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while i still have the mic - the empire project lyrics

[verse 1]
man, i think i’m changing
but it’s prolly a good thing
i don’t have a filter no more
i’m seeing red on my mood ring
i used to try to argue witcha
when i disagreed with your opinion
but when i step back and look at the world
it’s still gonna keep spinning
now when anybody says some shit
that i don’t like, i listen and try to respect it
so i won’t attempt to destroy your viewpoint
i’ve erased that bullet from my checklist
try to get along, so when i write a song
like this, i only want to offer perspective
and i think we forget, we can never get
closer to the truth, if we can’t be objective
i hate to be the one to break it
but humans take things in
the way they wanna take it
they adjust the story, and things they perceive
to fit in with ideas they believe
the past is a mystery, look
what will it say in the history books?
mike brown was a zero? huh?
darren wilson a hero?
the people in ferguson were just a buncha thugs right?
what woulda happened if he was white?
he suddenly isn’t innocent
if his skin isn’t light?
i guess it isn’t
none of my business, aight
but i’ll be god d-mned if i sit on the sofa
rather than get up on my soap box
and see innocent black men
get choked out and cold-c-cked
and maybe it’s time we start to throw rocks
cause we ain’t living in a gl-ss house
if you’re telling me you wouldn’t f-ckin’ lash out
you prolly missed the video where eric gardner p-ssed out
and you’re telling me it’s part of the past now?
nope
we gotta make shit right, dude
maybe you’ll get the point if you hear it from a white dude
they ain’t doing it just to spite you
you gotta re-write the book, before you let it write you

[chorus]
so i don’t mean to stir no shit
when i address some things, like i’m about to
cause when it comes to honesty
i just can’t shut my mouth dude
i really don’t know how to
i really don’t know how to
i really don’t know how to
cause when it comes to honesty
i just can’t shut my mouth dude
i really don’t know how to

[verse 2]
now, there’s a little bit of good in everyone
but there’s a little bitty, bullet, in every gun
now there’s 3,000 homeless, living in rome
every day, praying to god, to save our souls
by the vatican, but are we giving em homes?
cause the catholic capitol, is made of gold
you get what i’m saying, holmes?
now it isn’t necessarily the fault of a person
it’s more a concern of society
but how can you expect a man not to question
an institution that done nothing but lie to me?
how the h-ll do we make progress
when they got 40-year terms in congress?
give a f-ck about the people in the projects
any more than the money in their pockets?
“dead presidents, in my wallet
any residents in my knowledge?”
i figured that one out with a high school diploma
it don’t take no 4 years of college
and i won’t dish no apologies
will you disagree with me?
probably
but i’m feeling like the truth has been locked in a box
with me, and they forgot the key
this here, is that real shit
just cause it isn’t happening to you it isn’t real shit
we really care about ourselves so much that we don’t feel shit
we know the truth, but we conceal it
out of sight, out of mind, right?
but if it’s really out of sight, we must be blind, right?
cause that man in the mirror
is just as bad
if he can’t bring his thoughts into the limelight

- the empire project lyrics

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