制作

出演艺人
Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli
表演者
作曲和作词
Amber Coffman
Amber Coffman
词曲作者
制作和工程
Chris Pummill
Chris Pummill
混音工程师

歌词

[Verse 1]
I know, we back
We home, let's go
I know, we back
We home, let's go
[Verse 2]
Check it out
Born this way, the universe wasn't formed in a day
Praise the Lord and pray, we the children of God
Better learn how to walk this way, try to walk with faith but it's hard
What more could I say? Feelin' cursed so I talk this way
Gotta write what I'm livin' in graffiti, it's the hood hieroglyphics
So I'm lookin' for a wall to spray
You could picture me rollin', you could picture me holdin'
You could never picture me foldin'
Refuse to beholden to your racist image of a black man
Kiss me entire colon
[Verse 3]
Great mind, even though the legacy is stolen
It's all for the silver and gold
You can tell you in the ghetto from the litter in the room
Man, this middle of the road shit really getting old
Which one is the real you? I don't know, it's still you
How can I tell if you under a spell? Did the fake you kill you?
Better pass the mic in the afterlife, if so, let me spit flows
Good enough to offer to God as a sacrifice
[Verse 4]
Born again like I passed away
Castigated for being honest
Caught bail like a Castaway
Because I feel like I'm shreddin' on an island
When I'm gettin' introspective
That's radio silence
When I'm fuckin' up program directives
That's radio violence
[Verse 5]
You were the ones to slow me down
I'm a criminal when you're around
What makes me think you would love me?
What makes you want to unplug me?
[Verse 6]
Born this way, woke up like this
The midpoint between science and religion is tryin' find out
What the meaning of life is
October 3rd, '75, my birth is a blessing
Ain't no spoken word could ever describe how the flow get better
I live on the edge, I'll send you a postcard
Fuck a phone, I got a chip on my neck, that's a close call
Turn the lights off, see how we glow in the dark
Are we growin' apart or tryna survive the flood like we in Noah's Ark?
[Verse 7]
We battin' down the hatchets and we set sail
Tryna get far away from inhalin' them chemtrails
My intel says they makin' people out of the stem cells
The gun's our sunflower seed, we love to spit shells
When them super soakers get let off, it don't end well
I ain't know you like to get wet, dawg, like Denzel
They hype it up like marketers, sparklin' like it's fish scale
Till you chasin' a high like Captain Ahab after that big whale
It's criminal
[Verse 8]
You were the ones to slow me down
I'm a criminal when you're around
What makes me think you would love me?
What makes you want to unplug me?
[Verse 9]
Born this way, Capricorn, LA on the day of January 15th
Out the king, his tomb, torn from a warm womb, formed from the clay
Existing, shifting from the essence, uplifting
And the presence just drifting, gifting through this mortal coil
With mystic lessons from the sage
California spoiled the blessing, blissed up
My first breath in outer space, I kissed death in it's face
Though identity complex, it gets left in it's place
[Verse 10]
Proud to say, no awarded torment to my rejection
And if dismayed and somewhat befuddled
I struggled to hustle and come up with the blood for a puzzle
Boils , I'm pressin' issues, it's business mixed with pleasure
It's blissness to play and get paid doing this clone of her DNA
You should know more about the donors confessing my doula
From prenatal, I'm on fire, water be mixed with liquor with salt
The hardcore drugs in my system
Sicker desire to be delivered wisdom
Poor, black, white, sexy texture of lovers like jungle fever
Wild zebras to make this fetus
[Verse 11]
Brother, the son of my father, I wanna hear my one Shaki
And my daughter Raja, lecture to licks its abuse of the meter
In physics you should explore or visit more exquisite shores in districts
Take a breather, believe in your epic God
Memory, you are descendent of natural leaders
Extended from before the Nephilim, Bethlehem, even Eden
In new testaments, Heaven's an image in books, messages, read 'em
Scriptures, look at the various sizes of giants in Egyptian pictures
Stonehenge to do with the mathematics of Mayans
And metholithic structures
Evidence frequencies evade us, we're just the latest reproduction
Created out of the pure star dust that made in His image but God is great
Written by: A. Coffman, A. Nash, Aaron Carmack, M. Troy, T. Greene
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