Talib Kweli
"Going Hard"

(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

(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