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Artist/Band: Talib Kweli
Lyrics for Song: Ballad Of The Black Gold
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Talib Kweli



This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it Texas tea

But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso

It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies

Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international

The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco

Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than Tabasco

More than what you bargained for or asked for

You never see happy hungry people that ain't rational

They blasting through the gates and they attack you at the capital

Run up in your palace, find the head of the states and crack a few

Get a taste of power then they become fascists too

The fiscal conservatives, don't know what they purpose is

Money on the war then they cut the goods and services

Murderous, corporate monsters is breaking records

Exxon is at 40 billion a year, they raking in record profits, stop it

How they banking while the auto industry is tanking?

Leadership is sinking, oil pollution in the water stanking

Loyalty to petroleum, royalty spoiled the economy

We won't get it poppin' till we're oil-free

If you're oil rich then we invade it

They call it occupation but we're losing jobs across the nation

Drill, baby, drill, while they make our soldiers kill

Baby, still, the desert where the blood and oil spill

This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it Texas tea

But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso

It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies

Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international

The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco

Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than Tabasco

More than what you bargained for or asked for

Nigeria is celebrating 50 years of independence

They still feel the colonial effects of Great Britain's presence

Dictators quick to imitate the West

Got in bed with oil companies and now the place is a mess

Take a guess, which ones came and violated

They oiled up the soil, the Ogoni people was almost annihilated

But still they never stayed silent



They was activists and poets using non-violent tactics

That was catalyst for soldiers to break into they crib

And make examples of the leaders, executed Saro-Wiwa

Threw Fela's mom out the window right after they beat her

In an effort to defeat hope, now the people's feet soaked in oil

So the youth is doing drive-bys through speed boats

They kidnap the workers, they blowing up the pipelines

You see the fires glowing in the nighttime

This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it Texas tea

But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso

It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies

Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international

The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco

Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than Tabasco

More than what you bargained for or asked for

History, a slippery creature

It's full of plot twists and surprise endings like a mystery feature

This oil shit is slicker than preachers

It make the problems in the region amplify like victory speeches

Poison the water and lead the boys to the slaughter

Go in somebody country and rearrange the order

And destroy the borders

You see them dancing through the fields of fire

World domination, their real desire, the devil is still a liar

This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it Texas tea

But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso

It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies

Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international

The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco

Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than Tabasco

More than what you bargained for or asked for

This is the ballad of the black gold, they call it Texas tea

But it's bigger than a cowboy with a lasso

It's deeper than a black hole, create monopolies

Except they collect a fee when you pass go crisis' international

The government de facto we got no control in this fiasco

Darker than the back roads, bubble hotter than Tabasco

More than what you bargained for or asked for


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Talib Kweli


Talib Kweli
"Other Songs - Talib Kweli"


1. Get By (Remix)
2. Chaos
3. Hostile Gospel
4. 2000 Seasons
5. Abra Cadabra
6. Apologize
7. Back Again
8. Ballad Of The Black Gold
9. Bridge To Bama(Hi Tek Remix)
10. Bright As The Stars
11. Brown Sugar (Raw)
12. Buck 'Em Down Freestyle
13. Crossfire
14. Distractions
15. Dont Die
16. Fly Away
17. For Women
18. Genocide
19. Give Up Your Guns
20. Great Expectations
21. Here We Go
22. Human Element
23. I'm So Tall
24. In This World
25. Jackin 4 Beats
26. Just Begun
27. Kindness For Weakness
28. Lifting Off
29. Lonely People
30. Long Hot Summer
31. Love Speakeasy
32. Lunchroom Classics
33. Manifesto
34. Midnight Hour
35. Millionaires
36. Nature
37. Ny Weather Report
38. On Mission
39. Outside the Lounge
40. Phoenix
41. Raise the Bar
42. Ridin'
43. Sharp Shooters
44. Strangers
45. Supreme, Supreme
46. The Beast
47. The Blast (Remix)
48. The Express
49. Theme From Hi Tek
50. Wack Niggas
51. We Know