Learn Truth

Lyrics

[Produced by Mr. Green] [Intro] Take a piece of America back It's called truth [Verse 1: Talib Kweli] We the last of the vintage flow-ers, we carry it on our shoulders I keep my friends close and the devils a lot closer When the Freedom Riders approach 'em, their appetite is vulturous Soldiers of fortune are never no match for soldiers of culture My flow is so fuckin' honest, you said you wanted to hear it You lyin' 'cause all you wanted was for me to lift up your spirits The truth is too fuckin' ugly and trust me, the shit got layers You touch me, you think you tough, leave us toothless as rugby players From sufis to soothsayers discussin' the true saviors We move with the gangstas, you niggas sweeter than fruit flavors The booth slayer provin' it's futile to hide from us You misguided as missiles, so are suicide bombers Takin' orders from the mullah, waitin' for karma to pull up Their stones is no match for bullets, Israeli rachets are fuller Gotta race to meet Allah like they chasin' 'em with a cop car Like there's honor in being a martyr and the terrorists is the rockstars Dodging the Abu Dhabi or dodging the paparazzi Still probably as popular as Swastikas for Nazis The cops protect the property properly when they crackin' heads Murderers get as cocky as Perseus when the Kraken dead I wonder what be runnin' through these crackers' heads And why niggas is spillin' more blood than Cincinnati caps, black and red I'll take an Actifed, go back to bed, allergic to the fumes Havin' a funeral for the news 'cause the facts is dead The trust is gone from the neocons to Barack Obam' America eats its young from Casey Anthony to the Octomom (Wow) Fix it and mix it up like martial arts in the Octagon I spit the fire 'til we burn down Babylon [Chorus] Take a piece of America back You will only learn It's called truth, it's called - it's called It's called truth, you will only learn [Verse 2: R.A. The Rugged Man] Death by suicide bomb, Protestants, Bibles, a Quran, or Islam From Genghis Khan to Vietnam, I can smell the napalm Rape victims, ripped stockings, redneck Klan members doin' church bombings Innocent fetuses being aborted with no options Humans government ruinin' Worryin' what weapons could be used to be nukin' 'em Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem Slaves treated like property, to Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima to Nagasaki Adolf Hitler to every murderous Nazi To the Gambinos, to the Gottis, to every Mafia atrocity Child pornography, babies starvin' and dyin' in poverty Serbians fightin' Croatians in Yugoslavia Muslim women bein' raped, up to 40,000 in the war in Bosnia The 50 million killed in the Second World War The government poisonin' the minds and the bodies Of the babies that are born poor Airplanes blown up by Islamic extremists In religion there's always drama Whether worshippin' the Prophet Mohammed or Jesus Smallpox to Napoleon' troops dyin' from typhus From the Spanish Flu to the Black Plague, today it's the AIDS virus Bodies in coffins, political extortions Racist mobs murderin', Willie Turks, Michael Griffith and Yusef Hawkins Check the murder rate, is it human nature to murder and hate? The Catholic Church claimed women were witches and burned 'em at the stake Pedophile predators attackin' .38 Beretta used by Ghandi's assassin 16 bullets in Malcolm, it happened uptown Manhattan And the homicide, Reagan '80s epidemic of crack And soldiers in action dyin' in Iraq and never comin' back And now let's [Outro] Take a piece of America back You will only learn It's called truth It's called truth You will only learn It's called truth It's called truth