Mother Earth - '94 Lyrics

I go an get it... (Hey yeah!)
I go and get it (Ooh)... I go and get it (mmm mmm mmm)

(Mmm, no no no...no no no) I go an get it...
I go and get it... I go and get it...

Listen
See my mental's on pure ambition
Don't get beside me, get behind me
I'm on a mission
Unless you're gonna go ahead of me
Then that's respect
See, cause I go and get
So if you go and get
Then I'm gon' let it be
Got a message for the youthful and the brash
If you don't grow mentally
Eventually you'll end up on your ass
You act like you ain't gotta pass
But passing's a sport
You act like you ain't got no passion to sport
They listen to me cause I've got a voice
Networking, see me talking to the girls and the boys
Making them think twice about their choices
Helping them to be boisterous
Get used to hearing "of course!" Cause
Them "no's" tear you down
But you gotta work it
No hand-me-downs
Cause you gotta work for it
Listen to me now
Yo, you gotta work for it
And you know I speak the truth
Cause you see me work for it
Now what I do? Uhh

Now what I do do, ohhh
I go an get it... (I do!)
I go and get it (Hey yea, yeah yeah)... I go and get it

Now what I do do, ohhh
I go an get it... (I do!)
I go and get it (Hey yea, yeah yeah)... I go and get it

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Don't hate it debate it
Fate it waits for no man
I already blowed man
About to do a show man
A paragon of showmanship
I set examples
You're so close to washed up
You're sitting in a hamper
Don't dampen the light of your future
I know you're not used to
Being handed a real prize
You have no real idea what success feels like
Cause participation trophies motivate us to not try
So why I ask
Must we sit on our asses and our phones?
Worried about our privacy
When we've become the drones
And no one really 'owns'
We've got a lease on life
I've got the tief on strife
We need some peace in life
If I apply it, you can do it
Just try it
I can't deny it's hard to ignore the guards
Shooting at you in the streets
But practice humility
You've got the ability
If you don't use it you'll lose it
While I'll be doing what I've been doing

Now what I do do, ohhh
I go an get it... (I do!)
I go and get it (Hey yea, yeah yeah)... I go and get it

Now what I do do, ohhh
I go an get it... (I do!)
I go and get it (Hey yea, yeah yeah)... I go and get it

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See, it's our tradition to be capitalistic
Confuse church and state like Christians
The judgement's animalistic
Just check the ballistics
Shot 15 times!
And half the time
The press don't even give 15 lines
Yeah I'm angry
But I'm starving
So you could say that I'm hangry
It's a mockery the way they
Don't even care to be mocking me
They're not paying me any attention
I'm just human commodity
I ought to be infiltrating the system
Cause the mischief
Is so evident in their pension
See I've been done
I did more and then some
And this some
STIIL ain't enough to make them dumb
You might win some
But you just lost this one
You weren't looking
So they passed you again
And you missed one
I'm throwing you the words
But you can't catch the wisdom
But I easily get lost in the message
Cause that's the best place to be
It's not the safest
But there ain't one of those
There's only when you're free

That's what I do do, Huh
I go and get it!
Cause the way I see it
You don't have to wear the blinders
You don't have to be distracted and divided
Once you start to go and get it
You'll be led by your ambitions
Trust me!
See I go and get it for the masses
For the ones passed before us
For the future generations
For me it's not about race
It's not about religion
It's not about partisanship
It's not about any of the particulars that divide us

It's about our potential for freedom

Put your fists in the air!