BLOOD SWEAT TEARS

[Chorus]
Yeah, tired, tired tired tired
Blood sweat tears baby 400 years
No cap put that on my kids
Pay me my dues nigga give me my ends
Lucky I ain't checkin' for revenge mothafucka
Blood sweat tears baby 400 years
No cap put that on my kids
Pay me my dues nigga give me my ends
Lucky we ain't checkin' for revenge mothafucka

[Verse 1]
'Cause karma is a (wooh)
Karma got a name
Monopoly, finish playing your game
Lack of empathy can never feel my pain
Power an infectious gain what a shame
They manipulated the word
Blind led the herd
Law wanna keep us illiterate
Believe everything that we heard
Now we learn that we was chosen
The meek shall inherit the Earth
The weak never thought that it would work
'Bout time that we lifted the curse
Ooh for a lotta you you actin' real ignorant
Thespian play the roll of the innocent
Desolate d-d-drowning in your privilege
Not that I'm privy I'ma pass it to my lineage

[Chorus]
Blood sweat tears baby 400 years
No cap put that on my kids
Pay me my dues nigga give me my ends
Lucky I ain't checkin' for revenge mothafucka
Blood sweat tears baby 400 years
No cap put that on my kids
Pay me my dues nigga give me my ends
Lucky we ain't checkin' for revenge mothafucka

[Verse 2]
This shit ain't never stop
Look this shit ain't never stop
Watch like a scarecrow see my granny had to sharecrop
Early 80's pops had to share them poprocks
Took it out the hood with no jumpshot that's a longshot
Five-O he was dodgin' bullets in the Five-O
Pleasant flight slow from the city where the wind blow
Made a way he bought a building for the price rolls
Worked at the hospital I was born nigga he cleaned floors
Started centuries behind boy we had the time
They promised land, Martin promised me the finish line
Said they gon' try to lock my body but I free my mind
They berate your people til they seek and reach they piece of pie

[Speech Clip]
Generation after generation of black people in america have been born, they have worked, and they have seen the fruits of their labors, in the life liberty and happiness of the children and grandchildren of the oppressor. While their own descendants wallow-

[Chorus]
Blood sweat tears baby 400 years
No cap put that on my kids
Pay me my dues nigga give me my ends
Lucky I ain't checkin' for revenge mothafucka
Blood sweat tears baby 400 years
No cap put that on my kids
Pay me my dues nigga give me my ends
Lucky we ain't checkin' for revenge mothafucka

[Speech Clip]
At the dawn the 20th century this hopeland has been formulating a civil rights movement. In the belief that the government would eventually fulfill this promise to black people. We did not recognize however that many attempts to complete the problems of the 18th century revolution and the framework of the 20th century government, economy and society is doomed to failure. The descendants of that small company of original settlers of this land are not among the common people of today. They have become a small ruling class in control of a worldwide economic system. The constitution set up by their ancestors to serve the people no longer serves the people