Beautiful Struggle (Explicit)-Talib Kweli

[ti:Beautiful Struggle] [ar:Talib Kweli] [al:The Beautiful Struggle] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Beautiful Struggle (Explicit) - Talib Kweli [00:00.23]Written by：Talib Kweli Greene/Tony Cottrell [00:00.46]This is a tear jerker [00:01.69] [00:08.48]The revolution is here the revolution is here [00:10.80]Revolution is here people [00:12.04] [00:13.58]I said it once I'll say it twice say it twice [00:15.80]You gots to be ready gots to be ready [00:17.60] [00:18.48]The revolution is inside of you inside of you [00:20.64] [00:21.19]People people the revolution is here yeah [00:24.38]The revolution's here [00:25.85] [00:26.74]No one can lead you off your path [00:28.77] [00:29.86]You'll try to change the world [00:31.43] [00:32.19]So please excuse me while I laugh yeah [00:35.64]No one can change your ways rock with me for a second [00:38.34]Lead you off your path come on [00:41.08]You'll try to change the world [00:42.70] [00:43.45]So please excuse me while I laugh [00:45.76] [00:46.49]Yo I heard it's said the revolution [00:48.64]Won't be televised [00:49.68]But in the land of milk and honey [00:50.91]There's a date you gotta sell it by [00:52.46]Otherwise it just expires and spoils [00:54.27]And these folks jump out the pot when the water too hot [00:56.83]'Cuz the fire boils inside [00:58.55]You go to church to find you some religion [01:00.45]And all you hear is connivin' and gossip and contradiction and [01:03.81]You try to vote and participate in the government [01:06.25]And the muh'f**kin' Democrats is actin' [01:08.20]Like Republicans [01:09.23]You join an organization that know [01:11.06]Black history [01:12.00]But ask them how they plan to make [01:13.61]Money and it's a mystery [01:14.87]Lookin' for the remedy but you can't see what's hurtin' you [01:17.42]The revolution's here the revolution is personal [01:20.47]They call me the political rapper [01:21.97]Even after I tell 'em [01:23.14]I don't f**k with politics [01:24.81]I don't even follow it [01:26.08]I'm on some KRS Ice Cube Chris Wallace sh*t [01:28.95]Main Source De La Soul bumpin' 2Pacalypse Now [01:31.15]The revolution's here yeah [01:34.10]No one can lead you off your path uh uh [01:37.30]You'll try to change the world [01:38.84] [01:39.58]So please excuse me while [01:40.97]I laugh ha ha ha ha [01:43.15]No one can change your ways [01:44.53] [01:45.06]No one can lead you off your path uh uh [01:48.49]You'll try to change the world 'scuse me [01:50.80]So please excuse me while I laugh [01:53.16] [01:53.82]Yo I speak at schools a lot 'cause they say I'm intelligent [01:56.88]Nervous 'cause I'm d**e if I was wack I'd be irrelevant [01:59.76]I'm like the d**e in your tracks [02:01.16]Until your high is settled in [02:02.61]You leanin' to the left the laughter's the best medicine [02:05.02]But the troubles you have today [02:06.76]You just can't laugh away [02:07.92]Stay optimistic they can change it's gon' come like Donny Hathaway [02:10.79]You have to pray on top of that act today [02:13.00]'Cuz opportunity shrivel away like Tom Hanks in Cast Away [02:16.68]Everybody pass away the past will pay the family mournin' [02:19.44]Everybody act accordin' to the season [02:21.51]That they born in [02:22.12]You fight in the streets start bleedin' [02:24.25]'Til the blood is pourin' [02:25.41]In the gutter mothers cry 'til [02:26.65]The Lord be livin' by the sword and [02:28.11]All that folks want is safety [02:29.30]They goin' gun crazy [02:30.47]The same reason Reagan was playin' war games in the '80s [02:33.57]The same reason I've always rocked dog chains on my babies [02:36.30]The struggle is beautiful I'm too strong for you to slave me [02:39.07]The revolution's here yeah [02:40.95]No one can lead you off your path uh uh [02:44.64]You'll try to change the world [02:46.13] [02:46.92]So please excuse me while I laugh ha ha ha ha [02:50.40]No one can change your ways yeah [02:52.59]No one can lead you off your path uh uh [02:55.81]You'll try to change the world 'scuse me [02:58.16]So please excuse me while I laugh yeah [03:01.56]The revolution's here [03:03.03] [03:03.98]No one can lead you off your path [03:06.12] [03:07.03]You'll try to change the world [03:08.61] [03:09.50]So please excuse me while I laugh [03:11.69] [03:12.75]No one can change your ways [03:14.26] [03:15.07]No one can lead you off your path [03:17.00] [03:18.19]You'll try to change the world [03:19.85] [03:20.66]So please excuse me while I laugh [03:23.28]Let's go let's go [03:24.59] [03:31.95]So please excuse me while I laugh