C.O.T.I. (Captains Of The Imagination) - Same Sameness lyrics

[Scratches: Dj Tiny Tim] I'm rapping [Verse 1: Imagine] From the same world but don't share the same hate The same love, the same words or the same taste Yet we all take the same drug Share the same earth but not the same fate Blame the same stuff, give the same birth to a same race Make the same mistake of following the same fury Everybody wants to have the same face of a same beauty The same difference of the same discrimination The same shame of the same intimidation Play the same game of the same manipulation Share the same pain of the same abomination Yet we forget the same elegance of the same nature That we are destroying with the same hatred The same greed of the same impatience The same pity of a same nation (A same nation) [Chorus: Imagine and Dr Koul] We want the same this, we want the same that We want the same sh** and we want the same crap The same hits for the same raps Same fibs for the same facts Want the same as the same sameness We want the same this, we want the same that We want the same sh** and we want the same crap The same hits for the same raps Same fibs for the same facts Want the same as the same sameness [Verse 2: Dr Koul] We've been looking for a different love in a different place An opposite reality to what we had chased We're lost in a paradox with logic as chains Searching for the strange that we long to escape We want the same laws, with a different face Or is it different laws with the same Citizen Kane? We want problems to solve problems that we made We want to eat healthy junk and go jump off a plane! Radiating with a different aim. Do we want to bomb terrorists Or remember that we gave them the name? Do we want to welcome refugees? Or do we shame them And blame them for the change in the streets? We want a different difference, with less interference There's more fear when we don't see There's no difference between us Cartesian materialism, Aristotelean I want more Taoism, Buddhism so that we can Embrace the Oneness, the sameness of thoughts we have But then again, is that just me wanting a different path? When we see the sameness in difference That's Hip Hop culture: with love for all citizens [Chorus: Imagine and Dr Koul] [Verse 3: Evita Koné] We fighting so hard though we up against the ropes Dying for our hopes, same strokes for different folks The bashful and the wise wanna try to make a change But they buried alive by those who shoot at close range We make the same mistakes, expecting different results: A hug from a slap, a kiss from an insult They wanna wanna take control with a few they consult Rights trickle from the top, wonder why we revolt? Putting so much emphasis on bitterness and differences We say that's what progress is, it's really the antithesis The tip of the iceberg in this burning ship we sinking in Envy is the poison in the chalice that we drinking in Same shame different day, same slave different pay Same game we wish we could play Endangers us in similar ways Being proud of where you from is all well and good But when I think about it, we all from the same hood [Chorus: Imagine and Dr Koul] [Scratches: Dj Tiny Tim] I'm rapping, I'm rapping What's happening? None of you cats can do that sh** like Captains Of The Imagination