All of Us

We have nothing to lose but our chains
 Now you say that - so loud them - outside hear you
 It is our duty to fight for our freedom
 It is our duty to win
 We must love each other and support each other
 We have nothing to lose
 We have nothing to lose
 We have nothing to lose but our chains
 Send this one out to
 To the mothers they neglected
 To the fathers they rejected
 To the sisters disrespected
 To the brothers unprotected
 All of us, all of us, all of us, all of us
 We send this one out to
 To the mothers they deceited
 To the fathers they mistreated
 To the sisters they misleaded
 To the brothers and get beated
 All of us, all of us, all of us, all of us
 This is happening to all of us
 If our struggle is a strain then the strain is dominant
 My name is prominent for entertainment that's laced with consciousness
 But really its just common sense like Lonnie Lynn
 You don't need binoculars
 To see the light coming through the dome like it's an oculus
 The common myth that we're savages with no history or accomplishments
 Or knowledge of ourselves they did a job on us
 Considering the prediction of economists
 Machines will do our jobs for us
 The future for the working class is ominous
 They got us indoctrinated through a brew
 A religion mixed in with abuse
 Emotional we sit in pews
 It's physical we get the noose
 And hang ourselves refusing to name ourselves
 Refuse to change ourselves
 When I talk about our past it doesn't ring a bell
 They make you hate yourself it take effort so check the method
 They'll take you from your family, your kids will never respect you
 Attach your sins to the black of skin we get the message
 We start acting if we cracking the whip better than the oppressor,yes
 Every problem can't be solved at the ballot box
 We unifying Africa like Gaddafi that's what got Malcolm shot
 They out to stop anybody with knowledge that figured out the plot
 On the balcony like Martin Luther King I been to the mountaintop
 The blue wall of silence, it's really the blue wall of violence
 The good cops who retire and get fired
 They screaming black on black as an excuse for you to not care
 Till the cops roll up in their SWAT gear
 I tarried through the turbulent month of Ramadan
 Sweating all through the night just like the Holy Prophet
 Then reappeared on the stage in BK with the Ummah
 Shoulder to shoulder with J Cole and Kweli
 Just before Jehovah the God crowned me the king with his goldie locket
 Alhamdulillah, we've come really far, ain't it?
 The little engine who could, could power any car can't it?
 The mothers in Chiraq say the murders getting burdensome
 The cries of the despised was heard flying out of Ferguson
 The last days and times
 The holy Quran and Bible we on the last page and line
 The verse with all the babies dying
 Outside of the matrix, inside of the spaceship but the savior's blind
 Or so it seems, years after Noah was told he would row upstream
 The heavens bursted and the rains came
 Retaliation of the sons of the fathers who worked the chain gangs
 I hit that shmoney dance on the coffin of a crooked cop
 In a Worldstar society where all we do is look and watch
 No intervention, policemen beating elderly women with evil intentions on the highways and the byways
 The police state be sprayed into the backstreet to the driveways
 Officer friendly is an enemy now, looking at me sideways
 It was all bad just a week ago
 The view was just as sad just a peep ago
 The cries of the asiatic anti-semitic peoples
 That propel Jay Elec from the pedestal to the steeple
 To the mothers they neglected
 To the fathers they rejected
 To the sisters disrespected
 To the brothers unprotected
 All of us, all of us, all of us, all of us
 We send this one out to
 To the mothers they deceited
 To the fathers they mistreated
 To the sisters they misleaded
 To the brothers and get beated
 All of us, all of us, all of us, all of us
 This is happening to all of us
 [Chorus: Talib Kweli & Yummy Bingham]
 To the mothers they neglected
 To the fathers they rejected
 To the sisters disrespected
 To the brothers unprotected
 All of us, all of us, all of us, all of us
 We send this one out to
 To the mothers they deceited
 To the fathers they mistreated
 To the sisters they misleaded
 To the brothers and get beated
 All of us, all of us, all of us, all of us
 This is happening to all of us
 We've got to live, live to the end
 (We gotta do, we do)
 We've got to live, (for our grandmothers) live to the end
 (and granddaddies too)
 We've got to live, (live for the babies) live to the end
 (My brothers out there going crazy)