| Stay strong, stay brave, cradle to the grave
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| I be splitting like a run-away slave
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| Since back in the days been trapped in the maze
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| Now I’m splitting like a run-away slave
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| I come from the future where the people ain’t free
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| Brainwaves get programmed quicker than circuitry
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| Certainly this’ll make for the perfect story
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| My microchip a mental blip when they searching for me
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| They’ll probably shoot me in the head but won’t hurt my shortie
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| Cause that’s one less person could be working for free
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| If I go out in a blaze, is it worth the glory?
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| Is this Heaven or Hell or just purgatory?
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| I got a number not a name and my mother is the same
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| No free thoughts, I’m taught to keep nothing in my brain
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| But the people as a whole, no me, only we
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| And it’s deep within my soul so I’ll never be free
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| When I fight it they don’t like it so they send a psychic
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| To dismantle my mind and rewrite it
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| It backfired cause they ain’t as clever as me
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| I fight to the death even though I’ll never be free
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| Cause the police police run my brain
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| Hear em talking in my head and I’m going insane
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| Things are so fucked up, it’ll never be the same
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| So welcome to the future, ain’t you glad you came?
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| I’m ashamed that my ancestors got so afraid of shit
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| They let the government rise and form a dictatorship
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| Working to make the rich richer really make me sick
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| Economically they got the poor on a slave ship
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| You see I come from the past where I’m paid for with cash
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| Slave master whoop my ass if work not done fast
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| Now how the fuck I end up like this?
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| From living life in my hut with my wife and my kids
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| Now I’m stuck chained up from my legs to my wrists
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| On a trip on a ship and the ocean getting motion sick
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| Praying at the same place I eat and piss
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| Fuck the saying, I’m really knee-deep in shit now
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| I’m on a foreign land no longer considered a man
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| My life stands and any plans the white man commands
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| We’re so damned our minds are programmed
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| Ain’t no if, buts, or I can’t, or force their hand
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| Cause of my race I’m deeply hated for living
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| But got a lot of love when they’re taking and raping our women
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| My life crazy, it really feel like Christ hate me
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| I stare at the white lady too long they might hang me
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| Treated so harsh cause my skin’s so dark
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| Everything so hard, I’m protected by no laws
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| Life full of bullshit, if I try to flip
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| I’ll probably get lynched or body ripped by a bullwhip
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| My peoples faced with the same shit for generations
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| So people breed their seeds off deep hatred |