Eat To Live Lyrics - Ear Drum - Talib Kweli

[Talib Kweli] 

Yeah, this is a ghetto prayer 

Prayin for all of those who ain't got it 

We gotta get it there, we gotta get it yeah 

Yeah the people starvin for somethin new, we starvin for it 

(My tummy hurts, I couldn't eat) 

Mmmm, mmm, mmm 

(Did you have fun at school today Trey?) 

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My little man go to bed so hungry 

Get up, go to school with his nose runny, come home with his nose bloody 

His sister laughin, he like "What's so funny~?" 

'Til she drowned out by the sounds of hunger pains in his tummy 

Nuttin in the freezer, nuttin in the fridge 

Couple of 40 ounces but nuttin for the kids 

Little man know to eat to live but he don't wanna leave the crib 

The kid who punched him in his face house right down the street from his 

He went anyway, more scared to face his moms 

She'll beat him soon as she flip out, seein his face scarred 

Walkin past the dopefiends with they smoke to the place of God 

Hopes and dreams pourin out the holes in they face and arms 

Little man in the face of harm if he don't eat 

He need energy so when he go to school he can compete 

And keep up, all he got is bodegas 

But hey he only got enough a for quarter water and a Now or Later 

Anyway, grandma say Jesus'll be here any day 

Good - cause with nuttin to eat it's gettin hard to pray... pray... 

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[Chorus: repeat 4X] 

In order to receive, then we need to give 

We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live 

[Talib Kweli] 

Listen... 

My rhymes got nutritional value 

I get it how I live, it's critical when the conditions allow you 

Do you don't trust the critics who doubt you 

Try to write shit about you, but they can't make a living without you 

Go hungry, you gotta watch what the media feed ya 

And don't be a poisoned animal eater either 

It's harder than it sound, cause nowadays, put that swine in everything 

The white sugar so addictive it's pure 'caine 

They got, pork in the toothpaste, soda in the Sunny D 

Jello brand gelatin is laced with the lecatin 

In Africa they starvin, over here the food hurt you 

Cows goin mad and the chickens crunk with bird flu 

It's too ill how the food kill it's like blue steel 

Lies never set you free, but the truth will 

The truth still matter the proof is in the batter or the pudding 

You can tell we eatin good, we gettin fatter 

[Chorus] 

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