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Can't Sleep

from Brown Is Beautiful by Olmeca

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Can’t sleep and my life is cruel
Fight so I could once again sleep without being fooled
A nightmare either way I look!
Awake leave my dream and relentlessly live the truth
Trayvon killed killer walks
Blood on street take em back
Deportations record high
Brown and black target drills
Racism alive not implied
press denies
Truth and dream are too distinct
So I don’t place em side by side

Can’t sleep so I work with these tools
Arms ready keep it steady we all know what to do
I’m a go-getter the moons giving light I get her
Get it? Night is better let her settle enter now or never

Drone attack Muslims die
Queer community is time
Politics the same blame game see they haven’t tried
All the same rights denied
All is good in us we trust
Though though to get it right, we're gonna need the light of the night!

Chorus:
It drops deep as it does in my breath
I never sleep cause is the cousin of death

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from Brown Is Beautiful, released August 1, 2013
Produced by Principe Cu
featuring Bambu

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Olmeca Los Angeles, California

Olmeca is a hip hop MC/Producer and activist hailing from L.A. CA His unique production talent in both English and Spanish is one that is hard to find, yet one that Olmeca has brilliantly mastered. In doing so, he has gained the respect of his peers in hip-hop’s demanding and unforgiving scene as well as that of many well-known names in the mainstream music industry. ... more

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