Lupe Back Lyrics - Friend Of The People - Lupe Fiasco

I was born in a small village 

I was still a child when we were raided by soldiers 

Foreign soldiers 

Torn from my elders, I was made to speak their language 

With each new post, my masters changed 

Along with the words they made me speak 

With each change, I changed too 

My thoughts, personality, how I saw right and wrong 

Words can kill 

Time and again, the country was ruled by a foreign tongue 

When he was young boy, he lost his native language 

The bedrock for any developing child 

His country, his family, his face, his identity 

Everything was stolen from him 

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Meet me on the corner, I be waiting on you 

Thousand years of better right into forever 

Fire on my feathers, far from out of heaven 

Fight without a weapon, life without a lesson 

Lost, I'm my own boss, pay my own cost 

Fill my own goals, see my own hopes 

Tired of all of this, wish I had a switch 

One kiss then you cut me off 

Knowledge is the power, college is for cowards 

Hollering for hours, swallowing the sour 

Skin stuck around the rims, peeking in on a life so sweet 

The other side made it, why don't we? 

From ancient times, every civilization's ruler has had the same idea. 

When people unite under one will, they become stronger than the sum of their parts and what do rulers use to bring people together? 

Language. "This world will become one, I have found the way. 

Race, tribal affiliations, national borders - even our faces will be irrelevant. 

The world that the boss envisioned will finally become a reality and it will make mankind whole again 

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Found a friend in the words and my words and it works 

Take away the pain, take away the hurt 

Make a way to make a change, make it sane 

Specially if you plan on staying on this Earth 

Low to the lows, high to the highs 

Eyes to the sky, strive to revive, dying to survive 

Pool full of cries but it's cool, I'm still alive 

And every breath is every left soul 

And the family never kept whole 

In the slum, want to quest to be the best of being less 

Never let go, the best road to the next level 

And the scenes where it's mean to do the right thing 

Not to be a good king but the best devil 

So it's horns for the crown, torn from the ground 

Roses by the roots stolen from the roofs on parade days 

Look at them rain down 

I was brought here a slave 

But I leave here a pharaoh 

America is a country of liberty, a meeting of immigrants 

Instead of simply assimilating, its citizens live alongside others 

So the major sought a system that used information 

Words to control the subconscious 

In his eyes, the greatest symbiotic parasite the world's ever known isn't microbial - it's linguistic 

Words is what keep civilization, our world, alive 

If you are what you say you are, the coolest 

Won't you just shine down? 

You are what you say you are, the coolest 

Won't you just shine down?