Wu-Tang Clan - A Better Tomorrow lyrics
[Wu-Tang Clan - A Better Tomorrow lyrics]
Yo, this goes for all my
Brothers and sisters locked down
For all my peoples incarcerated
For those who ain't make it
Yo, in the housing
Thousands seen early graves
Victims of worldly ways
Memories stays engraved
All my live brothers is locked
Down with high numbers
The young hunger, blind to these lies
They die younger
In this New World, the Order slaughter men
Women and children
Ten feet gates surround the building
Keep us sealed in
The projects, lifeless like a Vietnam vet
Constant war
Except for threats of enemy conquest
Crooked cops comb my building complex
That's in the rumble
Streets are like a jungle
Can't let my cypher crumble vivid thoughts
Devils resort to trick knowledge
They kick garbage
Lust for chicks and quick dollars
I know the pain the game bring
I did the same thing
Spaced out in the staircase
Performin' a sting
It's hard to keep control
I bless those who seek a scroll
Tryin' to reach a whole nation
And break the sleeper hold not a role model
I walk a hard road to follow
I sold bottles of sorrow then
Chose poems and novels the gospel was told
Some souls it swallowed whole
Mentally they fold, and they eventually sold
Their life and times
Deadly like the virus design
But too minute to dilute the scientist mind
You can't party your life away
Drink your life away
Smoke your life away, fuck your life away
Dream your life away, scheme your life away
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
A voice cries from the
Wilderness of the North
A representation of the families
That lost one all victims of incarceration
Or other divisions of the family structure
Youths are injected with serums that
Leads to skin irritations
Babies being born with disfigurations
Experimentations
On their faces, there bear worry-ations
Of mothers that carry the pain
Of blood stained streets where
Sisters mourn and wail
Fifth brothers been slain from
Hails of gun fire it lightly begins to rain
Screams of terror are hidden
By the passin' trains
This can't be little Hussein
His uncle cries as he drops
To his nephew's side, holdin' his cane
Just give me a name
Of who has inflicted this bitter sickness
And left us to witness
Yo, curses from war
Innocent blood spills for days
Soothe in godly ways, hands, solemn in praise
Tree of life, more precious than rubies
Golden game the wise shall flourish inherit
Halls of Fame crime visions in my blood got
Me locked in prison
While we die, hard-livin' people
Whine about religion, vision
Blow, spin
And sin and killin' what's revealin'
It's a never endin' battle with
No endin' or beginnin', listen
Zero process, progress, become the hunted
America's most wanted, good life, flaunt it
Want it
Some love the speed, some satisfy a need
Some wanna be down, young gun seed
Jungle breed
The strong must feed, someone die
Someone bleed
One flew astray, and it caught my little seed
Can it be? The ice savage, trife life
Made me grab the knife
The righteous man was beat with many stripes
Pipes
Take in my energy, breath and know the rest
'Cause the good die young and
The hard die best
You can't party your life away
Drink your life away
Smoke your life away, fuck your life away
Dream your life away, scheme your life away
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
Y'all bitches love dances
And pullin' down your pants
While your man's on tour
Your spendin' up his advances
Your friends ain't shit, all they
Do is drink, smoke, and suck dick
The whole projects is trapped in six
You either high school drop-outs
One to three cop-outs
Fifteen years old, shorty ass and top out
Ninety-nine cent beer drinkin'
Pussy stinkin' fuckin' so much
Your ass and titties start shrinkin'
New World Order slave trade, minimum wage
Medicaid can a devil fool a Muslim nowadays?
Inside my lab, I'm goin' mad
Took two drags off the blunts
And started breakin' down the flag
The blue is for the Crips
The red is for the Bloods
The white's for the cops
And the stars come from the clubs
Or the slugs that ignites through the night
By the dawn early light
Why is sons fightin' for the stripe?
