How Long? - Grand Puba

Wake up to the same nonsense everyday

Kids can’t even go out and play

A little girl jumping rope get sniff by a stray

I try to figure out why we live this way

I give everything that I got just to make that killing stop

All I got is my word

Peeps look by when I get hurt

I give everything that I got just to make that killing stop

All I got is my word

Peeps look by when I get hurt

Damn they shooting again, somebody else dead

Another locked in, nobody wins

Welcome to the Matrix, we caught up in th mix, but Im like Morpheus,

cause I’m hippd to them tricks

Got you thinking that the negative is positive

Think I’m playing take a look around see how we live

Everyday it seems like its getting worse to me

They call us savages when they see us on TV

I’m a real dude, so I try to do what I could, so that these lil dudes don’t get

swallowed up in the hood

It’s like a 50/50 chance to not get caught by the streets

Cause you know it’s just designed for us to suffer defeat

It’s like a never ending cycle, running on a treadmill, you keep running but

you still standing still

I see it over, and over, and it over again

Early exist to the lord and getting locked in the pin

Wake up to the same nonsense everyday

Kids can’t even go out and play

A little girl jumping rope get sniff by a stray

I try to figure out why we live this way

I give everything that I got just to make that killing stop

All I got is my word

Peeps look by when I get hurt

I give everything that I got just to make that killing stop

All I got is my word

Peeps look by when I get hurt

Now I refuse to be the fool

This shit is like a game of pool, balls be the man, tables be the land

The plan, knock off as many colors as you can

Cause no matter what happens there’s one that always stand

The conqueror, destroying everything in its way

The same exact way they try to rule the world today

Put em in the stack, lift up the rack, attack game over when you knock off the

block

Now we do it to our own kind, stuck in a devils state of mind, running in

circles like the blind leading the blind

But [?} is your mind where the thoughts are produced, manifest greatness when

you break the chains loose

So who am I, original man stand up

She eyen I when I crack under pressure

So lets rise like a hammer

Too legit to quit, don’t fall into the pit of this devil shit

Wake up to the same nonsense everyday

Kids can’t even go out and play

A little girl jumping rope get sniff by a stray

I try to figure out why we live this way

I give everything that I got just to make that killing stop

All I got is my word

Peeps look by when I get hurt

I give everything that I got just to make that killing stop

All I got is my word

Peeps look by when I get hurt