Mathematics 创作者：
Mos Def

N/A4 浏览量

调：E major

Verse 1
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Bucka, bucka, bucka, bucka, bucka, bucka
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Ha ha
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You know the deal
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It's just me, yo
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E 
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Beats by Su- Primo for all of my people,
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Negros and Latinos
And even the gringos
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Verse 2
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Yo, check it one for Charlie Hustle,
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two for Steady Rock
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Three for the forth- coming
live future shock
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It's five dimensions, six senses
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Seven firmaments of Heaven to  Hell,
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eight million stories to tell
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Nine planets faithfully keep in orbit
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With the probable tenth,
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the universe expands length
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The body of my text posses
extra strength
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Power- lift the powerless up,
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out of this, towering in  ferno
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My ink so hot it burn through
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the journal
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I'm blacker than midnight
on Broadway and Myrtle
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Hip- hop past all your tall social hurdles
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Like the nationwide projects,
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prison- industry complex
Working class poor better
keep your alarm set
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Streets too loud to ever hear freedom ring
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Say evacuate your sleep,
it's dangerous to dream
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For ch- ching cats get they cha-
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paow, you dead now
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Killing fields need blood to graze
the cash cow
It's a number game,
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but shit don't add up somehow
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Like I got,
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sixteen to thirty- two bars to rock it
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But only fifteen percent of profits,
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ever see my pockets like
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Sixty- nine billion in the last twenty years
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Spent on national defense
but folks still live in fear like
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Nearly half of America's largest
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cities is one- quarter black
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That's why they gave Rick
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y Ross all the crack
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Sixteen ounces to a pound,
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twenty more to a key
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A five minute sentence hearing and
you no longer free
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Forty percent of Americans
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own a cell phone
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So they can hear,
everything that you say when you ain't home
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I guess, Michael Jackson was right,
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you are not alone
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Rock your hardhat black
'cause you in the Terrordome
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Full of hard niggas, large niggas,
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dice tumblers
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Young teens and prison greens
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facing life numbers
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Crack mothers,
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crack babies and AIDS patients
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Young bloods can't spell but they could
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rock you at  PlayStation
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This new math is whipping
motherfuckers' ass
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You wanna know how to rhyme
you better learn how to add
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It's mathematics
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(The Mighty Mos

Verse 3
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Def)
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(It's simple mathematics)
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(Check it out)
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(I revolve around science)
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(What are we talking
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about here?)

Verse 4
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(The Mighty Mos Def) (It's simple
mathematics)
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(Check it out)
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(I revolve around science)
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(What are we talking about
here?)

Verse 5
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(Do your math,
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do your math)
(One, t- t- two, three four)
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(What are we talking about here?)
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Yo, it's one

Verse 6
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universal law
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but two sides to every story
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Three strikes and you biddin' for life,
mandatory
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Four MC's murdered in the last four years
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I ain't trying to be the fifth
one, the millennium is here
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Yo, it's six million ways to die from
the seven deadly thrills
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Eight- year olds getting
found with 9 mill's
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It's ten P.M.,
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where your seeds at? What's the deal?
He on the hill pumpin' krills to
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keep they bellies filled
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Light in the ass with heavy steel,
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sights on the pretty shit in life
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Young soldiers trying to earn
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they next stripe
When the average minimum
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wage is $5.15
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You best believe you gotta find a new
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ground to get C.R.E.A.M
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The white unemployment rate is nearly
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more than triple for black
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So front liners got they gun in your back
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Bubbling crack,
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jewel theft and robbery to combat poverty
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And end up in the global jail economy
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Stiffer stipulations attached
to each sentence
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Budget cutbacks but increased
police presence
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And even if you get out of prison still living
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Join the other five million
under state supervision
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This is business,
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no faces just lines and statistics
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From your phone, your zip code,
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to SSI digits
The system break man,
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child and women into figures
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Two columns for who is
and who ain't niggas
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Numbers is hard and real and
they never have feelings
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But you push too hard,
even numbers got limits
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Why did one straw break the camel's
back? Here's the secret
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The million other straws underneath it,
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it's all mathematics

Verse 7
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(The Mighty Mos Def)
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(It's simple mathematics)
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(Check it out)
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(I revolve around science)
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(What are we talking
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about here?)

Verse 8
(The Mighty Mos Def)
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(It's simple mathematics)
(Check it out)
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(I revolve around science)
Bb 
(What are we talking
about here?)
(Mathematics)
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