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All rights and music credit to 'Jyot se Jyot' by Lata Mangeshkar

Original lyrics, beats, performance by tii ©

Lyrics [censored]:
to get to school no car'll take ya
get to work the bus'll take ya
cut some class for work they'll catch ya
miss ya next shift cuz detention kept ya

no time to understand that kinetic theory of heat
just time on the clock to make ends meet
every way you turn you only face defeat
but you strike through hoping for victory sweet
no money, mo' problems

[refrain]

only the kids"the elite
get college education dats complete
they complain get it all n drag they feet
come out with a life plan solid, concrete
you're on the concrete with their words of deceit
minneapolis school board wants you to compete
you couldn't afford it; you're in the backseat
Brown vs. Board of Education they cheat
so u grow up to b a maid keeping they desk neat
they **** your family up on wall street
**** YOU in their manhattan suite

[man why do you work that blue collar job you're so much better than that!]
gotta be reasonable
it's the most reliable
it's the most predictable

no value to creativity to art and to soul
in a system where you live according to where you're born
let's take away from humanity
an artist can't fare, vanity
's standards will drive you green lights to insanity.

up to him, he'd be writing rhymes,
spraying the canvas of the streets,
pastelling over hate crimes,
for ALL to see and breathe.

he'd be a human artist
maybe not the book smartest
only value who's got the largest
pocketbook and platinum card is
NOT the human experience.
expression of soul
repression by capital gain.

[refrain]

because our founding fathers --
and every father since,
has said that all that matters --
is the US mints.

how much will it cost me,
to get you to not sue me,
for overworking Tommy,
for underpaying Lucy,
99% discount off humans for me

how many men will it cost america
to pay off oil men, Dubble Ya
ha ha wit non to spare for ya

that money it never tricklesdown,
stays in the green hands, uptown,
clenched in the iron fists,
it's all about the politics,
cronies, and the counterfeits.
more wmds, more double Ds, please

anyone can question the goverment?
country ain't got freedom's tint,
the voices of people worth two cents?
systematically left outta the print,
who can run for office -shiitttt
only the top .03 percent.

millions of people they label thugs,
sayin they got problem w drugs,
chimney sweep whole communities under the rug.

they buy in supreme court judges
secret arbitration gives u bloody smudges
still they bug bout caps on dama-ges
rape and beat the jamie leigh joneses
[conscious consumerism is an oxymoron]

[refrain]

we love whoever will sell to us even if it's saddam hussein,
vietnam dictators so they don't jump our money train,
they don't tell you that's why we go to war.
how much will we sell a man for?

or how much is a woman for?
all girls ya gotta be a whore
black n asian girls for comic relief
but never in the cast's core
Betty Friedan only wants freedom
for upper class women sicka the home store
all women of color underscored
their movement won't sell cause they're poor?
them? they don't needa be cared for.
just stay work the blue collar store.

any female rappers on ya scene other than Dessa?
good thing Minnesota girls aren't for sale, brah
**** a women's movement's only for the bourgeois
sit n read some damned Bell Hooks, sah
can't sell me cause I suck ya ****, straw.

[refrain]

wishes are jus fallin' stars
s'only dollars when you reach em.
don't let em leave u wit white scars
shit don't heal fast, nas-car
don't be a cowardly lion, rawr
good morals are only good in so far
as the systems we live in are.

think about where you were born into,
why you have your arbitrary world view,
when all you had to do
was show up here in ya birthday suit.