Statues

[Intro: Omen speaking]

Ayo

I am a poet, who composes what the world's proses is

And proses what the world composes

- Khalil Gibran

[Verse 1: Omen]

They told me go to school, listen well, work hard

Graduate from college, then you get ya good job

Well the Lord knows that's a damn good lie

Drug dealers rich and I'm barely getting by

I'm saying goodbye to ya rules, ya models, and ya tradition

Unhappy folks tryna give wisdom, why would I listen?

You stuck in the past, 2Pac getting bumped on the ave

Seen a shorty running, dumping a stash

Fell down, tripped stumbled, from a stump in the grass

Guarantee we risk it all for the love of this cash

I mean look at the way we living, really stuck in nostalgia

We still worship statues, giving dead men altars

Let a lifeless idea live inside of its coffin

Cobblestone rogues still sleep on the streets of Boston

Got us on the escapade, living retrograde

Burn down all ya statues and throw 'em in the lakes

[Hook: Shalonda]

Tear down all your statues of me

Idolizing a part of something I used to be

Tear it down, all ya statues of me

Idolizing a part of who I used to be

Tear it down...

[Verse 2: Omen]

I heard history repeats itself

So you should learn from it

They only tell you that

Because they know they can earn from it

And it's value in the past fa sho'

Shot our pyramids

Gave 'em Michael Jackson nose

That lil boy I seen dumping a stash

Is somewhere sitting in a cell

Getting humped in the ass

And that's history I damn sure can learn from

I say let's burn it all down, you rather burn a blunt

Swearing y'all turn it up

Manifest Destiny, would you sacrifice your happiness

Just to leave a legacy?

They say he had a dream, Dr. Martin Luther King

But waited to build a monument that he would never see

They used to build shrines and columns made into Buddha

Somehow them same stones in McDonalds in our future

I'm thinking on a different block

Carving on a different spot

Please pass the torch watch me burn down Plymouth Rock

[Hook: Shalonda]

Tear down all your statues of me

Idolizing a part of something I used to be

Tear em down down down

Tear em down down down

Tear em down

Down

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