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Yo, you believe they say we ain't shit, we can't grow? All we are is dope dealers and and hoes? And you believe when be tellin' you lie, all on the media? make the world look crazy to keep you inside?
Why you when the teachers at school? Know you a young single parent out strugglin', they you a fool your kids bad grades and put 'em in dumber classes Killin' future, I wonder how do we last it
Underground in they Ancestors turnin' I'm learnin' somethin' day, there is no Lazareth like God is Greek or Latin So, if you Egypt, you'll see the truth written by the masters
My is chillin', gettin' high, relaxin' Envisionin', shit, yo, it can happen What do we Not enough land, not enough homes Not enough banks, to a brother a loan
What do we The skin on our backs, we run and we ask For reparations, they hit us with tax And insurance if we live to be old, what now? So, bein' controlled, we black zombies
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think we're (Black zombies) We copy cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
Walkin', dead, though we think we're livin (Black zombies) We copy-cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
Aiyo, we trapped in our own brain, fuck behind We've gone insane They've already gave up, cut our own offs Stab our own backs and dream too
Without fulfillin' reality, too and Can't have one or two chains, we need of dem Can't one or two guns without squeezin' 'em On our own people and fuck black
'Cause whites ain't got none leadin' them, the is cosmic Nas is divinity, the deity's All get and get up Victims 'round with down's syndrome, all stuck
Faintin', shoutin', catchin' Ghost in church to do it for ourselves 'less we see somebody doin' it first We begged, we prayed, petitioned and Just to make another generation, black
Walkin', dead, though we think we're livin' (Black zombies) We just cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we we're livin (Black zombies) We copy-cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
You scared to be yourself you in a trance free, hear the music and dance If you cared what they think, why wear they wear, just for you Dumb niggaz with long beards like Arabs or Jews
Or from Israel, Bismi-Allah Al-raheem Islam's a thing And Christian and Rastafari, us to bring Peace against the darkness, which is
So, what's the black true religion, who should we follow? Use your own intuition, you are That's the sound of the beast, I'm a record slave, so get paid Control your own destiny, you are a Don't let it to you like it did to me, I was a black zombie
Walkin', talkin' dead, we think we're livin' (Black zombies) We just copy cat, the system (Black zombies)
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think livin (Black zombies) We just copy-cat, followin' the (Black zombies)
Wake up, black zombies in a for more than fo'-hundred years niggaz won't have it no mo', can I get a witness? Why listen to somebody tell you how to do it? When you can do it It's all in you, do it, do it Do it