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Testo Listen - Styles P

Testo della canzone Listen (Styles P), 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 cryin' so many tears

Can you picture us livin' with hope?

When the same ones hangin' us is givin' 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 dyin' from AIDS?

And why on TV it's alright to be gay?

Ain't that sort of like my gun got a right to be waved?

If I could sit back and watch a whole cycle of slaves

Ask my man where the bless at

Ask myself where the next Malcolm X at

Is he makin' salat?

Or upstate like a ape in a box?

Am I a human or a fallen angel?

Got to pray by myself 'cause I'm out of angle

I ain't facin' the east

Tell the brothers I was shakin' the beast

Had the nine and the eight in the streets

Open your eyes, stay wise 'cause even Satan is deep

Got to pray for a better livin'

Even though I think I'm better dyin', why?

'Cause I'd rather hear the angels singin', why?

And I don't wanna hear my people cryin', 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 a 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 ya

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 and play in the 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

Credits
Writer(s): Al L. Green, David Styles, Mabon Hodges, Derryck A. Thornton
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