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[ar:Talib Kweli]
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[00:00.000]Beautiful Struggle (Explicit) - Talib Kweli
[00:00.230]Written by：Talib Kweli Greene/Tony Cottrell
[00:00.462]This is a tear jerker
[00:08.486]The revolution is here the revolution is here
[00:10.805]Revolution is here people
[00:13.581]I said it once I'll say it twice say it twice
[00:15.808]You gots to be ready gots to be ready
[00:18.482]The revolution is inside of you inside of you
[00:21.194]People people the revolution is here yeah
[00:24.381]The revolution's here
[00:26.741]No one can lead you off your path
[00:29.861]You'll try to change the world
[00:32.197]So please excuse me while I laugh yeah
[00:35.646]No one can change your ways rock with me for a second
[00:38.349]Lead you off your path come on
[00:41.082]You'll try to change the world
[00:43.450]So please excuse me while I laugh
[00:46.493]Yo I heard it's said the revolution
[00:48.647]Won't be televised
[00:49.687]But in the land of milk and honey
[00:50.919]There's a date you gotta sell it by
[00:52.463]Otherwise it just expires and spoils
[00:54.277]And these folks jump out the pot when the water too hot
[00:56.831]'Cuz the fire boils inside
[00:58.559]You go to church to find you some religion
[01:00.450]And all you hear is connivin' and gossip and contradiction and
[01:03.817]You try to vote and participate in the government
[01:06.257]And the muh'f**kin' Democrats is actin'
[01:08.204]Like Republicans
[01:09.236]You join an organization that know
[01:11.060]Black history
[01:12.004]But ask them how they plan to make
[01:13.611]Money and it's a mystery
[01:14.875]Lookin' for the remedy but you can't see what's hurtin' you
[01:17.423]The revolution's here the revolution is personal
[01:20.476]They call me the political rapper
[01:21.973]Even after I tell 'em
[01:23.145]I don't f**k with politics
[01:24.817]I don't even follow it
[01:26.083]I'm on some KRS Ice Cube Chris Wallace sh*t
[01:28.952]Main Source De La Soul bumpin' 2Pacalypse Now
[01:31.159]The revolution's here yeah
[01:34.103]No one can lead you off your path uh uh
[01:37.303]You'll try to change the world
[01:39.583]So please excuse me while
[01:40.974]I laugh ha ha ha ha
[01:43.159]No one can change your ways
[01:45.066]No one can lead you off your path uh uh
[01:48.498]You'll try to change the world 'scuse me
[01:50.800]So please excuse me while I laugh
[01:53.824]Yo I speak at schools a lot 'cause they say I'm intelligent
[01:56.881]Nervous 'cause I'm d**e if I was wack I'd be irrelevant
[01:59.762]I'm like the d**e in your tracks
[02:01.162]Until your high is settled in
[02:02.618]You leanin' to the left the laughter's the best medicine
[02:05.028]But the troubles you have today
[02:06.761]You just can't laugh away
[02:07.920]Stay optimistic they can change it's gon' come like Donny Hathaway
[02:10.797]You have to pray on top of that act today
[02:13.002]'Cuz opportunity shrivel away like Tom Hanks in Cast Away
[02:16.682]Everybody pass away the past will pay the family mournin'
[02:19.442]Everybody act accordin' to the season
[02:21.516]That they born in
[02:22.128]You fight in the streets start bleedin'
[02:24.258]'Til the blood is pourin'
[02:25.410]In the gutter mothers cry 'til
[02:26.650]The Lord be livin' by the sword and
[02:28.114]All that folks want is safety
[02:29.306]They goin' gun crazy
[02:30.474]The same reason Reagan was playin' war games in the '80s
[02:33.570]The same reason I've always rocked dog chains on my babies
[02:36.306]The struggle is beautiful I'm too strong for you to slave me
[02:39.070]The revolution's here yeah
[02:40.958]No one can lead you off your path uh uh
[02:44.648]You'll try to change the world
[02:46.920]So please excuse me while I laugh ha ha ha ha
[02:50.408]No one can change your ways yeah
[02:52.591]No one can lead you off your path uh uh
[02:55.819]You'll try to change the world 'scuse me
[02:58.163]So please excuse me while I laugh yeah
[03:01.569]The revolution's here
[03:03.981]No one can lead you off your path
[03:07.032]You'll try to change the world
[03:09.504]So please excuse me while I laugh
[03:12.752]No one can change your ways
[03:15.072]No one can lead you off your path
[03:18.192]You'll try to change the world
[03:20.664]So please excuse me while I laugh
[03:23.285]Let's go let's go
[03:31.954]So please excuse me while I laugh