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Lost Desire
The Roots Feat. Malik B & Talib Kweli
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It's the love in your heart
Or the pain in your mind
No one cares what the truth is
'Cause a fortune's built on lies
It's the love in your heart
Or the pain in your mind
No one cares what the truth is
'Cause a fortune's built on lies
Yo, I'm exhausted but I never ever forfeit
Y'all just bullshit while I knock a nigga off quick
Y'all start speaking in tongues and start reaching for guns
The military will put the seed in your lungs
The street and the slums, the weak and the stums
The lower class always show you what a heathen becomes
The seasons are done and reasons are none
People dying, bullets flying 'cause they squeezing for fun
It's sort of a nightmare that's right there
They hoping that somebody in the hood just might care
The others protesting and rallying, death toll tallying
Foul smells around them pills in the alley and
Corner filled with teddy bears 'cause they killed a child again
They sing about murder so it ain't as long as Solomon
Get off the choir with your soft attire
Niggas out here don't give a fuck 'cause they lost desire
It's the love in your heart
Or the pain in your mind
No one cares what the truth is
'Cause a fortune's built on lies
It's the love in your heart
Or the pain in your mind
No one cares what the truth is
'Cause a fortune's built on lies
Yeah, my city full of heartbreakers and stargazers
Who puff gosh Vegas so they going with the wind like Clark Gable
Breathing like Darth Vader, believing in dark angels
Yeah we got flash but they not star-spangled
We not patriotic, the heroes are not them
Ghetto grills like rims, you stop, they still spin
Told tales at the bar when it's after dark
And we still stomping and chicken and rap simps
And listen to Rakim, where the y'all been?
For realer, I ain't even scheming and plotting
The fear is, the fear is self-personified
Paying homage to homicide, praying to the dollar sign
This idol worship, the rebel forces
Bodies lie at the foundation of the fortress
This is a war, we expect some losses
And we coming for the heads of the bosses
It's the love in your heart
Or the pain in your mind
No one cares what the truth is
'Cause a fortune's built on lies
It's the love in your heart
Or the pain in your mind
No one cares what the truth is
'Cause a fortune's built on lies
Yo, we on some casualties of war shit
What you stand for, kid?
We in the city where they definitely lost it
You open your eyelids and get capped in the ribs
Your funeral, they had your twelfth grade portrait
Pretty coffin, casket, pale shade orchids
Dead at nineteen and left a self-made fortune
And left trait orphans, now he in a box
With the same chain and watch that never came off him
A shame what it cost him, where he come from
It ain't nothing, it's an everyday thing, it's a problem
His chain was revolving, bust a light, rush him
Left with a full set that changed with the odds and
Flames in the mosque and people held hostage
Every day a struggle trying to get up out the mosh pit
Homicide for profit, tell me how we not sick
This shit is out of control, they can't stop it
It's the love in your heart
Or the pain in your mind
No one cares what the truth is
'Cause a fortune's built on lies
It's the love
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