Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Eat to Live, artist - Talib Kweli. Album song Eardrum, in the genre Иностранный рэп и хип-хоп
Date of issue: 06.08.2007
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Warner
Song language: English
Eat to Live |
Yeah, this is a ghetto prayer |
Prayin' for all of those who ain’t got it |
We gotta get it there, we gotta get it, yeah |
Yeah, the people starvin' for somethin' new, we starvin' for it |
(My tummy hurts, I couldn’t eat) |
Mmmm, mmm, mmm |
(Did you have fun at school today, Trey?) |
My little man go to bed so hungry |
Get up, go to school with his nose runny, come home with his nose bloody |
His sister laughin', he like «What's so funny?» |
'Til she drowned out by the sounds of hunger pains in his tummy |
Nothin' in the freezer, nothin' in the fridge |
Couple of 40 ounces but nothin' for the kids |
Little man know to eat to live but he don’t wanna leave the crib |
The kid who punched him in his face house right down the street from his |
He went anyway, more scared to face his moms |
She’ll beat him soon as she flip out, seein' his face scarred |
Walkin' past the dopefiends with they smoke to the place of God |
Hopes and dreams pourin' out the holes in they face and arms |
Little man in the face of harm if he don’t eat |
He need energy so when he go to school he can compete |
And keep up, all he got is bodegas |
But hey, he only got enough for a quarter water and a Now Or Later |
Anyway, grandma say Jesus’ll be here any day |
Good, cause with nothin' to eat it’s gettin' hard to pray, pray |
Pray, pray, pray |
[Hook: Talib Kweli & |
Sylvia James |
In order to receive, then we need to give |
('Bout the hungry babies?) |
We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live |
In order to receive, then we need to give |
We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live |
In order to receive, then we need to give |
('Bout the hungry babies?) |
We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live |
In order to receive, then we need to give |
We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live |
Listen |
[Verse 2: Talib Kweli & |
Sylvia James |
My rhymes got nutritional value |
I get it how I live, it’s critical when the conditions allow you |
Do you don’t trust the critics who doubt you |
Try to write shit about you but they can’t make a living without you |
Go hungry, you gotta watch what the media feed ya |
And don’t be a poisoned animal eater neither |
It’s harder than it sound 'cause nowadays, put that swine in everything |
The white sugar so addictive it’s pure 'caine |
They got pork in the toothpaste, soda in the Sunny D |
Jello brand gelatin is laced with the leci-tin |
In Africa, they starvin', over here the food hurt you |
Cows goin' mad and the chickens crunk with bird flu |
It’s too ill how the food kill it’s like blue steel |
Lies never set you free, but the truth will |
The truth still matter the proof is in the batter or the pudding |
You can tell we eatin' good, we gettin' fatter |
[Hook: Talib Kweli & |
Sylvia James |
In order to receive, then we need to give |
('Bout the hungry babies?) |
We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live |
In order to receive, then we need to give |
We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live |
In order to receive, then we need to give |
('Bout the hungry babies?) |
We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live |
In order to receive, then we need to give |
We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live |
Listen |