Tonalità: A minor
Verse 1
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"I was born, in a dump
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My mama died and my
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daddy got drunk
They left me here, to die or grow
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In the middle of Tobacco Road
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I grew up in a rusty shack
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All I owned was hangin' on my back
And Lord knows, how I learnt
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This place called Tobacco Road
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Tobacco Road
You're dirty and you're filthy
Tobacco Road
Gonna get me some
dynamite and a crane
I'm gonna blow it up
Lord knows gonna start all over again"
Verse 2
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My mind is the place
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where I make my plans
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Am
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The world is the place
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where I take my stand
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The beauty of life is mine today
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They cannot take my mind away
Verse 3
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Fuck what you heard, I'm from Africa
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This ain't no act,
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it's mathematical
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Past the black radical
I choose the M1, because
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it's practical
Nothin was changed, we ain't protected
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No names, it's all factual
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F
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They push the wrong buttons,
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count down to detonate
Brooklyn blown away and the
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world will have to speculate
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This is what we learn in the streets,
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fuck a degree
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Believe in none of what you hear
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and half of what you see
Verse 4
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It's like watching your own father
smoke crack
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I have nightmares on shit like that
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No way in hell I'll ever get like that
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I seen a lot of shit in twenty-
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It's like a tour of duty
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My life is booby- trapped,
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it's hard to see the beauty
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When your heart is turning ice cold
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Cold like your hands exposed
to blistering winds
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My mother keep her eyes closed,
she say she prayin'
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I listen close to what she sayin'
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B
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When she speak of Jesus, I ignore it
But when it's practical, I'm all for it
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You got to think like a soldier
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I'm training myself to snatch
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pistols out of holsters
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Discipline keep the mind focused
This whole world is a corn field, son
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Look out for flying locusts
Verse 5
Don't let 'em get in your head,
they try to probe you
Figure your thoughts so they
can try and control you
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And through you, control your whole crew
It's psychology boy,
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now what the fuck that make you want to do?
Don't let 'em get in your head,
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Am
they try to probe you
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Am
Figure your thoughts so they
can try and control you
B
And through you,
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B
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control your whole crew
Am
B
It's psychology boy,
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Am
now what the fuck that make you want to do?
Verse 6
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You can't walk the streets
with no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind
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An d if you know the time,
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give me a sign
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Tell me where we draw the line
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I got your back if you got mine
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Dm
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My enemy's enemy is my man
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One dreadlock is stronger than one strand
while the crackers got the upper hand
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Am
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My comrades stand on lands stolen
B
Am
Every tooth a golden opportunity
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Who holdin' my community
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F
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hostage?
10% ransom,
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Am
F
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costing us time we lost and some
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This is how the plan runs
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Thinkin' with a fugitive brain
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Am
What we do to live is insane
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Holdin' the weed,
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healing my membranes
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Just like crack, you know it all boils down
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To the dollars- and- cents of it
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Niggas commence to get rents to
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sentenced to serve terms
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Jumping the fence,
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the black germ is loose
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When will they learn?
Verse 7
Psychology
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We piss on walls and smoke
reefer in the halls
No respect for their laws
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I cut your face with a kitchen knife
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In gladiator times,
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man against machinery
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B
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The tree bark fatigues help me
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blend in with the scenery boy
Life is a series of serious choices
Theories is formed from experience,
never mysterious forces
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Various courses of life
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B
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can lead to failure
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Too much of anything is a trap
My mind snap
Guerrilla warfare for two grand
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They say karate means 'empty hands'
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So then it's perfect for the poor
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B
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man (poor man)
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F
B
They say karate means 'empty hands'
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So then it's perfect for the poor man
Verse 8
Am
Don't let 'em get in your head,
they try to probe you
F
Figure your thoughts so they can
Am
try and control you
B
And through you,
F
B
control your whole crew
It's psychology boy,
F
Am
now what the fuck that make you want to do?
F
Don't let 'em get in your head,
they try to probe you
Am
F
Figure your thoughts so they
B
F
can try and control you
B
And through you,
Am
B
control your whole crew
It's psychology boy,
Am
F
Am
now what the fuck that make you want to do?
Verse 9
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If we don't organize
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Then we won't survive
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If we don't realize
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We are sure to die
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(psychology)
Verse 10
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When you think of us think
of pyramids and pistols
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And glimmering gold teeth that
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shine like crystals
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The mind is like a jewel, son
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Only a fool wouldn't grasp it
Wisdom is a tool, you get blasted
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When you think of us think of
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pyramids and pistols
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An d glimmering gold teeth
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that shine like crystals
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The mind is like a jewel son
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Only a fool wouldn't grasp it
Wisdom is a tool,
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you get blasted
Interlude 1
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Verse 11
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Free your mind
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And the rest will follow
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Seize the time
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No- one is promised tomorrow
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Free your mind
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And the rest will follow
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Seize the time
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No- one is promised tomorrow
Free your mind
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And the rest will follow
Seize the time
No- one is promised tomorrow
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