Say Amen Lyrics - Mourning In America And Dreaming In Color - Brother Ali

Truth so heavy it could rumble the earth 

I dunked paint brush up in a bucket of words 

Ain't Nothing interrupting the urge 

Might cut you worse than unguarded love when it hurts 

Try to hold it in and my muscles will burst 

Do an Incredible Hulk through my shirt 

A verse make an old lady jump up in the church 

Pass a plate around pulling bucks out her purse 

Foremost and first my hunger and thirst 

Is not for no blood-stained paper but my love to be heard 

Reap what I sowed in the earth 

Now watch what emerge out a soul that's disturbed 

Leaning on the very last nerve of you scary ass herbs 

Fake thugs and arrogant nerds 

Fuck no homo you a no home owning old grown 

Unsigned chump month behind on your car loan 

You got balls looking down on me 

Or got a mirror on the floor trying to find Ali 

And dressed flyly but so afraid to soar 

You're all dressed up and got no place to go 

And so play a roll there's no hope of living 

More like go broke pretending 

Your whole image is imagined I manage 

Low expectations high standards 

Hip Hop is the legacy of the jazz kings 

Kick rocks I'm one of the last standing 

Last thing I do is overstate the obvious 

Mainstream poppiness underground sloppiness 

Dumbed down thuggery and pussy hungry consciousness 

Revolution for sale greedy communist 

Seinfeld rap your show about nothing 

Poetry played it's all about production 

Trying to get placements play like you're famous 

Ain't added greatness to nary a playlist 

Take this bitch take offense 

Or if it don't apply let it fly say amen 

Time's up on y'all posturing imposters 

I don't give a damn if you're starving or copping Oscars 

Out here grinding or floss in your ivory towers 

I don't give a shit about your pants or how you rock em 

I ain't bitter or backpacker or conscious 

Just want y'all the fuck out my ear with that nonsense 

From the office of Ali and Jake and them 

If you feel me raise a hand say amen 

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