Hot Night

I was a member of the communist party

I'm not a member of the communist party, anymore

But I still consider myself very much a socialist

So we'll get to that later

Let's go

One of the reasons why the war in Vietnam

Was able to happen as long as it did

Was because of this fear of communism

And people pointed to the Vietnamese as their enemy

As if somehow or another

If the country defeated the communist enemy in Vietnam

Things were gonna be okay at home

But it's a hot night

Let's talk about the sign of the times

Politics

And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer

It's a hot night

Head down to the club for the pina coladas without the alcohol

And let's talk about the world y'all

Can you pick me up?

You know I hate driving in the evil city

And baby read my mind, hit la caridad

So I can get some coffee

And we can get our talk on

Seems I got caught up in this romanticized idea of revolution

With saviors, prophets and heroes

But in the silence of my prayers

I had a vision of my hatred

Dissolving into grains of sand

Realized that to the universe

That's all I really am

Just a grain of sand

I know I get caught up in all that spiritual shit

But there ain't much to hold onto

We all living in a world built upon

Rape, starvation, greed, need, fascist regimes

White man, rich man democracy

Suffer in the world trade paradise

Hear me now

But it's a hot night

Let's talk about the sign of the times

Yeah

Politics

And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer

Word up

Come on

It's a hot night

Head down to the club for the pina coladas without the alcohol

And let's talk about the world y'all

(And Nike has a factory in Ho Chi Minh City)

Let me be the first to say this

Fuck the first bitch

That ever asks me to buy her some dumb shit

Come on

**** be fighting

For Jordans they can't afford

Bought in a store

Costing more than a hundred, yeah

Capitalism got 'em trapped in a vision

That ya love to watch way more than a sunset

I feed my babies with music

I tell the truth

But now I'm a target in they market

Ain't that a summer bitch?

It's an urgent emergency

Courtesy of the counterinsurgency

Trying to murder me

And now it's on, and ah

It's 'cause I verbally hurdle all their absurdities

Accurate rhyme poem and I

Survive the storm and ah

Certainly words can be weapons

If people heard me they thinking they God

Then they decide what's right or wrong

They live in a bubble

I live for the struggle

After the fight, we home on a hot night

My woman is nice and warm, but ah

But it's a hot night

Yeah

Let's talk about the sign of the times

Politics

And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer

Come on

It's a hot night

Head down to the club for the pina coladas without the alcohol

And let's talk about the world y'all

Let's do it, come on

Join the party, fist in the air

Everybody for the revolutionary soul singer

Side to side, third eye on the prize

We'll take a ride with the revolutionary soul singer

Give the seeds what they need to breath and proceed

It's the revolutionary soul singer

Word up, yeah y'all

We prepared y'all, no fear y'all, come on

It's a shame the way we all run around

Blind to the facts, yeah

It's a shame the way we all run around

'Cause you blind, baby

Blind to the facts, ah

It's a shame the way we all run around

'Cause you blind, baby

Blind to the facts, yeah

It's a shame the way we all run around

'Cause you blind, baby

Blind to the facts of who you are, yeah

But it's a hot night

Let's talk about the sign of the times

Politics

And the plight of the revolutionary soul singer

Come on

It's a hot night

Head down to the club for the pina coladas without the alcohol

And let's talk about the world y'all

Let's do it

And now of course, that the welfare system has been disestablished

(Soul singer)

And there are no jobs, so to speak

(Soul singer)

For women who are told, that if they don't work

(Revolutionary soul singer)

They can only get welfare for a certain period of time

And then they have to find a job

Now they haven't had the opportunity to go to an institution like this

They may not have the skills

Where are they going to find a job?

And if they have children, how are they going to pay for childcare

In order to guarantee the conditions which will allow them to work?