I've Got Life (Version)
Ain't got no home
Ain't got no shoes
Ain't got no money
Ain't got no class
Ain't got friends
Ain't got no schoolin'
Ain't got no words
Ain't got no job
Ain't got no money
And no place to stay
Ain't got no
Programmed inequity is in nervous system
Listen, watch the words and how they twist'em
Two thirds of the world turned victim
Subtle energy, they capture and block chi
The unseen violence behind democracy
Some call it hypocrisy, turn free man into property
And logically justify not treatin' them properly
Invisible ink in the constitution
Meant to preserve the institution
Unequal distribution of wealth, goods and services
Revolvin door, no floor
Just anxiety and nervousness trapped in circuses
Herds of us not understanding our purposes
When appetittes and psychological rights get caught in hype
It's tight from morning 'til night
I'm demanding my rights
Women's sufferage, then black sufferage
Or Jim croww, the KKK
American terrorism, murders and beatings on television
It's in the cells now, you thought that was yesterday?
But the compression stays, trauma still got most affraid
Stuck in the memory, fear gives birth to lethargy
Generations of children in jeopardy
History written in jealousy, scribes full of heresy
Full of barbarians, ch-ch-ch-check out my melody
Musical therapy, reprogram
Africa full of coltan
Coltrane was a cold man
Black genious in a cold land tryin' to be the whole man
Heal the homeland, past time for our own land
Where a grown man can be a grown man
The system has benefit for robbery is robbery
You can't run from it, God is a natural monopoly
Divine creator stuck in monotony, bureaucracy, psyche on poverty
Self esteem broken like pottery
No more, not me
Codename anomaly
'Cause there's just no match for prodigy
Sovereignity, the God in me
Walking university, living cosmology
Without apology
I've got life
I've got laughs
I've got headaches and toothaches
And bad times too like you, you, you, you, you
OK, the more suppres life the stronger it gets
With death life the longer it gets
I know it's hard to admit that you follow some bullshit
Swallow the wrong pill, looking fot Mr Bill
Repression-oppression, the same thing (same thing)
Fear the shadow, that's the main thing they keep running from
Every action yields an equal and opposite one
Yes, that means the consequence comes
Fields of cumbersome back breaking labor can't be healed with just a cummerbund
I was homecoming queen, call me number one
Yep, that's another one, now give the drummer some
Tell every mother's son, expression can be far more powerful than a hundred guns
See my Kalashnikov lyrics with the safety off
Now dance around this niggas, like Baryshnikov
Street sweeper, the words are my keeper
It's in the ether, now what you tryna tell preachers?
It's done, let loose your tongues
Gifted, black and young watch these devils run, they knew a change was gonna come
Sinner man looking for a place to run
Tell the truth in tongues, enemy reduced by one's
Thousands too can put ten thousand in flight, speak truth to power every 24 hours
Ain't got no wine, no cigarettes
No clothes, no country
No class, no schoolin'
No friends, no nothin'
Ain't got no love
Ain't got no
Imperialism is a form of Jihad
They killed and enslaved millions for gold bullion in the name of God
The children of mammon called it spiritual famine
Can we exhamine how they stole bauxite, rubber, labor, diamonds and platinum?
