We Need Answers
(Yeah)
Man, they killing us like sport
While they sit back at resorts
And they saying that they for us
All them lies not really for it
Why you using so much force?
Why the army at the doors?
Why you using those resorts?
When we talking you ignoring
Is the truth really that boring?
Is that evil that you showing?
Are you Children of the Corn?
We divided but not torn
All these questions that were formed
Are you scared to take a form?
We need answers
Do you know em?
We need answers
Do you know em?
As we all live in this system
Revolution is the mission
Adversaries just don't get it
They gon swim and drown with fishes
Some just only want attention
Others blending like chameleons
You know reptiles love to slither
Know the truth just make 'em bitter
If I preach then I deliver
I just want you to remember
All the favors that were given When I helped you cross the river
Talk behind my back is simple
When you never got the mental to just have your own ambition
So you faking to rekindle
Or you faking interventions
When you scheme and plot to swindle
I guess lying really fit you
Didn't know time was an issue
You impatient and dismissive
See the truth that's in the scripture, when I'm creating a picture
Man, they killing us like sport
While they sit back at resorts
And they saying that they for us
All them lies not really for it
Why you using so much force?
Why the army at the doors?
Why you using those resorts?
When we talking you ignoring
Is the truth really that boring?
Is that evil that you showing?
Are you Children of the Corn?
We divided but not torn
All these questions that were formed
Are you scared to take a form?
We need answers
Do you know em?
We need answers
Do you know em?
You know me I keep it simple man
I'm tryna make a difference
I'm tryna make you feel again
These lives they taking innocent
They actors moving diligent
They lies not making any sense
They betting on the ignorant
Remember that it's always bliss
The truth they try to hide that shit
But you smell and start noticing
You question what that odor is
You didn't forget deodorant
You look up and you know the scent
Get stuck and now you motionless
Emotions you were holding in, explode and you just go with it
Expose 'em cause you know that shit
They try they best controlling it
Like bubble guts on toilet shit
They using all the toiletries, to clean up what they ordering
They greedy and reordering
It's like they love to order shit
Man, they killing us like sport
While they sit back at resorts
And they saying that they for us
All them lies not really for it
Why you using so much force?
Why the army at the doors?
Why you using those resorts?
When we talking you ignoring
Is the truth really that boring?
Is that evil that you showing?
Are you Children of the Corn?
We divided but not torn
All these questions that were formed
Are you scared to take a form?
We need answers
Do you know em?
We need answers
Do you know em?
"The inequality suffered by the American Negro population of the United States has hindered the American dream
Indeed, it has
The other, deeper, element of a certain awkwardness I feel
Has to do with
It has to do with one's point of view
I have to put it that way
One's sense, one's system of reality
It would seem to me the proposition before the House And I would put it that way
Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro Or the American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro
Is a question hideously loaded, and that one's response to that question
Or one's reaction to that question has to depend on effect
In effect, on where you find yourself in the world, what your sense of reality is
What your system of reality is
That is, it depends on assumptions which we hold, so deeply
So as to be scarcely aware of them
Are white South African or Mississippi sharecropper
Or Mississippi sheriff, or a Frenchman driven out of Algeria
All have, at bottom,
a system of reality which compels them to
For example, in the case of the French exile from Algeria
To offend French reasons from having ruled Algeria
The Mississippi or Alabama sheriff, who really does believe
When he's facing a Negro boy or girl, that this woman
This man, this child must be insane to attack the system to which he owes his entire identity
Of course, to such a person
The proposition which we are trying to discuss here tonight, does not exist
And on the other hand, I
Have to speak as one of the people who've been most attacked by what we must now here call
The Western or the European system of reality"
Man, they killing us like sport
While they sit back at resorts
And they saying that they for us
All them lies not really for it
Why you using so much force?
Why the army at the doors?
Why you using those resorts?
When we talking you ignoring
Is the truth really that boring?
Is that evil that you showing?
Are you Children of the Corn?
We divided but not torn
All these questions that were formed
Are you scared to take a form?
We need answers
Do you know em?
We need answers
Do you know em?
As we all live in this system
Revolution is the mission
Adversaries just don't get it
They gon swim and drown with fishes
Some just only want attention
Others blending like chameleons
You know reptiles love to slither
Know the truth just make 'em bitter
If I preach then I deliver
I just want you to remember
All the favors that were given When I helped you cross the river
Talk behind my back is simple
When you never got the mental to just have your own ambition
So you faking to rekindle
Or you faking interventions
When you scheme and plot to swindle
I guess lying really fit you
Didn't know time was an issue
You impatient and dismissive
See the truth that's in the scripture, when I'm creating a picture
Man, they killing us like sport
While they sit back at resorts
And they saying that they for us
All them lies not really for it
Why you using so much force?
Why the army at the doors?
Why you using those resorts?
When we talking you ignoring
Is the truth really that boring?
Is that evil that you showing?
Are you Children of the Corn?
We divided but not torn
All these questions that were formed
Are you scared to take a form?
We need answers
Do you know em?
We need answers
Do you know em?
You know me I keep it simple man
I'm tryna make a difference
I'm tryna make you feel again
These lives they taking innocent
They actors moving diligent
They lies not making any sense
They betting on the ignorant
Remember that it's always bliss
The truth they try to hide that shit
But you smell and start noticing
You question what that odor is
You didn't forget deodorant
You look up and you know the scent
Get stuck and now you motionless
Emotions you were holding in, explode and you just go with it
Expose 'em cause you know that shit
They try they best controlling it
Like bubble guts on toilet shit
They using all the toiletries, to clean up what they ordering
They greedy and reordering
It's like they love to order shit
Man, they killing us like sport
While they sit back at resorts
And they saying that they for us
All them lies not really for it
Why you using so much force?
Why the army at the doors?
Why you using those resorts?
When we talking you ignoring
Is the truth really that boring?
Is that evil that you showing?
Are you Children of the Corn?
We divided but not torn
All these questions that were formed
Are you scared to take a form?
We need answers
Do you know em?
We need answers
Do you know em?
"The inequality suffered by the American Negro population of the United States has hindered the American dream
Indeed, it has
The other, deeper, element of a certain awkwardness I feel
Has to do with
It has to do with one's point of view
I have to put it that way
One's sense, one's system of reality
It would seem to me the proposition before the House And I would put it that way
Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro Or the American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro
Is a question hideously loaded, and that one's response to that question
Or one's reaction to that question has to depend on effect
In effect, on where you find yourself in the world, what your sense of reality is
What your system of reality is
That is, it depends on assumptions which we hold, so deeply
So as to be scarcely aware of them
Are white South African or Mississippi sharecropper
Or Mississippi sheriff, or a Frenchman driven out of Algeria
All have, at bottom,
a system of reality which compels them to
For example, in the case of the French exile from Algeria
To offend French reasons from having ruled Algeria
The Mississippi or Alabama sheriff, who really does believe
When he's facing a Negro boy or girl, that this woman
This man, this child must be insane to attack the system to which he owes his entire identity
Of course, to such a person
The proposition which we are trying to discuss here tonight, does not exist
And on the other hand, I
Have to speak as one of the people who've been most attacked by what we must now here call
The Western or the European system of reality"
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Writer(s): Terrell Jordan
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