Chorus : Bad News travels fast / and if it`s about you you`ll probably hear
`bout it last / but when they press up / and check up / and they ask / you
gotta keep perspective on the future and the past / and laugh / while they
keep talkin` / talk, talk, talkin, / chicken heads keep squawkin` / power
of the spoken word is infinite / you can tell / cuz people are always
talking / talking on the run, talking while walking, / talking in line,
talking in circles, / talking in time all over the world / talkin` `bout
whatever`s on their mind- that`s fine / talkin` `bout who they hawkin, who
they watchin, who they clockin, / who they heard was up to something
poppin` / always talkin` about who they remember and who`s forgotten /
who`s rockin` the set and who`s floppin`, droppin` out / talkin` `bout
people from the cradle to the coffin / talkin` `bout people, talkin` `bout
people, talkin` `bout people, / talkin` `bout people non-stop talkin` often
/Chorus /People talk shit / their minds reinforce it / spittin` out words
and thoughts that are amorphous / pushin` sloppy sound out of their vocal
orifice / like it ain`t bein` recorded / sometimes a words scorch is worse
than torches / whats more / is the talk aint uniform or rehearsed / it`s
the richest, the poorest,/ from CEO boardrooms to porches to alley ways and
gutters / from coast to coast, east to west, south to north / it`s people
talking of course! / like life is a courtroom / most bullshittin` from
midnight to high noon and back again / Blacks and the Blacker thans /
Whites and the Africans / far to little action far to much satisfaction /
in philanderin` usin` sex like a sedative / repetitive like rhetoric / I`m
bettin` ya think ya nice cuz you give free add-vice right? / but unless you
got a tight alternative it`s best to let it just live! / and raise the
octave up to the positive / even though they try and stop you up / arteries
cloggeded / the Black man targeted that`s how they set it off, they said it
/ but in the end it will be only them that`s effected by they negative vibe
/ I know it hurts, there is no indigestion worse /than that which comes
from having to eat your own word(s), / I heard two(2) people need not
bicker in a burning home / but some people know how to live everybodies
life but their own so, / here`s the poem dedicated / to the hatred
propagated by the ill-fated / snakes that`s waitin` in grass / those that
talk the most got the least to say / but that ain`t nothin` new / and it
ain`t even really all that
