[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.46]Hostile Gospel Pt. 1 [Deliver Us] (Amended Version) - Talib Kweli [00:01.40]Deliver us  deliver us (Yeah) [00:03.27]Deliver us  deliver us (What  Yeah) [00:10.21]And what the people say  We wanna live it up [00:13.07]And what the people want  Please deliver us [00:15.60]And what the people need  Hey [00:19.71]I got that  yeah [00:21.13]I call these rappers baby seals  cause they club you to death [00:24.00]I could call 'em Navy SEALs  cause they government feds [00:26.72]What become of the vets  They drugged up  they f**ked up  they in debt [00:30.72]There ain't no love and no respect  it's like a gang it's like a club or a set [00:33.94]Hip-Hop's the new WWF [00:35.43]What do you rap or do you wrestle  Ni**as love to forget [00:38.22]We got til it's gone  you think you on  you still hustlin backwards [00:40.90]Your topical norm a tropical storm  it's a f**kin disaster [00:43.85]Back to the topic we on  it all started at Rawkus [00:46.85]They couldn't find the words to describe me so they resort to the shortcuts [00:49.88]Is he a backpacker  Is he a mad rapper [00:52.78]An entertainer  or the author of the last chapter [00:55.32]We living in these times of love and cholera [00:57.79]Synonymous with the apocalypse  look up the clouds is ominous [01:00.84]We got maybe ten years left say meteorologists  sh*t [01:03.53]We still waitin for the Congress to acknowledge this [01:06.02]What the people want  Please deliver us [01:08.71]We wanna live it up  please deliver us [01:13.37]Th-th-this is the  th-th-this is the  this is the hostile gospel [01:16.95]I'm reaching through the fire - please deliver us [01:19.86]I'm preaching to the choir - please deliver us [01:22.64]Just keep it real with us  you scared to spill your blood [01:25.53]Your words rung hollow  we need someone to follow [01:28.20]You ain't promised tomorrow  so get your paper up [01:31.02]You can't always just borrow and asks for favors bruh [01:33.73]Stand on your own two  never covet thy neighbor's stuff [01:36.22]Karma's a b**ch so watch your mouth and what you sayin bruh [01:39.11]I start a conversation based on general observation [01:41.79]Hip-Hop is not a nation  take it to population [01:44.74]Ni**as got a lot to say when locked inside the belly of Satan [01:47.33]Awaitin trial debatin how the hell I got placed in this system [01:49.87]Am I a victim or just a product of indoctrination [01:52.55]They exploit it and use me like a movie with product placement [01:55.53]You hear the congregation; this is the hostile gospel [01:58.30]The truth is hard to swallow it'll leave you scarred tomorrow [02:00.88]Keep it honest our motto  these ni**as keep it bottled [02:03.70]I'm the writer who reach the fighters like speeches by Cus D'Amato [02:06.65]DJs stickin to vinyl like Serato [02:09.92]Suppliers who ride around the block  in the custom autos [02:12.02]Ballin like the struck the lotto you know who the cleanest is [02:14.91]A ni**a keep it reeich with the stitch and greedy geniuses [02:17.41]I'm not a hipster  but I flip it like a sneaker pimp [02:20.13]Expose the game  treat it like a b**ch [02:22.30]Smack fire out these hoes  cause they snitch and tap wires while I plead the fifth [02:26.23]You can't trust a soul in the biz  so be careful who you eatin with [02:28.93]And sleepin with and also who you chiefin with [02:30.97]You never know they might've added in secret ingredients [02:33.57]What the people want  Please deliver us [02:36.33]We wanna live it up  please deliver us [02:40.75]Th-th-this is the  th-th-this is the  this is the hostile gospel [02:44.75]I'm reaching through the fire - please deliver us [02:47.24]I'm preaching to the choir - please deliver us [02:50.13]Just keep it real with us  you scared to spill your blood [02:53.04]Your words rung hollow  we need someone to follow [02:55.69]Freedom's a road that's seldom traveled  watch hell unravel [02:58.55]Right before the eyes of the soldier who fell in battle [03:01.32]The single mother who raised her daughter to bear the sacred water [03:03.97]And not take the hand of every man who make a offer [03:06.43]To black kids wishin they white kids  when they close they eyelids [03:09.47]Like  bet they neighborhood ain't like this [03:11.95]White kids wishin they black kids  and wanna talk like rappers [03:15.23]It's all backwards it's identity crisis [03:17.27]The industry inside us is vipers with fangs trying to bite us [03:19.79]Dr*g suppliers is the health care providers [03:21.49]We cakin  makin narcotics outta household products [03:25.33]We ain't workin out 'til we exorcise the demons that's inside us [03:28.30]Plus they seem to just provide us with enough rope to hang ourselves [03:31.60]Enough d**e to slang ourselves  enough toast to bang ourselves [03:34.08]It's officially ni**a season  these ni**as is bleedin [03:36.68]That's why I'm spittin freedom we had enough of trigger squeezin [03:38.97]What the people want  Please deliver us [03:41.74]We wanna live it up  please deliver us [03:44.59]Th-th-this is the  th-th-this is the  this is the hostile gospel [03:50.43]I'm reaching through the fire - please deliver us [03:53.04]I'm preaching to the choir - please deliver us [03:55.56]Just keep it real with us  you scared to spill your blood [03:58.58]Your words rung hollow  we need someone to follow [04:01.20]In these tryin days and times [04:03.16]All I need is to be free [04:05.80]I can't do it on my own [04:08.48]Lord can you deliver me [04:11.25]There are trials still to come [04:13.96]It's salvation that I need [04:16.58]So I'm reachin to the sky [04:19.47]Lord can you deliver me [04:22.22]Deliver us [04:24.79]Deliver us  yeah [04:27.34]Deliver us  ohhhhhhhhhh [04:30.69]Oh  deliver us [04:33.40]Deliver us [04:35.08]Ohhhhh Deliver us yes [04:38.54]Deliver us  deliver us  deliver us [04:42.78]Yeah yeah yeah  ohhhhhhhhhh