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I personally think the lyric here is “Downy for the poor,” at least thats what the line sounds like to me. Not to say that sympathize doesn’t fit in here, but Downy (as in the fabric softener) certainly seems like a good fit.

Shields, body armors and vests
Don't properly work, Guy Sebastian (Ft. Lupe Fiasco) – Battle Scars

Have you ever tried to stop love with a bullet-proof vest? Doesn’t really work right?

This is also an allusion to the actual “war on terror” in Iraq and Afghanistan for the last decade. It’s been publicized by military veterans and family members that many soldiers are without proper protective gear and even more, the gear the U.S. government has supplied did not work anyway.

This is war, there is no real protection except to move beyond it.

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That's why you're in a locker full of hurt Guy Sebastian (Ft. Lupe Fiasco) – Battle Scars

Another war reference, this time to the Academy Award winning film, The Hurt Locker

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your own mind is ur own hurt locker

He’s also adding to the last line about shields, body armors and vests. In the Hurt Locker the bomb suits don’t really protect you because if the bomb actually goes of you still pretty much die.

"CENTCOM" (Christopher Dorner – Manifesto) | accepted

CENTCOM specifically covers North Africa and the Middle East, so Dorner is talking about the counterinsurgency wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

"Keep my shoes on the floor" (Lupe Fiasco – Brave Heart) | pending

Lupe also frequently uses floor as a homonym for flow (see Form Follows Function. I think this can also be applied here. Quadruple meaning?

"Shock-a-zulu, call me Wasalu II" (Lupe Fiasco – Lupe Back) | pending

It is a homophone/double meaning

"From the sheer amount of paper, most likely used for trade" (Lupe Fiasco – Unforgivable Youth) | rejected

Definitely not used to snort drugs.

"As archaeologists dig in the deserts of the east" (Lupe Fiasco – Unforgivable Youth) | accepted

He may also be referring to the Eastern Seaboard given the later reference to the White House

"I can’t listen if you ain’t sayin’ shit" (Lupe Fiasco – ITAL (Roses)) | accepted

Also note that you can’t listen to someone who isn’t speaking.

"Black panther, black panther, what do you see? / I see a ..." (Lupe Fiasco – ITAL (Roses)) | accepted

"Turn the glass ceiling to a glass floor" (Lupe Fiasco – Audubon Ballroom) | rejected

If you break a glass ceiling, you get a lot of glass covering the ground.

"With no Tom Hanks to bring you home" (Guy Sebastian – Battle Scars) | accepted

Guy Sebastian – Battle Scars | accepted

2nd line should be of Lupe’s first stanza should be “But I feel like ruin’s wooing me”

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