Lyrics How Long? - Grand Puba

How Long?

Wake up to the same nonsense everyday
Kids can’t even go out and play
A little girl jumping rope get sniff by a stray
I try to figure out why we live this way
I give everything that I got just to make that killing stop
All I got is my word
Peeps look by when I get hurt
I give everything that I got just to make that killing stop
All I got is my word
Peeps look by when I get hurt
Damn they shooting again, somebody else dead
Another locked in, nobody wins
Welcome to the Matrix, we caught up in th mix, but Im like Morpheus,
cause I’m hippd to them tricks
Got you thinking that the negative is positive
Think I’m playing take a look around see how we live
Everyday it seems like its getting worse to me
They call us savages when they see us on TV
I’m a real dude, so I try to do what I could, so that these lil dudes don’t get
swallowed up in the hood
It’s like a 50/50 chance to not get caught by the streets
Cause you know it’s just designed for us to suffer defeat
It’s like a never ending cycle, running on a treadmill, you keep running but
you still standing still
I see it over, and over, and it over again
Early exist to the lord and getting locked in the pin
Wake up to the same nonsense everyday
Kids can’t even go out and play
A little girl jumping rope get sniff by a stray
I try to figure out why we live this way
I give everything that I got just to make that killing stop
All I got is my word
Peeps look by when I get hurt
I give everything that I got just to make that killing stop
All I got is my word
Peeps look by when I get hurt
Now I refuse to be the fool
This shit is like a game of pool, balls be the man, tables be the land
The plan, knock off as many colors as you can
Cause no matter what happens there’s one that always stand
The conqueror, destroying everything in its way
The same exact way they try to rule the world today
Put em in the stack, lift up the rack, attack game over when you knock off the
block
Now we do it to our own kind, stuck in a devils state of mind, running in
circles like the blind leading the blind
But [?} is your mind where the thoughts are produced, manifest greatness when
you break the chains loose
So who am I, original man stand up
She eyen I when I crack under pressure
So lets rise like a hammer
Too legit to quit, don’t fall into the pit of this devil shit
Wake up to the same nonsense everyday
Kids can’t even go out and play
A little girl jumping rope get sniff by a stray
I try to figure out why we live this way
I give everything that I got just to make that killing stop
All I got is my word
Peeps look by when I get hurt
I give everything that I got just to make that killing stop
All I got is my word
Peeps look by when I get hurt