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Yo, you believe when they say we ain't shit, we can't All we are is dope and gangstas and hoes? And you believe they be tellin' you lie, all on the media? They make the world look to keep you inside?
Why you listen the teachers at school? Know you a single parent out strugglin', they think you a fool Give your kids bad grades and put 'em in classes Killin' shorty future, I how do we last it
in they casket? Ancestors turnin' I'm learnin' somethin' day, there is no Lazareth like God is Greek or Latin So, if you study Egypt, you'll see the truth by the masters
My niggaz is chillin', gettin' high, Envisionin', ownin' shit, yo, it can What do we own? Not enough land, not enough Not banks, to give a brother a loan
What do we The skin on our backs, we run and we ask For reparations, then hit us with tax And insurance if we to be old, what about now? So, stop bein' controlled, we zombies
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think livin' (Black zombies) We just copy cat, the system (Black zombies)
Walkin', dead, though we think we're livin (Black zombies) We just copy-cat, followin' the (Black zombies)
Aiyo, we trapped in our own brain, fuck bars We've already gone They've gave up, cut our own heads 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 have one or two without squeezin' 'em On our own and fuck black leaders
'Cause whites ain't got leadin' them, the rhythm is cosmic Nas is divinity, the prophetless All get and get up Victims 'round with down's syndrome, all stuck
Faintin', shoutin', catchin' Holy Ghost in Scared to do it for 'less we see somebody doin' it first We begged, we prayed, and demonstrated Just to another generation, black zombies
Walkin', talkin' dead, we think we're livin' (Black zombies) We just copy cat, followin' the (Black zombies)
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think livin (Black zombies) We copy-cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
You scared to be 'cause you in a trance Feel free, hear the music and If you cared what think, why wear what they wear, just for you Dumb niggaz with long beards like they or Jews
Or Israel, Bismi-Allah Al-rahman Al-raheem a beautiful thing And Christian and Rastafari, helps us to Peace against the darkness, is un-Godly
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 Columbia record slave, so get your own destiny, you are a genius Don't let it happen to you like it did to me, I was a zombie
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think livin' (Black zombies) We copy cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think we're (Black zombies) We copy-cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
Wake up, black zombies in a for more than fo'-hundred years Ghetto niggaz won't it no mo', can I get a witness? Why to somebody else tell you how to do it? When you can do it It's all in you, do it, do it Do it