Going Hard - Talib Kweli, Res

I got a part to play, we going hard these days

Fuck the harder way, we doing it the harder way

To my god I pray, that’s how I start my day

The bullets starts to spray the revolution starts today

I say the shit these people ain’t got the heart to say

Fuck the harder way, we doing it the smarter way

To my god I pray, that’s how I start my day

The bullets starts to spray the revolution starts today

(1st Verse)

You say you never scared there’s kids in other countries

Making jerseys, jeans, and sneakers they could never wear

Parents never there, they’re busy building homes they can’t afford to buy

Cars they can’t afford to drive

Working jobs that don’t support their life

You busy screaming gangsta, gangsta all that talk is trife

You already know lost the fight if you don’t know the cost of life

These kids is forced to fight a war they can’t outrun

Ain’t got no shoes but got a gun

Now where the fuck he pulled that out from?

People ask me how we wearing diamonds

When there’s little kids in Sierra Leone

Losing arms for crying while they mining

Probably an orphan who’s momma died of AIDS

He built a coffin working often but he never paid

Forever slaving in the world that’s forever cold

Becoming the man of the house at 11 years old

This reality rap, I get inside the mentality that…

Terrorize you like a cowardly act

(Hook)

I got a part to play, we going hard these days

Fuck the harder way, we doing it the harder way

To my god I pray, that’s how I start my day

The bullets starts to spray the revolution starts today

I say the shit these people ain’t got the heart to say

Fuck the harder way, we doing it the smarter way

To my god I pray, that’s how I start my day

The bullets starts to spray the revolution starts today

(2nd Verse)

I was sold to a sick European by a rich African battlin'

Middle Passages, I can’t go back again

Battlin’years of denied history, lies and mysteries

Wives with misty eyes watchin’their husbands be beaten viciously

Battle in the wilderness of North America

Run by the river, only stoppin’to pray chased by predators

Terrorists with etiquette who vote and kill their president

Their capacity for evil so evident and prevalent

Ain’t no hesitation involved, a nation dissolved

While we sit back waitin’to evolve

Those who would trade in their freedom

For their protection deserve neither

Not a name, not tradition

Religion, you learn Jesus

Turn the other cheek

Inherit the Earth, just stay meek

Fuck the way you speak

Try to run, we chop off your feet

Fast forward to 2004 we selling

Yo this ain’t what I’m settling for

I want more, yo

(Hook)

I got a part to play, we going hard these days

Fuck the harder way, we doing it the harder way

To my god I pray, that’s how I start my day

The bullets starts to spray the revolution starts today

I say the shit these people ain’t got the heart to say

Fuck the harder way, we doing it the smarter way

To my god I pray, that’s how I start my day

The bullets starts to spray the revolution starts today