[intro]this is called being high as shit for hoursthat’s the name of this song nigga, “high as shit for hoursâ€here we go, yeah [verse 1]american hypocrisy, oh let me count the ways they came here seeking freedom and they endup owning slaves
apple after hours, justified it using what christianity wouldsay religion don’t mean shit, there’s toomuch ego in the way that’s why isis is in crisisbut in reality this country do the same shit take a life and call it righteousremember when bin laden got killed, supposedly
in a hotel lobby after a showwas noticing these white ladies watching cnn covering the actionthey read the headline and then they all started clappingas if lebron has just scored a basket at the buzzeri stood there for a second watch them high five each otherfor real? i though this was thou shalt not killbut police still letting off niggas in the villeclaiming that he reached for a gun they really think we dumb and got a deathwish now somebody’s son is laying breathlesswhen i was a little boy my father lived in
texaspulled up in toyota, drove that bitch like it was lexusput my bag in his trunk and headed off for dallasout their for the summer feeling just like i was alicelost in the wonder land where niggas still sufferingjust like they was back home and that’s wrong[refrain 1] so now its fuck the government, they see myniggas struggling and they don’t give a fuck at all and that’swrong, yeah [hook]the type of shit that make you wanna
the type of shit that make you wanna let gothe type of shit that make you wanna the type of shit that make you wanna let go[verse 2] i had a convo with the president, i paid togo and see him thinking bout the things i said i’d saywhen i would see him feeling nervous, sitting in a room full ofwhite folks thinking about the black man plight, thinki might choke, nope raised my hand and asked a man a question‘does he see the struggles of his brother in oppression? and if so, if you got all the power in theclout as the president
what’s keeping you from helping niggas out?’ well i didn’t say nigga, but you catch mydrift he look me in my eyes and spoke and he wasrather swift he broke the issues down and showed me hewas well aware i got the vibe he was sincere and that thebrother cared but dawg you in the chair, what’s the holdup? he said there’s things that i wanna fixbut you know this shit nigga politics don’t stop fighting and don’t stop believingyou can make the world better for your kids before you leave it[refrain 2]
change is slow, always has been, always willbe but fuck that, i’ma bust back, till theykill me but fuck that, i’ma bust back until theykill me you feel me? [hook]the type of shit that make you wanna (aight third verse)the type of shit that make you wanna let go the type of shit that make you wannathe type of shit that make you wanna let go [verse 3]here’s a thought for my revolutionary heart take a deeper look at history, it’s thereto pick apart
see the people at the top, they get to dojust what they want till after while the people at the bottomfinally get smart then they start to holla revolution, tiredof living here, destitution fuck that looting, can you tell me what’sthe best solution? i used to think it was to over throw oppressorssee, if we destroy the system that means we’ll have less of greedbut see, it’s not that simple i got to thinking bout the history of humannature while this instrumental, playthen i realized something that made me wonder if revolution was really ever the waybefore you trip and throw a fit over these
words i saythink about this shit for second, you heard the waythe children in abusive households grow up knocking girlfriends out coldthat’s called a cycle abused becomes the abuser and that how lifego, so understand look at the power, but you know what powerdoes to man corruption always leads us to the same shitagain so when you talk about revolution dawg, ihear just what you saying [refrain 2]what good is taking over, when we know what you gon’ dothe only real revolution happens right inside
of youi said what good is taking over, when we know whatyou gon’ do the only real revolution happens right insideof you [hook]the type of shit that make you wanna (high for hours nigga)the type of shit that make you wanna let go (volume one)the type of shit that make you wanna the type of shit that make you wanna let go
