[Intro: Inspectah Deck]
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Yo, this goes for all my brothers and sisters locked down
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For all my peoples incarcerated, for those who aint make it
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[Verse 1: Inspectah Deck]
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Yo, in the housing, thousands seen early graves
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Victims of worldly ways, memories stays engraved
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All my live brothers is locked down with high numbers
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The young hunger, blind to these lies, they die younger
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In this New World, the Order slaughter men, women and children
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Ten feet gates surround the building, keep us sealed in
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The projects, lifeless like a Vietnam vet
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Constant war, sever threats of enemy conquest
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Crooked cops comb my building complex thats in the rumble
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Streets are like a jungle, cant let my cypher crumble
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Vivid thoughts, Devils resort to trick knowledge
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They kick garbage, lust for chicks and quick dollars
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I know the pain the game bring, I did the same thing
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Spaced out in the staircase, performin a sting
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Its hard to keep control, I bless those who seek a scroll
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Tryin to reach a whole nation and break the sleeper hold
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Not a role model, I walk a hard road to follow
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I sold bottles of sorrow then chose poems and novels
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The gospel was told, some souls it swallowed whole
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Mentally they fold, and they eventually sold
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Their life and times, deadly like the virus design
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But too minute to dilute the scientist mind
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[Chorus: Inspectah Deck and Masta Killa (Both)]
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You cant party your life away, drink your life away
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Smoke your life away, fuck your life away
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Dream your life away, scheme your life away
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‘Cause your seeds grow up the same way
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[Verse 2: Masta Killa]
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A voice cries from the wilderness of the North
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A representation of the families that lost one
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All victims of incarceration
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Or other divisions of the family structure
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Youths are injected with serums that leads to skin irritations
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Babies being born with disfigurations, experimentations
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On their faces, there bear worry-ations
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Of mothers that carry the pain
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Of blood stained streets where sisters mourn and wail
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Fifth brothers been slain from hails of gun fire
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It lightly begins to rain
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Screams of terror are hidden by the passin trains
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This cant be little Hussein
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His uncle cries as he drops to his nephews side, holdin his cane
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Just give me a name
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Of who has inflicted this bitter sickness, and left us to witness
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[Verse 3: U-God]
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Yo, curses from war, innocent blood spills for days
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Soothe in godly ways, hands, solemn in praise
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Tree of life, more precious than rubies, golden game
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The wise shall flourish inherit, Halls of Fame
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Crime visions in my blood got me locked in prison
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While we die, hard-livin people whine about religion, vision
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Blow, spin, and sin and killin whats revealin
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Its a never endin battle with no endin or beginnin, listen
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Zero process, progress, become the hunted
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Americas most wanted, good life, flaunt it, want it
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Some love the speed, some satisfy a need
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Some wanna be down, young gun seed, jungle breed
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The strong must feed, someone die, someone bleed
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One flew astray, and it caught my little seed
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Can it be? The ice savage, trife life, made me grab the knife
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The righteous man was beat with many stripes, pipes
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Take in my energy, breathe and know the rest
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‘Cause the good die young and the hard die best
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[Chorus: Inspectah Deck and Masta Killa (Both)]
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You cant party your life away, drink your life away
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Smoke your life away, fuck your life away
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Dream your life away, scheme your life away
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‘Cause your seeds grow up the same way
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‘Cause your seeds grow up the same way
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‘Cause your seeds grow up the same way
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[Verse 4: RZA]
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Yall bitches love dances, and pullin down your pants
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While your mans on tour, youre spendin up his advances
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Your friends aint shit, all they do is drink, smoke, and suck dick
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The whole projects is trapped in six
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You either high school drop-outs, one to three cop-outs
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Fifteen years old, shorty ass and top out
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Ninety-nine cent beer drinkin, pussy stinkin
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Fuckin so much, your ass and titties start shrinkin
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New World Order slave trade, minimum wage, Medicaid
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Can a devil fool a Muslim nowadays?
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Inside my lab, Im goin mad
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Took two drags off the blunts, and started breakin down the flag
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The blue is for the Crips, the red is for the Bloods
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The whites for the cops, and the stars come from the clubs
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Or the slugs that ignites through the night, by the dawn early light
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Why is sons fightin for the stripe?
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[Verse 5: Method Man]
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As we dwell through this concrete hell, callin it home
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Mama say, “Take your time, young man, and build your own
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Dont wind up like your old dad
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Still searchin for them glory days he never had”
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So many bad want to scheme for American dream, no more kings
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The cash rule everythin now, we goin down
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These babies lookin up to us, its up to us
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The Million Man March MCs, get on the bus
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But envy, greed, lust and hate separate
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Though the devil mind state blood kin cannot relate
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No longer brothers, we unstable
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Like Cain when he slew Abel, killin each other
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[Chorus: Inspectah Deck and Masta Killa (Both)]
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You cant party your life away, drink your life away
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Smoke your life away, fuck your life away
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Dream your life away, scheme your life away
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‘Cause your seeds grow up the same way
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‘Cause your seeds grow up the same way
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‘Cause your seeds grow up the same way
