Lyrics Lost Desire (feat. Malik B. & Talib Kweli).lrc The Roots
[id: whagejzy]
[ar: The Roots]
[al: Rising Down]
[ti: Lost Desire (feat. Malik B. & Talib Kweli)]
[length: 03:58]
[00:00.99]It’s the lump in your heart
[00:01.86]Or the pain in your mind
[00:04.54]No one cares what the truth is
[00:06.39]Cause a fortress built on lies
[00:18.99]I’m exhausted but I never ever forfeit
[00:21.63]Y’all just bullshit while I knock a nigga off quick
[00:24.40]Y’all start speaking in tongues and start reaching for guns
[00:27.16]A militant will put this heat in your lungs
[00:28.99]The street and the slums, the weekend is done
[00:31.67]The local class always show you what [?]is become
[00:34.49]The seasons are done, and reasons are none
[00:36.24]People dyin’ bullets flyin’ cause they schemin'[?]for fun
[00:38.91]It’s all of a nightmare, that’s right there
[00:40.72]They hopin’ that somebody in the hood just might care
[00:43.49]With all this protestin’ and rallyin’
[00:45.21]Death toll tallyin’
[00:47.02]Foul smells around them [?]in the alley and
[00:48.80]Corner filled with teddy bears, cause they killed a child again,
[00:51.53]They sing about murder, so it ain’t a song it’s [?
[00:54.25]Get off the choir with your soft attire,
[00:56.00]Niggas out here don’t give a fuck, cause they lost desire
[01:17.83]My city’s full of heartbreakers and stargazers
[01:20.52]Who puff kush
[01:21.75]Vegas, So they gone with the wind, like Clark Gable,
[01:23.52]Breathin’ like Darth Vader, believin’ in dark angel
[01:25.36]Yeah, we got flags, but they not star-spangled
[01:28.00]We not patriotic, the heroes are not them,
[01:30.79]Ghetto griots like rims, you stop, they still spin,
[01:32.55]Tall tales at the bar, witnessed after dark,
[01:36.18]And we still stop in and chicken and [?]
[01:37.99]And listen to Rakim
[01:38.95]With the [?]that y’all been
[01:40.74]For realla, I hadn’t been schemin’ to [?]ply in
[01:42.54]You fear us? Fear is self, personified
[01:45.24]Payin’ homage to homicide
[01:47.04]Prayin’ to the dollar sign
[01:47.98]It’s idol worship
[01:49.74]The rebel forces
[01:50.21]Bodies lie at the foundation of the fortress
[01:52.97]This is war, we expect some losses
[01:54.72]And we comin’ for the heads of the bosses
[02:16.32]We on some casualties of war shit,
[02:18.74]What you stand for, kid?
[02:19.66]We in the city where they definitely lost it
[02:22.37]You open your eyelids and get capped in the ribs
[02:25.09]Your funeral they have your 12th grade portrait
[02:26.88]Pretty corpse in casket, bell-shaped orchids
[02:29.62]Said he 19 and left a self-made fortune
[02:32.32]And left trey orphans
[02:33.28]Now he in a box with the same chain and watch
[02:35.98]That never came off him
[02:36.80]It’s a shame what it cost him
[02:37.70]Where he come from it ain’t nuthin’
[02:39.56]It’s a everyday thing, that’s a problem
[02:41.34]It’s chambers revolving
[02:43.26]Bustin’ like Russian roulette
[02:45.02]With a full set, then change what the odds is,
[02:46.85]Flames in the mosque, and
[02:47.75]People held hostage
[02:49.58]Everyday I struggle, try to get up out the mosh-pit
[02:51.37]Homicide for profit, tell me how we not sick?
[02:54.06]This shit is out of control, they can’t stop it
[02:56.77]Year of Release: 2008