[00:00:00] The Nature - Talib Kweli [00:00:10] It's kind of hard to keep [00:00:11] Faith in the things that you do [00:00:13] When everybody turns they back on you [00:00:15] It's kind of hard to keep [00:00:16] Faith in the things that you do [00:00:18] When everybody turns they back on you [00:00:20] It's kind of hard to keep [00:00:21] Faith in the things that you do [00:00:23] When everybody turns they back on you [00:00:26] It's kind of hard to keep [00:00:27] Faith in the things that you do [00:00:28] When everybody turns their back [00:00:31] Yeah I know a city that's [00:00:32] Surrounded by a beautiful beach [00:00:34] The economy boosted by the [00:00:35] Drugs they move in the street [00:00:36] More clearer than the crystal sky [00:00:38] Blue as the beast [00:00:39] The people ain't got shoes [00:00:40] For they feet or food to eat [00:00:42] So they hurtin but what's [00:00:43] For certain you can get you some heat [00:00:44] And over beef you laid to rest [00:00:46] Like you was gettin some sleep [00:00:47] Where the little kids get ammunition [00:00:49] You can't get no nutrition [00:00:51] Or any type of suitable living condition listen [00:00:53] They shoot you over that paper [00:00:54] It's just survivalist human nature [00:00:56] To put you out of your misery [00:00:57] Like euthanasia [00:00:58] Don't let them fool you we [00:00:59] Ain't different than the youth in Asia [00:01:01] Africa and Europe [00:01:01] It's a small world we truly neighbors [00:01:03] If they the third world [00:01:04] Then who the first to get to heaven [00:01:06] I know it's hard but who [00:01:07] Does God choose to go through it worst [00:01:09] Usually it's the prophets [00:01:09] Ask a cat what really matters [00:01:12] Nowadays usually it's his pockets [00:01:13] We gotta get back to [00:01:16] What really matters [00:01:19] We gotta search our soul [00:01:20] To find out what we're after [00:01:24] The more I find my voice [00:01:25] The more they try to make it harder [00:01:29] Mom and dad don't forget [00:01:31] To warn your sons and daughters [00:01:34] About the-na-ture-of-the-world-to-day [00:01:39] The nature of the world today [00:01:45] The-na-ture-of-the-world-to-day [00:01:51] The nature of the world today [00:01:55] Word Don't nobody talk no [00:01:57] More they all text message [00:01:58] Drivin and typin [00:01:59] Not payin attention missin they next exit [00:02:01] Dependin on navigation [00:02:03] They ever know where they goin [00:02:04] They stayin stuck in [00:02:05] One spot they not growing [00:02:06] I'm so over crying [00:02:07] Waitin and hoping playing the blame game [00:02:09] The game changed me into like Dwayne Wayne [00:02:12] I'm getting high just to maintaing [00:02:14] Take my music like a drug and drop [00:02:16] The needle in the same vein [00:02:17] I get a rush like I'm tweekin off blow [00:02:19] Except it ain't via the nose [00:02:21] It's from deep in my soul [00:02:22] The street slang I be speakin in code [00:02:24] Kick in the do's freaking the [00:02:25] Flow 'til the speakers explode [00:02:26] We in control [00:02:27] The people know I speak the truth [00:02:29] The power of my roots [00:02:30] Is thicker than sour sop [00:02:31] And they so strong they [00:02:32] Bustin out the flower pot [00:02:33] Family tradition is to [00:02:34] Tell 'em you love 'em [00:02:35] While your family livin from [00:02:36] Granny in the kitchen the little man in prison [00:02:38] We gotta get back to [00:02:40] What really matters [00:02:43] We gotta search our soul [00:02:44] To find out what we're after [00:02:48] The more I find my voice [00:02:50] The more they try to make it harder [00:02:53] Mom and dad don't forget [00:02:55] To warn your sons and daughters [00:02:59] About the-na-ture-of-the-world-to-day [00:03:04] The nature of the world today [00:03:09] The-na-ture-of-the-world-to-day [00:03:15] The nature of the world today