Roots, The – Lost Desire

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It’s the lump in your heart

Or the pain in your mind

No one cares what the truth is

Cause a fortress built on lies

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I’m exhausted but I never ever forfeit

Y’all just bullshit while I knock a nigga off quick

Y’all start speaking in tongues and start reaching for guns

A militant will put this heat in your lungs

The street and the slums, the weekend is done

The local class always show you what is become

The seasons are done, and reasons are none

People dyin’ bullets flyin’ cause they schemin’ for fun

It’s all of a nightmare, that’s right there

They hopin’ that somebody in the hood just might care

With all this protestin’ and rallyin’

Death toll tallyin’

Foul smells around them in the alley and

Corner filled with teddy bears, cause they killed a child again,

They sing about murder, so it ain’t a song it’s

And listen to Rakim

With the that y’all been

For realla, I hadn’t been schemin’ to ply in

You fear us? Fear is self, personified

Payin’ homage to homicide

Prayin’ to the dollar sign

It’s idol worship

The rebel forces

Bodies lie at the foundation of the fortress

This is war, we expect some losses

And we comin’ for the heads of the bosses

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We on some casualties of war shit,

What you stand for, kid?

We in the city where they definitely lost it

You open your eyelids and get capped in the ribs

Your funeral they have your 12th grade portrait

Pretty corpse in casket, bell-shaped orchids

Said he 19 and left a self-made fortune

And left trey orphans

Now he in a box with the same chain and watch

That never came off him

It’s a shame what it cost him

Where he come from it ain’t nuthin’

It’s a everyday thing, that’s a problem

It’s chambers revolving

Bustin’ like Russian roulette

With a full set, then change what the odds is,

Flames in the mosque, and

People held hostage

Everyday I struggle, try to get up out the mosh-pit

Homicide for profit, tell me how we not sick?

This shit is out of control, they can’t stop it

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