[Nas]
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Here we are...
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Here we are...
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[Chorus]
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye
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Ni kera mogo
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni
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Ni kera mogo
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[Verse 1]
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Some of the smartest dummies
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Can't read the language of Egyptian mummies
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An' a fly go a moon
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And can't find food for the starving tummies
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Pay no mind to the youths
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Cause it's not like the future depends on it
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But save the animals in the zoo
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Cause the chimpanzee dem a make big money
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This is how the media pillages
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On the TV the picture is
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Savages in villages
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And the scientist still can't explain the pyramids, huh
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Evangelists making a living on the videos of ribs of the little kids
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Stereotyping the image of the images
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And this is what the image is
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You buy a khaki pants
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And all of a sudden you say a Indiana Jones
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An' a thief out gold and thief out the scrolls and even the buried bones
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Some of the worst paparazzis I've ever seen and I ever known
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Put the worst on display so the world can see
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And that's all they will ever show
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So the ones in the west
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Will never move east
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And feel like they could be at home
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Dem get tricked by the beast
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But a where dem ago flee when the monster is fully grown?
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Solomonic linage whe dem still can't defeat and them coulda never clone
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My spiritual DNA that print in my soul and I will forever Own Lord
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[Chorus]
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye
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Ni kera mogo
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni
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Ni kera mogo
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[Verse 2]
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Huh, we born not knowing, are we born knowing all?
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We growing wiser, are we just growing tall?
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Can you read thoughts? can you read palms?
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Huh, can you predict the future? can you see storms, coming?
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The Earth was flat if you went too far you would fall off
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Now the Earth is round if the shape change again everybody woulda start laugh
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The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of
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And still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of
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Scholars teach in Universities and claim that they're smart and cunning
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Tell them find a cure when we sneeze and that's when their nose start running
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And the rich get stitched up, when we get cut
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Man a heal dem broken bones in the bush with the wed mud
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Can you read signs? can you read stars?
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Can you make peace? can you fight war?
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Can you milk cows, even though you drive cars? huh
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Can you survive, Against All Odds, Now?
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[Chorus]
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye
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Ni kera mogo
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte
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Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni
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Ni kera mogo
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[Verse 3]
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Who wrote the Bible? Who wrote the Qur'an?
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And was it a lightning storm
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That gave birth to the earth
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And then dinosaurs were born? damn
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Who made up words? who made up numbers?
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And what kind of spell is mankind under?
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Everything on the planet we preserve and can it
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Microwaved it and try it
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No matter what we'll survive it
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What's hu? what's man? what's human?
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Anything along the land we consuming
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Eatin', deletin', ruin
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Trying to get paper
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Gotta have land, gotta have acres
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So I can sit back like Jack Nicholson
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Watch niggas play the game like the lakers
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In a world full of 52 fakers
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Gypsies, seances, mystical prayers
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You superstitious? throw salt over your shoulders
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Make a wish for the day cuz
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Like somebody got a doll of me
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Stickin' needles in my arteries
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But I can't feel it
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Sometimes it's like 'pardon me, but I got a real big spirit'
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I'm fearless.... I'm fearless
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Don't you try and grab hold of my soul
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It's like a military soldier since seven years old
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I held real dead bodies in my arms
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Felt their body turn cold, oh
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Why we born in the first place
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If this is how we gotta go?
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Damn
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Patience
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Damian "Junior Gong" Marley |