Lesson One (Tablo's Word) [Feat. DJ Premier] [Cover]

This is one of my favourite songs of all time so I decided to do a quick cover. Tablo is straight up dope.

Lyrics.

Do we learn math to add the dead sums?
Subtract the weak ones, count cash for great ones?
Yo, we multiply but divide the nation.
Break down like fractions, send our sons away to die
Do we learn science in defiance of faith?
To make alliance with fakes for an appliance's sake?
We ask for the real but make artificial intelligence to make smarter kills of others' presidents

Why do we learn history? To fix stories for the guilty
Make angels look filthy and the devils look milky
If the victor writes the books then what have we won?
Are we battleships of authorship a rich man's guns?

Do we learn to read to receive the lies,
to deceive the eyes from seeing between the lines?
Yo, we use words to bring forth sticks and stones,
to sing psalms of hate that fill the streets with bones.

Is our day job more than self-slavery?
When we're locked watching the clock impatiently
we sweat for the dollar bills, the checks, and the credit cards
but that dollar kills, breaks the necks of our inner hearts

If the police are role models for the righteous,
why does justice depend on guns and nightsticks?
Mr. officer, don't punish me, with brutality
The streets got me singing Marvin Gaye off-key

Why do we need church to get to heaven's gates?
Can holy water quench the thirst of those whose fates
Started in the wrong place with the wrong face?
Can the poor and the hungry survive solely on grace?
Can this rap game ever bring changes?
When MCs would rather floss across than be saviors?
Will I last in this game, be blasted with shame
Will I stand for my name and never blaspheme for fame?

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Music

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• earational
• lesson one
• tablo's word
• tablo
• epik high
• dj premier
• hip hop
• korean
• rap
• set me free