(with Damian Marley)

here we are

here we are

yeah


this one right here is for the people


Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye
Ni kêra môgô

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni
Ni kêra môgô


(Nas)
hey yo' D

let's go all the way on this one

(Damian Marley)

Some of the smartest dummies
Can't read the language of Egyptian mummies
An' a fly go a moon

And can't find food for the starving tummies
Pay no mind to the youths
Cause it's not like the future depends on it

But save the animals in the zoo
Cause the chimpanzee dem a make big money
This is how the media pillages

On the TV the picture is
Savages in villages
And the scientist still can't explain the pyramids, huh

Evangelists making a living on the videos of ribs of the little kids
Stereotyping the image of the images
And this is what the image is

You buy a khaki pants
And all of a sudden you say a Indiana Jones
An' a thief out gold and thief out the scrolls and even the buried bones

Some of the worst paparazzis I've ever seen and I ever known
Put the worst on display so the world can see
And that's all they will ever show

So the ones in the west
Will never move east
And feel like they could be at home

Dem get tricked by the beast
But a where dem ago flee when the monster is fully grown?
Solomonic linage whe dem still can't defeat and them coulda never clone

My spiritual DNA that print in my soul and I will forever Own Lord

(choirs)

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye
Ni kêra môgô

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni
Ni kêra môgô


(Nas)
yeah

Sabali, that's patience
what the old folks told me
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discoverying a world before this world
a world barried with time
uncovered with rhymes

it gets no reala'



(Damian Marley)
Huh, we born not knowing, are we born knowing all?
We growing wiser, are we just growing tall?

Can you read thoughts? can you read palms?
Huh, can you predict the future? can you see storms, coming?
The Earth was flat if you went too far you would fall off

Now the Earth is round if the shape change again everybody woulda start laugh
The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of
And still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of
Scholars teach in Universities and claim that they're smart and cunning
Tell them find a cure when we sneeze and that's when their nose start running

And the rich get stitched up, when we get cut
Man a heal dem broken bones in the bush with the wed mud
Can you read signs? can you read stars?
Can you make peace? can you fight war?
Can you milk cows, even though you drive cars? huh

Can you survive, Against All Odds, Now?

(choirs)
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye

Ni kêra môgô
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni
Ni kêra môgô


(Nas)
It's crazy
when you feed people the truth
You don't know how they're gonna react
Scared wrong doers
people that are just ignorant

scared of the truth
we patient
for now

(Nas)
Who wrote the Bible? Who wrote the Qur'an?
And was it a lightning storm

That gave birth to the earth
And then dinosaurs were born? damn
Who made up words? who made up numbers?
And what kind of spell is mankind under?
Everything on the planet we preserve and can it
Microwaved it and try it
No matter what we'll survive it

What's hu? what's man? what's human?
Anything along the land we consuming
Eatin', deletin', ruin
Trying to get paper
Gotta have land, gotta have acres
So I can sit back like Jack Nicholson
Watch ^!$$%s play the game like the lakers

In a world full of 52 fakers
Gypsies, seances, mystical prayers
You superstitious? throw salt over your shoulders
Make a wish for the day cuz
Like somebody got a doll of me
Stickin' needles in my arteries
But I can't feel it

Sometimes it's like 'pardon me, but I got a real big spirit'
I'm fearless.... I'm fearless
Don't you try and grab hold of my soul
It's like a military soldier since seven years old
I held real dead bodies in my arms
Felt their body turn cold, oh
Why we born in the first place

If this is how we gotta go?
Damn.

(choirs)
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye
Ni kêra môgô
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkontê
Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni
Ni kêra môgô

(Nas/along with the choirs)
yeah
yeah
yeah
what

(Nas)
Goes to all the wisdom and knowledge secrets of the world
Sabali
Patience
yeah