Somalia-K'NAAN

[00:21.96]Uh, yeah, Somalia [00:33.03]Yeah, I spit it for my block, it's an ode, I admit it [00:39.45]Here the city code is lock and load, any minute is rock 'n' roll [00:42.93]And you rock 'n' roll and feel your soul leavin' [00:45.69]It's just the wrong dance that'll leave you not breathin' [00:48.78]I'm not particularly proud of this predicament but [00:51.90]I'm born and bred in this tenement, I'm sentimental, what? [00:55.05]Plus it's only right to represent my hood and what not? [00:57.84]So I'm about to do it in the music, in the movies [01:00.81]Cut to the chase pan across to the face, I'm right there [01:04.23]Freeze frame on the street name, oops, wait a minute [01:07.32]This is where the streets have no name and the drain of sewage [01:10.68]You can see it in this boy how the hate is brewin' [01:13.53]'Cause when his tummy tucks in, *****, the pain is fluid [01:16.59]So what difference does it make entertaining, threw it [01:20.61]Some get high mixing coke and gun powder, sniffin' [01:22.65]She got a gun but could have been a model or physician [01:32.01]So what you know 'bout the pirates terrorize the ocean [01:34.92]To never know a simple day without a big commotion [01:37.98]It can't be healthy just to live with a such steep emotion [01:41.19]And when I try and sleep, I see coffins closin' [01:43.92]So what you know 'bout the pirates terrorize the ocean [01:56.67]To never know a simple day without a big commotion [02:12.72]It can't be healthy just to live with a such steep emotion [02:20.37]And when I try and sleep, I see coffins closin' [02:27.87]Yeah, yeah, we used to take barbed wire [02:34.02]Mold them around discarded bike tires [02:36.42]Roll 'em down the hill on foot blazin' [02:38.94]Now that was our version of mountain bike racing, damn [02:43.08]Do you see why it's amazing [02:44.73]When someone comes out of such a dire situation [02:47.82]And learns the English language [02:49.23]Just to share his observation? [02:51.00]Probably get a Grammy without a grammar education [02:54.81]So ***** you school and ***** you immigration [02:57.00]And all of you who thought I wouldn't amount to constipation [03:00.09]And now I'm here without the slightest fear and reservation [03:03.03]They love me in the slums and in the native reservations [03:06.06]The world is a ghetto with ministering deprivation [03:09.57]My mommy didn't raise no fool, did she? [03:11.64]I promise, I would get it and remain strictly loyal [03:15.15]'Cause when they get it then they let it all switch and spoil [03:18.33]But I just illuminated it like kitchen foil [03:21.54]A lot of main stream *****s is yappin' about yappin' [03:24.69]A lot of underground *****s is rappin' about rappin' [03:27.60]I just wanna tell you what's really crackalackan [03:30.51]Before the tears came down this is what happened [03:33.51]So what you know 'bout the pirates terrorize the ocean [03:53.13]To never know a simple day without a big commotion [04:05.55]It can't be healthy just to live with a such steep emotion [04:10.20]And when I try and sleep, I see coffins closin' [04:17.49]So what you know 'bout the pirates terrorize the ocean [04:20.34]To never know a simple day without a big commotion [04:27.00]It can't be healthy just to live with a such steep emotion [04:34.68]And when I try and sleep, I see coffins closin' [04:53.61]Yeah, Somalia