Are You What You Want to Be

Album: Supermodel (2014)
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  • I woke up on Champs-Élysées to the Djembe of Ghana
    A fine lady from Belize said "You got the spirit of a Fela"
    A young one dripping make-up put her hands out to holla
    I gave her what I got but couldn't handle her broken heart
    The right words in the hands of dissidents with the fire
    Will rip apart the marrow from the bone of the liars
    Well I'm afraid of saying too much and ending a martyr
    But even more so I'm afraid to face god and say I was a coward, yeah

    Will all these things I wait for revelation
    These things make me want to duck for cover
    With all these things I wait for revolution
    These things ask the biggest question to me
    And it's are you what you want to be
    So are you what you want to be?

    The war machines will put out both its hands for a dollar
    It's drinking at the table with the chrome hand guerrillas
    The young ones dripping make-up lift her leg up to holla
    Well, I told her what she's got should be protected in the arms of love
    The right things in the hands of dissidents with the fire
    Will rip apart the marrow from the bone of the liars
    Well I'm afraid of saying too much and ending a martyr
    But even more so I'm afraid to face god and say I was a coward

    Will all these things I wait for revelation
    These things make me want to duck for cover
    With all these things I wait for revolution
    These things ask the biggest question to me
    And it's are you what you want to be
    So are you what you want to be?

    Are you what you want to be

    Are you what you want to be
    Are you what you want to be?
    Are you what you want to be
    Are you what you want to be? Writer/s: GREG KURSTIN, MARK FOSTER
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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