Talib Kweli - Beautiful Struggle Lyrics
[Sample]
This is a tear jerker
[Intro - echoes]
The revolution is here, the revolution is here people
You gots to be ready
The revolution is inside of you
People, the revolution is here, yeah
[Hook]
The revolution's here
No one can lead you off your path
You'll try to change the world
So please excuse me while I laugh (yeah)
No one can change your ways (rock with me for a second)
You'll try to change the world
So please excuse me while I laugh
[Verse 1: Talib Kweli]
Yo, I heard it's said the revolution won't be televised
But in the land of milk and honey there's a date you gotta sell it by
Otherwise it just expires and spoils
And these folks jump out the pot when the water too hot
Cause the fire boils inside
You go to church to find you some religion
And all you hear is connivin' and gossip and contradiction and
You try to vote and participate in the government
And the muh'fuckin' Democrats is actin' like Republicans
You join an organization that know black history
But ask them how they plan to make money and it's a mystery
Lookin' for the remedy but you can't see what's hurtin' you
The revolution's here, the revolution is personal
They call me the political rapper
Even after I tell 'em I don't fuck with politics
I don't even follow it
I'm on some KRS, Ice Cube, Chris Wallace shit
Main Source, De La Soul, bumpin' "2Pacalypse Now"
[Hook]
The revolution's here (yeah)
No one can lead you off your path (uh uh)
You'll try to change the world
So please excuse me while I laugh (ha ha, ha ha)
No one can change your ways
No one can lead you off your path (uh uh)
You'll try to change the world ('scuse me)
So please excuse me while I laugh
[Verse 2]
Yo, I speak at schools a lot cause they say I'm intelligent
No, it's cause I'm dope, if I was wack I'd be irrelevant
I'm like the dope in your tracks until your high is settled in
You leanin' to the left, the laughter's the best medicine
But the troubles you have today you just can't laugh away
Stay optimistic, thinking change is gonna come like Donny Hathaway
You have to pray, on top of that, act today
Cause opportunity shrivel away like Tom Hanks in "Cast Away"
Everybody pass away, the pastor prays, the family mournin'
Everybody act accordin' to the season that they born in (You'll try to change the world)
You fight in the streets, start bleedin' 'til the blood is pourin'
In the gutter, mothers cry 'til the Lord be livin' by the sword and
All that folks want is safety, they goin' gun crazy
The same reason Reagan was playin' war games in the '80s
The same reason I always rock dog chains on my babies
The struggle is beautiful, I'm too strong for your slavery
[Hook]
The revolution's here (yeah)
No one can lead you off your path (uh uh)
You'll try to change the world
So please excuse me while I laugh (ha ha, ha ha)
No one can change your ways (yeah)
No one can lead you off your path (uh uh)
You'll try to change the world ('scuse me)
So please excuse me while I laugh (yeah)
The revolution's here
No one can lead you off your path
You'll try to change the world
So please excuse me while I laugh
No one can change your ways
No one can lead you off your path
You'll try to change the world
So please excuse me while I laugh
[Outro: Talib Kweli]
It's a beautiful thing that's happenin' right now
Right now G
Yo, I'm rockin' with my man Hi-Tek on the track right now
We fightin' the good fight
The Beautiful Struggle
Yeah, let's go
(So please excuse me while I laugh)
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Talib Kweli Beautiful Struggle Comments
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Beautiful struggle
This whole album...
Try to change the world... still healing...❤️
Almost 2019. Classic always
"Tear Jerker".., A people without guidance, only the "mind that moves in rhyme form".
Unfuckwitable! When this song came out, i stood up and was like we gotta make shit happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q46zpgqvZxE SAY MOE - KO RBN
The Revolution is inside You
We need more of this music now
mufucking democrats acting like republicans
But in the land of milk & honey there's a date you gotta sell it by..
Takes me back to better times.
Would listen to this song every-time I was take a trip on Amtrak from Philly to the Carolinas. Was always deep in thought when I would hear this
30k likes, 3 thumbs down. Seems about right.
Where is the radio ready/ fcc compliant version, tired of the juvenile language!!!
Fuck off with your tone policing bullshit.
Great lyrics. Its a shame Talib speaks of revolution and then supports one of the major parties in the election, though.
What do you expect? Donald Trump was running.
Hip Hop, spitting lyrics to knowledge your mind. Talib Kweli Really excellent. Doing it right,okay. Higher Infinite Power - Healing Our People. It's so much more. History of it goes beyond beats and rhymes.
THIS is a lyicist BTW folks
How can you dislike this?!
I couldn't dislike it but I suppose an intelligent politician might feel a little left out, if one ever would
this is true artistry!
Love this song