As we dwell through this concrete hell
Callin' it home
Mama say, "Take your time, young man
And build your own
Don't wind up like your old dad
Still searchin' for them glory
Days he never had" so many bad want to
Scheme for American dream, no more kings
The cash rule everythin' now, we goin' down
These babies lookin' up to us, it's up to us
The Million Man March MC's, get on the bus
But envy, greed, lust and hate separate
Though the devil mind state
Blood kin cannot relate
No longer brothers, we unstable
Like Cain when he slew Abel
Killin' each other
You can't party your life away
Drink your life away
Smoke your life away, fuck your life away
Dream your life away, scheme your life away
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
Brothers and sisters locked down
For all my peoples incarcerated
For those who ain't make it
Yo, in the housing
Thousands seen early graves
Victims of worldly ways
Memories stays engraved
All my live brothers is locked
Down with high numbers
The young hunger, blind to these lies
They die younger
In this New World, the Order slaughter men
Women and children
Ten feet gates surround the building
Keep us sealed in
The projects, lifeless like a Vietnam vet
Constant war
Except for threats of enemy conquest
Crooked cops comb my building complex
That's in the rumble
Streets are like a jungle
Can't let my cypher crumble vivid thoughts
Devils resort to trick knowledge
They kick garbage
Lust for chicks and quick dollars
I know the pain the game bring
I did the same thing
Spaced out in the staircase
Performin' a sting
It's hard to keep control
I bless those who seek a scroll
Tryin' to reach a whole nation
And break the sleeper hold not a role model
I walk a hard road to follow
I sold bottles of sorrow then
Chose poems and novels the gospel was told
Some souls it swallowed whole
Mentally they fold, and they eventually sold
Their life and times
Deadly like the virus design
But too minute to dilute the scientist mind
You can't party your life away
Drink your life away
Smoke your life away, fuck your life away
Dream your life away, scheme your life away
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
A voice cries from the
Wilderness of the North
A representation of the families
That lost one all victims of incarceration
Or other divisions of the family structure
Youths are injected with serums that
Leads to skin irritations
Babies being born with disfigurations
Experimentations
On their faces, there bear worry-ations
Of mothers that carry the pain
Of blood stained streets where
Sisters mourn and wail
Fifth brothers been slain from
Hails of gun fire it lightly begins to rain
Screams of terror are hidden
By the passin' trains
This can't be little Hussein
His uncle cries as he drops
To his nephew's side, holdin' his cane
Just give me a name
Of who has inflicted this bitter sickness
And left us to witness
Yo, curses from war
Innocent blood spills for days
Soothe in godly ways, hands, solemn in praise
Tree of life, more precious than rubies
Golden game the wise shall flourish inherit
Halls of Fame crime visions in my blood got
Me locked in prison
While we die, hard-livin' people
Whine about religion, vision
Blow, spin
And sin and killin' what's revealin'
It's a never endin' battle with
No endin' or beginnin', listen
Zero process, progress, become the hunted
America's most wanted, good life, flaunt it
Want it
Some love the speed, some satisfy a need
Some wanna be down, young gun seed
Jungle breed
The strong must feed, someone die
Someone bleed
One flew astray, and it caught my little seed
Can it be? The ice savage, trife life
Made me grab the knife
The righteous man was beat with many stripes
Pipes
Take in my energy, breath and know the rest
'Cause the good die young and
The hard die best
You can't party your life away
Drink your life away
Smoke your life away, fuck your life away
Dream your life away, scheme your life away
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
Y'all bitches love dances
And pullin' down your pants
While your man's on tour
Your spendin' up his advances
Your friends ain't shit, all they
Do is drink, smoke, and suck dick
The whole projects is trapped in six
You either high school drop-outs
One to three cop-outs
Fifteen years old, shorty ass and top out
Ninety-nine cent beer drinkin'
Pussy stinkin' fuckin' so much
Your ass and titties start shrinkin'
New World Order slave trade, minimum wage
Medicaid can a devil fool a Muslim nowadays?
Inside my lab, I'm goin' mad
Took two drags off the blunts
And started breakin' down the flag
The blue is for the Crips
The red is for the Bloods
The white's for the cops
And the stars come from the clubs
Or the slugs that ignites through the night
By the dawn early light
Why is sons fightin' for the stripe?
As we dwell through this concrete hell
Callin' it home
Mama say, "Take your time, young man
And build your own
Don't wind up like your old dad
Still searchin' for them glory
Days he never had" so many bad want to
Scheme for American dream, no more kings
The cash rule everythin' now, we goin' down
These babies lookin' up to us, it's up to us
The Million Man March MC's, get on the bus
But envy, greed, lust and hate separate
Though the devil mind state
Blood kin cannot relate
No longer brothers, we unstable
Like Cain when he slew Abel
Killin' each other
You can't party your life away
Drink your life away
Smoke your life away, fuck your life away
Dream your life away, scheme your life away
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way