[00:00.36]The Nature[00:01.14]Talib Kweli[00:02.26]feat. Justin Timberlake[00:02.86][00:03.75][00:04.39]Expect the unexpected[00:09.74]Yo[00:10.13][00:10.44]It's kind of hard to keep faith in the things that you do[00:13.17]When everybody turns they back on you[00:15.73]It's kind of hard to keep faith in the things that you do[00:18.40]When everybody turns they back on you[00:20.99]It's kind of hard to keep faith in the things that you do[00:23.67]When everybody turns they back on you[00:26.28]It's kind of hard to keep faith in the things that you do[00:28.98]When everybody turns their back...[00:30.35][00:31.59]Yeah I know a city that's surrounded by a beautiful beach[00:34.23]The economy boosted by the drugs they move in the street[00:37.04]More clearer than the crystal sky, blue as the beast[00:39.52]The people ain't got shoes for they feet, or food to eat[00:42.08]So they hurtin but what's for certain you can get you some heat[00:44.77]And over beef you laid to rest like you was gettin some sleep[00:47.53]Where the little kids get ammunition (word) you can't get no nutrition[00:50.86]Or any type of suitable living condition listen[00:53.46]They shoot you over that paper, its just survivalist human nature[00:56.39]to put you out of your misery like euthanasia (yeah)[00:58.81]Don't let them fool you we ain't different than the youth in Asia[01:01.16]Africa and Europe, it's a small world we truly neighbors[01:03.85]If they the third world then who the first to get to heaven[01:06.34]I know it's hard but who does God choose to go through it worst[01:08.96]Usually it's the prophets, ask a cat what really matters[01:12.19]Nowadays usually it's his pockets[01:13.13][01:13.72]We gotta get back to what really matters[01:18.58]We gotta search our soul to find out, what we're after[01:23.99]The more I find my voice the more they try to make it harder[01:29.21]Mom and dad don't forget, to warn your sons and daughters[01:34.01]About the-na-ture-of-the-world-to-day, the nature of the world today[01:45.03]The-na-ture-of-the-world-to-day, the nature of the world today[01:54.42][01:55.01]Word~! Don't nobody talk no more they all text message[01:58.14]Drivin and typin, not payin attention, missin they next exit[02:01.15]Dependin on navigation they ever know where they goin[02:04.27]They stayin stuck in one spot they not growin[02:06.54]I'm so over cryin, waitin and hopin playin the blame game[02:09.12]The game changed me into (A Different World) like Dwayne Wayne[02:11.70]I'm gettin high just to maintain (yeah)[02:14.15]Take my music like a drug and drop the needle in the same vein[02:17.07]I get a rush like I'm tweekin off blow[02:19.53]Except it ain't via the nose it's from deep in my soul[02:22.23]The street slang I be speakin in code[02:23.94]Kick in the do's, freakin the flow 'til the speakers explode[02:26.68]We in control, the people know I speak the truth[02:29.40]The power of my roots is thicker than sour sop[02:30.72]And they so strong they bustin out the flower pot[02:32.71]Family tradition is to tell 'em you love 'em[02:35.47]While your family livin from granny in the kitchen the little man in prison[02:37.30][02:37.59]We gotta get back to what really matters[02:42.79]We gotta search our soul to find out, what we're after[02:48.11]The more I find my voice the more they try to make it harder[02:53.34]Mom and dad don't forget, to warn your sons and daughters[02:58.31]About the-na-ture-of-the-world-to-day, the nature of the world today[03:09.25]The-na-ture-of-the-world-to-day, the nature of the world today[03:19.19][03:19.49]It's kind of hard to keep faith in the things that you do[03:22.38]When everybody turns they back on you[03:24.91]It's kind of hard to keep faith in the things that you do[03:27.60]When everybody turns they back on you[03:30.19]It's kind of hard to keep faith in the things that you do[03:33.14]When everybody turns they back on you[03:35.71]It's kind of hard to keep faith in the things that you do[03:38.15]When everybody turns their back...[03:39.45][03:40.61]I'm just tryin to get back, to what really matters[03:45.72]I'm tryin to search my soul to find out, what I'm after[03:50.80]But the more I find my voice the more they try to make it harder[03:55.98]So mom and dad don't forget to warn your sons and daughters[04:01.38]About the-na-ture-of, the world today, the nature of the world today[04:12.22]The-na-ture-of, the world today, the nature of the world today[04:22.54][04:25.14]Yeah, it's all natural baby[04:27.67]It's how we put it there[04:30.09]Yeah, Brooklyn to Tennessee[04:37.96]You goin up with me[04:41.95]Yeah, yeah, break it down[04:52.23]END[04:54.84]