[Chorus: Gift of Gab]
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We keep embellishin upon a new uncharted path
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Expressin what we see and how we comprehend the math
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So there's enough for everyone we gotta make it last
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We gotta make it last..
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[Gift of Gab]
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As I embark on life's journey from the point where I'm at
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Peace to everyone I know or who I go way back wit
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Every pimp every mack, every gangsta to jack
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Every hustler feedin babies, anybody pro-black
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Every sister raisin kids without the help of a dad
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Wantin for they children all the things that they never had
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All the brothers handlin business even though shit's hard
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Wakin up at five A.M., holdin down three jobs
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All my rasta brethern gettin insight from trees
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To my brothers up in college gettin Ph.D's
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Or any other degree, even if you just read
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For mental health, see you're concious that your mind is free
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All my people locked down, for your past mistakes
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Mentally and spiritually, dwellin past the gates
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You could change your ways, elevate today
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To all recovered alcoholics chillin up in AA
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Every black-owned business, keep doin for self
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Helpin out the community and spreadin the wealth
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Understand that help ain't gonna come from nowhere else
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Revolutionaries makin the unjust get dealth wit
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Head on black people got to meet the task
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Educate, keep learnin, gotta question, ask!
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And let your light keep shinin and remember the past
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By any means necessary, we'll be free at last
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[Chorus]
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[Gift of Gab]
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As I embark on life's journey from the point where I'm at
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Peace to everybody strivin to live right and exact
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Even though anxieties try to pull you down
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See your troubles as a blessin and you're homeward bound
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Everybody gotta struggle, that's the way of the world
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Can't develop biceps if you don't do curls
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Can't achieve a a garden if you never water your crops
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If you never paid your dues, then you don't get props
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Couldn't eat a proper meal without cookin it first
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Can't receive a paycheck if you don't do work
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If it wasn't for the rain, then the trees won't grow
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When the spring came around, what a sight to bestow
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When you face adversities, dark clouds won't last
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If you never study, how do you expect to pass?
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The grasshoppers laid around while the ants did chores
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When the winter came around, he was left outdoors
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See the cycle keeps moving like a big machine
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Evolution of the mind, soul body and being
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God'll never put upon you more than you can take
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Sometimes you even gotta learn from OTHER people's mistakes
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So head on black people got to meet the task
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Educate, keep learnin, gotta question, ask!
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And let your light keep shinin and remember the past
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By any means necessary, we'll be free at last
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[Chorus]
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Making Progress
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| Blackalicious |
