Around My Way Lyrics - Lupe Fiasco

First off say peace to Pine Ridge 

Shame at all the damage the white man wine did 

Ghost dance, Trail of Tears, 5 million beers a year 

And all that other crime did 

More peace to the teachers of blind kids 

To rebels in small cells keeping their mind big 

Say everything's hostile 

Suicide bombers and prosperity gospels, emaciated models 

With cocaine and blood pouring out their nostrils, they got to 

Just to stay awake on the catwalk of life where everybody watch you 

Straight hair, high heels and a handbag 

Crucifixes, racism and a land grab 

Katrina, FEMA trailers, human body sandbags 

A peace sign and a pants sag 

A money toss cause a 9 stripper mad dash 

A friend request following a hash tag 

Now everybody want it like the last laugh 

A Michael Jackson jacket or a daft mask 

Purple Jordans or the mixed girl in your math class 

Stable is when the Ba'ath had Baghdad 

But corporate jets really had to have that gas bad 

War and they hope they all fall from the ratatat 

Cause that's just more dinosaur for the Cadillac 

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Live from the other side what you see 

A bunch of nonsense on my TV 

Heaven on Earth is what I need 

But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe 

Reporting live from the other side what you hear 

A bunch of nonsense all in my ear 

Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay 

Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way 

And we marvel at the state of Ottoman 

Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can 

America's a big motherfuckin' garbageman 

If you ain't know, you're part and parcel of the problem 

You say no you ain't, and I say yes you is 

Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is 

You say no they didn't, and I say yes they did 

The definition of unnecessary-ness 

Manifested 

Say that we should protest just to get arrested 

That goes against all my hustling ethics 

A bunch of jail niggas say its highly ineffective 

Depart from Martin, connect on Malcolm X tip 

Insert Baldwin to similar the separate 

To me, the truth is more fulfilling than a meth hit 

Or finding really fast internet to have some sex with 

It's all one song short of a set list 

Couple croissants shy of a continental breakfast 

Or blowing out your birthday candles just to make a death wish 

So absurd word to Chief Bone Necklace 

Down at the Lakota Sioux Casino 

A whole culture boiled down to giving you paquino 

I go as left as a heart in the chest 

Cause the Horn of Africa is now starving to death 

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Live from the other side what you see 

A bunch of nonsense on my TV 

Heaven on Earth is what I need 

But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe 

Reporting live from the other side what you hear 

A bunch of nonsense all in my ear 

Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay 

Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way 

An all white Los Angeles, the dream of Mr. Chandler 

Hope and pray they take Columbus day up off the calendar 

South Central an example of God's gifts 

So shout to all the mothers raising babies in spa 6 

The projects of Oakland city, Detroit ghost towns 

Monopolies on poverty where D-boy coke bound 

It's parts of Manilla like the video for Thriller 

But the US Embassy is reminiscent of a villa 

If poverty is chocolate and privilege vanilla 

Then what's the flavor of the Sunday preacher's pedophilia 

Cash rules everything around these niggas 

As classrooms everywhere around me wither 

Hither you can be Mr. Burns or Mr. Smithers 

The tyrant or the slave but nowhere in the middle 

Of the extremes of America's dream 

Freud fighting Neo, Freddy Krueger refereeing, naaa⦠

Live from the other side what you see 

A bunch of nonsense on my TV 

Heaven on Earth is what I need 

But I feel I'm in hell every time I breathe 

Reporting live from the other side what you hear 

A bunch of nonsense all in my ear 

Rich man, poor man, we all gotta pay 

Cause freedom ain't free, especially 'round my way