J Dilla - Statues lyrics

[Intro: Omen speaking] Ayo I am a poet, who composes what the world's proses is And proses what the world composes - Khalil Gibran [Verse 1: Omen] They told me go to school, listen well, work hard Graduate from college, then you get ya good job Well the Lord knows that's a damn good lie Drug dealers rich and I'm barely getting by I'm saying goodbye to ya rules, ya models, and ya tradition Unhappy folks tryna give wisdom, why would I listen? You stuck in the past, 2Pac getting bumped on the ave Seen a shorty running, dumping a stash Fell down, tripped stumbled, from a stump in the gra** Guarantee we risk it all for the love of this cash I mean look at the way we living, really stuck in nostalgia We still worship statues, giving dead men altars Let a lifeless idea live inside of its coffin Cobblestone rogues still sleep on the streets of Boston Got us on the escapade, living retrograde Burn down all ya statues and throw 'em in the lakes [Hook: Shalonda] Tear down all your statues of me Idolizing a part of something I used to be Tear it down, all ya statues of me Idolizing a part of who I used to be Tear it down... [Verse 2: Omen] I heard history repeats itself So you should learn from it They only tell you that Because they know they can earn from it And it's value in the past fa sho' Shot our pyramids Gave 'em Michael Jackson nose That lil boy I seen dumping a stash Is somewhere sitting in a cell Getting humped in the a** And that's history I damn sure can learn from I say let's burn it all down, you rather burn a blunt Swearing y'all turn it up Manifest Destiny, would you sacrifice your happiness Just to leave a legacy? They say he had a dream, Dr. Martin Luther King But waited to build a monument that he would never see They used to build shrines and columns made into Buddha Somehow them same stones in McDonalds in our future I'm thinking on a different block Carving on a different spot Please pa** the torch watch me burn down Plymouth Rock [Hook: Shalonda] Tear down all your statues of me Idolizing a part of something I used to be Tear em down down down Tear em down down down Tear em down Down Down