Eat to Live
Talib Kweli

Yeah, this is a ghetto prayernPrayin for all of those who ain't got itnWe gotta get it there, we gotta get it yeahnYeah the people starvin for somethin new, we starvin for itn(My tummy hurts, I couldn't eat)nMmmm, mmm, mmmn(Did you have fun at school today Trey?)nnMy little man go to bed so hungrynGet up, go to school with his nose runny, come home with his nose bloodynHis sister laughin, he like What's so funny~?n'Til she drowned out by the sounds of hunger pains in his tummynNuttin in the freezer, nuttin in the fridgenCouple of 40 ounces but nuttin for the kidsnLittle man know to eat to live but he don't wanna leave the cribnThe kid who punched him in his face house right down the street from hisnHe went anyway, more scared to face his momsnShe'll beat him soon as she flip out, seein his face scarrednWalkin past the dopefiends with they smoke to the place of GodnHopes and dreams pourin out the holes in they face and armsnLittle man in the face of harm if he don't eatnHe need energy so when he go to school he can competenAnd keep up, all he got is bodegasnBut hey he only got enough a for quarter water and a Now-o-LaternAnyway, grandma say Jesus'll be here any daynGood - cause with nuttin to eat it's gettin hard to pray... pray...nnnn[Chorus: repeat 4X]nIn order to receive, then we need to givenWe gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to livennnListen...nnMy rhymes got nutritional valuenI get it how I live, it's critical when the conditions allow younDo you don't trust the critics who doubt younTry to write shit about you, but they can't make a living without younGo hungry, you gotta watch what the media feed yanAnd don't be a poisoned animal eater eithernIt's harder than it sound, cause nowadays, put that swine in everythingnThe white sugar so addictive it's pure 'cainenThey got, pork in the toothpaste, soda in the Sunny DnJello brand gelatin is laced with the lecatinnIn Africa they starvin, over here the food hurt younCows goin mad and the chickens crunk with bird flunIt's too ill how the food kill it's like blue steelnLies never set you free, but the truth willnThe truth still matter the proof is in the batter or the puddingnYou can tell we eatin good, we gettin fatternn[Chorus repeat 4X]nnListen...


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