Talib Kweli: Eat to live

Yeah, this is a ghetto prayerPrayin for all of those who ain't got itWe gotta get it there, we gotta get it yeahYeah 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?)My little man go to bed so hungryGet up, go to school with his nose runny, come home with his nose bloodyHis sister laughin, he like "What's so funny~?"'Til she drowned out by the sounds of hunger pains in his tummyNuttin in the freezer, nuttin in the fridgeCouple of 40 ounces but nuttin for the kidsLittle man know to eat to live but he don't wanna leave the cribThe kid who punched him in his face house right down the street from hisHe went anyway, more scared to face his momsShe'll beat him soon as she flip out, seein his face scarredWalkin past the dopefiends with they smoke to the place of GodHopes and dreams pourin out the holes in they face and armsLittle man in the face of harm if he don't eatHe need energy so when he go to school he can competeAnd keep up, all he got is bodegasBut hey he only got enough a for quarter water and a Now or LaterAnyway, grandma say Jesus'll be here any dayGood - cause with nuttin to eat it's gettin hard to pray... pray...[Chorus: repeat 4X]In order to receive, then we need to giveWe gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live[Talib Kweli]Listen...My rhymes got nutritional valueI get it how I live, it's critical when the conditions allow youDo you don't trust the critics who doubt youTry to write shit about you, but they can't make a living without youGo hungry, you gotta watch what the media feed yaAnd don't be a poisoned animal eater eitherIt's harder than it sound, cause nowadays, put that swine in everythingThe white sugar so addictive it's pure 'caineThey got, pork in the toothpaste, soda in the Sunny DJello brand gelatin is laced with the lecatinIn Africa they starvin, over here the food hurt youCows goin mad and the chickens crunk with bird fluIt's too ill how the food kill it's like blue steelLies never set you free, but the truth willThe truth still matter the proof is in the batter or the puddingYou can tell we eatin good, we gettin fatter[Chorus]Listen...