Grand Puba - How Long lyrics

(verse 1) 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 (chorus) 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 (verse 2) Damn they shooting again, somebody else dead Another locked in, nobody wins Welcome to the matrix, we caught up in thе mix, but im like morpheus, cause i'm hippеd 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 (chorus) 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 (verse 3) Now i refuse to be the fool This sh*t 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 sh*t (chorus) 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