"Tater Tot" Lyrics - Talib Kweli

"Tater Tot" Lyrics - Talib Kweli

Tater Tot Lyrics is performed by Talib Kweli @ http://lyricsandmusicvideo.blogspot.com/

i'm just wondering what the heck is in our water supply

what the heck is in our oxygen supply

that creates a rainbow effect in the sprinklers?

what is oozing out of our ground

that allows this type of effect to happen?

it's not just around our sun and our moon any more

everywhere we look, the visible spectrum, is rainbows

this can not be natural

we as a nation have got to ask ourselves

what the hell is going on?

what is oozing out of our ground?

the day that i enlisted

was the result of a prior visit with jesus christ felt like i was lifted

then i got injured and the hospital was like a prison

fell out of touch with my faith i was nihilistic

they call me cyclops, cause i was blind in one eye

i'm out the army now i'm tryin to decide

how to properly fit in with civilians i'm used to killin

got me feelin all confused who the hero and who the villain

hopped in my red camaro, shot down the street like lead in a barrel

decked out in my veteran apparel

i drove aimlessly for miles until i saw this

country that'd want me to kill; i took a bullet for this muh'fucker

thousand miles later finally made a stop

small town restaurant, god damn the waitress hot

ordered tater tots, got her number, later that night

we was at the bar, takin shots 'til we fell in love

i said let's go las vegas and do this

knew this wasn't made for my soul

drove all night and was awakened to cold

she wanna play the slots, nicknamed her tater tot

cause of how we met, cool i need a shower, bet

found a motel on the strip, i'm checkin in

when out the blue some mexicans came in the lobby like they 'bout to shoot

some asians that was runnin down the hall with they guns brazen

now e'rybody pullin out they shit like it's an invasion!

the mexicans let them asians have it; asians had to fire back

'til they was outta bullets and the blood splattered everywhere

deal gone bad or somebody robbin

either way somebody's rotten all i hear is bodies droppin

i jump behind the front desk in the nick of time

the crook is on the floor, his blood made me slip and slide

but i'm the last man standin

a reflex made me grab a cannon out a dyin man's hand

then i noticed that a car was runnin

sack of guns on the floor plus unmarked bills by the hundreds

driver comin at me gunnin

sirens blarin in the distance cause the caps are comin

i spun around and i hit the deck

heard the bullets whiz by my ear i let off, hit him in the chest

quicker than the bullets left the chamber

i grabbed the sack off the floor hit the door with the bangers

lookin for my lady at the casino, she was in the zone

i said "we gotta go" she like "why?" and i'm like "c'mon!"

no need to gamble baby, here the lick

put the chips down we gotta go right now, this little shit

now we speedin down the i-15

first time i noticed that her eyes were green

gave her a gun and a magazine

i made her count the loot

but when she saw the score she pointed the gun at me

now she about to shoot (blam, blam blam)

"I'm On One" Lyrics - Talib Kweli

"I'm On One" Lyrics - Talib Kweli

[Talib]

Yeah.. my Lord.. yeah

[Verse 1: Talib]

We sell, crack to our own out the back of our homes

We smell the musk at the dusk in the crack of the dawn

We go through "Epidodes II," like "Attack of the Clones"

Work 'til we break our back and you hear the crack of the bone

To get by.. just to get by

Just to get by, just to get by

We commute to computers

Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors

We survivalists, turned to consumers

To get by.. just to get by

Just to get by, just to get by

Ask Him why some people got to live in a trailer, cuss like a sailor

I paint a picture with the pen like Norman Mailer

Me and Willa raised three daughters all by herself, with no help

I think about a struggle and I find the strength in myself

These words, melt in my mouth

They hot, like the jail cell in the South

Before my nigga Core bailed me out

To get by.. just to get by

Just to get by, just to get by

We do or die like Bed-Stuy through the red sky

with the window of the red eye

Let the lead fly, some G. Rap shit, "Livin' to Let Die"

[Chorus: Background singers)

This morning, I woke up

Feeling brand new and I jumped up

Feeling my highs, and my lows

In my soul, and my goals

Just to stop smokin, and stop drinkin

And I've been thinkin - I've got my reasons

Just to get (by), just to get (by)

Just to get (by), just to get (by)

[Talib and background singers]

(ba ba ba, ba da bada, ba da bada, ba da bada, ba da badahh

Just to get (by), just to get (by)

Just to get (by by by by by by)

(ba ba ba, ba da bada, ba da bada, ba da bada, ba da badahh

Just to get (by), just to get (by)

Just to get (by by by by by by)

[Verse 2: Talib]

We keeping it gangster say "fo shizzle", "fo sheezy" and "stayin crunk"

Its easy to pull a breezy, smoke trees, and we stay drunk

Yo, I activism - attackin the system, the blacks and latins in prison

Numbers of prison they victim black in the vision

Shit and all they got is rappin to listen to

I let them know we missin you, the love is unconditional

Even when the condition is critical, when the livin is miserable

Your position is pivotal, I ain't bullshittin you

Now, why would I lie? Just to get by?

