Nas & Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley - Patience Lyrics

 Nas & Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley - Patience Lyrics

ft. Amadou & Marriam

Here we are, here we are, yeah

This one right here is for the people

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye

Ni kera mogo

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni (Hey, yo, D, let's go all the way in on this one)

Ni kera mogo

Some of the smartest dummies can't read the language of Egyptian mummies

Plant a flag on the moon and can't find food for the starving tummies

Pay no mind to the youths 'cause it's not like the future depends on it

But save the animals in the zoo 'cause the chimpanzee them make big money

This is how the media pillages, on TV the picture is savages in villages

And the scientist still can't explain the pyramids

Evangelists making a living on the videos of ribs of the little kids

Stereotyping the image of the images and this is what the image is

You buy khaki pants and all of a sudden you say a Indiana Jones

And thief out gold and thief out the scrolls and even the buried bones

Some of the worst paparazzis I've ever seen and I ever known

Put the worst on display so the world can see and that's all they will ever show

So the ones in the west will never move east and feel they could be at home

Get tricked by the Beast but where them gon' flee when the monster is fully grown?

Solomonic lineage where them can't defeat and them could never clone

My spiritual DNA that print in my soul and I will forever own, Lord

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte (yeah, that's patience, it's what the old folks told me)

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye (can you get with that?)

Ni kera mogo

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte (discoverin' the world before this world, a world buried in time)

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni (uncovered with rhymes, it gets no realer)

Ni kera mogo

We born not knowing, are we born knowing all?

We growing wiser, are we just growing tall?

Can you read thoughts? Can you read palms?

Can you predict the future? Can you see storms coming?

The Earth was flat, if you went too far, you would fall off

Now the Earth is round, if the shape change again, everybody would start laugh

The average man can't prove of most of the things that he chooses to speak of

And still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of

Scholars teach in universities and claim that they're smart and cunning

Tell them find a cure when we sneeze and that's when their nose start running

And the rich get stitched up when them get cut

Wanna heal them broken bones in the bush with the wet mud

Can you read signs? Can you read stars?

Can you make peace? Can you fight war?

Can you milk cows even though you drive cars?

Can you survive against all odds now?

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte (it's crazy)

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye (when you feed people the truth, you don't know how they gon' react)

Ni kera mogo

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte (you scared of wrong-doers, people that's just ignorant)

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni (and scared of the truth, we patient for now)

Ni kera mogo

Who wrote the Bible? Who wrote the Qur'an, and was it a lightning storm

That gave birth to the Earth and then dinosaurs were born?

Who made up words? Who made up numbers, and what kind of spell is mankind under?

Everything on the planet we preserve and can it, microwaved it, and try it

No matter what we'll survive it

What's hu-? What's -man? What's human?

Anything along the land we consumin', eatin', deletin', ruin

Tryin' to get paper, gotta have land, gotta have acres

True

So I can sit back like Jack Nicholson, watch niggas play the game like the Lakers

In a world full of fifty-two fakers, Gypsies, seances, mystical prayers

You superstitious, throw salt over your shoulders, make a wish for the day 'cause

Like somebody got a doll of me, stickin' needles in my arteries, but I can't feel it

Sometimes it's like, "pardon me, but I got a real big spirit"

I'm fearless, I'm fearless, don't you try and grab hold of my soul

It's like a military soldier since seven years old

I held real dead bodies in my arms, felt they body turn cold, oh

Why we born in the first place if this is how we gotta go? Damn

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte (yeah)

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kiye (yeah, yeah, what)

Ni kera mogo

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, yonkonte (this goes to all the wisdom and knowledge seekers of the world)

Sabali, Sabali, Sabali, kagni (Sabali, patience, yeah)

Ni kera mogo