Feed the World

Duration

4:09

Genres

Hip-Hop

Description

Lyrics

Written by: thomas johnson Jr. (verse) I just made the connection without a moment to spare the doors closed behind me, I stopped - the train started Everywhere I went - it was perpetual motion The second I stepped out my vestibule in Brooklyn the story was There From the well off & favored to the laid off & weighed down remnants of the eighties - Lost souls on midnight walks around town to new families getting started surrounded by a world on pause No one wants to place nice anymore The air is thick and all the signs read caution "You can live if you can afford to" So we trade blood for money, it's no wonder a fortune could cost a soul Beware the Love potion - if you choose wrong, there's no antidote What's it all worth? Careful with that bottle you're holding I know life comes and goes with the wind We're all smoke Breathe it in I'll make you think - we're all Close ecstasy without the dope man It's all in the ropes kids - I'll show you to climb the Mind is a terrible thing to use on hate History showed me why there's no room for anything but focus - putting food on plates Feed the world, Feed the World (chorus - repeat 2x) Teach the kids, reach the kids, Make them believe We can live Happily ever after Keep dreaming BIG (verse) We weren't finished yet We know you're satisfied but you haven't even had your dinner yet the first verse is just an appetizer Wait 'til you take a bite of the main course Food for thought could fill a catering hall the size of the World's most famous arena When the leaders of the free world come to New York and talk global poverty, Do they see the homeless behind the double limo tints? As the entourage rolls by five cars deep, sirens & lights, machine guns hanging out the passenger side Can they hear the people talking? I'm asking the questions that we can't get off our minds How often do they walk in neighborhoods other than their own? They say it's where the heart is - but you don't have to leave it at home When did truth lose to lies? Or has it been an uphill battle this whole time, and only now we're close to seeing over the mountain that's blinded us? All we know is to climb or dig deeper in the hole Each one decides - what's worth more - what we hold onto or what we make right? (chorus - repeat 2x) Teach the kids, reach the kids, Make them believe We can live Happily ever after Keep dreaming BIG (verse) I'm humbled by the power of the Sun, the blind of the city finding their way around the deaf who sign to speak men and women who give up everything just to feed the little ones Every tiny smile a small victory It's like every set of eyes I catch in my travels has some sense of understanding Just like me - something beyond divine planning Hands on the controls of fate, engine running straight, always on direct questions Revolving with the whole weight of this planet I'm hoping to see Saturn's rings but I'll settle for a sunset, a good woman, and hearing Mother Earth sing Oh, isn't she beautiful? Heaven couldn't do better She has no needs for the riches of Kings she is all the gems and stones all the gold and furs all the finest lumbers Rain forests her gardens We, meant to be her guardians, hold her ransom in her home We want everything mama's got Every shiny rock chopped up, no oasis left alone The blood of our warriors - the salt on her wounds we'll never know her pain What it feels like, just to watch us humans tear each other apart for the chance to be her children (chorus - repeat 2x)