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The Mis-education Lyrics by Timothy Welbeck

No City for Young Men

2017

Verse 1
The fear of the Godhead is the beginning of knowledge/As spoken through the words of His statutes and prophets/We bow in the shadow of the mighty obelisk/Worshipping the created, not the Creator who God is/And you wonder why we’ve turned, and our ways are not His/When we let idolatry pervade our noggin/So the sons of Songhai must make the song cry/And lift embattled prayers up to the God who’s on high/We are the Veiled Seventh Son speaking through fettered lungs/Whose eyes are on the prize of the lives of everyone/Whose cries give rise to new life, will it come/It rarely does, more often the terror comes/The strange fruit still has leaves that’s bearing blood/These intellects don’t fear God, but are scared of us/If you don’t believe me, you can ask Erykah/Or look across these places in urban America/Where you see universities on our curbs and streets/Knowing full well children on those curbs and streets barely ever learn to read/But if those children on those curbs and streets don’t learn to read/How are they supposed to go to universities and earn degrees/The whole situation is discouraging/When children can say the system was never meant to work for me/The seat of the trouble is our only furnishing/We’ve been at this for centuries and haven’t learned a thing
Hook
My schools ain’t teach me this; they taught me to measure my humanity within three/fifths/My schools ain’t teach me this; they taught me my people’s contributions were infrequent/My schools ain’t teach me this; I’m created in the image of God even if they don’t see it/My schools ain’t teach me this/Where two or three are joined together He is there in the midst
Interlude (Malcolm X (later known as El Hajj Malik el Shabazz))
Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose/And the shape of your lips/Who taught you to hate yourself
Verse 2
Learning will spoil the best nigga on earth/If you read with him, there’s no keeping him is what he heard/And Frederick pondered the mystery of his master’s words/And learned it was the key to the freedom for which he yearned/The greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed/Control a man’s thoughts, you decide where goes next/Teach contempt of self, he’ll bind those to whom he’s closest/Control a man’s mind, you’ll find you will control him/You’re a brainless ignoramus/That is part of training?/It comports with your self-portrait and how you frame it/You receive and believe, and speak it so be it/You receive it and believe it, you have no reason/Because you’ll pound a ball down a ninety-four foot court/And use force to hurl it and make it soar/Watch it spin and contort until it swishes for you to score/That’s the very thing that you often do for sport/But your retort is you don’t understand physics at its core/But the truth of the matter is you have forsaken this legacy of yours/When blood of the ancestors cries out from the ocean’s floor/Calling out to you, they’re imploring for more/They are imploring for more
Do away with this evil opinion of me that you have held for such a long time
Credits
Timothy Welbeck

Timothy Welbeck

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