GET UP Lyrics

Damn, man

I said you can't talk

You gotta let me fuck

They call me Elf, the morning star, the light of illumination

Enlightening inspirations, foretelling predications

Outline this modern day scripture, equip the homiletics

Every moment's aesthetic, you can miss and regret em

If no one told you, you regret the day, well now they did

I watched the filth of this world off me with angel tears

I had a belt of depression back in the wonder years

But it was nothing like Kevin, children be suffering

Fatherless homes, over-invasive mothering

Suicidal and silent, the anger issue's another thing

I done gained sovereign ownership of this human being

It is no longer satisfied with earthly things

The melody is all I need, and a puff of wing

This purple rain, hurricane, will make your house lean

When is life gonna treat you better, when you treat your people better

I know we all fall, but we all get up now

Get up now

I said you gotta get up now

Get up now

I said you gotta get up now

Miracles come to me often, it's a blessing to pull up my laundry

Often this is all like karate, my story got Asian misogynists

Some people paint pictures with words, me I make movie collages

People turn on you for profit, if you knew Judas was your friend

Would you turn on him, and even then, how would you do it

It's a burning bridge, overworked and underpaid, that's the price of friends

Me and my niggas been chasing fetty since we was kids

We just some young black males that happen to dream big

I'm JFK in the parade after the Bay of Pigs

First name El, but I don't fuck with 12

Last name God, I leave it at that

Get up now

I said you gotta get up now

Get up now

I said you gotta get up now

As a toddler I used to be out on the porch preaching

Things I didn't understand and later won't believe in

I've never met a Middle Easterner named Paul or Peter

And they all got stores in every hood a nigga been

Not to mention the last selection, you racist bastards

You follow Jesus, hmm, but also pussy grabbers

It's like rabbit season, duck season

All they've ever really done is fucking black people

It's the real life second place in the slave religion

For a hundred years in the desert, it's the same position

I'm just a day old man that came to save my people

Composed of 666 on periodic tables

When does life go treat you better when you treat your people better

I know we all fall, but we all don't get up

I said you gotta get up now

Get up now

Get up now

Get up now

One day live in a nation where they will not be judged

By the color of their skin but by the content of their character

I have a dream, I have a dream

I have a dream, I have a dream

I have a dream, I have a dream

I have a dream, I have a dream

I must confess that that dream that I had that day

Has at many points turned into a nightmare

All we say to America is be true to what you said on paper

We've got some difficult days ahead

But it really doesn't matter with me now

Like anybody I would like to live

And I've seen the promised land

We as a people will get to the promised land

I said you gotta get up now