[00:00:00] Artist: Lupe Fiasco [00:00:06] Title: Unforgivable Youth(feat Jason Evigan) [00:00:25] This world my heart my soul [00:00:28] Things that I don't know [00:00:32] The icicles they grow [00:00:35] They never let me go [00:00:38] Scars are left as proof [00:00:41] But tears they soak on through [00:00:43] Things I've done [00:00:45] My young [00:00:47] My unforgivable youth [00:00:48] We land on the horizon [00:00:50] The passion in their eyes then [00:00:52] What they think of islands and much more in their size [00:00:55] Bountiful and plentiful and resource to provide them [00:00:58] Supplies slim [00:00:59] Morale when so heavily inside them [00:01:01] Now steadily declining [00:01:02] Return is not an option as necessity denies them [00:01:05] With this they choose to dive in [00:01:07] Now along the shore and so aware of their arriving [00:01:09] Other children of this land prepare to share in their surviving [00:01:13] A pigeontry of feathers stands his majesty with treasure [00:01:16] Now the material things that kings that could never last forever [00:01:19] But secrets of the spirit world [00:01:20] And how to live in harmony together [00:01:22] Unbenounced to him his head would be [00:01:24] The first that they would sever [00:01:25] And stuck up on a pike up along the beach [00:01:28] Kept up as a warning to the rest to turn away from their beliefs [00:01:31] And so began it here And for 500 years [00:01:34] Torture Terror Fear til they nearly disappear [00:01:38] This world my heart my soul [00:01:41] Things that I don't know [00:01:45] The icicles they grow [00:01:47] They never let me go [00:01:50] Scars are left as proof [00:01:54] But tears they soak on through [00:01:56] Things I've done [00:01:58] My young [00:01:59] My unforgivable youth [00:02:02] Ways and means from mistreated human beings [00:02:04] A slave labor force provides wealth to the machine [00:02:07] And helps the new regime establish and expand [00:02:10] Using manifest destiny to siphon off the land [00:02:13] From native caretakers who can barely understand [00:02:16] "How can land be owned by another man [00:02:19] Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift [00:02:22] Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish " [00:02:26] But the lesson when the heated [00:02:27] For the sake of what's not needed [00:02:29] You kill but do not eat it [00:02:30] The excessive and elitists don't repair it when they leave it [00:02:33] The forests's were cleared the factories were built [00:02:36] And your mistakes will be repeated [00:02:38] By your future generation doomed to pay for your mistreatments [00:02:41] Foolishness and flaws [00:02:42] Greed and needs and disagreement [00:02:44] And you rushed to have the most [00:02:45] From the day you left your boats [00:02:47] You'll starve but never die [00:02:48] In a world of hungry ghosts [00:02:51] This world my heart my soul [00:02:54] Things that I don't know [00:02:57] The icicles they grow [00:03:00] They never let me go [00:03:04] Scars are left as proof [00:03:07] But tears they soak on through [00:03:09] Things I've done [00:03:11] My young [00:03:12] My unforgivable youth [00:03:15] As archaeologists dig in the deserts of the east [00:03:17] Appeared 100 meters wide and 100 meters deep [00:03:20] They discover ancient cars on even older streets [00:03:23] And a city well preserved and most likely at it's peak [00:03:26] A culture so advanced [00:03:28] And by condition of the teeth [00:03:29] They can tell that they was civil [00:03:31] Not barbaric in the least [00:03:32] A society at peace [00:03:34] With liberty and justice for all [00:03:36] Neatly carved in what seems to be a wall [00:03:39] They would doubt that there was any starvation at all [00:03:41] That they pretty much had the poverty problem all solved [00:03:45] From the sheer amount of paper [00:03:46] Most likely used for trade [00:03:48] Everything's so organized