Lyrics
Learned Anything – written by Hussein Alidina Roberto Carlos, Julio Mendoza, Taryn Cassel, & Jake Gotengco Winter 2004-July 30 2005, “E.V.”, Offmic MC, Lexicon & Mendoza appear courtesy of a-slam music productions, Mysticy appears courtesy of herself Ovmik MC: EV…Offmic MC x2/ Mysticy: Have you learned anything?/ EV: My telephone rings, “hello?”/ “Yo, let’s go to the club,” “Fuck no, I’m still recovering from the night before.” “Shut up, get blazed, get drunk get laid/ take her home in the morning and do it all again.”/ I guess I have changed in the fact that I’m looking at her right now/ Don’t even know her name, but last night she blew me out./ I used to think it was about getting laid,/ But then I woke up more depressed then when we left yesterday./ Where’s the L-O-V-E OB-VI-OUS-LY/ It’s something that we’ve lost, but exactly what we need,/ And I do not have the time to hook-up aimlessly,/ Plus I gotta study for school, so just let me be./ You can see that we are not equal and will never be/ But they don’t get it, that’s the point, we can never have equality/ And I do not believe or accept this bullshit of equality of opportunity./ It’s circumstances that we need to be equal in our modern days,/ Can you tell I’m on the left, well that’s okay./ Our foundation is equal circumstances for all, not just the upper classes./ What do you believe?/ For all to be free, to get what they need/ Inclusion, not exclusion, this is what I’ve learned/ Chorus: Learned anything, then this is what I’ve learned / Learned anything, then this is what I’ve learned / Rolling dice, keeping six, and now it’s my turn / If I’ve learned anything, than this is what I’ve learned x2 (a-slam)./ Mendoza: Esto es lo que yo aprendi de ti / De mis amigos enemigos familia y de mi x2 / Amor a tu Corazon es la clave / Pero aprender amar es la yave / Me eh ensenado a tener paciencia y ser calmado / So now I don’t fight, I flow (translation @ www.sfu.ca/evmusic)/ EV: He walks in my studio, like where’s your gat at/ You live in East Van, aren’t you scared you’re gonna get jacked./ For the things that scare me, it’s not necessary/ For me to carry around a gun in my back pack./ I’m more afraid of the fact that we can blow up the world a million times/ It’s MAD that stopped that, but now even that’s on the line/ Star Wars is back to make sure that America can never be attacked?!/ How the fuck do they get away with that?/ Oh yeah, they keep you scared./ It was communism, now it’s terrorism, they don’t care/ They just wanna fill their prisons, and build up a weapon system,/ Continue to sell arms while killing innocent children./ Now Johnny can cross the street to buy a shotgun,/ Even though he ain’t strong enough to cock one/ This is what I’ve learned. / (Chorus)/ EV: I’m tired of ignorance (what)/ Lies in politics (what)/ Media controlled by advertising/ No one questioning shit (what)/ Troops in Iraq (what)/ No one knows the facts (what)/ They brought down Saddam’s Statue,/ And that’s that (that’s that) (what) / Did they ask them (what)/ Were those they’re friends (what)/ Or were those Kurdish people helping the Americans (what)/ You get Aljazeera trying to broadcast the truth/ Even in Canada we try to censor them too./ Though we gave the openly bias Fox News/ The full right to broadcast/ Where is the Truth?/ Lexicon: (Yeah) You know what I’ve learned, that bullets burn/ So does pussy, so if you got the yearn/ You better strap up(strap up), or next time(next time)/ will be your turn/ Aiiyo son, I’m trying to teach you, reach you, preach too/ And if you get out of line, I’ma definitely beat you/ I'm trying to kick some knowledge, get myself to college/ and if that don’t work I’m cooking coke to solids, holla/ EV: Don’t listen to EV he’s a vegan, a heathen./ I treat others how I want to be treated./ One life to live, what kind of life are you leading,/ One love to give, sometimes I think they’re not breathing./ There’s two things that I wanna change/ V
