Get By Talib Kweli

[Produced by Kanye West]

[Intro]
Yeah
Ya know?
Yeah

[Verse 1]
We sell crack to our own out the back of our homes
We smell the musk of the dusk and the crack of the dawn
We go through episodes too, like Attack of the Clones
Work 'til we break our back and you hear the crack of the bones
To get by, just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by
We commute to computers
Spirits stay mute while your egos spread rumors
We survivalists turned to consumers
Just to get by, just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by
Ask Him why some people gotta live in a trailer, cuss like a sailor
I paint a picture with the pen like Norman Mailer
Mi abuela raised three daughters all by herself with no help
I think about her struggle and I find the strength in myself
These words melt in my mouth, they hot like the jail cell in the south
Before my nigga Cor' bailed me out
To get by, just to get by
Just to get by, just to get by
We do or die like Bed-Stuy
See the red sky out the window of the red-eye
Let the lead fly on some G. Rap shit, livin' to let die