Talib Kweli

Beautiful Struggle

Talib Kweli


[Sample] 
This is a tear jerker 

[Intro - echoes] 
The revolution is here, the revolution is here people 
I said it once, I'll say it twice 
You gots to be ready 
The revolution is inside of you 
People, the revolution is here, yeah 

[Hook] 
The revolution's here 
No one can lead you off your path 
You'll try to change the world 
So please excuse me while I laugh (yeah) 
No one can change your ways (rock with me for a second) 
No one can lead you off your path (come on) 
You'll try to change the world 
So please excuse me while I laugh 

[Verse 1: Talib Kweli] 
Yo, I heard it's said the revolution won't be televised 
But in the land of milk and honey there's a date you gotta sell
it by 
Otherwise it just expires and spoils 
And these folks jump out the pot when the water too hot 
Cuz the fire boils inside 
You go to church to find you some religion 
And all you hear is connivin' and gossip and contradiction and 
You try to vote and participate in the government 
And the muh'fuckin' Democrats is actin' like Republicans 
You join an organization that know black history 
But ask them how they plan to make money and it's a mystery 
Lookin' for the remedy but you can't see what's hurtin' you 
The revolution's here, the revolution is personal 
They call me the political rapper 
Even after I tell 'em I don't fuck with politics 
I don't even follow it 
I'm on some KRS, Ice Cube, Chris Wallace shit 
Main Source, De La Soul, bumpin' "2Pacalypse Now" 

[Hook] 
The revolution's here (yeah) 
No one can lead you off your path (uh uh) 
You'll try to change the world 
So please excuse me while I laugh (ha ha, ha ha) 
No one can change your ways 
No one can lead you off your path (uh uh) 
You'll try to change the world ('scuse me) 
So please excuse me while I laugh 

[Verse 2] 
Yo, I speak at schools a lot cause they say I'm intelligent 
Nervous cause I'm dope, if I was wack I'd be irrelevant 
I'm like the dope in your tracks until your high is settled in 
You leanin' to the left, the laughter's the best medicine 
But the troubles you have today you just can't laugh away 
Stay optimistic, they can change, it's gon' come like Donny
Hathaway 
You have to pray, on top of that, act today 
Cuz opportunity shrivel away like Tom Hanks in "Cast Away" 
Everybody pass away, the past will pay, the family mournin' 
Everybody act accordin' to the season that they born in 
You fight in the streets, start bleedin' 'til the blood is
pourin' 
In the gutter, mothers cry 'til the Lord be livin' by the sword
and 
All that folks want is safety, they goin' gun crazy 
The same reason Reagan was playin' war games in the '80s 
The same reason I've always rocked dog chains on my babies 
The struggle is beautiful, I'm too strong for you to slave me 

[Hook] 
The revolution's here (yeah) 
No one can lead you off your path (uh uh) 
You'll try to change the world 
So please excuse me while I laugh (ha ha, ha ha) 
No one can change your ways (yeah) 
No one can lead you off your path (uh uh) 
You'll try to change the world ('scuse me) 
So please excuse me while I laugh (yeah) 
The revolution's here 
No one can lead you off your path 
You'll try to change the world 
So please excuse me while I laugh 
No one can change your ways 
No one can lead you off your path 
You'll try to change the world 
So please excuse me while I laugh 

[Outro: Talib Kweli] 
It's a beautiful thing that's happenin' right now 
Right now G 
Yo, I'm rockin' with my man Hi-Tek on the track right now 
We fightin' the good fight 
The Beautiful Struggle 
Yeah, let's go 

(So please excuse me while I laugh)