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Be Like

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Be Like was released on August 13, 2011 by YEARS GONE BY as a part of the album @Peace

Song Details

Release DateAugust 13, 2011

LabelYEARS GONE BY

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM90

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

@Peace

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Thomas Scott

Songwriter

Shaun Hopkins

Songwriter

Lui Tuiasau

Songwriter

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Yeah, we dedicate this track to Mr. Karl Marx

What it could be like, what it could be like?

Mr. David Long

Huey P.

Yeah, what it could be like, you know

[Verse 2]

Imagine if the land was equally divided up

But the homeless sold 'em paper cups, tryna find a buck

While the rich sit in tops 26, sew these up

See 'em on the steps, but don't even give a fuck

[Verse 3]

Just another drunk bum sittin' on a corner

Stealin' from the store for a little bit of water

With no support, got no wife or daughter

So go and try to tell him how to get his life in order

[Verse 4]

Heard people say that home's where the heart is

Does that mean the homeless are heartless?

I guess it's how it is when you live in hardship

But no mattress, pillow or even carpet

[Verse 5]

Concrete sleeps, yeah, indeed, that's some hard shit

I wanna feed, so I eat from the park bench

These society didn't leave in the options

For me, but it's sweet I'll get lost in

What it could be like, what it could be like?

What it could be like, what it could be like?

What it could be like, what it could be like?

What it could be like, what it could be like?

[Verse 6]

See, I was raised by a hippie and a junkie up in inner city bricks

Then my grandmother was a member of the communism

Party, and her auntie was a part of the resistance

So I know a little bit about activism

[Verse 7]

Division of class, equal distribution of wealth

Burke, the industrial revolution, I know about the state

I read it as a student, ironically, while I was payin' to the

Institution, but way before I'd heard of Marx

When "equality" was too big of a word across

I was a kid wondering why I smelled burnin' grass

Not even knowing that my neighborhood was workin' class

[Verse 8]

Sittin' on my mom's lap, she used to read the Lawrence

Never knew that I was learning political economics

I just liked the pictures like I was reading comics

In a bubble, where people would always keep your promise

Until I turned five, that's when I really saw the world for the first time

See, it was Christmas, and I just got this dirt bike

I bet my friend across the road didn't get shit

And then I learned why, they told me that he was poor

[Verse 9]

I never even saw, we were all playin'

He was just the same as me and Paul

Shit, I never even thought that there were needy people needin' more

Just because the greedy people keep it all

That's not what my grandma told me

See, that's not what my old man told me

[Verse 10]

But look

You see, I gotta try and make up my mind

And get this bullshit out my life

So I think I might get up and fight

Either that, or just lay down and die

[Verse 11]

But what it could be like, what, it could be like

What it could be like, what it could be like?

What it could be like, what it could be like?

What it could be like, what it could be like?

[Verse 12]

Yeah, hear something new

It's going out to my grandmother, yeah

And all the thinkers, all the Marxists

All the communists, all the lefties, you know

How you feel about some fair shit, you know?

Imagine if we have a fair fuckin' world

No, not this fuckin' prison, you know

If we could all eat, you know

Imagine that

[Verse 13]

Living in the world, no different from a cell

Living in the world, no different from a cell

Living in the world, no different from a cell

Living in the world, no different from a cell

[Verse 14]

Life shouldn't be so rough

Living in the world, no different from a cell

Life shouldn't be so rough

Living in the world, no different from a cell

I'ma get, you know what we soon done

Living in the world, no different from a cell

Life shouldn't be so rough

Living in the world, no different from a cell

I'ma get, you know what we soon done

Written by: Lui Tuiasau, Shaun Hopkins, Thomas Scott

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