I’ve Got Life (Version) - Lauryn Hill
I ain't got no home ain't got no shoes
Ain't got no money ain't got no class
Ain't got no friends ain't got no schooling
Ain't got no hurt ain't got no job
Ain't got no money no place to stay
Ain't got no
Programmed inequity it's in the nervous system
Listen watch the words how they twist 'em
Two thirds of the world turned victim
Subtle energy they capture and block chi
The unseen violence behind the democracy
Some call it hypocrisy turn freeman into property
And logically justify not treatin em properly
Invisible ink in the constitution
Meant to preserve the institution unequal distribution
Of wealth goods and services
Revolvin' door no floor just anxiety and nervousness
Trapped in circuses
Herds of us not understandin' our purposes
When appetites and psychological types
Get caught in the hype it's tight from morning 'til night
I'm demanding my rights
Women's suffrage then black suffrage
Or jim crow the kkk
American terrorism
Murders and beatings on television
It's in the cells now you thought that was yesterday
But the compression stays trauma still got most afraid
Stuck in the memory fear gives birth to lethargy
Sure the races of children in jeopardy
History written in jealousy scribed full of heresy
Full of barbarians ch-ch-check out my melody
Musical therapy reprogram
Africa full of coal tan
Coltrane was a cold man
Black genius in a cold land tryna be the whole man
Heal the homeland
The pastime for our own land
Where a grown man can be a grown man
The system has benefits but robbery is robbery
You can't run from it god is a natural monopoly
Divine creator suckin' monotony
Bureaucracy psyche on poverty
Self-esteem broken like pottery
No more not me codename anomaly
Cause there's just no match for the prodigy
Sovereignty the god in me
Walking university living cosmology
Without apology
I've got life
I've got life
I've got lyrics and music
And mankind too like you you you you you
OK
The more you suppress life the stronger it gets
With death life the longer it gets
I know it s hard to admit
That you follow some bullshit
Swallow the wrong pill looking for mr bill
Repression oppression same thing same thing
Fear the shadow that s the main thing same thing
Where you keep running from
Every action yields an equal and opposite one
Yes that means the consequence comes
Feel so cumbersome back breaking labor
Can't be here just for the cummerbund
I was homecoming queen call me number one
Yea that's another one now give the drummer some
Tell every mother's son expression
can be far more powerful than a hundred guns
See my kalashnikov lyrics with the safety off
Now dance around these niggas like baryshnikov
Street sweeper my words are my keeper
It's in the ether
It's done let loose your tongue
Gifted black and young
Watch these devils run
They knew a change was gonna come
Sinner man looking for a place to run
Hella cute then tongues enemy reduced by one
2000 and 1000 flight
Speak truth to power every 24 hours
I've got life
Imperialism is a form of jihad
They killed and enslaved millions for gold bullion
in the name of god
The children of man called it spiritual famine
Can we examine how they stole bauxite rubber labor diamonds
and platinum
The building blocks of society
and economy broke humanity to build the colonies
Using reverse psychology to keep us from knowing our quality
No more human tragedy
no more mis-recognition no more addiction
Let s accurately diagnose our condition
Listen
400 years of the abuse and misuse of religion
Don t give me another person s prescription
I need what I need my deeds are my deeds
As a man thinketh so is he mezanmi
Take the land back every child woman and man back
Reevaluate history expeditiously
Can't live my life in apostasy
Emulate the apostrophe hang with s you can rock with me
I come in love and truth
Look at what I went through
Now it s time to acknowledge just what I give you life
There's a whole lotta wrong to be righted I get excited
I'm a kick this shit off like
I'm on Manchester united & my attention is undivided
So you can't divide and conquer me
I'm sitting comfortably in a SUV up
in my SUV taking artistic liberties
Making musical history
a lil' acupuncture structural integration
My meditation liberating a generation & beyond that
I'm taking the bomb back I'm splitting atoms for freedom
America needs more freed men able to talk right
Not prone to greed men it's just not what you need man
Let your words and deeds line up
master the mind young king man
Put your signs up intelligent designs up plant your seeds
Keep your dimes up cuz no man knows when the time's up
It's elemental like Solomon in the temple
Ark of the covenant accountable to a higher government
I'm looking for love in all the wrong places
Somebody tell me where them brothas went
Reclaim your wealth no more giving the enemy help
No sympathy for the devil let'em hang himself
Get all the billion black people off these bottles
Suffer while grown ppl get coddled you know the novel