Talib Kweli

Going Hard

Talib Kweli


[Hook] 
I got a part to play, we going hard these days 
Fuck the harder way, we doing it the harder way 
To my god I pray, that's how I start my day 
The bullets starts to spray the revolution starts today 
I say the shit these people ain't got the heart to say 
Fuck the harder way, we doing it the smarter way 
To my god I pray, that's how I start my day 
The bullets starts to spray the revolution starts today 

[1st Verse] 
You say you never scared there's kids in other countries 
Making jerseys, jeans, and sneakers they could never wear 
Parents never there, they're busy building homes they can't
afford to buy 
Cars they can't afford to drive 
Working jobs that don't support their life 
You busy screaming gangsta, gangsta all that talk is trife 
You already know lost the fight if you don't know the cost of
life 
These kids is forced to fight a war they can't outrun 
Ain't got no shoes but got a gun 
Now where the fuck he pulled that out from? 
People ask me how we wearing diamonds 
When there's little kids in Sierra Leone 
Losing arms for crying while they mining 
Probably an orphan who's momma died of AIDS 
He built a coffin working often but he never paid 
Forever slaving in the world that's forever cold 
Becoming the man of the house at 11 years old 
This reality rap, I get inside the mentality that... 
Terrorize you like a cowardly act 

[Hook] 
I got a part to play, we going hard these days 
Fuck the harder way, we doing it the harder way 
To my god I pray, that's how I start my day 
The bullets starts to spray the revolution starts today 
I say the shit these people ain't got the heart to say 
Fuck the harder way, we doing it the smarter way 
To my god I pray, that's how I start my day 
The bullets starts to spray the revolution starts today 

[2nd Verse] 
I was sold to a sick European by a rich African battlin' 
Middle Passages, I can't go back again 
Battlin' years of denied history, lies and mysteries 
Wives with misty eyes watchin' their husbands be beaten
viciously 
Battle in the wilderness of North America 
Run by the river, only stoppin' to pray chased by predators 
Terrorists with etiquette who vote and kill their president 
Their capacity for evil so evident and prevalent 
Ain't no hesitation involved, a nation dissolved 
While we sit back waitin' to evolve 
Those who would trade in their freedom 
For their protection deserve neither 
Not a name, not tradition 
Religion, you learn Jesus 
Turn the other cheek 
Inherit the Earth, just stay meek 
Fuck the way you speak 
Try to run, we chop off your feet 
Fast forward to 2004 we selling 
Yo this ain't what I'm settling for 
I want more, yo 

[Hook] 
I got a part to play, we going hard these days 
Fuck the harder way, we doing it the harder way 
To my god I pray, that's how I start my day 
The bullets starts to spray the revolution starts today 
I say the shit these people ain't got the heart to say 
Fuck the harder way, we doing it the smarter way 
To my god I pray, that's how I start my day 
The bullets starts to spray the revolution starts today