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Chorus: Erykah Badu

This bitter land

Watered with my soul

The fruit it bears

Leaves me so cold

This bitter land

Does nothing for love

This bitter land

Brings pain from above, oh-oh

 

Verse 1:

So many words can paint the perfect picture

It's not about braggadocio, it's only about the words that hit ya'

Nothing but silence and the hurt within ya'

Whether it's deserved or your nerves are splintered

It's the curse of winter

The blood from my throat paints a chain on my neck

The good in the world can't change a thing for the best

We're too busy chasing evil and all that'll change is what is next

Trends are ever changing, and we're never changing

Stuck in one place with hope that it changes

Still doing the same thing, and you know where your lane is

'Cause you'll never switch it up, you'll go through the phases

'Til it fades into obscurity, there's no hope for you nor curing me

Another trend running in the gutter

It's funny with the money you will put up

Maybe it's just me shunning when I shouldn't

Or maybe it's just something gunning for you hunger

Just a thought

Maybe we keep losing hope and we're just tryna' muster more

Whether it takes it all, a trade-a-guns, or a busted ball

For the lust, another tug-of-war

I'm tugging on the leash but it's tugging more

More lives lost than lives lost

'Cos you're drowning in the world, you're practically livestock

No self-thought, you just glide on

No matter how many daggers in your back

It doesn't matter, blood splatters, you're in tatters, man

I'm a, man in search for the dreams, a better land

Better men have tried, I punch with a severed hand

And it's hopeless, no hope for fresher grass...

It's envisioning a system, imprisoned within it

Whatever we're told, we listen and live it

'Til we're told otherwise, then we go and be livid, it's the cost of living...

So go live it...

 

Chorus: Erykah Badu

This bitter land

Watered with my soul

The fruit it bears

Leaves me so cold

This bitter land

Does nothing for love

This bitter land

Brings pain from above, oh-oh

 

Verse 2:

Whether we're at logger-heads or we're on sides instead

This is our life to live, nothing really matters when we're gone 'nd dead

It's kinda therapeutic, it calms the sense

Nothing to worry about six feet under, the Earth's got my flesh

Give my bones to the stones, give my mind it's rest

My Soul floats to the Heavens, my hope's for the one's that's next

It's a crazy world fulla' crazy people

But we got enough heroes to save from evil

We're built to survive, stay alive with the guilt

Kill what we can, and provide for our ilk

The ends justify the means, take your blood for your milk

The head of your son is enough for my fill, you feel?

But violence begets violence

Science projects minds

And I'm just getting by on mine

Whether you want to hate it or you hate to want it

Fate is charging, death is ever-closer and we're still evolving

If it's ''Jesus take the wheel'' or you got a problem, solve it

Keep searching for the road or let faith take you on it

Whether your faith is in yourself or whatever your God is

Keep marching

Just keep projecting ourselves

Exhaust the hate that you get from yourselves

If you're getting backlash, expect nothing else

Every step forward seems like a step closer to Hell

Your back's giving in, just set your chin on a shelf

Hold your head up, fall and get up, it's all for better

Skinned knees, the hope within me

Cut open my throat and carry on with my Ghost to still seek

Dive low or go to sweep Venus

I'll fight 'til I drop, there's no ''No more'' to revoke this genius

Is that the hope between us...?

...Or is there no hope within us?

 

Outro: Erykah Badu

This bitter land is far too real

This bitter land, it does not heal

Cause in the land skies are grey

But we fight the storms that come our way

A boy who strives to be a man

Must push to lead with all he can

Oh, this bitter land

Oh, bitter land

Oh, oh, oh, oooh

This bitter land can't stop my fight

This bitter land