TAKE TAKE TAKE by The IMPetus Lyrics
Story of OJ
Give a slave an inch he take an ell
Well
Came to take our bodies/ go through hell
Rank me with the horses and the vases too
Difference how you look at me and look at you
I’m cargo, Pieza, body parts
Evaluated For y’all to pick and choose
Runaway bodies loose ends in capitalism so you bring the noose
Ain’t nothing new
Y’all still think of shackles think of modern days
Cops is beating homies just to ease the pain
Thats open vulnerability due to thinking that we gangsta man
All natal aliens, black bodies
Black balled
Cause of structures
What am I to do?
Steady make a fool of us, cause system gave you leverage, Shoot!
Maybe we play along with you, if taking what it takes then I’m Townsend taking all of you
No wait
Town sent me to take all of you
I’m Caesar with a shotty when ya rent is due (*click *)
Tik Tok Boy
Black Capitalism must be the answer fool
Black Capitalism must be the answer fool
Black Capitalism must be the answer fool
Rigamortis
Rigamortis for our Blackness
I tell you how they done did it man
Social Death is imminent
Still not as bad as Emmet Till
Reduce our skin to object
Take our lives, but ain’t nobody killed
Its only Black/ against the World
No wonder Race
The son of Racism
Taking shots
For escapism
Your ism sending us to prison
Send the bodies to mortician
Physician, magician, don’t matter
Long as skin and dirt is merging
Reap our bodies, reap our crops
Switch it up
Now reap our watch / massa
Playing like you god / massa
Taking time like you is Kronos
Punching in and punching out
Clocking in and clocking out
Clocking massa in the mouth
Genesis, followed by Genocide
This Moses parting waters
Just to see
Everyone else drown
Like its middle passage
Watch me steer the boat
To City of Bones
Books of War
Previously labelled as villains
But I’m ya hero
Who else willing to give from their nothing
We left at zero
Empty
Hefty Burden, never lift a heavy hand against a man
Who delusioned think they can strain my time by holding grains of sand
But Look at you!
Can’t make the man in your mirror without defining me
You a byproduct of my paradigm
I’m everything you wish to be… facts
If not, then explain the Black Face and the Minstrelsy
The bad shoot and Miss Dolezal
Black can’t crack, only a smile dog
We taking slivers of life
And extract overwhelming amounts of dopamine
Y’all had to flood my streets with dope (my G)
Had to lock us up in penitentiary cause we the last hope to your existence
Do like Pandora and keep your hope closed up
Until you realize
Between us two
You the only one living lies
Gave us a portion of what is due to us
And this ain’t new to us/
We take and make a fortune of it
So yes
Give a slave an inch he take an ell
We double ells and now they see
How Black matter makes all of your industries
…
TAKE FROM ME
You gon’ take this shit for granted
Taking in your nature, we understand it
Feel the pressure of making you exist
Understand you take because we got shit to give
SO
Take my arms, legs, feet
Fingers
Take my hands, back and chest
Take all this shit but can’t ever take it all from us
We find infinite In the finite
Take, take, take
We never took shit
Make a constellation from an ember
Supernova out of a flashlight
Make platinum out of aluminum foil
Y’all think its taking cause that’s all y’all got to give
(Reverse)
Give a slave an inch he’ll make an ell
Give a slave an inch he take an ell
Well
Came to take our bodies/ go through hell
Rank me with the horses and the vases too
Difference how you look at me and look at you
I’m cargo, Pieza, body parts
Evaluated For y’all to pick and choose
Runaway bodies loose ends in capitalism so you bring the noose
Ain’t nothing new
Y’all still think of shackles think of modern days
Cops is beating homies just to ease the pain
Thats open vulnerability due to thinking that we gangsta man
All natal aliens, black bodies
Black balled
Cause of structures
What am I to do?
Steady make a fool of us, cause system gave you leverage, Shoot!
Maybe we play along with you, if taking what it takes then I’m Townsend taking all of you
No wait
Town sent me to take all of you
I’m Caesar with a shotty when ya rent is due (*click *)
Tik Tok Boy
Black Capitalism must be the answer fool
Black Capitalism must be the answer fool
Black Capitalism must be the answer fool
Rigamortis
Rigamortis for our Blackness
I tell you how they done did it man
Social Death is imminent
Still not as bad as Emmet Till
Reduce our skin to object
Take our lives, but ain’t nobody killed
Its only Black/ against the World
No wonder Race
The son of Racism
Taking shots
For escapism
Your ism sending us to prison
Send the bodies to mortician
Physician, magician, don’t matter
Long as skin and dirt is merging
Reap our bodies, reap our crops
Switch it up
Now reap our watch / massa
Playing like you god / massa
Taking time like you is Kronos
Punching in and punching out
Clocking in and clocking out
Clocking massa in the mouth
Genesis, followed by Genocide
This Moses parting waters
Just to see
Everyone else drown
Like its middle passage
Watch me steer the boat
To City of Bones
Books of War
Previously labelled as villains
But I’m ya hero
Who else willing to give from their nothing
We left at zero
Empty
Hefty Burden, never lift a heavy hand against a man
Who delusioned think they can strain my time by holding grains of sand
But Look at you!
Can’t make the man in your mirror without defining me
You a byproduct of my paradigm
I’m everything you wish to be… facts
If not, then explain the Black Face and the Minstrelsy
The bad shoot and Miss Dolezal
Black can’t crack, only a smile dog
We taking slivers of life
And extract overwhelming amounts of dopamine
Y’all had to flood my streets with dope (my G)
Had to lock us up in penitentiary cause we the last hope to your existence
Do like Pandora and keep your hope closed up
Until you realize
Between us two
You the only one living lies
Gave us a portion of what is due to us
And this ain’t new to us/
We take and make a fortune of it
So yes
Give a slave an inch he take an ell
We double ells and now they see
How Black matter makes all of your industries
…
TAKE FROM ME
You gon’ take this shit for granted
Taking in your nature, we understand it
Feel the pressure of making you exist
Understand you take because we got shit to give
SO
Take my arms, legs, feet
Fingers
Take my hands, back and chest
Take all this shit but can’t ever take it all from us
We find infinite In the finite
Take, take, take
We never took shit
Make a constellation from an ember
Supernova out of a flashlight
Make platinum out of aluminum foil
Y’all think its taking cause that’s all y’all got to give
(Reverse)
Give a slave an inch he’ll make an ell