Ballad Of The Black Gold Lyrics - Revolutions Per Minute - Talib Kweli

This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it Texas tea 

But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso 

It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies 

Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international 

The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco 

Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than Tabasco 

More than what you bargained for or asked for 

You never see happy hungry people that ain't rational 

They blasting through the gates and they attack you at the capital 

Run up in your palace, find the head of the states and crack a few 

Get a taste of power then they become fascists too 

The fiscal conservatives, don't know what they purpose is 

Money on the war then they cut the goods and services 

Murderous, corporate monsters is breaking records 

Exxon is at 40 billion a year, they raking in record profits, stop it 

How they banking while the auto industry is tanking? 

Leadership is sinking, oil pollution in the water stanking 

Loyalty to petroleum, royalty spoiled the economy 

We won't get it poppin' till we're oil-free 

If you're oil rich then we invade it 

They call it occupation but we're losing jobs across the nation 

Drill, baby, drill, while they make our soldiers kill 

Baby, still, the desert where the blood and oil spill 

This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it Texas tea 

But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso 

It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies 

Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international 

The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco 

Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than Tabasco 

More than what you bargained for or asked for 

Nigeria is celebrating 50 years of independence 

They still feel the colonial effects of Great Britain's presence 

Dictators quick to imitate the West 

Got in bed with oil companies and now the place is a mess 

Take a guess, which ones came and violated 

They oiled up the soil, the Ogoni people was almost annihilated 

But still they never stayed silent 

They was activists and poets using non-violent tactics 

That was catalyst for soldiers to break into they crib 

And make examples of the leaders, executed Saro-Wiwa 

Threw Fela's mom out the window right after they beat her 

In an effort to defeat hope, now the people's feet soaked in oil 

So the youth is doing drive-bys through speed boats 

They kidnap the workers, they blowing up the pipelines 

You see the fires glowing in the nighttime 

This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it Texas tea 

But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso 

It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies 

Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international 

The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco 

Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than Tabasco 

More than what you bargained for or asked for 

History, a slippery creature 

It's full of plot twists and surprise endings like a mystery feature 

This oil shit is slicker than preachers 

It make the problems in the region amplify like victory speeches 

Poison the water and lead the boys to the slaughter 

Go in somebody country and rearrange the order 

And destroy the borders 

You see them dancing through the fields of fire 

World domination, their real desire, the devil is still a liar 

This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it Texas tea 

But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso 

It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies 

Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international 

The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco 

Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than Tabasco 

More than what you bargained for or asked for 

This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it Texas tea 

But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso 

It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies 

Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international 

The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco 

Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than Tabasco 

More than what you bargained for or asked for 

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