Album Cover Patience

Patience

NAS

5

Here we are

Here we are

Yeah

This one right here is for the people

Sabali, sabali, sabali yonkote

Sabali, sabali, sabali kiye

Ni kêra môgô

Sabali, sabali, sabali yonkote

(Sabali, sabali, sabali kiye) Hey yo D, let′s go all the way in on this one

Ni kêra môgô

Some of the smartest dummies

Can't read the language of Egyptian mummies

An′ a fly go a 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 dem a make big money

This is how the media pillages

On the TV the picture is savages in villages

And the scientist still can't explain the pyramids, huh

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 a khaki pants

And all of a sudden you say a Indiana Jones

An′ a thief of the gold and thief of 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 like they could be at home

Get tricked by the beast

But a where dem go flee when the monster is fully grown?

Solomonic lineage weh dem still can't defeat

And them coulda never clone

My spiritual DNA that print in my soul

And I will forever own, Lord

(Sabali, sabali, sabali, yonkontê) Yeah, sabali, thats patience

That′s what the old folks told me

(Sabali, sabali, sabali, kiye) Can you get with that?

(Ni kêra môgô)

(Sabali, sabali, sabali, yonkontê) Discovering the world before this world

A world buried in time

(Sabali, sabali, sabali, kiye) Uncover with rhymes, it gets no realer

(Ni kêra môgô)

Are 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?

Huh, can you predict the future, can you see storms coming?

The earth was flat if you went too far you would fall off

No, the earth is round if the shape change again

Everybody woulda 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 speak 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 we get cut

Man a heal dem 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

Huh, can you survive, against all odds, now?

(Sabali, sabali, sabali, yonkontê) It's crazy

(Sabali, sabali, sabali, kiye) When you feed people the truth

You don′t know how they're gonna react

(Ni kêra môgô)

(Sabali, sabali, sabali, yonkontê) You′re scared of wrong doers

People that just ignorant, they scared of the truth

(Sabali, sabali, sabali, kiye) We patient

(Ni kêra môgô) For now

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? (Damn)

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

Microwave it and try it

No matter what, we′ll survive it

What's hue? What's man? What′s human?

Anything along the land we consuming

Eatin′, deletin', ruin

Trying to get paper (What?)

Gotta have land, gotta have acres

So I can sit back like Jack Nicholson

Watch ni- play the game like the Lakers

In a world full of 52 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 part of 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 their body turn cold, oh

Why we born in the first place

If this is how we gotta go? (Damn)

(Sabali, sabali, sabali yonkote) Yeah

(Sabali, sabali, sabali kiye) Yeah, yeah, what?

(Ni kêra môgô)

(Sabali, sabali, sabali yonkote)

Goes to all the wisdom and knowledge seekers of the world

(Sabali, sabali, sabali kiye) Sabali, wisdom

(Ni kêra môgô) Yeah