Lupe Fiasco - Strange Fruition Lyrics
[Featuring: Casey Benjamin][Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]Now I can’t pledge allegiance to your flagCause I can’t find no reconciliation with your pastWhen there was nothing equal for my people in your mathYou forced us in the ghetto and then you took our dadsThe belly of the beast, these streets are demons’ absI’m telling you that setup in them sit-ups is so sadThe system is a slabCorruption is the swinger sittin’ high ridin’ dirty, drag racin’ into dangerAnd it’s so clean, pine trees smellin’ goodWith work off in the trunk and niggas in the hoodSo I can’t shed blood on any battlefield of yoursI pray the ugly truth comes and shatters your decorAnd as it all falls down and tatters on the floorI shed tears, I don’t know what really matters anymoreCause I don’t know what really matters anymore[Hook: Casey Benjamin]Many things, strangest things you ever seenOh, look at how they swing, would you look at how they swing?Embedded they go, no eyelids gone lowOr gone by sundown, they're dodging 5-0[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]Now as I wander through the city goin’ madI see the fruits of planting evidence instead of grassA swindled generation with no patience, full of swagMan, they so impatient with the stations that they haveAs long as they look good when they be doin’ badThen the separation from the truth is gettin’ vast, fastBe a slave at first or free at lastDouble-edged choices make a nigga wanna passDouble-headed voices from the eagle on the staffThe pyramid where eyes will split the spirited in halfDivided over moneyDelighted by the dummyin’ down of the importance of crowns we’ll never haveThat’s why my sounds and sermons are so full of wrathBaptize your mind, let your brain take a bathSwim inside the river get delivered from the craftOf the witches in this business that be livin’ off your sadHatin’ on your happiness you hit ‘em off with laughsSmile ‘til they surrender, then you kill ‘em off with gladHello evil, I’m back[Hook]
