Ghetto prisoners lyrics

Artist  : Nas 
Song : Ghetto prisoners
 
[Nas]
Uhh.. regulate nigga
Bravehearts nigga
Live for this
Some of y'all don't live at all
Get yours nigga
Get yours baby
Uhh, yo.. yo..

As the night close down on the Earth like gray
dark rings
Light of cities in the nights, destination for
Kings
with big dreams, like Castro, overthrew Bautista
from Cuba, and pointed nukes toward the U.S.
About to shoot us for revolution; that's how you
gotta move
A lot of rules, some locked in solitude
Curse the day of they birth confused, who's to be
praised?
The mighty dollar -- or almighty Allah
I'm like the farmer, plantin words, people are
seeds
My truth is the soil; help you grow like trees
May the children come in all colors, change like
leaves
but hold before you, one of those, prophetic MC's
with blunted flows, seven hundred souls in me
Each channelin, from past to present times,
heaven shines
light on those, innocent to how the world grows
Some men become murderers, and some girls become
hoes
And you accounted for, everything that you heard
Do not speak to fools; they scorn the wisdom of
your words
My heart is wise, bloodshot eyes, the saga never
dies
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners..

Yo we gotta be God's children, habitats in tall
buildings
Rats crawl in filthy hallways, incinerators
Sinners who faithless, still there's hope, pray
it's answered
Dreams turned real - what's a wicked nation?
One with blind men - not takin charge of the
situation
Empty arguments and real conversations needed
The world'll need it, to hear it
Evil tries to weaken my spirit - it's chronic
herb
This hurt come from the honest word
I now try hardest to serve my maker, what I
learned
find it's way on the paper, so I could dictate it
Articulate it, luckily - I was put on one of the
ships that made it
through strong currents and winds that left the
others stranded
to sink in the Atlantic
Satan jigs the planet, not to get too religious,
but
who decides when and if your life is finished?
If Christ is in this, for the sake of your name,
oh Lord
may we break away from the chains abroad

Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners.. get up, wake up, rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners..

You wanna buy time?  I'm the seller of minutes
I give you every second low-priced, if I so lies;
the truth is
Time waits for none of you, in fact
he can't wait for the date to snatch the ground
right from under you
Small visions of better life if cheddar was right
lurk in the mind, of young ones ahead of they
time
Trapped in the slums, beggin for nuttin but takin
Headed for nuttin but the state pen, where they
cousins be waitin
Judges is not relatin to pleas, guns bustin where
the kids play
Richochet off lamp poles and leave damp holes
in bystanders, get cancelled, D.O.A.
Around the way where we from
Hope the future reduce the rate of those buried
young
Life is every man's kingdom, a dyin man's past
and a newborn's, first time to be here at last
And shouldn't have to grow up fast, and suffer
our pain
Hustlin harder than the generations here before
he came
Goin through the same bullshit as our fathers
Readin history, but who's the authors?
For some the game is easy, for most of us the
game is much harder
But never lose faith; through the years just get
smarter
Ghetto prisoners.. ghetto prisoners..
 
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners.. get up, wake up, rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners..