Cold Rain

Lyrics

[Intro]
 Lets try something new
 It's been a long time coming!
 Let me try something brand new
 Hey yo Ski!
 What you ever do, man?
 Come on!
 Yo, what we doing it for?
 This is for all the day-trippers and the hipsters
 Whores and the fashionistas
 Spiritual leaders practicing all the laws of attraction
 The teachers who read the passages from the Bhagavad Gita
 That be bustin off Dalai Lama's or flashing heaters
 the last of the boosters
 With the shooting, the thugging and all the booning and spooning
 and all the crooning, and cooning and auto-tuning, alive
 You be tellin, peddlin' to consumers I'm helping them to see through it
 get with this new movement, let's move it
 [Hook]
 Feel the cold rain
 Still I'm standing right here
 Even the winter summer days
 Yeah I'm a product of Reaganomics
 From the blocks where he rocking the feds like J Electronica
 drop and make this a lock
 if he promises where the heart is
 whether Jesus or Mohammed, regardless of where the mosque is
 They hope for the Apocalypse like a self-fulfilling prophecy
 Tell me when do we stop it?
 Do they ask you your religion before you rent an apartment?
 Is the answer burning Korans
 So that we can defend Islamics?
 The end is upon us with a hashtag - a trending topic
 You take away the freedoms that we invite in the game
 Then you disrespect the soldiers, you ask them to die in vain
 In a desert praying for rain
 The music's like a drug, and they tend to take it to vein
 It ain't for the well-behaved
 The soundtrack for when you're great but its more for when you've felt afraid
 More than your average rapper
 So you sort of felt the way
 The brain is like a cage, you a slave, that is why they lovin' you
 This is the book that Eli that start with a KW
 [Hook]
 Feel the cold rain
 Still I'm standing right here
 Even the winter summer days
 I do it for the trappers, other rappers
 the Backpackers, the crackers
 the niggas, the metal-packers
 the victims of ghetto factories
 I do it for the families, citizens of humanity
 MC's, endangered species like manatees
 I do it for the future of my children
 They the hope for the hopeless
 Karma approaches, we're gon' be food for a flock of vultures
 The end of the world, ain't nothing left but the cockroaches and the freedom fighters
 We're freedom writers like Bob Moses, the chosen freedom writers like Voltaire
 For my block, my borough, my hood, my city, my state, yeah
 My obligation to my community is so clear
 We gotta save them, this opportunity so rare
 We do it so big over here that it's no fair
 To the punks, the bitches, the chumps, the snitches, the sneak in the game
 We let them live with although they're weak and they're lame
 The bozo's and joker's, promotin' when they're speaking my name
 [Hook]
 Feel the cold rain
 Still I'm standing right here
 Even the winter summer days
 

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Song Details

Duration
02:36
Key
10
Tempo
166 BPM

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