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Beat Street Breakdown, Raah!
Hip Hop!
Beat Street
The king of the beat
You see him rocking that beat from across the street
And Huh Huh!
Beat Street is a lesson too, because you cant let the Streets beat you!
Well a picture can express a thousand words to describe all the beauty of life you give
And if the world was yours to do over, I know youd paint a better place to live
Where the colours would swirl and the boys and girls can grow in peace and harmony
And where murals stand on walls so grand as far as the eyes are able to see, Ha!
I never knew art til I saw your face and therell never be one to take your place
Cause each and every time you touch the spray paint can
Michelangelos soul controls your hand
Then serenades of blue and red and the beauty of the rainbow fills your head
Crescendo of colours hang in tune, Man why oh why dya have to die so soon?
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust, where the good die young its all thy must
Cause as life must live, death must die and the tear shall fall from the living eye, Huh!
The teardrops fall for the state of mind of the beautiful lady that you left behind
In love and alone, but now youre dead, and she still cant get you out of her head, Huh!
More tears fall for all youve done, trying to be a good father to your only son
But now whos gonna make sure that hes fed, put a shirt on his back and a roof overhead?
Tell me whos gonna dream the impossible dream of the beautiful cities in the islands genes?
When your works of art brought into being all that the ghetto stopped you from seeing
Bums on the sidewalk, garbage in the streets, abandoned buildings, bricks of concrete
The ladies on the corner are selling their bodies, and everybody wants a part in that party
Im hanging out tough, rocking late at night, running wild in the town of the neon light
You either play some ball or stand in the hall Huh!
You gotta make something outta nothing at all
Im sitting in the classroom learning the rules and it says you cant do graffiti in school
They cant be wrong in the hallowed hall, so my notebook turned into a brick wall
The heart of a lion and the courage of three, and the mind of a man much wiser than me
Youre the soul of the brother who wont come back
Who died in my arms on the railroad track
Cause Im caught in the rat race, looking for my own space
Theres gotta be a better place for you and me
Theres pie in the sky, and an eye for an eye
Some people gotta die just to be free
You search for justice and what do you find?
You find just us on the unemployment line
You find just us sweating from dawn to dusk
Theres no justice, theres Huh, just us, Ha!
Still life urban masterpiece, your trademark was written on trains and walls
A million dollar gift only God released, and yet you got killed for nothing at all
So after this therell be no more hard times, no more bad times and no more pain
No more chump change, none of that bull
Just movies, museums and the hall of fame
So all you Hip Hops get on up, and lets take it to the top where we belong
Cause the age of the Beat Street wave is here
Everybody lets sing along, now cmon, say Ho! (Ho!), Say Ho! (Ho!)
And to let me know Im rocking the microphone everybody say Ramo! (Ramo!)
Ramo! (Ramo!)
Raah!
A newspaper burns in the sand, and the headlines say Man destroys Man!
Extra! Extra! Read all the bad news on the war for peace that everybody would lose
The rise and fall, the last great empire, the sound of the whole world caught on fire
The ruthless struggle, the desperate gamble
The game that left the whole world in shambles
The cheats, the lies, the alibis
And the foolish attempt to conquer the skies
Lost in space, and what is it worth, huh?
The president just forgot about Earth
Spending multi billions, and maybe even trillions
The cost of weapons ran into zillions
Theres gold in the street, and diamonds under feet
And the children in Africa dont even eat
Flies on their faces, theyre living like mice
And the houses even make the ghetto look nice, Huh!
The water tastes funny, its forever too sunny
And they work all month and dont make no money
A fight for power, a nuclear shower
And people shout out in the darkest hour
Of sights unseen and voices unheard
And finally the bomb gets the last word
Christians killed Muslims, and Germans killed Jews
And everybodys bodies are used and abused, Huh!
Minds are poisoned and souls are polluted
Superiority complex is deep rooted
Leeches and lices, and people got prices
Egomaniacs control the self-righteous
Nothing is sacred and nothing is pure
So the revelation of death is our cure
Hitler and Caesar, Custer and Reagan
Napoleon, Castro, Mussolini and Begin
Ghengis Khan and the Shah of Iran
Mixed with the blood of the weaker man
The peoples in terror, the leaders made the error
And now they cant even look in the mirror
Cause we gotta suffer while things get rougher
And thats the reason why we got to get tougher
To learn from the past and work for the future
And dont be a slave to no computer
Cause the Children of Man inherits the land
And the future of the world is in your hands
So just throw your hands in the air
And wave em like you just dont care
And if you believe that youre the future
Scream it out and say Oh yeah! (Oh yeah!)
Oh yeah! (Oh yeah!)
Raah!
Beat Street Breakdown
Raah!
Hip Hop!