Bushonomics

[Intro: Talib Kweli]

Revolutions require participation

But sometimes people be hesitating

The government must respect the will of the people

The government serve the people, the people don't serve the government

[Verse 1: Talib Kweli]

Voter registration with no scope of education is a waste of time with no hope, it's just frustration

It's ain't no choice when you're picking the voice of a nation

You're just contributing to the status quo's preservation

Plus we ain't got no universal health care and who the hell care about crack mothers on welfare?

Listening to Dead Prez, hell yeah, but Jay Z first

Thinking of how we was snatched like old ladies' purses

Dropped on american soil for a greater purpose

Plus I know my people got layers, you gotta break the surface

The way I rap got the man nervous

Frodo failed, Bush got the ring snitching like he's got a sink

Fixing elections like it's not a thing

Somebody please expose the fact that it's going back to one party

They called president Bill Clinton a whoremonger

Voted him out and replaced with a warmonger

[Hook]

It's like a jungle sometimes, I'm at the front of the line

I ain't tripping, but I stumble sometimes

Then I get right back up

Then I get right back up

[Verse 2: Talib Kweli]

Liars and thieves best believe that their record is long

Weapons of mass destruction the reason for catching Saddam

Lack of concern for the environment affected the storm

We can predict the levee breaking like a Zeppelin song

The president warned, but before the levee broke

The people was, they already owned the oil there

So there ain't nothing they need from us

Caught up in the fog of war they let the big easy flood

You telling me that you would do what Jesus does?

No, I don't believe you would

The master teacher's back here to speak with us with the passion of a preacher

And the raps that make the speakers bust

The way I tackle the topic'll have an agnostic acknowledge the last prophet

Fulfil the promise of Frederick Douglass acquainted with death

He step among us on the blocks and corners the people he taking steadily getting younger

You ain't over or getting under

I'm getting older, I ain't getting younger

I know there's strength in numbers

[Hook]

[Dr. Cornel West]

Taking HipHop back to it's roots

When people could see that the Hip in HipHop stood for

WE want to be free

WE go from the Bling Bling to

Let freedom ring

From the rich legacy to Gil Scott Heron

And the last poet

On to Grandmaster Flash and

The Furious Five

In this era of Bush-o-nomics!