Testo Listen (Album Version - Styles
Testo della canzone Listen (Album Version (Styles), tratta dall'album A Gangster And A Gentleman
I got a few things I wanna ask the Lord
Why my people got to be so poor? Feel me
And why's it so rough when you're young and black?
They say you go to jail or get strung on crack
Why that girl have a baby, she was twelve years old?
Ask the state why the cells got to be so cold
And why these niggas hit with so many years?
Whole family in court crying so many tears
Can you picture us living with hope?
When the same ones hanging us is giving us dope
Shit, it's hard to get by
I pray to God it's still hard to get by
I just wanna hold my son
But I can't leave my house until I load my gun
I got to grab my sword
And when I die I got some things I wanna ask the Lord
Like, why we dying from AIDS?
And why on TV it's aight to be gay?
Ain't that sorta like my gun got a right to be waved
If I can sit back and watch a whole cypher of slaves?
Ask my man where the bless at
Ask myself where the next Malcolm X at
Is he making salad or upstate like an ape in a box?
Am I a human or a fallen angel?
Got to pray by myself 'cause I'm at an angle
I ain't facing the East
Tell the brothers I was shaking the beast
Had the nine and the eight in the streets
Open your eyes, stay wise 'cause even Satan is deep
I pray for a better living
Even though I think I'm better dying, why?
'Cause I'd rather hear the angels singing
And I don't wanna hear my people crying
Feel me, black
We ain't got to die no more
I said we ain't got to die no more
Black woman listen
You ain't got to cry no more
I said you ain't got to cry no more
Black child listen
We got to provide for y'all
I said we got to provide for y'all
Devil man listen
We got a surprise for y'all
I said we got a surprise for y'all
Black man listen
Got to be on some clever shit
I got to think if the president is prejudiced
Then that's another eight years down
The five hundred year war and that's an eight year round
I don't really mean to sweat it
But the war been on before they came on your TV and said it
They don't need lead to shoot you
Why would a man make a computer to head the future?
I think about it in the weed session
They said better technology, all I see is regress
And blew up our buildings in fact
But if they live under the sun then them children is black
Before the devil get more time I'd rather see the world cease
Hit the afterlife of world peace
Where black men don't die, the women don't cry
The little kids get provided for on Planet Sky, what
We ain't got to die no more
I said we ain't got to die no more
Black woman listen
You ain't got to cry no more
I said you ain't got to cry no more
Black child listen
We got to provide for y'all
I said we got to provide for y'all
Devil man listen
We got a surprise for y'all
I said we got a surprise for y'all
Feel me, black
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Writer(s): Al L. Green, David Styles, Mabon Hodges, Derryck A. Thornton
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