, story tellers in abandoned homes

Miss 'em all like, childhood, reminisce with songs

Disputes, do they still settle 'em by bloodying shoes?

Fist rules, rather finger equipped with sick tools

What of the wind, I recall it was serenity's end

When the breeze would come and the trees would bend

And the people would say "look what it leads with sin"

And the air was violent and our care was silent

And the only law we bore was of pair of tyrants

Man you know, this is why I'm down in deep indigo

And I sleep really poor, on the circumstance floor

Anyway, how's stress, does it still rule your chest?

Do the camps still rape girls with no breasts?

Our moms, are they still screaming "put away the arms"?

And against the dispossession of their family-owned farms

How are the many rivers and the lakes and the seas?

Are they still angry with us for our poisonous deeds?

And the lakes and the seas

For our poisonous deeds

This is my blues for the horn, for the horn

So who's dead and who's alive, did the rates multiply?

Did the poor fight the drought with their minimum supply?

Did the warlords abort the wars and for supporting the peace, they force

To promote disease and easening 'creased divorce?

What of police and courts, are they still even in force?

Leaking pores and cheatedly to the bleeding corpse

What of the kind and good, can they still, laugh intensely

Like the, mind and word or is it, innocense lost as I understood

And what of the playwrights, reflection in the scapes of great sights

Revolution from power's the writings of brave fights

Despite the luxury that you hear(d) we live by

I head with refuges and niggers ain't share right, and

Don't you play soccer by the ocean front?

In America, I shovel the snow while I'm smoking blunts

You mean to tell me that you out there still totin' guns?

Bloating sons of the hardened, hardly copin' moms

Damn you and circumstance too I can't stand you

You make a mockery of our struggle like hollywood plans do

And I swear to god I wish you hell, burn and bake too

And I curse the Europeans who instigated you worse

And I curse the Russians who impregnated the kalashnikov birth

And hurts you never wake and see the destiny

It's like the conflict of self, submerged in satanic hate

Remember eatin' food, walking back in hot sun from school

Bare feet, the hot sand, massaging our feet is

Cause now my mother slips on the ice and her back is weak

And I feel like a failure, a mute in the age of speech

Look at me, yo! look at me, look dead in the eyes

Don't flinch, you are an accomplice to great white lies

I can't even begin to express how breakdown and stressed

I gotta live to tell, give me a bullet-proof vest

This is my blues for the horn, for the horn

Til We Get There lyrics - K'naan (feat. M-1, Stori James)

[K'Naan:]

Here we go

From the poorest and blackest of people

To surviving the streets of Mogadishu

The most dangerous armed and lethal

Yet peaceful, we know evil

I come from the slums that's run down

Spit native intelligent tongue sounds

Would rather get gunned down than dumbed down

So calm down

[M1:]

Much success to you comrade

To who I wronged, if it's never been said before, my bad

I took a page from the book of Martin Luther

And decided that it's better to hug you than to shoot you

I'm sorry homie if it's not what you're used to

But the way that we living' these black lives is beautiful

All the things we've been through

And the tree we done blew

We probably family but we never knew

[Stori James:]

'Til we get there, I'm on your side

And it can take some time, 'til we win this fight

'Til we get there, I'm on your side

[M1:]

That's what's called solidarity

When we struggle it's therapy

After chaos we get clarity

My enemy's enemy is my man, remember?

