DJ GI Joe rock that..
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The 13th amendment
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(...they say nothing wrong
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A change is gonna come -
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You know and I know
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You know that I know
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I know that you know that something's gotta change is gonna come...)
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[Bridge]
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First you clean his hands from top to bottom
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Grand afferents then wash him, then you go pick the cotton
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Listen y'all I'm tired man, I swear (I've been running)
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For so long trying to be strong with you (I've been running)
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I'm exhausted (Ohh yeah)
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My feet hurt (I don't...)
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Wanna run no more (I don't...)
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Wanna run no more (I don't know what's a bed)
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They said (a change is going)
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WHEN (a change is going)
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WHEN (a change is going [?] everyday)
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[Joell Ortiz:]
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Ain't nothing changed except the chains
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That restraining our physical frame
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Mentally we still living the same
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Its lock down
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They knock down the Towers to raise tax
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Anything they burn we pay back
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I live in the hood; you'll never bump into Pat Seajack
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But we spin the wheel every time we chill
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Cuz cops hate blacks, and Hispanics they draw gats
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And just slam it before the ask where your hand is
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I don't see how a wallet can be mistaken for a cannon
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So please don't let em play us no more
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In everyway I'm ready, willing, and able to war
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Like any day I could pop I'd be in the front
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Like, please let the force be with me in this pump
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Housing want me to work cuz I'm still on my mom's lease
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Threatening to raise the rent if I don't pick up them park leaves
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Ain't nothing in this world for free
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But somehow they got us fooled that this world is free
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[Chorus: Joell Ortiz]
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THIS IS MODERN DAY SLAVERY
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YOU SEE (yes)
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CARRY I.D. (yes)
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WATER IS A FEE (yes)
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THIS AIN'T HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE MAN (I've been running)
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For so long trying to be strong with you (I've been running)
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I'm exhausted (Ohh yeah)
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My feet hurt (I don't...)
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Wanna run no more (I don't....)
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Wanna run no more (I don't know what's a bed)
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They said (a change is going)
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WHEN (a change is going)
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WHEN (a change is going [?] everyday)
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[Immortal Technique:]
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Our people are the product of genocide and slavery
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Everything in the ghetto was how it was made to be
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Designed in a process, Prison Industrial Complex
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Niggaz transformed into numbers and objects
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We pay the devil rent for living in hell
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Cuz the projects was built on the spot where Lucifer fell
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Incarcerated knowledge heavy weight (Heavy Nigga)
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Every black man should read through the Romany Chapter 28
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Cursed in the city like we're cursed in the field
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Cursed on the border, and cursed by the New World Order
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Our sons and daughters were stolen by another people
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[?] end of the Earth, land of the Eagle
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This is the sequel to the prophecy
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Freedom when peaceful then violent is my philosophy
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I built an army, now I'm gonna build a nation
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The foundation of a new civilization
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And overthrow the plantation
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[Chorus: Immortal Technique]
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MODERN DAY SLAVERY SEE? (yes)
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IT WAS DESIGNED TO BE (yes)
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PATRIOT ACT 3 (yes)
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Just wait young nigga you'll see (I've been running)
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For so long, my people been strong, but yo (I've been running)
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I'm exhausted (Ohh yeah)
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My heart hurts (I don't...)
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But I'm gunning them more (I don't....)
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But I'm gunning them more (Fuck them, niggas!)
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I said, we gotta make em (a change is going)
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We gotta make em (a change is going)
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Quick motherfucker (lock and load)
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Immortal Technique
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Joell Ortiz
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Harlem, Brooklyn
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You know what it is nigga, the rebirth of the Young Lords
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Coming soon motherfucka
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You sleep and you die nigga...
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Good night motherfucka!
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Modern Day Slavery
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Joell Ortiz |