Fake Bonanza Lyrics - True Magic - Mos Def

Hip hop, modern time, flossy and raw so self-absorbed, immature 

I can't remember being this bored 

Fake bonanza, become real wars 

Bullets burn through the candy on the driver side door 

Long investigations and no firm lead, billion dollar flow 

And black life is still cheap 

Where rent skyrockets and job prospects plummet 

Ten murders, ten days, this summer 

Talk about today's mathematics, a eighth, an O, a key 

And the caliber on your ratchet 

The inmate number, a centerfold's measurements 

As close as a cold cell come to some tenderness 

I heard them say it was all about the Benjamin's 

I don't believe it now, didn't believe it then, fuck what ya heard 

You believe what ya want, the truth is what it is, it be what it been 

Get rich, shorty just trying to live 

Don't believe in heaven and ain't trying to get in 

And hell is everyday, fuck the world anyway 

Potion and sips, spark up a clip, FADE AWAY! 

The low lights, tree top heights 

Be careful how you move the traps are covered in the lights 

Landmines be disguised as welcome signs 

I'll repeat it so you ain't got to press rewind 

The landmines be disguised as welcome signs 

Black fresh from Iraq, a wild look in his eyes, missing part of his arm 

What the fuck is your problem!? Ohh lord! Fake Bonanza! 

Gladiator, circus world 

Glamor, pussy, pimp, ho goods and service world 

Paranoid, itchy trigger nigga nervous world 

Shatonic natural order in reversal world 

The ipod, no God, zero circle world 

The blow-a turtle world, smoke from the purple world 

The killer murder world, hamburger murder world 

Open twenty-four hours, all about them dollars 

Pretty poison in pork sausage 

Cold coffee and more coffins, fake bonanza [Repeat: x2] 

Huh? What? I don't understand ya! 

What they talking bout save they soul, oh lord, save they soul! 

Help them reach the goal, peace! [Repeat: x4] 

You know, peace [Repeat: x3] 

Boogieman! Don't be scared 

Ohh lord, save they soul [Repeat: x2] 

Ohh lord, save my soul [Repeat: x2] 

Please 

Boogieman 

Woke up this morning with my, my state don't fade and said I 

Had the baddest feeling, maybe you stayed on my mind, said I [Repeat: x2] 

Woke up this morning in my, my state, I'm dreaming, dreaming 

Ain't nothing even, dreaming, praying, keeping 

Woke up this morning and my mind stayed on freedom 

Woke up this demon that keep staying on my mind 

Said, woke up this morning and my mind stayed on freedom 

It makes no difference what people say