They building blocks of society and economy, broke humanity to build the colonies
Using reverse psychologies to keep us from knowin' our quality
No more human tragedy, no more misrecognition
No more addiction
Let's accurately diagnose our condition
Listen
Four hundred years of abuse and misuse of religion
Don't give me another person's presription
I need what I need, my deeds are my deeds
As a man thinketh so is he, Mezamni
Take the land back, every child, woman and man back
Reevaluate history expeditiously
Can't live my life in apostasy, emulate the apostrophe S, give me no less
You can rock with me, I come in love and truth
Look at what I went through, now it's time to acknowledge just what I give you
Life
Ain't got no earth
No water
No food, no home
I said I ain't got no clothes
No job, no nothing
I ain't got long to live
I ain't got no love
Ain't got no
There' a whole lotta wrong to be righted, I get excited
I'ma kick this shit off like I'm on Manchester United and my attention is undivided
So you can't divide and conquer me, I'm sittin' comfortabely in my SUV
Up in my SUV taking artistic liberties
Making musical history, little acupuncture, structural integration
My meditation, liberating a generation and beyond that
I'm taking the bomb back, I'm splitting atoms for freedom
America needs more freed me able to talk right, not prone to greed men
It's just what you don't need men
Let your words and deeds line up, master the mind
Young king men put your signs up, intelligent designs up
Plant your seeds, keep your dimes up
'Cause no man knows when the time's up
It's elemental like Solomon in the temple
Ark of the Covenant accountable to a higher government
I'm looking for love (in all the wrong places)
Somebody, tell me where them brothas went, reclaim your wealth
No more giving the enemy help, no more sympathy for the devil, let'em hang himself
Get all the billion black people out of these bottles
Suffer while grown people get coddled, you know the novel
What have I got?
Aah, what have I got?
Let me tell you what I got
That nobody is gonna take away
Unless I wanted
I got my hair on my head
My brains, my ears
My eyes, my nose and my mouth
I've got my smile
I got my tongue, my chin
My neck, my boobies
My heart, my soul and my back
I've got my sex
I've got my arms, my hands
My fingers, my legs
My feet, my toes and my liver
I've got my blood
I've got life
I've got laughs
I've got headaches and toothaches
And bad times too, like you
I've got life
I've got laughs
I've got headaches and toothaches
And bad times too, like you
Ain't got no shoes
Ain't got no money
Ain't got no class
Ain't got friends
Ain't got no schoolin'
Ain't got no words
Ain't got no job
Ain't got no money
And no place to stay
Ain't got no
Programmed inequity is in nervous system
Listen, watch the words and how they twist'em
Two thirds of the world turned victim
Subtle energy, they capture and block chi
The unseen violence behind democracy
Some call it hypocrisy, turn free man into property
And logically justify not treatin' them properly
Invisible ink in the constitution
Meant to preserve the institution
Unequal distribution of wealth, goods and services
Revolvin door, no floor
Just anxiety and nervousness trapped in circuses
Herds of us not understanding our purposes
When appetittes and psychological rights get caught in hype
It's tight from morning 'til night
I'm demanding my rights
Women's sufferage, then black sufferage
Or Jim croww, the KKK
American terrorism, murders and beatings on television
It's in the cells now, you thought that was yesterday?
But the compression stays, trauma still got most affraid
Stuck in the memory, fear gives birth to lethargy
Generations of children in jeopardy
History written in jealousy, scribes full of heresy
Full of barbarians, ch-ch-ch-check out my melody
Musical therapy, reprogram
Africa full of coltan
Coltrane was a cold man
Black genious in a cold land tryin' to be the whole man
Heal the homeland, past time for our own land
Where a grown man can be a grown man
The system has benefit for robbery is robbery
You can't run from it, God is a natural monopoly
Divine creator stuck in monotony, bureaucracy, psyche on poverty
Self esteem broken like pottery
No more, not me
Codename anomaly
'Cause there's just no match for prodigy
Sovereignity, the God in me
Walking university, living cosmology
Without apology
I've got life
I've got laughs
I've got headaches and toothaches
And bad times too like you, you, you, you, you
OK, the more suppres life the stronger it gets
With death life the longer it gets
I know it's hard to admit that you follow some bullshit
Swallow the wrong pill, looking fot Mr Bill
Repression-oppression, the same thing (same thing)
Fear the shadow, that's the main thing they keep running from
Every action yields an equal and opposite one
Yes, that means the consequence comes
Fields of cumbersome back breaking labor can't be healed with just a cummerbund
I was homecoming queen, call me number one
Yep, that's another one, now give the drummer some
Tell every mother's son, expression can be far more powerful than a hundred guns
See my Kalashnikov lyrics with the safety off
Now dance around this niggas, like Baryshnikov
Street sweeper, the words are my keeper
It's in the ether, now what you tryna tell preachers?
