on in I'm singin' to the world, everybody's caught in the spin Look at where we've been We've been runnin' around, year after year Blinded with pride, blinded
the scum War Blood thirsty savages we've become Revelation Judgment night and now we're done I pride myself on my will to survive I will fight to stay
[Lord Jamar - interpolation of Grandmaster Flash's "The Message"] A child is born with no state of mind Blind to the ways of mankind God is smiling on
My time has come, I think I'll turn myself in now I want to run, oh, I've been runnin' for some time now My time has come, I think I'll turn myself in
embrace open wide 'Cause Atlanta, I'm falling like most people do And I need all your ground to survive Wasted and downtrodden, only in vain I cried myself blind
shaolin spears Floatin through the village, trapped in design to shine Pillage, war between the thug and the con As for the father reborn, castle in the mind Mind blind
the more power it packs Mr. big's shiny prick nuclear dick How do we measure up to it? At the age of twelve I thought to myself, "it's gonna grow
For my misery For submission upon blinds For feeling guilty For distraction in day and night And lost time For my fear - in my existence Against myself
Intro Motherfuckers,you see a TRU nigga walk on the streets you step on the side and respect that man TRU niggas never die we recreate to survive Picture
and hussein, back to back now that's flammable Smokin' ya brain, attack the track like we some animals Mechanical, live wire jaw, rap cannibals Fire force survive
these sheets again, can't make myself lie still My pillowcase is soakin' wet and yet l feel a chill It takes all I can do these days to just survive
it started all over again Oh those that were living just tried to survive In that mad world of blood, death and fire And for ten weary weeks I kept myself
be, cause nigga, that ain't me (repeat x 4) Eight: 100 ways to die, and I done survived 99 99 lives lost and one of them could've been mine Blind
Turks buried theirs And we started all over again Those who were living just tried to survive In a mad world of blood death and fire And for ten weary weeks, I kept myself
I was standing All alone against the world outside You were searching For a place to hide Lost and lonely Now you've given me the will to survive
so long Still I've always been myself; nothing less and nothing more I lift myself up from the snow and start to walk in this darkness Feeling so blind
When I first thought I was in the wrong Couple tokes, alcohol Got everything I need, hennessey and weed Since my arrival, based on this modern-day survival
never change... It was then that I knew I'd been thoughtless - something had slipped my mind: I'd strapped myself into the Fortress but the Fortress was flying blind