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Mortal Man

Kendrick Lamar

To Pimp a Butterfly

2015

to love me like Nelson
I went to Robben's Island analysing, that's where his cell is
So I could find clarity—like, how much you cherish me?
Is this

Gara de nord
Per quelli di Smara e El Aayoun
Per quelli di Falls Road
Robben Island adesso è un museo
Robben Island...

at peace in the struggle, I'm awake and not afraid
While I'm channelin' my energy from particle to wave
The peace, like Mandela seated on Robben Island

went to Robben's Island analysing; that's where his cell is
So I could find clarity like, how much you cherish me?
Is this relationship a fake, or real

you arrive in good faith
How you gon' rob an island and imprison the native people off-shore?
Call it Robben Island
Is this what we fought for?

up 
Weak crawling to my corner 
Really thought I was a goner 
Eating sleep to ease the hunger 
That pain stung 
Inspired by Robben Island's finest, no

potrzebny nam wehikuł
Tu teraz

Kiedyś chodziłem dumny nie słuchałem tego co proletariat
Łeb zakuty na cztery spusty jak Robben Island
Tylko underground

Robben island
Kena le plug... phasa... Tigger... ma man
Madiba in ma bag... kidnap
Grind so hard... need a break... kitkat
Cant catch me... tshaba

Stuck in these bars, Nelson Mandela
Robben Island got a nigga hungry and fed up
I'm talm bout me, nigga I'm fed up
Take my chains off cuz my motto ke

went astray
You feel like Mandela on Robben Island 
It all looks hopeless no one is smiling
God works best when you start crying
Go on your knees

the hood like the mob justice out for me
Take any paper on sight I'm tryna clean the streets
Their nose all in my biz I'll OD niggas
Robben Island mindstate

fate, still there are pretty Argentinean girls
And a black market tickets to see the Robben Island, a Bobby Strange move on life chessboard

As coming

brownn and played war games in the dunes
Every summer, our new regime passed another law
As the boat sailed for Robben Island with more prisoners
Of war

I

me
They looking out
I spat these bars now
I'm getting them dibas
Now robben island
Looking cleared out
If it's war then it's war
Get the missiles out

Like Mama Winnie you remain faithful
Stuck in the Limbo of Robben Island
You stood steadfast with an Iron hand
Among the women upon this land of ours

it 
Don't worry 
I got it 
I got it 
Whenever you need it 
I got it 

[Verse]
Bars only 
Robben Island 
Too crazy 
Insane asylum 
7 tapes 
In like 3

actes,
Sur Robben Island tu remarqueras,
Que le Soleil se lève de l'intérieur,
Nelson le gris (gris) Nelson le gris (un homme gris)
Percheron,
Au micro,
Je

to the Apartheid state
and the ghosts of war

This river flows like history
of tormented bodies and souls
from the ghost of d’Almeida to the cries of Robben Island

the lede
Blackface chimney sweep
Swam from Robben Island to
Your all-white beach
When he's gone your moms might weep

Just say he's the best, let's not argue

town
Boss moves when I figured what it cost to be down
Now, they're so pissed, they're looking like colostomy wow


Robben Island stole years from my

ko.. wa nkreya?
Tswile ka .. wa nkreya?
Float'a Se robben island
Hoping to see the Madibas
Mabadi awa Bonang a re file the
Wisdom
He re fatlhega re

out of Gotham, the common notion
Robben island forefather's offspring
Long as we all sync, I'm omnipotent
These false kings a bunch of faucets, forcing

Uh
1-0-0
Yeah
Uh

So that was back then when Precious was just well
Precious than a Gucci bag to a black girl
Precious to Robben Island inmates that

and bruised Everybody knew it, you could see it on the news
And held on Robben Island - 27 years 
He wrote, & he prayed for freedom, 
& for a jury of his peers