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- Mos Def - Modern Marvel Lyrics
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- MOS DEF LYRICS
- "Modern Marvel"
- This desire...
- [Mos Def Singing]
- I come home high and she start to cry
- I can't take it..
- A brand new excuse does me no use
- That won't make it..
- She at home with the kids, this is no way to live
- What can I say?
- I know it's surreal but I'm a hard headed still
- Do things my way..
- And it's so strong, soo strong
- It's like I'm dying..
- Trying to hold on, my body says oh no oh out there..
- Flying, the price that I pay for the game that I play
- Ain't no game at all..
- I'm up in the clouds and I'm spiraling down
- Nothing breaks the fall..
- And it's so strong, so strong
- It's like I'm dying..
- Try to hold on, my body says oh no oh out there
- Flying..
- Sounds of the sufferers pray
- I come home high and she start to cry
- I can't take it..
- A brand new excuse does me no use
- That won't make it..
- She at home with the kids, this is no way to live
- What can I say?
- I know it's surreal but I'm a hard headed still
- Black Dante and it's so strong..
- So strong..
- So strong..
- So strong...
- I'm out there flying..
- Flying..
- Flying..
- Flying...
- This game is fantastic..desire...
- [Mos Def Speaking]
- Killers..this life this life
- Lovers..this life this life
- Hustlers..this life this life
- Thieves..this life this life
- Gamblers..this life this life
- Niggaz..Crackers..Children..Mothers..Fathers..Lovers..Neighbors..Hungry..
- Full..the beautiful..the stars..the distance..the close..the stars..
- The heavens..this life
- The floor..this life this life
- The high..this life
- The beneath..this life this life
- All..all..everywhere..everywhere..anywhere..somewhere..home...
- Come on, this how it goes on..
- Ghetto people in the world today, get up!
- Ha! Look alive, breathe..wooh!
- Ha! How it goes...
- [Mos Def Rapping]
- Mother, mother...
- Head in her hands
- Her first born son dead in her hands
- The whole thing was a setup, a scam
- They knew it was set up and planned
- Niggaz he worked with wet him and ran, and thas..
- Brother, Brother...
- But son, I don't see no brother hood
- All I see is thugger hood
- Get rich and fuck the hood
- All they want is some good smoke from the hood
- Lookin for the shorty good stroke from the hood
- That's how they touch the hood
- But when I touch the hood, I'll make it brighter, black
- Because I'm brighter, black
- And I'm so black I'm bright, shine through the blackest night
- Shine when I'm live, shine via satellite
- Shout in the hood, we get the picture
- Cuz everytime you out in the hood, you got photographers witcha
- What's going on? Ha!
- Understand this is real life..
- This how it goes on, this how it goes on...
- It keep going on, this how it goes on...
- Ghetto people look alive, get free
- Get involved, remain to breathe...Ha! Wooh!
- If Marvin was alive now, wow..
- What would I say to him?
- Where could I start?
- How could I explain to him??
- I know the minor world would probably look strange to him
- Would he feel like today had a place for him?
- Global imprisonment, sickness, indifference
- When he said, "Save the babies," was we listenin?
- When he said, "Mercy, mercy," did he really know..
- That decades later we'd still be killin folks?
- Or did he hope that we would realize..
- That we the first, the son of earth..
- The moon and stars, the great beyond..
- We black and proud, we brave and strong..
- We raise it up, we quiet storm, forever fresh..
- And keepin on..?
- Ha! Ghetto people look alive and free, ya get real..
- This how it goes on, and you say you say
- This how it goes on, and you say you say
- This how it goes on..
- Ghetto people look alive and free and breathe! Ha!
- Hold the beat! Stop the beat! Drop the beat!
- Hold the beat! Stop the beat! Drop the beat!
- Hold the beat! Stop the beat! Drop the beat!
- Hold the beat! Stop the beat! Got the beat!
- There ain't nothin to be afraid of..
- Ghetto people look alive and free, ya get real...
- This how it goes on
- This how it goes on, keep goin on..
- This how it goes on
- Now breathe!
- Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous, Marvin Modern Marvel...
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