| If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed
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| If you do read it, you are misinformed
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| What is the long-term effect of too much information?
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| Information, information, I just need some information
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| I been dying, I been dying, is it lack of education?
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| I’ve been reading, I’ve been reading without any transformation
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| I’m addicted, I’m addicted, is it overstimulation?
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| Hello bro, I should be confessing that I am broke
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| I lust to be right but admitting I’m wrong
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| I am slow, I got a lot that I know but um… I don’t grow
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| I don’t get information for my soul, it’s for my foe
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| Is there anything holy or anything sacred?
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| Do we demonstrate joy? |
| Do we demonstrate patience?
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| Is there damage we do with this misinformation?
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| Is a gun and a bullet the only form of hatred?
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| When I say persecution, we ain’t talkin' 'bout no violence, dude
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| What they really wanna do is try to silence you
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| I believe the best of my values and ethics
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| But my cynicism tells me that your values are reckless
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| Information, information, I just need some information
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| I been dying, I been dying, is it lack of education?
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| I’ve been reading, I’ve been reading without any transformation
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| I’m addicted, I’m addicted, is it overstimulation?
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| Where’s the movement?
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| Somebody please point me towards the movement
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| I was told that you were the ones I should be cool with
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| But when they act foolish, who calls them out on their bullsh---
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| Bruh, you cannot disagree with the cool kids
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| This is how they get down, oh, it’s how we get down
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| What I gotta do just to prove I’m in the in-crowd
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| I know my value, I might be small but fame is fickle
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| They might be bigger, I am a dime, they are a nickel
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| What’s the value of grace when sin is cheap?
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| I learn the value of silence when fools speak
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| In a culture of speed, they will judge you when you’re slow
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| Oh, let me guess: this is stuff that you already know
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| We live in a society now where it’s just first, who cares?
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| Get it out there, we don’t care who it hurts
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| We don’t care who we destroy
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| We don’t care if it’s true
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| Just say it, sell it!
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| Anything you practice you’ll get good at including BS
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| Information, information, I just need some information
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| I been dying, I’ve been dying, is it lack of education?
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| I’ve been reading, I’ve been reading without any transformation
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| I’m addicted, I’m addicted, is it overstimulation?
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| Tell me, tell me who you listen to
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| Tell me, tell me who you listen to
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| Bad stories tell lies
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| Good stories tell truth
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| Bad stories tell lies
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| Reading Ralph Ellison slap-boxing with relevance
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| Sick of the prejudice but what is the medicine?
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| I read every book, I followed their artists
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| And I updated my look and I aim for new targets
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| And I laugh at their jokes, I flatter the smartest
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| And I covered their secrets, I learned in the darkness
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| And I sat with the brave, I heard of their pain
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| I ran in their lanes, I spoke of their names
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| I visit their chains, I study my heroes
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| I call them my tutors, I learn their maneuvers
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| Avoided their flaws and ran into new ones
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| I screamed and I marched, I read what they taught
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| I tallied their loss, I counted the cost
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| I spoke and I fought
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| Shame my oppressors, I practice the message
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| I loathe my aggressors, I met with the restless
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| I felt so impressive, I learned and I listened
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| I spoke against systems, I claimed altruism
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| I had information but did I have wisdom?
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| You heard me? |
| Does that make sense?
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| Pianos and Politics |
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Pedantic , by - Sho Baraka. Song from the album The Narrative, Volume 2 - Pianos & Politics, in the genre Рэп и хип-хоп