Modern Marvel
Mos Def
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Singing> I come on by and she start to cry I can't take it a brand new excuse does me no use That won't make it She's at home with the kids, this is nowhere to live What can I say? I know it's surreal but I'm a hard head of steal That is my way And he's so strong, so strong It's like I'm dying Trying to hold on, my body says Oh No, Oh Flying, the price that I pay for the game that I play It will get me old I'm up in the clouds and I'm spiraling down Nothing breaks the fall And he's so strong, so strong it's like i'm dying Trying to hold on, my body says Oh No Out there, flying Sounds of the sufferers pray Silent noise of the sufferers pray They say yes I come on by and she start to cry I can't take it a brand new excuse does me no use that won't make it She's at home with the kids, this is no way to live What can I say? I know it's real, and I'm a hot head of steal Black Dante and it's so strongI'm out there flying 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 Niggas, Crackers, Children, Mothers, Fathers, Lovers, Neighbors, Hungry Full, The beautiful, the stars, the distance, the close, the stars The heavens, the floor, the high, the beneath, all, all, everywhere <"this life" throughout> everywhere, anywhere, somewhere, home Come on, this how it goes on Ghetto people in the world today, Get up Look alive, breathe How it goes Mother, mother, had 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 niggas he ?? brother, brother I don't see no brother hug all i see is thugger hug get rich and f*ck the hug all in one there's some gun smoke from the hug lookin for the shorty gun stroke from the hug that's how they touch the hug but when i touch the hug, i'll make it bright or black because I'm bright or 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 cause everytime you out in the hood you got photographers with ya What's going on? 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 afraid get involved, remain to breathe If __was alive now, wow, what would i say to him, where could i start how could i explain to him, i know the __ probably look strange to him Would he feel like the day had a place for him? Global imprisonment sickness indifference When he said save the babies was we listenin When he said Mershi Mershi did he really know that decades later we'd still be killin folks Did he hope, that we would realize that we the first, son of earth the mornin stars, the great beyond we black and proud, we brave and strong we raise it up, we quiet storm, forever fresh and keep it on ghetto people look alive and free and 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 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 and get real this how it goes on, this how it goes on, keep goin on, this how it goes on breathe, marvelous, marvelous, marvelous, marvin, martin, marvel
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Written by: Alfred W Cleveland, Anna Gaye, Elgie Rousseau Stover, Marvin Gaye, Marvin P Gaye, Renaldo Benson
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