Patience (feat. Nas, Amadou & Mariam)

Here we are
Here we are
Yeah
This one right here is for the people

Patience, patience, patience, my friend
Patience, patience, patience, just wait
I’m not in a rush
Patience, patience, patience, my friend (Hey yo D)
Patience, patience, patience, just wait (Let's go all the way in on this one)
I’m not in a rush

Some of the smartest fools
Can't read the language of ancient mummies
And a fly goes to the Moon
And can't find food for the starving kids
Pay no mind to the youth
Cause it’s not like the future depends on it
But save the animals in the zoo
Cause the chimps are making big bucks
This is how the media robs us
On the TV the picture is
Savages in villages
And the scientists still can't explain the pyramids, huh
Evangelists making a living off videos of ribs of little kids
Stereotyping the images
And this is what the image is
You buy some khaki pants
And suddenly you think you’re Indiana Jones
And a thief steals the gold and the scrolls and even the buried bones
Some of the worst paparazzi 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
They get tricked by the beast
But where will they flee when the monster is fully grown?
Solomonic lineage they still can't defeat and they could never clone
My spiritual DNA is printed in my soul and I will forever own it, Lord

Patience, patience, patience, my friend (Yeah, patience, that's what the old folks told me)
Patience, patience, patience, just wait
I’m not in a rush
Patience, patience, patience, my friend
(Discovering the world before this world, a world buried in time)
Patience, patience, patience, just wait (Uncover with rhymes)
(It gets no realer) I’m not in a rush

Huh, we’re born not knowing, are we born knowing all?
We’re 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 changes again everybody would start laughing
The average man can't prove most of the things
That he chooses to talk about
And still won't research and find out
The root of the truth that you seek
Scholars teach in universities and claim that they're smart and cunning
Tell them to find a cure when we sneeze
And that's when their nose starts running
And the rich get stitched up, when we get cut
Man heals their broken bones in the bush with the wet mud
Can you read signs? Can you read stars?
Can you make peace? Can you fight wars?
Can you milk cows, even though you drive cars? Huh
Can you survive? Against all odds, now?

Patience, patience, patience, my friend (It's crazy)
Patience, patience, patience, just wait
(When you feed people the truth you don't know how they're gonna react)
I’m not in a rush
Patience, patience, patience, my friend
(You're scared of wrongdoers, people who are just ignorant, you're scared of the truth)
Patience, patience, patience, just wait (Be patient for now)
I’m not in a rush

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? Damn
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
Microwave 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’re consuming
Eating, deleting, ruining
Trying to get paper
Gotta have land, gotta have acres
So I can sit back like Jack Nicholson
Watch people play the game like the Lakers
In a world full of 52 fakers
Gypsies, seances, mystical prayers
You superstitious? Throw salt over your shoulder
Make a wish for the day cause
Like somebody's got a doll of me
Sticking needles in my arteries
But I can't feel it
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 I was seven years old
I held real dead bodies in my arms
Felt their bodies turn cold, oh
Why are we born in the first place
If this is how we gotta go?
Damn

Patience, patience, patience, my friend
Patience, patience, patience, just wait
I’m not in a rush
Patience, patience, patience, my friend
(This goes to all the wisdom and knowledge seekers of the World)
Patience, patience, patience, just wait (Patience)
I’m not in a rush (Yeah)