(Don't you dare)

Interrupt the White House ball


(We're living scared)


It's in foreign fields the soldiers fall




Ooh, ooh, ooh, la, la, la


Snatch 'em in their prime

Go ahead that's fine


That's fine




Just go drill for grease, yeah


Like a diamond thief, yeah, yeah


Their mamas will be alright

Just give 'em time


Go get your money right


You won't lose no sleep tonight




Nominate your kids


I think they'd prove your theory right

Would you watch them die?





Like tryna get a hold of smoke and water

Coming up with nothing every time


How come we ain't getting any closer


Tryna find the truth behind the lies?




(Look up, look up)


See a dead man walking

(See his baby face)


Hey, let's duplicate a few


Ooh, ooh, ooh, la, la, la

That don't mean much to you





(If you need some help)

Send some hippies in to help


You think more than you do


Hows about another line or two

To pick you up , pick you up


While your people drown, drown




I hope your happy

And you sleep so great at night

While the lovers cry




Like tryna get a hold of smoke and water


Coming up with nothing every time

How come we ain't getting any closer

Tryna find the truth behind the lies?




Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm


Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm




How many lives will you sacrifice?

Will you ever be satisfied?

If in God you trust, can't you hear him still?

I ain't no preacher but thou shalt not kill




Yo, check it

I'm praisin' the states and the streets I'm raised in


Pain is the perfume scent I'm sprayed in

It clash with the federal agents fragrance

I smell a pig, that's a cop who's racist




I'm an ordinary project dude

I'm subject to genetically modified fool

That's FDA approved, mass produced


So you can tell a lie from the truth



Even though I'm fly in my tie and force suit

Le jet like a Concorde, swoop through the air

Then I land in my van, I'm cool

And I still stand with the Uganda youths



All the poor kids out in Moscow that live hostile

I ride for you when I ride with the top down

Listenin' to Joss' sounds, you see how that feel

I see these come with government seals



Open it, peek Nas getting' at his enemies

And the paragraphs are for similies

Governmentalists killed the Kennedy's

I heard that Joss Stone got the remedies



Governmental, confusion

Governmentalist, it's delusion

Governmental, confusion

A bunch of governmentalist, it's delusion



Tryna get a hold of smoke and water

Coming up with nothing every time

How come we ain't getting any closer

Tryna find the truth behind the lies?



And all that we're left with

Is a hand full of nothing

A hand full of nothing

That's all that I got

Hand full of nothing



Governmental, confusion

Just some governmentalist, delusion

Governmental, confusion, yeah

Governmentalist, it's delusion

Yeah, yeah



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Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm