Buffalo Soldier (feat. Shyne)-Matisyahu/Shyne

[00:00.30]MatisYahu - Buffalo Soldier [00:01.67]. [00:10.76]Buffalo soldier, no I'm not a rasta [00:12.89]I used to be a mobster burning down the block [00:15.45]Buffalo soldier, no I'm not a rasta [00:17.89]I used to be a mobster burning down the block [00:20.45]. [00:20.76]Don't judge a book by the cover [00:22.51]Every single being in this world is your brother [00:25.07]When I lost and uncover [00:27.13]Ancient words that teach me to love ya! [00:30.14]So we burn to return to the mother [00:32.51]And we yearn to unlearn all they told ya about yourself [00:35.89]Who you are, what you should be, [00:38.51]I'm gonna be free, leave it up to me! [00:40.88]. [00:41.08]Raise your eyes to the sky, look out through the night [00:43.07]Feel alright! [00:45.76]Stars burn bright, high like the moonlight [00:47.95]You'll be alright! [00:49.95]. [00:50.83]Buffalo soldier, no I'm not a rasta [00:53.20]I used to be a mobster burning up the block [00:55.76]Buffalo soldier, no I'm not a rasta [00:58.26]I used to be a mobster burning up the block [01:00.95]Buffalo soldier, no I'm not a rasta [01:03.32]I used to be a mobster burning up the block [01:05.82]. [01:06.14]This is the medicine, I'm out like the Bedouin [01:08.39]This knife I'm burying, this life I'm treasuring [01:10.69]. [01:11.15]Buffalo soldier, no I'm not a rasta [01:13.47] [01:16.21]Buffalo soldier, no I'm not a rasta [01:18.96]. [01:20.78]I went running away to the cave [01:23.02]Went in a slave and came out all flames [01:25.46]I went running away for the hills [01:28.13]Back to my roots and I'm running still [01:30.51]But now I'm running to face my dreams [01:33.14]Find my place and what it means [01:35.51]Find yourself and no one else [01:37.88]You have to leave it up to me, leave it up to me! [01:41.63]. [01:45.57] [01:51.59]Buffalo soldier, no I'm not a rasta [01:53.90]I used to be a mobster burning up the block [01:56.47]Buffalo soldier, no I'm not a rasta [01:58.97]I used to be a mobster burning up the block [02:01.53]Buffalo soldier, no I'm not a rasta [02:04.03]I used to be a mobster burning up the block [02:06.46]. [02:06.78]This is the medicine, I'm out like the Bedouin [02:09.22]This knife I'm burying, this life I'm treasuring [02:11.28]. [02:11.71]Buffalo soldier, no I'm not a rasta [02:16.66]Buffalo soldier, no I'm not a rasta [02:19.53]. [02:22.16]Buffalo soldier, you know I'm not a rasta [02:24.34]I used to be a mobster burning down the block [02:26.78]I shot the sheriff, the DA, and the deputy [02:29.28]Sorry Al Sharpton, I don't need you to lecture me [02:31.90]Maybe I'll stop talking about guns [02:34.15]When you talk about the funds that they cut for the youth [02:36.78]Let's cut to the truth, ain't enough for the youth [02:39.22]So tell me how you judge me til you're stuck in the shoes, man! [02:42.15]Where the Congressmen, where all the Senators? [02:44.46]They're thinking about their green, not the color of the President? [02:46.96]This is just a relevance, survival is the sentiment [02:49.41]Narcotics is the only way you know that I'ma measure it! [02:52.12]They say that we are in a post Obama era [02:54.50]Well exactly what that mean? You needn't make it clearer [02:56.88]Does it mean that the rich are gonna finally start to share up [02:59.73]Re-proportion the wealth and make things fairer [03:02.11]Asking God "why do poor people suffer" [03:04.54]But now I'm such a hypocrite, the Rolls Royce mufflers. [03:07.23]In the gutters nobody never loved us [03:09.80]I am just the result of pain and hunger! [03:12.17]. [03:12.48]Buffalo soldier, no I'm not a rasta [03:14.79]I used to be a mobster burning up the block [03:17.23]Buffalo soldier, no I'm not a rasta [03:20.05]I used to be a mobster burning up the block [03:22.36]Buffalo soldier, no I'm not a rasta [03:24.86]I used to be a mobster burning up the block [03:27.42]. [03:27.80]This is the medicine, I'm out like the Bedouin [03:30.05]This knife I'm burying, this life I'm treasuring