Key: C minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Beat Street Breakdown,
Raah!
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Hip Hop!
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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
And Huh Huh!
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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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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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where the good die young it's all thy must
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
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
outta nothing at all
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I'm sitting in the classroom learning the rules and it says
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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
who won't come back
'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
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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So all you Hip Hops get on up , and let's
Street wave is here
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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
the desperate gamble
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?
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
And finally the bomb get
Christians killed Muslims,
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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
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
look in the mirror
'Cause we gotta suffer
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
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
yeah!' ('Oh yeah!')
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'Oh yeah!' ('Oh
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yeah!')
Verse 5
Raah!
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Raah!
Outro 1
Hip Hop!
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