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Yo, you believe they say we ain't shit, we can't grow? All we are is dope and gangstas and hoes? And you believe when be tellin' you lie, all on the media? They make the world crazy to keep you inside?
Why you listen when the at school? Know you a young single parent out strugglin', they think you a Give your bad grades and put 'em in dumber classes shorty future, I wonder how do we last it
Underground in they Ancestors turnin' I'm learnin' every day, there is no Lazareth Words like God is Greek or So, if you Egypt, you'll see the truth written by the masters
My is chillin', gettin' high, relaxin' Envisionin', shit, yo, it can happen What do we own? Not enough land, not homes Not enough banks, to a brother a loan
What do we The skin on our backs, we run and we ask For reparations, then hit us with tax And insurance if we live to be old, what now? So, bein' controlled, we black zombies
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think livin' (Black zombies) We copy cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think we're (Black zombies) We just copy-cat, the system (Black zombies)
Aiyo, we trapped in our own brain, fuck bars We've already gone already gave up, cut our own heads offs Stab our own and dream too much
fulfillin' reality, too greedy and Can't have one or two chains, we need of dem have one or two guns without squeezin' 'em On our own and fuck black leaders
'Cause whites ain't got none them, the rhythm is cosmic Nas is divinity, the deity's All get and get up Victims 'round with down's syndrome, all stuck
Faintin', shoutin', catchin' Holy Ghost in Scared to do it for ourselves 'less we see doin' it first We begged, we prayed, petitioned and Just to make generation, black zombies
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think livin' (Black zombies) We just copy cat, followin' the (Black zombies)
Walkin', talkin' dead, though we think we're (Black zombies) We just copy-cat, the system (Black zombies)
You scared to be 'cause you in a trance Feel free, hear the music and If you cared what they think, why wear what they wear, for you Dumb niggaz with long beards like they Arabs or
Or from Israel, Bismi-Allah Al-raheem a beautiful thing And and Rastafari, helps us to bring Peace the darkness, which is un-Godly
So, what's the black man's true religion, who we follow? Use your own intuition, you are That's the of the beast, I'm a Columbia record slave, so get paid Control your own destiny, you are a Don't let it to you like it did to me, I was a black zombie
Walkin', talkin' dead, we think we're livin' (Black zombies) We copy cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
Walkin', talkin' dead, we think we're livin (Black zombies) We copy-cat, followin' the system (Black zombies)
up, black zombies in a spell for more than fo'-hundred years Ghetto won't have it no mo', can I get a witness? Why listen to else tell you how to do it? you can do it yourself? It's all in you, do it, do it Do it