Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Tenement Yard, artist - Mystic RootsDate of issue: 10.09.2007
Song language: English
Tenement Yard |
| Dreadlocks can’t live in a tenement yard |
| I & I can’t live in a no tenement yard |
| Jah, penetrate in a tenement yard |
| Dreadlocks can’t live in a tenement yard |
| I & I can’t live in a no tenement yard |
| Can’t I-nitate in a tenement yard |
| Dreadlocks can’t live in privacy |
| Cause anything him do, old nigga see |
| Hook: Too much watchy, watchy, watchy |
| Too much sus, sus, sus, sus, sus |
| Dreadlocks can’t smoke them pipe in peace |
| Too much Babylon & too much beast |
| Dreadlocks can’t penetrate the rent-man |
| Cause all him a do is sell Jah-Jah land |
| Dreadlocks can’t live under constant laws |
| Too much Babylon means too many laws |
| I was born twenty years ago today |
| Well at least when I wrote this |
| Holiday: December tre |
| Livin' life out a focus |
| I’m hopin' not to get caught up |
| With a felonization |
| But I grew up in a nation not ready for legalization |
| They tease me with the American dream |
| But wait it gets deep |
| The American dream has gotta be a dream |
| If you believe in it, you sleep |
| Reality ain’t nothin' nice |
| You gotta do right |
| Or get caught up by the vice |
| Three strikes = life |
| Trife livin', catch me with some weed and now they give incarceration |
| Yes on felony: job application |
| Got me hatin' these choices struggle minimum wage |
| Increase a little, not enough for me in this day and age |
| How the hell you 'posed to buy a car to drive to school |
| The average job today be payin' five and a few |
| Somethin' in my pocket missin' my one fear |
| $ 10,000 for tuition, that’s one year! |
| I’m not a teen no mo'; |
| I got my chances to reform |
| They’re tryin' to break me down by puttin' narcs up in the dorms |
| People gon do what they gotta do regardless |
| We don’t want the law to baby-sit us, we want it to guard us |
| Guard us from the rapists, kidnappers, and thieves |
| Not to incarcerate us strictly for havin' weed |
| My sympathies go out to those set up by a snitch |
| Dreadlocks forever be poor as long as Babylon’s rich |
| Chico can’t smoke them pipe in peace |
| Too much Babylon and too much beast |
| Chico can’t smoke them bongs outside |
| Cause Babylon wanna take you and I for a ride |