Testo Distractions - Talib Kweli
Testo della canzone Distractions (Talib Kweli), tratta dall'album Train of Thought: Lost Lyrics, Rare Releases & Beautiful B-Sides, Vol. 1
Nowadays we be rocking glasses for fashion
And fuckin' with light refraction
Covered with Max Factor or hustling ass backwards
And sure as Hi-Tek look like Richie from Last Dragon
You're focused on bogus rappers got you caught up in distraction
Distraction, who fucking who, who cares, that's distraction
You wish it was you, don't you, why you asking?
Try to break the law of attraction
And get a piece of my attention, just a fraction of irrational
I'm reasonable in a morsel
I'll suck your blood if you believe in the immortals
We nocturnal like a sleeping disorder
See the water drawn away from the shore
This ain't no ordinary storm
We killin' for a humanitarian cause
But have yet to show up in Darfur
The Arab Spring is what it's called
But it's looking like the pride before the fall
They say it ain't about the spoils of war
But turn around I'll tell you how much more the oil will cost
Steal the land from the Native American
And call their missiles Tomahawk
Make 'em a mascot and dress up like it for sport
As a final insult to this beautiful culture
Scavengers feasting on the dead like a vulture
Snackin', how you keeping up with my rappin'?
You barely keeping up with Kardashians
You caught up in distraction
It's the living proof to try to make the truth elastic
It's Mr. Fantastic, I'm recycling these rappers
Cause truthfully these niggas is plastic
Coming through the front door blasting
I ain't talking about them emails that you always send to the masses
That somehow end up in my trash bin
My niggas got the aim of sharpshooters and the hearts of assassins
Art is war, art is life, art is passion
No time for distractions
Give a fuck if the President wear a flag
When my rhyming is deep as holes Chilean miners was trapped in
Or the cracks in the earth under Asia Minor causing disasters
My deep cuts way above your minor refractions
Talk to rappers like children cause that's how they act
And they hold their hands like minors in traffic
Captains of industry and the lovers of status quo
Have a deep-seated fear of change
For them it's strange, they want to go
Back to the 50s, they asking for a return
But the days is much blacker for lack of a better term
We adapted to the times with this culture we had to learn
Came about as natural as a perm on a pachyderm
You fascists have had your turn, we packin' them German burners
Them Lugers and neck shooters
Waiting for Superman to get nothing but Lex Luthor
America's nightmare is vivid as Fred Krueger
Our heroes are dead to us, the spirit that bled through us
Adhere us to the rhythm so the flow is so foolish
What you hearing is precision
The people are so thirsty what they seeing is mirages
But a passion for the shopping and your YouTube collages
Drop a fool like molasses exposing the false prophets
Taught how to do the knowledge so I'm never off topic
Allah is like a potion
First it gets you open then you swallow whole
Straight for the truth no chasers
Skip religion and the politics
Head straight for the compassion
Everything else is a distraction
It's one life to live, so live it the best you can
All this great stress that they call the Earth
Distraction
No time for sittin' and playin'
Every day, every day
All the time, all the time
I got better things to do than that
No time for sittin' and playin'
Cause you suckers lack focus
No time for sittin' and playin'
It became a distraction
Every day, every day
I got better things to do than that
No time for sittin' and playin'
Insane world, I must maintain
No time for sittin' and playin'
It became a distraction
Every day, every day
I got better things to do than that
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Writer(s): Michael Joe Jackson, Talib Kweli
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