and hate We dream of heaven but we live in hell Now and again - now the feeling is over again - with a lie You can always pretend it`s alright and fine
Sons will be raised by their fathers today A good family ain't nothin' greater Race crimes, hate crimes will never exist I'll turn every bullet to a Hershey's kiss And
wallabies Raining mahogany Here's a dollar for the trees We worship weed like idolatry Silly bitches with conniving thoughts Sticking knives and folks Don't understand what it's
same 'Cept, I'm no lame and you gonna know my name Before I go the world gon' feel my pain They sayin', I'm a bad guy, why's that? 'Cause when my back's against
that we must defend Watch out me friend?fe every day that you spend You always protect the little children Done with the crime and the contention Me sick and
's changed sickness crime and poverty are the headlines that I see there's got to be some good news someday Chorus my head's so much cleaner it's
poverty and they'll dance In Manhattan's desert twilight In the death of afternoon We stepped hand in hand on Broadway Like the first man on the moon And
) And I ain't never seen a person that died again And ya wonder why we finna go ride again That was then, and this is now, and this is how we execute
's nightmare Ice Cube and Da Lench Mob America's nightmare Above the Law America's nightmare, Paris America's nightmare Public Enemy America's nightmare, Krs-One America's
's nightmare Ice Cube and Da Lench Mob, America's nightmare Above the Law, America's nightmare Paris, America's nightmare Public Enemy, America's nightmare Krs-One, America's
take it wid a smile A we feel the pinch now when everything spoil Poverty and hunger a nuh easy lifestyle Wi tired and wi tired, and wi tired
an' murder, I heard a pregnancy Infant mortality, rest in poverty not peace Disease 'til deceased, sterilized, realized That beast, so here's a word
struggle And everybody's tellin me it's get greater later I need to get my shit right now, cause it ain't shit in my refrigerator And I done struggled
no lame and you gonna know my name Before i go to work and feel my pain Saying, i'm a bad guy, why's that? Cause when my back's against the wall, nigga
set I saw my home boys mother with a buggy and a bag People walk by, laughin at poverty I looked in her face and I soon saw me College educated,
with a thousand crips With a thousand A.K.'s and a thousand clips No 50 Cent can come to Cali and rob nobody Cause gees catch and send his ass back a
'm no lame and you gonna know my name Before I go to work and feel my pain Saying, I'm a bad guy, why's that? Cause when my back's against the wall, nigga