God Knows Why

Lyrics

[Verse 1: Nneka] You say you are feeling me Camouflage killing me Civilization to the extent of imprisoning me Freedom is what you speak Your god, is whom I seek For all you have, you have because someone else grief Impose your lies on me nothing is left of me A living dead to function in your own reality In my head, I picture paradise, Jehovah and the antichrist These are the end of the days Your footprints engraved in the pavement of a demonic ways Pump me with your drug, so I can't feel me Take back all your love, for you have deceived me You compete with god God knows why Only god knows why Oh god knows why God knows why [Verse 2: Black Thought] Black boy like Richard Wright I am just a product of a different type of living life I am just a public enemy that don't believe the hype I am from the jungle,where some people never see the light I guess we nocturnal, black fire flies Might burn you a while I serve you with the diatribe I got this message to to deliver to the riot squad Just to let them know I answer to a higher god Self style, man child in the promise land Staring like a child soldier on a sonogram He is in a feeble position Bow and needle precision, it is destiny it was writen God knows why Only god knows why Oh god knows why God knows why [Verse 3: Nneka] Turn the stone into bread,in the wilderness I hunger Give me more of it for my lust goes far, eyonda (after life) I stole the apple of wisdom, I now see I am naked I have no shame, I have made love, I am no longer sacred Burn the incense, pray to the sun, pay is intense,and so I lie I mourn What is love, where is love, who is love, is it god? whatever Where is god in this world of deceit? would we find Would we ever defeat, the dark is in the heart of mankind The black in it