I ain't trying' to be ending up in this man's dilemma

We only here for a minute, it's what you make it so live it

See I'm a rider and I'm going to be remembered

For those of you not born, to those of you not here

I wish you the best, and that's real

[K'Naan:]

This ain't your average

When they portray us they say "us savage"

Cause we have it, blast it, won't stash it

Cause we fight to the death and manage

To makes songs of struggle and to habits

And dammit, if I don't get even

It's chant down Babylon season

Die for New Orleans to Cleveland

'Til we even, we not believing

[Stori James:]

'Til we get there, I'm on your side

And it can take some time, 'til we win this fight

'Til we get there, I'm on your side

[M1:]

I love when we making plays

I love all our brilliant ways

I love when we get paid, and never move away from the hood

We keep getting while the getting is good

You right at home in our neck of the woods

Cause we people

Momma said treat others like you want them to treat you

We just want to live and be peaceful

Long as it makes sense, I'mma have patience

Especially with my brothers I go back in the day with

We speak the same language, suffer the same dangers

Cause our children are victims of lead paint chips

Out in L.A. they put the Black against the Mexicans

Old rivalries is throwing up their sets again

They put the short against the tall and the old verse the new

Pretty soon it's going to be me against you

All the things we been through

And the tree that we blew

I wish you much success, and stay true

[Stori James:]

'Til we get there, I'm on your side

And it can take some time, 'til we win this fight

'Til we get there, I'm on your side

[x4]

K'naan other songs:

Immigrants (We Get The Job Done) lyrics - K'naan (feat. Residente, Riz MC & Snow Tha Product)

(from "The Hamilton Mixtape")

["Yorktown" sample:]

[Hercules Mulligan:]

And just like that it's over, we tend to our wounded, we count our dead

[John Laurens:]

Black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means freedom…

[George Washington:]

Not yet

[K'Naan:]

I got 1 job, 2 jobs, 3 when I need them

I got 5 roommates in this one studio but I never really see them

And we all came America trying to get a lap dance from lady freedom

But now lady liberty is acting like Hillary Banks with a pre-nup (Banks with a pre-nup)

Man I was brave sailing on graves

Don't think I didn't notice those tombstones disguised as waves

I'm no dummy, here is something funny you can be an immigrant without risking your lives

Or crossing these borders with thrifty supplies

All you got to do is see the world with new eyes

[Chorus:]

Immigrants

We get the job done

Look how far I come

We get the job done

Look how far I come

Immigrants

We get the job done

[Snow Tha Product:]

It's a hard line

When you're an import

Baby boy it's hard times

When you ain't sent for

Racist feed the belly of the beast

With they pitchforks, rich chores

Done by the people that get ignored

Ya se armó

Ya se despertaron

It's a whole awakening

La alarma ya sonó hace rato

Los que quieren buscan

Pero nos apodan como vagos

We are the same ones

Hustling on every level

Ten los datos

Walk a mile in our shoes

Abrochenze los zapatos

I been scoping ya dudes

Ya'll ain't been working like I do

I'll outwork you, it hurts you

You claim I'm stealing jobs though

Peter Piper claimed he picked them he just underpaid Pablo

But there ain't a paper trail when you living in the shadows

We're Americas ghost writers the credit is only borrowed

It's a matter of time before the checks all come

But…

[Chorus:]

Immigrants

We get the job done

Look how far I come

We get the job done

Look how far I come

Immigrants

We get the job done

Not yet

[Snow Tha Product:]

The credit is only borrowed

It's Americas ghost writers the credit is only borrowed

It's Americas ghost writers

It's Americas ghost writers the credit is only borrowed

It's...

[Part Chorus:]

Immigrants

We get the job done

[Riz MC:]

Ay yo aye immigrants we don't like that

Na they don't play British empire strikes back

They beating us like 808's and high hats

At our own game of invasion, but this ain't Iraq

Who these fugees, what did they do for me

But contribute new dreams

Taxes and tools swagger and food to eat

Cool, they flee war zones, but the problem ain't ours

Even if our bombs landed on them like the Mayflower

Buckingham Palace or Capitol Hill

Blood of my ancestors had that all built

With the ink you print on your dollar bill, oil you spill

Thin red lines on the flag you hoist when you kill

But still we just say "look how far I come"

Hindustan, Pakistan, to London

To a galaxy far from their ignorance

Cause immigrants, we get the job done

[Residente:]

