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Artist/Band: Talib Kweli
Lyrics for Song: Eat To Live
Lyrics for Album: Ear Drum [2007]



Yeah, this is a ghetto prayer

Prayin' for all of those who ain't got it

We gotta get it there, we gotta get it, here

Yeah, the people starvin' for somethin' new, we starvin' for it



My little man go to bed so hungry

Get up, go to school with his nose runny

Come home with his nose bloody

His sister laughin', he like, "What's so funny?"

'Til she drowned out by the sounds of hunger pains in his tummy



Nuttin' in the freezer, nuttin' in the fridge

Couple of 40 ounces but nuttin' for the kids

Little man know they to eat to live

But he don't wanna leave the crib



The kid who punched him in his face

House right down the street from his

He went anyway, more scared to face his moms

She'll beat him soon as she flip out seein' his face scarred



Walkin' past the dope fiends with they smoke to the place of God

Hopes and dreams pourin' out the holes in they face and arms

Little man in the face of harm if he don't eat

He need energy so when he go to school he can compete



And keep up, all he got is bodegas

But hey, he only got enough a for quarter water and a now or later

Anyway, grandma say Jesus'll be here any day

Good, 'cause with nuttin' to eat it's gettin' hard to pray

Pray, pray, pray



In order to receive then we need to give

We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live

In order to receive then we need to give

We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live



In order to receive then we need to give

We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live

In order to receive then we need to give

We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live, listen



My rhymes got nutritional value

I get it how I live, it's critical when the conditions allow you

Do you entrust the critics who doubt you?

Try to write shit about you

But they can't make a living without you



Go hungry, you gotta watch what the media feed you

And don't be a poisoned animal, eaten either

It's harder than it sound, 'cause nowadays

Put that swine in everything

The white sugar so addictive, it's pure 'caine



They got pork in the toothpaste, soda in the Sunny D

Jello brand gelatin is laced with the lecatin

In Africa, they starvin', over here the food hurt you

Cows goin' mad and the chickens crunk with bird flu



It's too ill how the food kills, it's like blue steel

Lies never set you free, but the truth will

The truth still matter, the proof is in the batter or the pudding

You can tell we eatin' good, we gettin' fatter



In order to receive then we need to give

We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live

In order to receive then we need to give

We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live



In order to receive then we need to give

We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live

In order to receive then we need to give

We gotta feed the kids, they gotta eat to live, listen


Album Lyrics: Ear Drum [2007]


Talib Kweli
"Ear Drum [2007]"


1. Country Cousins
2. Eat To Live
3. Everything Man
4. Give 'em Hell
5. Holy Moly
6. Hostile Gospel, Pt. 1 (deliver Us)
7. Hot Thing
8. In The Mood
9. Listen!!!
10. More Or Less
11. Oh My Stars
12. Say Something
13. Soon The New Day
14. Space Fruit (interlude)