[Lupe Fiasco]
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Now I can't pledge allegiance to your flag
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Cause I can't find no reconciliation with your past
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When there was nothing equal for my people in your math
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You forced us in the ghetto and then you took our dads
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The belly of the beast, these streets are demons' abs
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I'm telling you that setup in them sit-ups is so sad
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The system is a slab
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Corruption is the swinger sittin high ridin dirty, drag racin into danger
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And it's so clean, pine trees smellin good
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With work off in the trunk and niggas in the hood
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So I can't shed blood on any battlefield of yours
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I pray the ugly truth comes and shatters your decor
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And as it all falls down and tatters on the floor
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I shed tears, I don't know what really matters anymore
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Cause I don't know what really matters anymore
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[Chorus: Casey Benjamin]
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Many things, strangest things you ever seen
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Oh, look at how they swing, would you look at how they swing?
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Embedded they go, no eyelids gone low
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Or gone by sundown, they're dodging 5-0
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[Lupe Fiasco]
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Now as I wander through the city goin mad
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I see the fruits of planting evidence instead of grass
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A swindled generation with no patience, full of swag
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Man, they so impatient with the stations that they have
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As long as they look good when they be doin bad
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Then the separation from the truth is gettin vast, fast
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Be a slave at first or free at last
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Double-edged choices make a nigga wanna pass
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Double-headed voices from the eagle on the staff
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The pyramid where eyes will split the spirited in half
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Divided over money
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Delighted by the dummyin down of the importance of crowns we'll never have
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That's why my sounds and sermons are so full of wrath
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Baptize your mind, let your brain take a bath
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Swim inside the river get delivered from the craft
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Of the witches in this business that be livin off your sad
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Hatin on your happiness you hit 'em off with laughs
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Smile 'til they surrender, then you kill 'em off with glad
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Hello evil, I'm back
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[Chorus]
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Strange Fruition
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Lupe Fiasco |