Waiting For the World to End lyrics

Artist  : Rakim 
Song : Waiting For the World to End
 


[Rakim]
Yeah, it's the god Rakim
Word up,
I'm blazin this out to all my
comrades
Yanamean? From the slums of New York,
to the gutters all over the world
This is for
y'all....
Through my travels I try to take
righteous steps
Because right or left could
mean life or death
No matter how trife it get,
my sights is set
But it's twice the threat
when the ?nights is death?
My mental windows
refuse to close, they get exposed
To the
neighborhood info where the poison wind
blows
A deadly plague spreadin negativity,
viciously
Unto every city be in ghetto
misery
Don't let it get to me, the writer be
left to die
But it get mesmerize if it catch
your eye
Shines enormous, from pure revered
Kool's and garments
But it's torment, jealousy
drug wars or warring
Tallying, slowly turnin
into barbarians
More scary when the whole
boulevard's carryin
Livin in the world of sin,
my ghetto girls and men
Waiting for the world
to end

[Chorus] 2x
"Tryin to paint a
perfect picture and excel"
"In case you didn't
know"
"Never movin backwards"
[Rakim]
"Complicated" [Rakim]
"Know what I
mean?" [Rakim]

I see destruc-tion, even
little kids trust none
They bust guns, that's
what they get a rush from
When I see em, we
build and have a real discussion
"Yo Ra,
what's the jewel of the day?" "What up,
son"
"You got ambition?" Shorty said, "Man
listen
I got demands for livin, can't stand
division
Make grands on my mission, till
everything glisten
Women in the Expedition, no
plans for prison
In a vision the city get, 2
milleni G
Sittin in my MSC sippin
Hennesy
Gettin high, and watch life pass me
by"
So I asked him why, wit a fast reply
He
said "I'm livin just to die without any
feelings
So I wait here for my Maker till it's
time to go
Wit this dime I know
Wit all of
her girls and all of my mens
Waitin for the
world to end"

Chorus 2x

Shorty was
taught to keep his head to the sky, and never
cry
But the streets left him to die, now it's
death in his eye
Livin a sin of hitmen, a
sinister grin
From be-ginning to end, in it to
win
Evil rebels, doin what we doin in the
ghetto
Thinkin if we was thorough we can
deceive the devil
You can't win, your life be
end, try again
Shorty said, "Why we born again
to die again?"
That's what I said when I
realized I had a gift
To uplift and be one of
Allah's advocates
Teach the youth and speak
the truth
Show em what peace can do when ?ill?
reach for you
And my reward won't be jewels or
cheese, it's even better
I can be one of the
greatest MC's ever
If I tell em they
intelligent women and great men
And live, stop
waitin for the world to end

Chorus
2x

"I'm ragin, rippin up the stage
an'
Don't it sound amazin, know what I mean?"
[Rakim]
"Don't it sound amazin, know what I
mean?"
"Rakim"