Lost Desire - The Roots, Malik B., Talib Kweli

It’s the love, in your heart

Or the pain, in your mind

No one cares, what the truth is

Cause them fortunes, they don’t lie

It’s the love, in your heart

Or the pain, in your mind

No one cares, what the truth is

Cause them fortunes, they don’t lie

Okay, uh-huh, okay, yo

I’m exhausted, but I never ever forfeit

Y’all just bullshit while I knock a nigga off quick

Y’all start speaking in tongues and start reaching for guns

A militant will put this heat in your lungs

The street and the slums, the weekend is done

The local class always show you what the heat is become

The seasons are done, and reasons are none

People dyin', bullets flyin' cause they squeezin' for fun

It’s all of a nightmare that’s right there

They hopin' that somebody in the hood just might care

With all this protestin' and rallyin', death toll tallyin'

Foul smells around them, pails in the alley and

Corner filled with teddy bears cause they killed a child again

They sing about murder, so it ain’t a song it’s hollerin'

Get off the choir with your soft attire

Niggas out here don’t give a fuck cause they lost desire

It’s the love, in your heart

Or the pain, in your mind

No one cares, what the truth is

Cause them fortunes, they don’t lie

It’s the love, in your heart

Or the pain, in your mind

No one cares, what the truth is

Cause them fortunes, they don’t lie

Yeah, my city’s full of, heartbreakers and stargazers

Who puff garsh Vegas so they gone with the wind like Clark Gable

Breathin' like Darth Vader, believin' in dark angel

Yeah we got flags but they not star-spangled

We not patriotic, the heroes are not them

Ghetto grills like rims, you stop, they still spin

Tall tales at the bar, witnessed after dark

And we still stomp in in chicken and brown Timbs

And listen to Rakim with the way that y’all been

For realla, I hadn’t been schemin' or plottin'

You fear us?

But fear itself personified

Payin' homage to homicide, prayin' to the dollar sign

It’s idle worship, the rebel forces

Bodies lie at the foundation of the fortress

This is war, we expect some losses

And we comin' for the heads of the bosses

It’s the love, in your heart

Or the pain, in your mind

No one cares, what the truth is

Cause them fortunes, they don’t lie

It’s the love, in your heart

Or the pain, in your mind

No one cares, what the truth is

Cause them fortunes, they don’t lie

Yo, we on some casualties of war shit, what you stand for, kid?

We in the city where they definitely lost it

You open your eyelids and get capped in the ribs

Your funeral they have your 12th grade portrait

Pretty corpse in casket, bell-shaped orchids

Said he 19 and left a self-made fortune

And left tres orphans, now he in a box

With the same chain and watch that never came off him

It’s a shame what it cost him, where he come from it ain’t nothin'

It’s a everyday thing, that’s a problem

It’s chambers revolvin', bustin' like Russian roulette

With a full set, they change what the odds is

Flames in the mosque and, people held hostage

Everyday I struggle, try to get up out the mosh-pit

Homicide for profit, tell me how we not sick?

This shit is out of control, they can’t stop it

It’s the love, in your heart

Or the pain, in your mind

No one cares, what the truth is

Cause them fortunes, they don’t lie

It’s the love