Dimitri & the Scarecrow - Keeping On

You won't pay us
But you want to define us
Scarecrow
You won't claim us
But you want to deny us
Yet somehow
You want to treat us like you own us
You don't know us
We are artists
Scarecrow
Delete data
That grants you weak rappers
Elite status
On schematics of patented apparatus
In these cameras
Canons enhance status
And selling indebted grams
In which you're fiend phantoms
Then we're branded
As seekers of brief glamor
When did MC Rappers
Succumb to fear factor
Coz, we matter
We wreak havoc and speak candid
Unfiltered in grammar
Against reasoning tactics
Only politicians weave deceit
Civil and diplomatic
And greet enemies
Cavalier all practiced
With street manners
We free what needs answers
Where we're planted
We-seek-green organic practice
So, we fathom
That these means are Black Panther
And seize action
That we deem to be valid
Bereaved, battered
We speak with clean palates
and steer clear abandoning
Near mirror distractions
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I kneaded a Gi
To defeat monotony
With a key supreme qi
That revealed the inner me
And diseased iniquity
Of a pimpin' industry
That depends upon the weak
And it breeds melancholy
The kinesis often breeds
In the deeds of lawyering
And it feeds upon the needs
With an ill soliciting
Given a rear ending
That appeared to be convincing
And sinking the real venom
It's killing ya parasitic
Now you got a dependent
A handout a minute
That's how you get indebted
By betting upon an image
What is a nigga thinking
By giving' away his spirit
When parents are on a pension
And feeding him on a budget
Running 'em out of pocket
And spinning an empty wallet
Then following false prophets
And paying an altar profit
Robbin' the hooded idiot
King you'll be beheaded
Your lying heart is sheriff
You're absent and not listening
Keep on, keeping on
Keep, keep, keep it going
Keep on, keeping on
Keep, keep, keep it going
Keep on, keeping on
Keep, keep, keep it going
Keep on, keeping on
Keep, keep, keep it going
Keep on, keeping on
Keep, keep, keep it goin
Keep on, keeping on
Keep, keep, keep it going
Keep on, keeping on
Keep, keep, keep it going
Keep on, keeping on
Keep, keep, keep it going
Woah! uh, woah
Can't stop moving on
Woah! uh, woah
Keep on moving on
Woah! uh, woah
I won't stop, no
Woah! uh, woah
I got to keep going on
This is my dream
This is my vision
This is my dream
Self-belief will untie the knots
And I will keep moving on
I know what men are capable of
Onward we march
Scarecrow uh
My dominion lies deep within my opinion
No sentient being will help salvage my salvation
I don't care for any notion of paradise
The size of my existence in the gaze of my eyes
I've seen the face of people who in deed are gods
Mephistopheles, Ahriman whatever, Beelzebub
Cull the superhero complex, everybody can't be saved
Even the righteous won't be delivered the day
Niggers for the long haul in the corridor for justice
Surpassed by petty White-collar causes, Huh
I don't need you to agree or grant me any acceptance
Coz I wake up and I feel I belong in this
Good or evil manifests always from the people
Spare me the Kingdom come bull and be true
Only God can judge me? Pfft! Could've had me fooled
But Illmatic taught me that the world is yours

Written by:
Dimitri Kwenda

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