(feat. Res)    [Chorus: Res - repeat 2X]  Where do we go? What do we say? What do we do?   Nowhere to turn, nowhere to run and there's nothin new   Where do we go for inspiration?   It's like pain is our only inspiration    [Talib Kweli]  Yea, I see a place where little boys and girls   Are shells in the oceans not knowin they a pearl  No one to hold 'em while they growin  They livin' moment to moment without a care in the whole world  Now, if I could help it I tell it just like it is  And I may say some things that you don't like to hear  I know this: that people lie, people kneel  People die, people heal, people steal, and people shed tears  What's real, blood spills, gun kill, the sun still - rise  Above me, trust me, it must be, morning - time  Wake up, the stakes up  Everybody want the cake up, to break up with the crew  But when the karma come back for what you do  It's too late to make up - some excuse    [Chorus]    [Talib Kweli]  I come from people who stronger than time and space   Wherever there's competition you gonna find the race   I find a place in my heart for this hip-hop   And pump blood through my vein my skin get hot   I take you very serious and make you write more   If I don't celebrate I got nothing to fight for  I'm tight raw, excite y'all like nightfall  I'm tight y'all, I walk the street like y'all  About action, talk is cheap, right y'all?  You start yappin' think about the beef you might cause  The trouble you could get into  You don't study, you not prepared and cats is testin you  What you gonna do when you gotta face  The manifestation of the words that you put in space   They already there you cant take 'em out   The studio gangsta inside you tryin' to break out    [Chorus]    [Talib Kweli]  Yea, I see a place where little boys and girls   Are shells in the oceans not knowin they a pearl  No one to hold 'em while they growin  They livin' moment to moment without a care in the whole world  Now, if I could help it I tell it just like it is  And I may say some things that you don't like to hear  I know this: that people lie, people kneel  People die, people heal, people steal, and people shed tears  What's real, blood spills, gun kill, the sun still - rise  Above me, trust me, it must be, morning - time  Wake up, the stakes up  Everybody want the cake up, to break up with the crew  But when the karma come back for what you do  It's too late to make up - some excuse