Public Enemy - By the Time I Get to Arizona lyrics

This is Sister Souljah public Enemy
Security of the First World
And all allied forces are traveling west to
Head off a white supremacy scheming
To destroy the national celebration of Martin
Luther King's birthday public Enemy believes
That the powers that be in the states of New
Hampshire and Arizona have found
Psychological discomfort in paying
Tribute to a black man who
Tried to teach white
People the meaning of civilization
Good luck brothers, show 'em what you got

I'm countin' down to the day deservin'
Fittin' for a king
I'm waitin' for the time when
I can get to Arizona
'Cause my money is spent for the goddamn rent
Neither party is mine
Not the jackass or the elephant


Twenty-thousand niggy-niggy brothers in
The corner of the cell block
But they come from California
Population is none in the desert and sun
With a gun cracker runnin'
Things under his thumb
Starin' hard at the postcards
Isn't it odd and unique
Seein' people smile wild in the heat?
A hundred-twenty degree
'cause I want to be free
What's a smilin' face when
The whole state's racist?
Why I want a holiday? Damn it, 'cause I wanna
So what if I celebrate it
Standin' on a corner?
I ain't drinkin' no forty
Thinkin' time with a nine
'Til we get some land
Call me the trigger man
Lookin' for the governor, huh?
He ain't lovin' ya, ha?
But here to trouble ya, he's rubbin' ya wrong
Get the point and come along
He can get to the joint
I urinated on the state while
I was kickin' this song
Yeah, he appear to be fair
The sucker over there
He try to keep it yesteryear
The good ol' days
The same ol' ways that kept us dyin'
Yes - you, me, myself, and I, indeed
What he need is a nosebleed
Read between the lines
And then you see the lie
Politically planned, but understand
That's all she wrote
When we see the real side
That hide behind the vote
And they can't understand why he the man
I'm singin' about a king
They don't like it when I decide to mic it
Wait, I'm waitin' for the date
For the man, who demands respect
'cause he was great, c’mon
I'm on a one mission to
Get a politician to honor
Or he's a goner by the time I get to Arizona

Well, I got twenty-five days to do it
If a wall in the way
Just watch me go through it
'Cause I gotta do what I gotta do
PE number one, gets the job done
When it's done and over
Was because I drove 'er
Through all the static
Not stick but automatic
That's the way it is, he gotta get his
Talkin' MLK gonna find a way
Make the state pay, I'm lookin' for the day
Hard as it seems, this ain't no damn dream
Gotta know what I mean
It's team against team catch the light beam

So I pray, I pray every day
I do and praise Jah the maker
Lookin' for culture I got
But not here from Jamaica
Pushin' and shakin' the structure
Bringin' down the Babylon
Hearin' the sucker that make it
Hard for the Brown the hard boulevard
I need it now more than ever now
Who's sittin' on my freedom, oppressor
People beater a piece of the pick
We picked a piece of land
That we're deserving now
Reparation, a piece of the nation, and damn
He got the nerve
Another nigga they say and classify
We want too much
My people plus the whole nine is mine
Don't think I even double dutch
Here's a brother, my attitude is hit 'em
Hang 'em high i'm blowing up the nineties
Started tickin' in eighty-six
When the blind get a mind
Better start fearin' while we sing it now
There will be the day we know
Who's down and who will go go, go, go
By the time I get to Arizona

By the time I get to Arizona
By the time I get to Arizona
By the time I get to Arizona