GET UP

Damn, man I said you can't talk You gotta let me f*ck They call me Elf, the morning star, the light of illumination Enlightening inspirations, foretelling predications Outline this modern day scripture, equip the homiletics Every moment's aesthetic, you can miss and regret em If no one told you, you regret the day, well now they did I watched the filth of this world off me with angel tears I had a belt of depression back in the wonder years But it was nothing like Kevin, children be suffering Fatherless homes, over-invasive mothering Suicidal and silent, the anger issue's another thing I done gained sovereign ownership of this human being It is no longer satisfied with earthly things The melody is all I need, and a puff of wing This purple rain, hurricane, will make your house lean When is life gonna treat you better, when you treat your people better I know we all fall, but we all get up now Get up now I said you gotta get up now Get up now I said you gotta get up now Miracles come to me often, it's a blessing to pull up my laundry Often this is all like karate, my story got Asian misogynists Some people paint pictures with words, me I make movie collages People turn on you for profit, if you knew Judas was your friend Would you turn on him, and even then, how would you do it It's a burning bridge, overworked and underpaid, that's the price of friends Me and my niggas been chasing fetty since we was kids We just some young black males that happen to dream big I'm JFK in the parade after the Bay of Pigs First name El, but I don't f*ck with 12 Last name God, I leave it at that Get up now I said you gotta get up now Get up now I said you gotta get up now As a toddler I used to be out on the porch preaching Things I didn't understand and later won't believe in I've never met a Middle Easterner named Paul or Peter And they all got stores in every hood a nigga been Not to mention the last selection, you racist bastards You follow Jesus, hmm, but also pussy grabbers It's like rabbit season, duck season All they've ever really done is fucking black people It's the real life second place in the slave religion For a hundred years in the desert, it's the same position I'm just a day old man that came to save my people Composed of 666 on periodic tables When does life go treat you better when you treat your people better I know we all fall, but we all don't get up I said you gotta get up now Get up now Get up now Get up now One day live in a nation where they will not be judged By the color of their skin but by the content of their character I have a dream, I have a dream I have a dream, I have a dream I have a dream, I have a dream I have a dream, I have a dream I must confess that that dream that I had that day Has at many points turned into a nightmare All we say to America is be true to what you said on paper We've got some difficult days ahead But it really doesn't matter with me now Like anybody I would like to live And I've seen the promised land We as a people will get to the promised land I said you gotta get up now