It's done, let loose your tongues
Gifted, black and young watch these devils run, they knew a change was gonna come
Sinner man looking for a place to run
Tell the truth in tongues, enemy reduced by one's
Thousands too can put ten thousand in flight, speak truth to power every 24 hours
Ain't got no wine, no cigarettes
No clothes, no country
No class, no schoolin'
No friends, no nothin'
Ain't got no love
Ain't got no
Imperialism is a form of Jihad
They killed and enslaved millions for gold bullion in the name of God
The children of mammon called it spiritual famine
Can we exhamine how they stole bauxite, rubber, labor, diamonds and platinum?
They building blocks of society and economy, broke humanity to build the colonies
Using reverse psychologies to keep us from knowin' our quality
No more human tragedy, no more misrecognition
No more addiction
Let's accurately diagnose our condition
Listen
Four hundred years of abuse and misuse of religion
Don't give me another person's presription
I need what I need, my deeds are my deeds
As a man thinketh so is he, Mezamni
Take the land back, every child, woman and man back
Reevaluate history expeditiously
Can't live my life in apostasy, emulate the apostrophe S, give me no less
You can rock with me, I come in love and truth
Look at what I went through, now it's time to acknowledge just what I give you
Life
Ain't got no earth
No water
No food, no home
I said I ain't got no clothes
No job, no nothing
I ain't got long to live
I ain't got no love
Ain't got no
There' a whole lotta wrong to be righted, I get excited
I'ma kick this shit off like I'm on Manchester United and my attention is undivided
So you can't divide and conquer me, I'm sittin' comfortabely in my SUV
Up in my SUV taking artistic liberties
Making musical history, little acupuncture, structural integration
My meditation, liberating a generation and beyond that
I'm taking the bomb back, I'm splitting atoms for freedom
America needs more freed me able to talk right, not prone to greed men
It's just what you don't need men
Let your words and deeds line up, master the mind
Young king men put your signs up, intelligent designs up
Plant your seeds, keep your dimes up
'Cause no man knows when the time's up
It's elemental like Solomon in the temple
Ark of the Covenant accountable to a higher government
I'm looking for love (in all the wrong places)
Somebody, tell me where them brothas went, reclaim your wealth
No more giving the enemy help, no more sympathy for the devil, let'em hang himself
Get all the billion black people out of these bottles
Suffer while grown people get coddled, you know the novel
What have I got?
Aah, what have I got?
Let me tell you what I got
That nobody is gonna take away
Unless I wanted
I got my hair on my head
My brains, my ears
My eyes, my nose and my mouth
I've got my smile
I got my tongue, my chin
My neck, my boobies
My heart, my soul and my back
I've got my sex
I've got my arms, my hands
My fingers, my legs
My feet, my toes and my liver
I've got my blood
I've got life
I've got laughs
I've got headaches and toothaches
And bad times too, like you
I've got life
I've got laughs
I've got headaches and toothaches
And bad times too, like you
Credits
Writer(s): Lauryn Hill, Gerome Ragni, Galt Mac Dermot, James Rado
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Other Album Tracks
- My Mama Could Sing (Intro)
- Feeling Good
- I've Got Life (Version)
- Ne Me Quitte Pas
- Baltimore
- Love Me Or Leave Me
- My Baby Just Cares For Me
- Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
- Sinnerman
- We Are Young Gifted & Black
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- Live in Tokyo, Japan '99
- Guarding the Gates (From "Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack") - Single
- I've Got Life (Version)
- Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
- Feeling Good - Single
- Consumerism
- Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix)
- Frauenfeld Openair Festival 2012 (Ao Vivo)
- Mr. Intentional
- MTV Unplugged No. 2.0
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