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The Eye Seen

from B. Sharpa by Ben Sharpa

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lyrics

Chorus_
Ben Sharpa, Ben Sharpa, Ben Sharpa – Eye seen it!
Ben Sharpa, Ben Sharpa, Ben Sharpa – Eye seen it!

Verse 1_
I seen playas pray with priests – pimps in shiny polished suits
Politicians, poor people, pack rats and prostitutes
Persevering paraplegics perish in secret –
The parents who conceived them’s hearts tear to pieces,
more tears for the Kleenex
Faces sobbed when feces dropped in public shame
They’d pay dearly for doctors and Huggies
I’ve seen guns runnin’ in the gutters –
orphans give bloodclots to druggies
Like they inject shots in the South Suburbs
I’ve seen cops with pet monkeys lock up geniuses and turn ‘em Ted Bundy
Black Sunday fed my hungry grassroots abundant Fruit Loops packed in slum graves
They’d resurrect deadless restless youth like Lazarus some say
With mics I’ve seen the past plus future like Hue-man
Pass through one glassy eye – glazed –
gaze caged in a wage-raise maze
With no way out, ’cause no pay route means
hey it’s time to face the basics
Like DNA man – it’s all laid out… and I seen it

Chorus_
Ben Sharpa, Ben Sharpa, Ben Sharpa – Eye seen it!
Ben Sharpa, Ben Sharpa, Ben Sharpa – Eye seen it!

Verse 2_
I seen momma needs a home, she needs her son – he’s always gone
On a wild-goose chase he calls his life – music based
All the while pops is like “boy just put some food on the plate”
I seen refugees with 10 degrees sell you trees to pay rental fees
Con men for president – Bush bombing some Bedouins
News headlines read, ‘Bin Laden is dead again’
I’ve seen tribesmen irrelevant, townships erected
Houses infested, crowded with tenants –
A lousy incentive when jobs are finished
And one out of three dependants’ mouths need dentists
I seen the spread of AIDS, while heads get a case to replace the medic-aid
I seen centre stage in dark-brown ghettos, where we all pay the beast
At least a pound of flesh to get a peaceful ounce of rest
Like dogs trapped in pounds – royal Gods found in kennels –
I bet they’d put us down no less, than a thousand arrested per annum
Under duress – judged with a senile old blind sole-witness
I’ve seen the Nile River child float by with no reply or peep from a Holy Christian
White assassins bible bash while tribal factions die in action
Seen futile flights of passion from suicidal rights of passage
To man from childhood, I seen the mountain find Muhammed
A new democracy – but I seen everybody’s gone demon-crazy
A loud-speaking activist, proudly South African – now what happens next?

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from B. Sharpa, released July 26, 2008
Prod. Dplanet

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We develop artists who understand the cultural significance of representing the reality of life in South Africa. Whilst deeply rooted in Hip Hop culture, we push aesthetic boundaries. Our sound is influenced by a wide variety of music, everything from Roots, Dub and Dancehall, to Electro, Detroit Techno, Dubstep, Grime and naturally, the sounds of Africa. ... more

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