Patience - Nas/Damian Marley

Written by：Mariam Doumbia/Damian Marley

Yeah

Here we are

Here we are

Yeah

This one right here is for the people

Sabali sabali sabali yonkote

Sabali sabali sabali kiye

Ni kêra môgô

Sabali sabali sabali yonkote

Sabali sabali

Hey yo d

Let's go all the way in on this one

Some of the smartest dummies

Can't read the language of egyptian mummies

An' a fly go a moon

And can't find food for the starving tummies

Pay no mind to the youths

Cause it's not like the future depends on it

But save the animals in the zoo

Cause the chimpanzee dem a make big money

This is how the media pillages

On the tv the picture is

Savages in villages

And the scientist still can't explain the pyramids huh

Evangelists making a living on the videos of ribs of the little kids

Stereotyping the image of the images

And this is what the image is

You buy a khaki pants

And all of a sudden you say a indiana jones

An' a thief out gold and thief out the scrolls and even the buried bones

Some of the worst paparazzis I've ever seen and I ever known

Put the worst on display so the world can see

And that's all they will ever show

So the ones in the west

Will never move east

And feel like they could be at home

Dem get tricked by the beast

But a where dem ago flee when the monster is fully grown

Solomonic linage whe dem still can't defeat and them coulda never clone

My spiritual dna that print in my soul and I will forever own lord

Yeah

Sabali

Hisitations

What the old folks told me

Can you we that

Discovering the world before this world

A world buried in time

Uncover with rhymes

It gets no realer

Huh

We born not knowing

Are we born knowing all

We growing wiser

Are we just growing tall

Can you read thoughts

Can you read palms

Huh

Can you predict the future

Can you see storms coming

The earth was flat if you went too far you would fall off

Now the earth is round

If the shape change again everybody woulda start laugh

The average man can't prove of most of the things

That he chooses to speak of

And still won't research and find out

The root of the truth that you seek of

Scholars teach in universities and claim that they're smart and cunning

Tell them find a cure when we sneeze

And that's when their nose start running

And the rich get stitched up when we get cut

Man a heal dem broken bones in the bush with the wet mud

Can you read signs

Can you read stars

Can you make peace

Can you fight war

Can you milk cows

Even though you drive cars huh

Can you survive against all odds now

Sabali sabali sabali yonkote

It's crazy

Sabali sabali

When you feed people the truth

You don't know how they're gonna react

You're scared of wrong doers

People that just ignorant

You're scared of the truth

Be patient for now

Who wrote the bible who wrote the qur'an

And was it a lightning storm

That gave birth to the earth

And then dinosaurs were born d**n

Who made up words who made up numbers

And what kind of spell is mankind under

Everything on the planet we preserve and can it

Microwaved it and try it

No matter what we'll survive it

What's hue what's man what's human

Anything along the land we consuming

Eatin' deletin' ruin

Trying to get paper what

Gotta have land gotta have acres

So I can sit back like jack nicholson

Watch niggas play the game like the lakers

In a world full of 52 fakers

Gypsies seances mystical prayers

You superstitious throw salt over your shoulders

Make a wish for the day cuz

Like somebody got a doll of me

Stickin' needles in my arteries

But I can't feel it ah

Sometimes it's like 'part of me but I got a real big spirit'

I'm fearless I'm fearless

Don't you try and grab hold of my soul

It's like a military soldier since seven years old

I held real dead bodies in my arms

Felt their body turn cold oh

Why we born in the first place

If this is how we gotta

Sabali sabali sabali yonkote

Sabali sabali sabali kiye

Ni kêra môgô

This goes to all the wisdom and knowledge seekers of the world

Sabali patience yeah