the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing

[Intro: Yasiin Bey]

Automatic

Automatic, hey

Automatic, uh

Automatic, uh

[Verse 1: Yasiin Bey]

Automatic, automatic, automatic, ha

Automatic as an automatic, ha

I'm automatic as a meditation, ha

Automatic as a trail of tears, ha

Alright, this way, try and feel, ha

The rogue soul dark be the light, ha

Shed the light into the darkroom, ha

The light is not afraid that part, ha

Gang-gang variates dream team, ha

The local dream time always, ha

The address on Spectrum Road, ha

From the rivers of the true and real, ha

Sense over sensation, ha

Sweating on a hot template, ha

Twenty cell panorama, ha

Silence of the clarion call, ha

Waveforms bird songs, ha

Recognition is invitation, ha

Grace the gift you couldn't earn, ha

Thanks again, rеport the work, ha

Not for free, freedom, ha

How you made it? Ask yourself, ha

Look to еverything that you desire

Look at the conditions that it's put you in, ha

Through the honest math passive figures, ha

Pass the fixers, friendly neighbor, ha

Freshest labor, marry his native, ha

Local time, all ages

Forever is the current event (The future)

Life on this side is quick, quick

Trade trick, sorcerer

Insecure, synonym, ha

Frankenstein tryna get estranged, ha

An ancient source matter strange enough, ha

I heard Dilla say "Turn it up", ha

I heard him twice when he said it first

[Chorus: Yasiin Bey]

And that's automatic, automatic, automatic

Automatic, automatic

Everything is not for sale

Everybody pays a price

[Post-Chorus: Yasiin Bey]

Cocaine cracker than a honkey tonk

Trailer park trash can't trap house

Off top, all black everything

TMT fuck white supremacy

Cocaine cracker than a honkey tonk

Trailer park trash can't trap house

Star line, all black everything

TMT fuck white supremacy

[Verse 2: Talib Kweli & Yasiin Bey]

TMT, TMT, TMT, TMT

TMT, TMT, TMT, TMT

What's white supremacy

Yikes

Mental illness

We bring the noise, you bring the gentle stillness

The trap door in the city is cat call

We with the shit, no need for the back and forth (It's a trap, I'm sure of it)

Let's get into it

Don't believe you superior to the darker races

Just means you inferior living darker places

God's amazing, we artists, this ain't a product placement, huh

Love is a spiritual technology

I give it up to God when they clap for me

I love to give credit where the credit due

It's beautiful, it's the struggle faced by the destitute

We celebrate diversity with carnivals and festivals

White supremacy automatically going against us

Huh, the third eye is the point of entry

Huh, automatic like a reply from a hipster

Automatic as a Pointer Sister, ha

Tryna conquer us with the pestilence, ha

This is common as black excellence, ha

They rewarded for mediocrity, ha

Huh, I ain't begging for my equality

No, I'm too big to fail

Grab the bull by the horn then wag the dog by the tail

The OGs is in jail, the millennials is for sale

Am I dreaming or do our demons have tentacles and scales, huh?

Automatic, automatic, cause of static

This a trust exercise like falling backwards

Gotta trust we your guys and we gon' catch ya

[Chorus: Yasiin Bey & Talib Kweli]

And that's automatic, automatic, automatic

Automatic, automatic

Everything is not for sale

Everybody pays a price

Yikes