Por tierra o por agua

Identidad falsa

Brincamos muros o flotamos en balsas

La peleamos como Sandino en Nicaragua

Somos como las plantas que crecen sin agua

Sin pasaporte americano

Porque la mitad de gringolandia es terreno mexicano

Hay que ser bien hijo de puta

Nosotros les sembramos el árbol y ellos se comen la fruta

Somos los que cruzaron

Aquí vinimos a buscar el oro que nos robaron

Tenemos mas trucos que la policía secreta

Metimos la casa completa en una maleta

Con un pico, una pala

Y un rastrillo

Te construimos un castillo

Como es que dice el coro cabrón?

[Chorus:]

Immigrants

We get the job done

Look how far I come

We get the job done

Look how far I come

Immigrants

We get the job done

Look how far I come

Immigrants

We get the job done

Not yet

Refugee lyrics - K'naan

If I was gonna be free, I'd have to change my name

Mama don't feel shame, somebody call me refugee

My old name was all wrong, I've waited for so long

To decide my destiny, somebody call me refugee

Somebody call me refugee

I am

And I walked a long way

I am

But I was not at all alone

I am

Whole city gone astray

I am

Every suitcase held a home

Somebody call me refugee

And I'll wear it proudly, refugee

I am

There's a weight inside my shoe

I am

Built a nest for those I grieve

I am

And no matter what I do

I am

They will always walk with me

Somebody call me refugee

And I'll wear it proudly, refugee

I am

Take me

I am

Make me, take me

I am

Make me, take me

I am

Make me, take me

I am

Make me, take me

I am

Somebody call me refugee

And I'll wear it proudly, refugee

I am

And I'll wear it proudly, refugee

Sunny Days lyrics - K'naan

[Verse 1:]

Pour me a cup of tea like dat old song

Dat I had like dat old girl I was wrong

And it's sad if I spit I will cuss you

Is that bad cause I really did trus you

If the thought ever surfaced to leave you

I would die cause the purpose would be you

You've changed for the world look how you are

You front grillin me from a dudes car

How sudden let me see you got a tongue ring

How funny we forget about the little things

Say word now you hang out with big girls

And the guys you date these days differn

I hear the stories and it makes me sicker

My heart aches you fake like a picture

So close to reality but not quite

So dope man her body was so right

She was a highschool shit how would I've known

That her thoughts would conflict like the bible

I don't offend I pretend ike I'm laughin

Like we connect like some shit could really happen

And it did we made a move for this long thing

I met the parents and gave her the round ring

And all of a sudden she got a license to nag me

What the fuck I'm jus tyring to make you happy

[Chorus:]

(Sunny days)

-nope don't have em no more

-watchu on the phone for

-don't cal lme no more

(Sunny days)

Naw so don't agonize me

-I can't stand the stress

-see I'm alright without you

(Sunny days)

-see I'm far from your reach now

-your body doesnt tempt me... maybe jus a lil

(Sunny days)

-yea on the real

-like welfare checks

-you and I are through... through... through

[Verse 2:]

Alright I'm vexed

Aite look I'm tired and stress

Don't commend me like that cool it

I'll be back watch dr phill or somtin

You a lil to excited it's not your birthday

You might as well be a rapper talkin all that shit

What the... you throwin things aite that's it

You goin fix it I'm not gona scream

Not on some bitch shit, nothing but chill

I'm not callin you a bitch jus a figure of speaech

What's all these I hates yous

You sound like kellis, love look

You'r piercing me with this fierce scream

Seriously my ears feel like they bleeding tears

And hears the head scarf you left in my domain

And hears teh photos of our memory lain

[Bridge:]

And hears teh photos of our memory lain and there's

(nothin for you around here)

You crossed over the other side of the tracks so there's

(nothing for you around here)

I used to bet on you

But now the bets off and you know I got roots

There for my ex love

A brother like me deserves the best of

And your not some...

