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TALIB KWELI lyrics : "I'm On One"

[Talib]

Yeah.. my Lord.. yeah





[Verse 1: Talib]

We sell, crack to our own out the back of our homes


We smell the musk at the dusk in the crack of the dawn


We go through "Epidodes II," like "Attack of the Clones"

Work 'til we break our back and you hear the crack of the bone


To get by.. just to get by


Just to get by, just to get by

We commute to computers


Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors


We survivalists, turned to consumers

To get by.. just to get by


Just to get by, just to get by


Ask Him why some people got to live in a trailer, cuss like a sailor

I paint a picture with the pen like Norman Mailer


Me and Willa raised three daughters all by herself, with no help


I think about a struggle and I find the strength in myself

These words, melt in my mouth


They hot, like the jail cell in the South


Before my ^!$$% Core bailed me out

To get by.. just to get by


Just to get by, just to get by


We do or die like Bed-Stuy through the red sky

with the window of the red eye


Let the lead fly, some G. Rap %#@!, "Livin' to Let Die"




[Chorus: Background singers]


This morning, I woke up


Feeling brand new and I jumped up

Feeling my highs, and my lows


In my soul, and my goals


Just to stop smokin, and stop drinkin

And I've been thinkin - I've got my reasons


Just to get (by), just to get (by)


Just to get (by), just to get (by)




[Talib and background singers]

(ba ba ba, ba da bada, ba da bada, ba da bada, ba da badahh


Just to get (by), just to get (by)

Just to get (by by by by by by)

(ba ba ba, ba da bada, ba da bada, ba da bada, ba da badahh


Just to get (by), just to get (by)

Just to get (by by by by by by)




[Verse 2: Talib]

We keeping it gangster say "fo shizzle", "fo sheezy" and "stayin crunk"


Its easy to pull a breezy, smoke trees, and we stay drunk

Yo, I activism - attackin the system, the blacks and latins in prison

Numbers of prison they victim black in the vision


%#@! and all they got is rappin to listen to

I let them know we missin you, the love is unconditional

Even when the condition is critical, when the livin is miserable


Your position is pivotal, I ain't bull%#@!tin you

Now, why would I lie? Just to get by?

Just to get by, we get fly

The TV got us reachin for stars


Not the ones between Venus and Mars, the ones that be readin for parts

Some people get breast enhancements and ^&@#$ enlargers

Saturday sinners Sunday morning at the feet of the Father


They need somethin to rely on, we get high on all types of drug

When, all you really need is love

To get by.. just to get by

Just to get by, just to get by


Our parents sing like John Lennon, "Imagine all the people watch"

We rock like Paul McCartney from now until the last Beatle drop




[Chorus: Background singers]

This morning, I woke up

Feeling brand new and I jumped up

Feeling my high's, and my low's

In my soul, and my goals

Just to stop smoking, and stop drinking

And I've been thinking - I've got my reasons

Just to get (by), just to get (by)

Just to get (by), just to get (by)



[Talib: repeat 2X - with background singers]

Yoyoyo, yo

Some people cry, and some people try

Just to get by, for a piece of the pie

You love to eat and get high

We decieve when we lie, and we keepin it fly



Yoyoyo, yo

When, the people decide, to keep a disguise

Can't see they eyes, see the evil inside

But there's people you find

Strong or feeble in mind, I stay readin the signs

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