Public Enemy - Mine Again lyrics

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(Interlude: James Bomb)

I boarded a plane headstrong

Landed with a smile on my face

To give service back to the land that's our home

I long for comin' back to Africa

(Verse: Chuck D)

So it's cool to be black until it’s time to be black

Ain’t neva too late to go back and give back

So I let born afters know I rap for Africa

To give to the motherland, to see what’s mine again

Be of service, land of dark faces

Split, colonized in 53 places

The greed went on till everythin' was gone

Wiped out by previous wars, I work on

Graves of the poor

To clean up this mess left by the west

My duty to the African, tell my next of kin

In a song, but damn, nothin' around me

And what the hell I step on?

(Interlude: James Bomb)

With my head on straight

I was gone too damn long

Ova four hundred and fifty years, to be exact

Not payin' attention, I stepped on a mine

(Verse 2: Chuck D)

On the edge of motherland, around my head

Compromised in this Christian missionary position

Fear, there must be some way up out of here

Whatta bitch, mother eff it in a clean up ditch effort

Stepped on some bomb shit that a past war left it

Kids dyin' in them nearby diamond mines

Out here workin' that worldwide grind

Hope somebody finds me out left behind

Silent ticks killin' me softly, Malaria

But DeBeers, they the ones got me sick

Isolated while I waited with thoughts in my head

About my sole intention to save my brothers and sisters

(Interlude: James Bomb)

My thoughts is racin' as my tears run down my face

I came back to help repair what's mine

If I move, I'm a goner

(Verse 3: Chuck D)

My sole intention to save my brothers and sisters

How we became boy instead of mister

I came too far here to be called some nigger

My foot on some bomb, I’mma end up worse than a drifter

Myself and what my foot stuck on?

Three hundred sixty degrees, mine again, mine again

(Interlude: James Bomb)

Was it all worth it? Is Africa really ours?

This mine got me thinkin'

All this death and destruction

Let's not forget about the corruption

To rob the motherland of its resources

Is Africa mine?

Or the people who sit in the seat of power?

Mine again, mine again