[Chorus]

(Sunny days)

-nope don't have em no more

-watchu on the phone for

-don't cal lme no more

(Sunny days)

Naw so don't agonize me

-I can't stand the stress

-see I'm alright without you

(Sunny days)

-see I'm far from your reach now

-your body doesnt tempt me... maybe jus a lil

(Sunny days)

-yea on the real

-like welfare checks

-you and I are through... through... through

Nothing for you around here

(nothing for you around here)

-nope don't have em no more

-watchu on the phone for

-don't cal lme no more

(Sunny days)

Naw so don't agonize me

-I can't stand the stress

-see I'm alright without you

(nothing for you around here)

-see I'm far from your reach now

-your body doesnt tempt me... maybe jus a lil

(nothing for you around here)

-yea on the real

-like welfare checks

-you and I are through... through... through

(Sunny days)

... (Sunny days)

The Great Depression lyrics - K'naan (feat. Damon Albarn)

It's the great depression,

The greatest of the century,

People hot and thirsty,

But the water barrels empty,

There is no more to love about,

it's masculine and many,

And if you are hungry,

you'll join the fight eventually.

The market used to be the place for lovers and magicians,

Making fire with their hearts and hands to make decisions,

Now you find the baskers full of weiry inhibitions,

Once a year this happening, displayed on exhibition.

Now they need a candidate to take the fault of circumstance,

Trust and riddled then came and chose a man that flood an over [?]

Now his fate is sown in he had to call all relatives,

But he took his last appeal and claimed so he could take the chance,

So the constant love, the spirits told'em that he had to go,

No one dared to disagree cus' God said they were in the know,

So he kissed his boys goodbye, feeling deep as indigo,

Knowing he would have to prove his worth to all his friends and foes.

[Damon Albarn:]

Simple sounds, (songs[?])

Of repair,

That's enough,

For me,

And you,

It would take a million years before he found this little town,

And it was in Dappa found the locals called it middle ground,

So he took the journey back to share the fortune that he held,

Only then to find out the rain had drowned it when he left.

Wavin' Flag (The Celebration Mix) lyrics - K'naan

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh. [2x]

Give me 'Freedom',
Give me fire,
Give me reason,
Take me higher.

See the champions,
Take the field now,
Unify us,
Make us feel proud.

In the streets our heads are liftin'
As we lose our inhibition.
Celebration.
It surrounds us.
Every nation.
All around us.

Staying forever young,
Singin' songs underneath the sun.
Let's rejoice in the beautiful game.
And together at the end of the day
We all say,

When I get older,
I will be stronger.
They'll call me 'Freedom'.
Just like a wavin' flag.

When I get older,
I will be stronger.
They'll call me 'Freedom'.
Just like a wavin' flag.

So, wave your flag.
Now wave your flag.
Now wave your flag.

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh. [2x]

Give you 'Freedom',
Give you fire,
Give you reason,
Take you higher.

See the champions,
Take the field now,
Unify us,
Make us feel proud.

In the streets our heads are liftin'
As we lose our inhibition.
Celebration.
It surrounds us.
Every nation.
All around us.

Staying forever young,
Singin' songs underneath the sun.
Let's rejoice in the beautiful game.
And together at the end of the day,
We all say,

When I get older,
I will be stronger.
They'll call me 'Freedom'.
Just like a wavin' flag.

When I get older,
I will be stronger.
They'll call me 'Freedom'.
Just like a wavin' flag.

So, wave your flag.
Now wave your flag.
Now wave your flag. [repeat]

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh. [2x]

We all say,

When I get older,
I will be stronger.
They'll call me 'Freedom'.
Just like a wavin' flag.

When I get older,
I will be stronger.
They'll call me 'Freedom'.
Just like a wavin' flag.

So, wave your flag.
Now wave your flag.
Now wave your flag. [repeat]

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh.
And everybody will be singin' it.
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh.
And we all will be singin' it.

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