Ghetto Prisoners

Lyrics

Uh, regulate
 Bravehearts
 Live for this
 Some of y'all don't live at all
 Get yours
 Get yours, baby
 Uh, yo, yo
 As the night close down on the Earth like gray dark rings
 Light of cities in the nights, destination for Kings
 With big dreams, like Castro, overthrew Bautista
 From Cuba, and pointed nukes toward the U.S.
 About to shoot us for revolution, that's how you gotta move
 A lotta rules, some locked in solitude
 Curse the day of they birth confused, who's to be praised?
 The mighty dollar, or almighty Allah?
 I'm like the farmer, plantin' words, people are seeds
 My truth is the soil, help you grow like trees
 May the children come in all colors, change like leaves
 But hold before you, one of those, prophetic MC's
 With blunted flows, seven hundred souls in me
 Each channelin', from past to present times, heaven shines
 Light on those, innocent to how the world grows
 Some men become murderers, and some girls become h-
 And you accounted for, everything that you heard
 Do not speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words
 My heart is wise, bloodshot eyes, the saga never dies
 Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise
 Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise
 Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise
 Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise
 Ghetto prisoners
 Yo, we gotta be God's children, habitats in tall buildings
 Rats crawl in filthy hallways, incinerators
 Sinners who faithless, still there's hope, pray it's answered
 Dreams turned real, what's a wicked nation?
 One with blind men, not takin' charge of the situation
 Empty arguments and real conversations needed
 The world'll need it, to hear it
 Evil tries to weaken my spirit, it's chronic herb
 This hurt come from the honest word
 I now try hardest to serve my maker, what I learned
 Find it's way on the paper, so I could dictate it
 Articulate it, luckily, I was put on one of the ships that made it
 Through strong currents and winds that left the others stranded
 To sink in the Atlantic
 Satan jigs the planet, not to get too religious, but
 Who decides when and if your life is finished?
 If Christ is in us, for the sake of your name, oh, Lord
 May we break away from the chains abroad
 Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise
 Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise
 Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise
 Ghetto prisoners, get up, wake up, rise
 Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise
 Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise
 Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise
 Ghetto prisoners
 You wanna buy time? I'm the seller of minutes
 I give you every second low-priced, if I sold lies, the truth is
 Time waits for none of you
 In fact, he can't wait for the date to snatch the ground right from under you
 Small visions of better life if cheddar was right
 Lurk in the mind, of young ones ahead of they time
 Trapped in the slums, beggin' for nuttin' but takin'
 Headed for nuttin' but the state pen, where they cousins be waitin'
 Judges is not relatin' to pleas, guns bustin' where the kids play
 Richochet off lamp poles and leave damp holes
 In bystanders, get cancelled, D.O.A
 Around the way where we from
 Hope the future reduce the rate of those buried young
 Life is every man's kingdom, a dyin' man's past
 And a newborn's, first time to be here at last
 And shouldn't have to grow up fast, and suffer our pain
 Hustlin' harder than the generations here before he came
 Goin' through the same bullsh- as our fathers
 Readin' history, but who's the authors?
 For some the game is easy, for most of us the game is much harder
 But never lose faith, through the years just get smarter
 Ghetto prisoners
 Ghetto prisoners
 Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise
 Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise
 Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise
 Ghetto prisoners, get up, wake up, rise
 Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise
 Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise
 Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise
 Ghetto prisoners
 

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Duration
04:00
Key
9
Tempo
92 BPM

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