The Sermon

Lyrics

[Intro] We beg your pardon America, we beg your pardon once again Because we found out that 7 out of every 10 black men behind jail And most of the men behind jail are black 7 out of every 10 black men never went to the 9th grade Didn't have 50 dollars and haven't had 100 for a month and they went to jail So the poor and the ignorant go to jail While the rich go to [?] [Verse 1: Ab-Liva] You made one blink in the [?] I'm the brink and the closer [?] The snow weak links to my soldiers As i sink in the [?] Blowing that stink type of doja Arm on the steering wheel [?] Like expecting boy or girl [?] We are the privileged, it didn't start that way We screaming "God forgive us" I'm a classic [?] Fought my inner Demons telling me to follow that path Now i sought forgiveness [?] And I'm still on that night shift My day job [?] I write this for my hustlers [?} With no other way out but slingin' [?] I'm being honest I'm speaking from my heart, just listen Back against the wall, sparring at you, guard position [?] Fuck around and be the [?] in prison Fuck around and be insane that you lost your vision Not too often n****s part from wisdom It's the sermon, n**** [Interlude] We understand all the more deeply as Boston becomes Birmingham Becomes [?], becomes Philadelphia Mississippi Becomes yesterday all over again We understand, and we beg your pardon We beg your pardon America because we have an understanding of karma What goes around comes around [Verse 2: Ab-Liva] I'm a poet with the pen, master every verse [?] I focus, make chess moves [?] in reverse I stick [?] then cock at the game first They can't match my drive nor my thirst Champion my will [?] It's more than a verse [?] Watch face blue like a smurf I put you in this dirt, n****, I put you in this earth Under rock and gravel cover [?] with turf Under brick and glass [?] {?] [?] so strong that I was seen as cursed An abnormality I was keen with verses But the underworld called me and I was [?] with merch Murciélago, I received my [?] No mercy [?] if I retreat my word The greed that will follow, I have seen the worse Now I'm seen as a [?] With the sun shining on me [Outro] The revolution will not be televised See, a lot of time people see, see, see, see battles and on TV and they say "Oh, the revolution is bein' televised" No, the results of the revolution are being televised The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things And see that there might be another way to look at it that you have not been shown