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As the night closed down on the earth like gray dark of cities in the nights, destination for kings With big dreams, like Castro, overthrew From Cuba, and nukes toward the U.S.
About to shoot us for revolution, how you gotta move A lot of rules, some locked in Curse the day of birth confused Who's to be praised, the mighty dollar or almighty
I'm like the farmer, words, people are seeds My truth is the soil, help you like trees May the children in all colors, change like leaves But hold before you, one of those, prophetic
With blunted flows, seven hundred in me channelin', from past to present time Heaven shines light on those innocent to how the world men become murderers and some girls become hoes
And you accounted for, that you heard Do not speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your My heart is wise, bloodshot eyes, the never dies Ghetto prisoners rise, rise,
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Yo, we be God's children, habitats in tall buildings Rats crawl in filthy hallways, Sinners who faithless, there's hope Pray it's answered, dreams real
What's a wicked nation? One with men Not charge of the situation Empty and real conversation's needed The world'll need it, to it
Evil tries to weaken my spirit, chronic herb This hurt from the honest word I now try hardest to my maker I learned, find it's way on the paper
So I could it, articulate it Luckily, I was put on one of the ships that it Through strong currents and winds left the others stranded To sink in the Atlantic, satan jigs the
Not to get too But who when and if your life is finished? If Christ is in this, for the of your name, O Lord May we break away from the abroad
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You buy time? I'm the seller of minutes I give you every second low-priced, if I so The is time waits for none of you In fact, he wait for the date to snatch The ground from under you
Small visions of better life, if cheddar was Lurk in the mind of young ones of they time Trapped in the slums, beggin' for but takin' Headed for nuttin' but the state pen, where cousins be waitin'
Judges is not to pleas bustin' where the kids play Ricochet off lamp poles and leave damp In bystanders, get cancelled, D.O.A.
the way, where we from Hope the future the rate of those buried young Life is every kingdom, a dyin' man's past And a newborn's, time to be here at last
And shouldn't have to grow up fast, and suffer our Hustlin' harder than the generations before he came Goin' through the bullshit as our fathers history, but who's the authors?
For some the game is For of us, the game is much harder But lose faith Through the years just get
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