As we send this one throughout our whole proximity
When we gonna realize and make the change
Devilish ways and actions poisons us like a cavity
You take a life for gold, nigga did you really need that?
Some say the games are strange, our ways have been tribal
II know I got a new daughter, direction and protection
My ways and action manifest in my way of thinkin'
Since the days of Kemet, now displayed on Bennett
It ain't gonna happen till the devil's gone with the breeze
It's one for all like Brand Nubian, feedin' the multitudes
Strive to understand what life's about
When we gonna realize and make the change
Nike make a killin' off us, we kill each other, it kills me to see that
And take the blame, erase the shame
All it seems to be is sadness and pain
When we gonna realize and make the change
And I gotta do, what I can do, when I can do
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Poisoned by society where high-anxiety is just one variety
Black people come on, I said
I just can't stand around and do nothin'
Ignorance is at large, struggles in our backyard
It's stray lies and bullets directed, to lead the village
Revolution's like a pussy, I'm tryin' to stay up in it
Maybe one day we can work it out
Yup
Yes sir
Black folk come on
Strive to understand what life's about
Black folk come on
Like O D B say, "We for the children"
But your persistence overcomes their resistance
Maybe one day we can work it out
The new world order's what they got in store
'Cause new millennium is knockin' at your door
Your daily mechanism is your defense
All it seems to be is sadness and pain
When we gonna realize and make the change
Nigga
The new world order's what they got in store
Strive to understand what life's about
Of lies disconnected like ghetto phones
Grand Pu, I'ma do, what I gotta do, when I can do
Black people come on, I said
Nowadays we doin' anything for dough
And if I can get somethin' for doin' that then I'm gon' get and I won't quit
Whether it be past or present tense, don't be dense
Oh say it ain't so
And niggas get off they knees so
My duty is to save my people from all of this shit
I don't know much about the new world order
In this era of prepaid calling cards, I roll with squads called the Gods
I slap box with life and see we wasn't that hard
Know the ledge, don't hit the edge
Blood like rain clogs urban drains
Black people come on
Strive to understand what life's about
Blood like rain clogs urban drains
Blood like rain clogs urban drains
And take the blame, erase the shame
One time as we do it like this, yeah
What?
The new world order's what they got in store
Black people come on
And take the blame, erase the shame
It's all love y'all, it's all love y'all
So maybe one day we can work it out
Maybe one day we can work it out
While my people sinkin', I told you that I stay true
'Cause new millennium is knockin' at your door
Blood like rain clogs urban drains
All it seems to be is sadness and pain
The negativity pulls us down like gravity
We try to escape the mix tapes, rims and weed sack
And our music is a message, though some is afraid to send it
Fuck a search through a magazine for better homes
I must provide for her, the moral of the story I'm building
For the dough doe
Grand Puba, common sense
Black people come on, come on, oh, oh yeah
Don't you know that knowledge is the note
And take the blame, erase the shame
The new world order's what they got in store
I'm droppin' this with common sense as we linger on into the darkness
Double oh Pu'
And to the new age, they say the women's gonna lead that, so
Born into existence where your existence is non-existent
All it seems to be is sadness and pain
'Cause new millennium is knockin' at your door
'Cause new millennium is knockin' at your door
Grand Pu' and common strive to come together
Of five loaves, dead men walkin' with lost souls
I mean I'm really true to the shit, my spit ain't just spit
Hatin' each other is another, brotha
My peoples at a all time low
It's all love y'all, what you say?
You gotta go through a whole lotta shit just for you to get a little bit
Long as you got God, even got gramps off lah
It ain't so
Now I can't stress this enough, life sure is rough
