Somalia (Explicit Version)-K'naan

[ti:Somalia] [ar:K'naan] [al:Troubadour] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Somalia (Explicit Version) - K'naan [00:13.27]Uh [00:13.61] [00:16.35]Yeah [00:16.65] [00:20.86]Somalia [00:21.37] [00:23.90]Yeah [00:24.19] [00:24.86]I spit it for my block [00:26.09]It's an ode I admit it [00:27.54]Here the city code is lock and load [00:29.57]Any minute is rock 'n' roll [00:31.08]And you rock 'n' roll [00:32.35]And feel your soul leavin' [00:33.98]It's just the wrong dance [00:35.11]That'll leave you not breathin' [00:37.05]I'm not particularly proud of this predicament but [00:40.03]I'm born and bred in this tenement [00:41.80]I'm sentimental what [00:43.28]Plus it's only right to represent my hood and what not [00:46.18]So I'm about to do it in the music [00:48.07]In the movies [00:48.66]Cut to the chase pan across to the face [00:51.51]I'm right there [00:52.44]Freeze frame on the street name [00:54.43]Oops wait a minute [00:55.35]This is where the streets have no name [00:57.23]And the drain of sewage [00:58.65]You can see it in this boy [01:00.38]How the hate is brewin' [01:01.71]'Cause when his tummy tucks in [01:03.34]F**k the pain is fluid [01:04.85]So what difference does it make entertaining [01:07.14]Threw it [01:07.87]Some get high mixing coke and gun powder [01:10.25]Sniffin' [01:10.89]She got a gun but could have been a model or physician [01:13.89]So what you know 'bout the pirates terrorize the ocean [01:17.02]To never know a simple day without a big commotion [01:20.08]It can't be healthy just to live with a such steep emotion [01:23.14]And when I try and sleep [01:24.70]I see coffins closin' [01:26.15]So what you know 'bout the pirates terrorize the ocean [01:29.25]To never know a simple day without a big commotion [01:31.84] [01:32.34]It can't be healthy just to live with a such steep emotion [01:35.25]And when I try and sleep [01:36.95]I see coffins closin' [01:38.55]Yeah yeah we used to take barbed wire [01:42.70]Mold them around discarded bike tires [01:45.09]Roll 'em down the hill on foot blazin' [01:47.23]Now that was our version of mountain bike racing damn [01:51.55]Do you see why it's amazing [01:53.34]When someone comes out of such a dire situation [01:56.29]And learns the English language [01:57.69]Just to share his observation [01:59.40]Probably get a Grammy without a grammar education [02:02.53]So f**k you school and f**k you immigration [02:05.42]And all of you who thought I wouldn't amount to constipation [02:08.47]And now I'm here without the slightest fear and reservation [02:11.54]They love me in the slums and in the native reservations [02:14.54]The world is a ghetto with ministering deprivation [02:17.25] [02:18.06]My mommy didn't raise no fool [02:19.76]Did she hot your [02:20.68]I promise [02:21.19]I would get it and remain strictly loyal [02:23.72]'Cause when they get it then [02:24.91]They let it all switch and spoil [02:26.76]But I just illuminated it like kitchen foil [02:29.94]A lot of main stream niggas is yappin' about yappin' [02:33.01]A lot of underground niggas is rappin' about rappin' [02:35.99]I just wanna tell you what's really crackalackan [02:39.04]Before the tears came down this is what happened [02:41.80] [02:42.49]So what you know 'bout the pirates terrorize the ocean [02:45.36]To never know a simple day without a big commotion [02:48.34]It can't be healthy just to live with a such steep emotion [02:51.58]And when I try and sleep I see coffins closin' [02:54.67]So what you know 'bout the pirates terrorize the ocean [02:57.72]To never know a simple day without a big commotion [03:00.78]It can't be healthy just to live with a such steep emotion [03:03.61]And when I try and sleep [03:05.35]I see coffins closin' [03:06.76] [03:13.27]Uh [03:13.55] [03:16.30]Yeah [03:16.56] [03:20.76]Somalia