Amiri Baraka - Dope lyrics

uuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuu uuu ray light morning fire lynch yet uuuuuuu, yester-pain in dreams comes again. race-pain, people our people our people everywhere . . . yeh . . . uuuuu, yeh uuuuu. Yeh our people yes people every people most people uuuuu, yeh uuuuu, most people in pain yester-pain, and pain today (Screams) ooowow! ooowow! It must be the devil (jumps up like a claw stuck him) oooo wow! oooowow! (screams) It must be the devil It must be the devil it must be the devil (shakes like evangelical sanctify shakes tambourine like evangelical sanctify in heat) ooowow! ooowow! yeh, devil, yeh, devil ooowow! Must be the devil must be the devil (waves plate like collection) mus is mus is mus is mus is be the devil, cain be rockefeller (eyes roll up batting, and jumping all the way around to face the other direction) caint be him, no lawd aint be dupont, no lawd, cain be, no lawd no way noway, naw saw, no way jose — cain be them rich folks theys good to us theys good to us theys good to us theys good to us theys good to us, i know, the ma**a tolt me so, i seed it on channel 7, i seed it on channel 9 i seed it on channel 4 and 2 and 5. Rich folks good to us poor folks ain't sh**, hallelujah, hallelujah, ooowow! oowow! must be the devil, going to heaven after i die, after we die everything going to be different, after we die we ain't gon be hungry, ain gon be pain, ain gon be sufferin wont go thru this again, after we die, after we die owooo! owowoooo! after we die, its all gonna be good, have all the money we need after we die, have all the food we need after we die have a nice house like the rich folks, after we die, after we die, after we die, we can live like rev ike, after we die, hallelujah, hallelujah, must be the devil, it ain capitalism, it ain't capitalism, it ain't capitalism, naw it ain't that, jimmy carter wdnt lie, “lifes unfair” but it ain't capitalism must be the devil, owow! it ain the police, jimmy carter wdnt lie, you know rosalynn wdnt not lillian his drunken racist brother ain't no reflection on jimmy, must be the devil got in im, i tell you, the devil k**ed malcolm and dr king too, even k**ed both kennedies, and pablo neruda and overthrew allende's govt. k**ed lumumba, and is negotiating with step and fetchit, sleep n eat and birmingham, over there in “Rhodesia”, goin' under the name ian smith, must be the devil, caint be vortser, caint be apartheid, caint be imperialism, jimmy carter wdnt lie, didn't you hear him say in his state of the union message, i swear on rosalynn's face-lifted catatonia, i wdnt lie nixon lied, haldeman lied, dean lied, hoover lied hoover s**ed (dicks) too but jimmy dont, jimmy ain't lying, must be the devil, put yr money on the plate, must be the devil, in heaven we'all all be straight cain be rockefeller, he gave amos pootbootie a scholarship to Behavior Modification Univ, and Genevieve Almoswhite works for his foundation Must be n******gs! Cain be Mellon, he gave Winky s**a**, a fellowship in his bank put him in charge of closing out mortgages in the lowlife Pittsburgh Hill n******g section, caint be him. (Goes on babbling, and wailing, jerking in pathocrazy grin stupor) Yessuh, yessuh, yessuh, yessuh, yessuh, yes- suh, yessuh, yessuh, yessuh, yessuh, put yr money in the plate, dont be late, dont have to wait, you gonna be in heaven after you die, you gon get all you need once you gone, yessuh, i heard it on the jeffersons, i heard it on the rookies, I swallowed it whole on roots: wasn't it nice slavery was so cool and all you had to do was wear derbies and vests and train chickens and buy your way free if you had a mind to, must be the devil wasn't no white folks, lazy n******gs chained theyselves and threw they own black a**es in the bottom of the boats, [(well now that you mention it King Assblackuwasi helped throw yr a** in the bottom of the boat, yo mamma, wife, and you never seed em no more)] must a been the devil, gimme your money put your money on this plate, heaven be here soon, just got to die, just got to stop living, close yr eyes stop breathin and bammm-O heaven be here, you have all a what you need, Bam-O all a sudden, heaven be here, you have all you need, that a**embly line you work on will dissolve in thin air owowoo! owowoo! Just gotta die just gotta die, this ol world ain't nuthin, must be the devil got you thinkin so, it cain be rockefeller, it cain be mor- gan, it caint be capitalism it caint be national oppression owow! No Way! Now go back to work and cool it, go back to work and lay back, just a little while longer till you pa** its all gonna be alright once you gone. gimme that last bitta silver you got stashed there sister, gimme that dust now broth- er man, itll be ok on the other side, yo soul be clean be washed pure white, yes. yes. yes. owow. now go back to work, go to sleep, yes, go to sleep, go back to work, yes owow. owow. uuuuuuuuuu, uuuuuuuuuuu, uuuuuuuuuuu. yes, uuuuuuu. yes. uuuuuuuuuu. a men.