Just to get by, we get fly

The TV got us reachin for stars

Not the ones between Venus and Mars, the ones that be readin for parts

Some people get breast enhancements and penis enlargers

Saturday sinners Sunday morning at the feet of the Father

They need somethin to rely on, we get high on all types of drug

When, all you really need is love

To get by.. just to get by

Just to get by, just to get by

Our parents sing like John Lennon, "Imagine all the people watch"

We rock like Paul McCartney from now until the last Beatle drop

[Chorus: Background singers]

This morning, I woke up

Feeling brand new and I jumped up

Feeling my high's, and my low's

In my soul, and my goals

Just to stop smoking, and stop drinking

And I've been thinking - I've got my reasons

Just to get (by), just to get (by)

Just to get (by), just to get (by)

[Talib: repeat 2X - with background singers]

Yoyoyo, yo

Some people cry, and some people try

Just to get by, for a piece of the pie

You love to eat and get high

We decieve when we lie, and we keepin it fly

Yoyoyo, yo

When, the people decide, to keep a disguise

Can't see they eyes, see the evil inside

But there's people you find

Strong or feeble in mind, I stay readin the signs

Talib Kweli Get By

"Cold Rain" Lyrics - Talib Kweli

Talib Kweli - Cold Rain Lyrics and Video

[Intro]

Lets try something new

It’s been a long time coming!

Let me try something brand new

Hey yo Ski!

What you ever do, man?

Come on!

Yo, what we doing it for?

[Talib Kweli - Verse 1]

This is for all the day-trippers and the hipsters

Whores and the fashionistas

Spiritual leaders practicing all the laws of attraction

The teachers who read the passages from the Bhagavad Gita

That be bustin off Dalai Lama’s or flashing heaters

the last of the boosters

With the shooting, the thugging and all the booning and spooning

and all the crooning, and cooning and auto-tuning, alive

You be tellin, peddlin’ to consumers I’m helping them to see through it

get with this new movement,

Let’s move it!

[Hook]

Feel the cold rain

Still I’m standing right here

Even the winter summer days

[Talib Kweli - Verse 1]

Yeah I’m a product of Reaganomics

From the blocks where he rocking a feds like J Electronica

drop and make this a lock

if he promises where the heart is

whether Jesus or Mohammad

regardless of where the Mosque is (word)

They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy

Tell me when do we stop it?

Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment?

Is the answer burning Korans

So that we can defend Islamics?

The end upon us with a hash tag, a trending topic

You take away the freedoms that we invite in the game

Then you disrespect the soldiers; you ask them to die in vein

In a desert praying for rain

The music’s like a drug, and they tend to take it to vein

It ain’t for the well-behaved

The soundtrack for when you’re great but its more for when you’ve felt afraid

More than your average rapper

So you sort of felt the way

The brain is like a cage, you a slave, that’s why they lovin’ you

This is the book that Eli that start with a K-W.

[Hook]

[Talib Kweli - Verse 2]

I do it for the trappers, other rappers

the Backpackers, the crackers

the n-ggas, the metal-packers

the victims of ghetto factories

I do it for the families, citizens of humanity

Emcee’s, endangered species like manatees

I do it for the future of my children!

They the hope for the hopeless

Karma approaches, we gon’ be food for a flock of vultures

The end of the World

Ain’t nothing left but the cockroaches

and the freedom fighters

We’re freedom writers like Bob Moses

the chosen, freedom writers like Voltaire

For my block, my borough, my hood, my city, my state, yeah

My obligation to my community is so clear!

yeah, we gotta save them, this opportunity so rare!

We do it so big over here that it’s no bare

To the punks, bitches, the chumps, the snitches, the sneak in the game

We let them live with all they’re weak and they’re lame

The bozo’s and joker’s, promoting when they’re speaking my name

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