Eat to Live (Amended Version)-Talib Kweli

[ti:Eat To Live (Amended Version)] [ar:Talib Kweli] [al:Eardrum] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Eat to Live (Amended Version) - Talib Kweli [00:03.88]Yeah this is a ghetto prayer [00:06.35]Prayin' for all of those who ain't got it [00:08.35]We gotta get it there we gotta get it here [00:11.48]Yeah the people starvin' for somethin' new we starvin' for it [00:23.20]My little man go to bed so hungry [00:25.13]Get up go to school with his nose runny [00:27.77]Come home with his nose bloody [00:28.88]His sister laughin' he like "What's so funny " [00:30.97]'Til she drowned out by the sounds of hunger pains in his tummy [00:33.64]Nuttin' in the freezer nuttin' in the fridge [00:36.14]Couple of 40 ounces but nuttin' for the kids [00:38.65]Little man know they to eat to live [00:40.25]But he don't wanna leave the crib [00:41.62]The kid who punched him in his face [00:43.23]House right down the street from his [00:44.36]He went anyway more scared to face his moms [00:46.75]She'll beat him soon as she flip out seein' his face scarred [00:49.29]Walkin' past the d**e fiends with they smoke to the place of God [00:51.82]Hopes and dreams pourin' out the holes in they face and arms [00:54.59]Little man in the face of harm if he don't eat [00:56.88]He need energy so when he go to school he can compete [00:59.55]And keep up all he got is bodegas [01:01.59]But hey he only got enough a for quarter water and a now or later [01:04.58]Anyway grandma say Jesus'll be here any day [01:07.23]Good 'cause with nuttin' to eat it's gettin' hard to pray [01:10.30]Pray pray pray [01:15.15]In order to receive then we need to give [01:17.55]We gotta feed the kids they gotta eat to live [01:20.21]In order to receive then we need to give [01:22.89]We gotta feed the kids they gotta eat to live [01:25.30]In order to receive then we need to give [01:27.91]We gotta feed the kids they gotta eat to live [01:30.54]In order to receive then we need to give [01:33.02]We gotta feed the kids they gotta eat to live listen [01:45.90]My rhymes got nutritional value [01:47.77]I get it how I live it's critical when the conditions allow you [01:50.70]Do you entrust the critics who doubt you [01:52.71]Try to write sh*t about you [01:54.04]But they can't make a living without you [01:55.89]Go hungry you gotta watch what the media feed you [01:58.45]And don't be a poisoned animal eaten either [02:00.67]It's harder than it sound 'cause nowadays [02:02.37]Put that swine in everything [02:03.86]The white sugar so addictive it's pure 'caine [02:06.14]They got pork in the toothpaste soda in the Sunny D [02:09.01]Jello brand gelatin is laced with the lecatin [02:10.82] [02:11.57]In Africa they starvin' over here the food hurt you [02:14.26]Cows goin' mad and the chickens crunk with bird flu [02:16.84]It's too ill how the food kills it's like blue steel [02:19.56]Lies never set you free but the truth will [02:22.00]The truth still matter the proof is in the batter or the pudding [02:25.10]You can tell we eatin' good we gettin' fatter [02:37.81]In order to receive then we need to give [02:40.17]We gotta feed the kids they gotta eat to live [02:42.70]In order to receive then we need to give [02:45.22]We gotta feed the kids they gotta eat to live [02:47.76]In order to receive then we need to give [02:50.29]We gotta feed the kids they gotta eat to live [02:52.90]In order to receive then we need to give [02:55.45]We gotta feed the kids they gotta eat to live listen