Beat Street Breakdown chords by Melle mel, The Furious Five
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Beat Street break down
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Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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Beat Street The
king of the beat
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You see him rocking that beat from
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across the street
And Huh Huh!
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Beat Street is a lesson too,
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because you can't let the Streets beat you!
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Verse 3
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Well a pic ture can express a thousand word
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s to describe all the beauty of life you give
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And if the world was yours to do over,
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I know you'd paint a better place to live
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Where the colours would swirl and the boys
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and girls can grow in peace and harmony
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And where murals stand on walls so grand
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as far as the eyes are able to see, Ha!
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I never knew art til I saw your face and there'll
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never be one to take your place
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'Cause each and every time
you touch the spray paint can
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Michelangelo's soul controls your hand
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Then serenades of blue and red and the
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beauty of the rainbow fills your head
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Crescendo of colours hang in tune,
Man why oh why d'ya have to die so soon?
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Ashes to ashes and dust to dust,
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where the good die young it's all thy must
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'Cause as life must live,
death must die and the tear shall fall from the living eye, Huh!
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The teardrops fall for the state of mind
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of the beautiful lady that you left behind
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In love and alone, but now you're dead,
and she still can't get you out of her head, Huh!
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More tears fall for all you've done,
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trying to be a good father to your only son
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But now who's gonna make sure that he's fed,
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put a shirt on his back and a roof overhead?
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Tell me who's gonna dream the impossible dream
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of the beautiful cities in the islands genes?
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When your works of art brought into being all
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that the ghetto stopped you from seeing
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Bums on the sidewalk, garbage in the streets,
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abandoned buildings, bricks of concrete
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The ladies on the corner are selling their bodies,
and everybody wants a part in that party
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I'm hanging out tough, rocking late at night,
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running wild in the town of the neon light
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You either play some ball or
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stand in the hall Huh!
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You gotta make something
outta nothing at all
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I'm sitting in the classroom learning the rules and it says
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you can't do graffiti in school
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They can't be wrong in the hallowed hall,
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so my notebook turned into a brick wall
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The heart of a lion and the courage of three,
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and the mind of a man much wiser than me
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You're the soul of the brother
who won't come back
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Who died in my arms on the
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railroad track
'Cause I'm caught in the rat race,
looking for my own space
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There's gotta be a better
place for you and me
There's pie in the sky,
and an eye for an eye
Some people gotta die just to be free
You search for justice
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and what do you find?
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You find just us on
the unemployment line
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You find just us sweating
from dawn to dusk
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There's no justice,
there's Huh, just us, Ha!
Still life urban masterpiece,
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your trademark was written on trains and walls
A million dollar gift only God released,
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and yet you got killed for nothing at all
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So after this there'll be no more hard times,
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no more bad times and no more pain
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No more chump change, none of that bull
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Just movies,
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museums and the hall of fame
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So all you Hip Hops get on up , and let's
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take it to the top where we belong
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'Cause the age of the Beat
Street wave is here
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Everybody let's sing along, now c'mon,
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say 'Ho!' ('Ho!'), Say 'Ho!' ('Ho!')
And to let me know I'm rocking the microphone everybody
say 'Ramo!' ('Ramo!')
'Ramo!' ('Ramo!')
Raah!
Verse 4
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A newspaper burns in the sand,
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and the headlines say 'Man destroys Man!'
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Extra! Extra! Read all the bad news on the war
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for peace that everybody would lose
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The rise and fall, the last great empire,
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the sound of the whole world caught on fire
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The ruthless struggle,
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the desperate gamble
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The game that left the whole
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world in shambles
The cheats, the lies, the alibis
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And the foolish attempt to
conquer the skies
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Lost in space, and what is it worth, huh?
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The president just forgot
about Earth
Spending multi billions,
and maybe even trillions
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The cost of weapons ran
into zillions
There's gold in the street,
and diamonds under feet
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And the children in Africa don't even eat
Flies on their faces,
they're living like mice
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And the houses even make
the ghetto look nice, Huh!
The water tastes funny,
it's forever too sunny
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And they work all month and
don't make no money
A fight for power, a nuclear shower
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And people shout out in the darkest hour
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Of sights unseen and voices unheard
And finally the bomb get
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s the last word
Christians killed Muslims,
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and Germans killed Jews
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And everybody's bodies are used and abused,
Huh!
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Minds are poisoned and souls are polluted
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Superiority complex is deep rooted
Leeches and lice's, and people
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got prices
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Egomaniacs control the
self- righteous
Nothing is sacred and nothing is pure
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So the revelation of death is our cure
Hitler and Caesar, Custer and Reagan
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Napoleon, Castro,
Mussolini and Begin
Ghengis Khan and the Shah of Iran
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Mixed with the blood of the weaker man
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The peoples in terror,
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the leaders made the error
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And now they can't even
look in the mirror
'Cause we gotta suffer
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while things get rougher
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And that's the reason why
we got to get tougher
To learn from the past
and work for the future
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And don't be a slave to no computer
'Cause the Children of
Man inherits the land
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And the fu ture of the
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world is in your hands
So just throw your hands in the air
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And wave 'em like you just don't care
And if you believe that
you're the future
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Scream it out and say 'Oh
yeah!' ('Oh yeah!')
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'Oh yeah!' ('Oh
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yeah!')
Verse 5
Raah!
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Beat Street Breakdown
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Raah!
Outro 1
Hip Hop!
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Beat Street Breakdown
Melle Mel, The Furious Five
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