Brother Ali - Pay Them Back lyrics

Blood on beats

Tears have been shed lives have been lost
Blood has been spilled

Blood on beats

Damn, look at em sittin there
Cats missin their chance
Pissin their pants for opportunities and
Disappear into a bar stool
Pardon you for thinkin I forgot about
The way that children act when
The stars come out
It would be too much like right for them
To tune up their sight and then
Pursue something tight within
The blue ugly life they're in
Liked your grimace but I must
Admit it's been a while
Since my outer adult disciplined
Your inner child
I've taught you the limit's now
When I crack your slumber
I expect you to say, "Thank you sir
Can I have another?"
Your chance to wonder is up enough talkin
So they won't be caught off guard when
I'm knockin the dust off em
Plus tossin em in a moshpit
My village sacrifices virgin rappers
Who don't do the Rites of Passage
Curl em backwards till they
Faces touch they asses
Mail em off to Paraguay and
Don't insure the package
Burned your vermin asses
Learned your nervous habit's
In turn my current status
Lefts serpents swervin backwards
I rock parties where half
The crowd is rappers
And analyze my diction as
If their opinion matters
I splatter patterns of poetic eloquence
Mutterin bone shudderin utterin sense
They fluter and twitch
The ironic part of it is
I ain't tryin to scare these kids
Just tryin to connect them to the heritage
Beneath the outer layer the train is black
You just don't disrespect the people
That lay the tracks
You love this human expression and
They gave you that
And so the least y'all can do
Is try and pay em back
I said beneath the outer layer
The train is black
You just don't disrespect the people
That lay the tracks
You love this human expression and
They gave you that
And so the least y'all can do
Is try and pay em back

You ain't the first, you will not be the last
Contribute do your shit, step the fuck off
You're not half as important as
You think you are blood on beats
Blood on beats