Talib Kweli - Beautiful Struggle Lyrics
[Sample]This is a tear jerker[Intro] {*echoes*}The revolution is here, the revolution is here peopleI said it once, I'll say it twiceYou gots to be readyThe revolution is inside of youPeople, the revolution is here, yeah[Hook]The revolution's hereNo one can lead you off your pathYou'll try to change the worldSo please excuse me while I laugh (yeah)No one can change your ways (rock with me for a second)No one can lead you off your path (come on)You'll try to change the worldSo please excuse me while I laugh[Verse 1: Talib Kweli]Yo, I heard it's said the revolution won't be televisedBut in the land of milk and honey there's a date you gotta sell it byOtherwise it just expires and spoilsAnd these folks jump out the pot when the water too hotCuz the fire boils insideYou go to church to find you some religionAnd all you hear is connivin' and gossip and contradiction andYou try to vote and participate in the governmentAnd the muh'*****in' Democrats is actin' like RepublicansYou join an organization that know black historyBut ask them how they plan to make money and it's a mysteryLookin' for the remedy but you can't see what's hurtin' youThe revolution's here, the revolution is personalThey call me the political rapperEven after I tell 'em I don't ***** with politicsI don't even follow itI'm on some KRS, Ice Cube, Chris Wallace shitMain Source, De La Soul, bumpin' "2Pacalypse Now"[Hook]The revolution's here (yeah)No one can lead you off your path (uh uh)You'll try to change the worldSo please excuse me while I laugh (ha ha, ha ha)No one can change your waysNo one can lead you off your path (uh uh)You'll try to change the world ('scuse me)So please excuse me while I laugh[Verse 2]Yo, I speak at schools a lot cause they say I'm intelligentNervous cause I'm dope, if I was wack I'd be irrelevantI'm like the dope in your tracks until your high is settled inYou leanin' to the left, the laughter's the best medicineBut the troubles you have today you just can't laugh awayStay optimistic, they can change, it's gon' come like Donny HathawayYou have to pray, on top of that, act todayCuz opportunity shrivel away like Tom Hanks in "Cast Away"Everybody pass away, the past will pay, the family mournin'Everybody act accordin' to the season that they born inYou fight in the streets, start bleedin' 'til the blood is pourin'In the gutter, mothers cry 'til the Lord be livin' by the sword andAll that folks want is safety, they goin' gun crazyThe same reason Reagan was playin' war games in the '80sThe same reason I've always rocked dog chains on my babiesThe struggle is beautiful, I'm too strong for you to slave me[Hook]The revolution's here (yeah)No one can lead you off your path (uh uh)You'll try to change the worldSo please excuse me while I laugh (ha ha, ha ha)No one can change your ways (yeah)No one can lead you off your path (uh uh)You'll try to change the world ('scuse me)So please excuse me while I laugh (yeah)The revolution's hereNo one can lead you off your pathYou'll try to change the worldSo please excuse me while I laughNo one can change your waysNo one can lead you off your pathYou'll try to change the worldSo please excuse me while I laugh[Outro: Talib Kweli]It's a beautiful thing that's happenin' right nowRight now GYo, I'm rockin' with my man Hi-Tek on the track right nowWe fightin' the good fightThe Beautiful StruggleYeah, let's go(So please excuse me while I laugh)
