[Immortal Technique]
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The ghetto is like a prison, with invisible bars
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No matter where you ride, it always follows you where you are
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And it's hard out there, for a pimp to get outta
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But it's harder for the hooker that he beat the shit outta
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I got niggas underground in the Confederate States
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Ironically runnin' from slavery that prison creates
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So I never hate on the south, I respect they vision
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I just hate on niggas that promote Samboism
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And white execs that love to see us in that position
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They reflect the stereotypes of America's vision
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They want us dancing, cooning and hollering
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Only respect us for playing sports and modeling
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More than racism, it's stay in your place-ism
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More people are trapped in practical blackface-ism
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So fuck a Civil War between the North and the South
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It's between field niggas and slaves that are stuck in the house
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[Chorus: Chuck D]
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Civil war for the soul of a nation
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This is a struggle to save civilization
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Demonstrations overthrowing the occupation
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The annihilation of mental colonization
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Civil war for the soul of a nation
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We fight for the future of our civilization
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Destroy the corrupt government organizations
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Trying to survive cultural assassination
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[Killer Mike]
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Crip niggas, Blood nigga, ese's, Asians
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Why the fuck we warring with each other's population?
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The devil wanna dead all our population
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People in Folk nation, why the separation?
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Why we got Jamaicans hatin' on Haitians
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When the British and French raped both nations?
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Mexicans and Blacks kill each other, straight hating
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While the government profits from prison population
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If you on the bottom, be you Anglo or Asian
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You gotta recognize the realness of what I'm sayin'
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You gotta recognize another G ain't the enemy
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When the police ride to kill us frequently
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We gotta make the youth see, where the truth be
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If you a G, then grow and develop GD
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50 years of gangs and our people still poor
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If we really run the streets, we should really end war
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[Chorus: Chuck D]
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Civil war for the soul of a nation
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This is a struggle to save civilization
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Demonstrations overthrowing the occupation
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The annihilation of mental colonization
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Civil war for the soul of a nation
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We fight for the future of our civilization
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Destroy the corrupt government organizations
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Trying to survive cultural assassination
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[Brother Ali]
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Listen, our hearts were torn apart just like y'all was
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Watching towers full of souls fall to sawdust
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Everytime we called your office you ignored us
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Now you holding hearings on us all inside a Congress
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Microscopes on us, ask if we're Jihadists
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My answer was in line with all of the Founding Fathers
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I think Patrick said it best; Give me liberty or death
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I shall never accept anything less
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You claim innocence, you play victimless
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But you gave the kiss of death in the name of self defense
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Slavery and theft have brought the nations to the end
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Of pacifying your citizenry with excess
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We believe in freedom, justice, security
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But they're only pure when they're applied universally
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So certainly if I rage against the machine
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My aim was only to clean the germs out of the circuitry
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Heard you need putting fear inside your heart
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Make you burn Qu'rans and tell me not to build a mosque
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Me, my wife and babies we ain't never made jihad
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We just want to touch our heads to the floor and talk to God
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Ask him to remove every blemish from my heart
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The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb
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The moment you refuse the human rights of just a few
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What happens when that few includes you?
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Civil war
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Civil War
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