Thievery Corporation, Mr. Lif - Ghetto Matrix lyrics

The city was cold
Replete with these sheets of old ways
And stained tenements that were
Built for bold slaves
Days collapse, street's name, perhaps
Were traps
You could see it in the concrete cracks
The lost hope is smoked
The skies would devise for slowpokes
Dreamers who seem to touch zenith
Their arms couldn't reach without
Touching the breach a blunder
So the summers woulda summoned police
The heat reached through crevices
To verify the visage of the nemesis
No blemishes to find on this intricate design
And odd no-brainer
The container was the mind
The poverty stricken victims
Produced the paint for the portrait
So humble
Yet the struggle was sold and went corporate
It hit the world stage and got celebrated
This odd mix of love and hatred
The ghetto matrix
It's on you, it's your mind
It's a complex plan that keeps us confined
It's on you, it's your mind
It's a complex plan that keeps us confined

It's on you, it's your mind
It's a complex plan that keeps us confined
It's on you, it's your mind
It's a complex plan that keeps us confined

The mantra of the mission:
Make money off the missing
The streets were the rhythm
When the six rounds hit 'em
The shells danced in the
Moonlight of sunshine the blues
You could view them on the news at nine
The vines grow over headstones and then homes
Composed to give prose to
The anguish and moans
The worries of the world can't
Stop the cash crop
The blood drop signifies a rise in the stock
The matrix that enslaves us
Stops to seemingly balk
But can't deny the fact that
The act has gone pop
Nonstop, the plot thickens with
His and her children echoes of the plight
Like to have the youth listen
Is it ghetto? Is it urban? Are you certain?
Are you a servant here to
Keep the sales surgin'? All in all
It seems that no one can escape it
This odd mix of love and hatred
The ghetto matrix

It's on you, it's your mind
It's a complex plan that keeps us confined
It's on you, it's your mind
It's a complex plan that keeps us confined

It's on you, it's your mind
It's a complex plan that keeps us confined
It's on you, it's your mind
It's a complex plan that keeps us confined