This is Orion 15 4 31 0 5 0, up in Tennessee outta Fort Dix
(The chain remains)
While ghetto's dodge, cops duck bullets and pull it, I
Grow older like there's no heart and no soul ingrown
And we all better do somethin' for the brothers
Hit one more time, wit a black jack then dragged in the precinct
The chain remains 'til we arise
Right now I'm up in Fort Dix, aah, Jersey outdated is 12/25/2003
The chain remains
The chain remains
The chain remains
And I hope this don't suit ya, some work
That they make it so that it ain't even no shock now
Too many of my people got time it shows as crime unfolds
That we supposed ta have since birth
The chain remains
The chain remains
We're tugged while increasing the mugged and indecent
Free please, nigga, ain't no freedom who's locked up?
And most who sold it right now are locked down and rocked round
I'd like to give a couple of shouts to some of the brothers
Straight to forgotten wit locks, plottin' to rottin' our stocks
While we fight for our rights in this nation
The chain remains
Keep reading, I'm here to explain the chain remain the same
My man Asherkol from Camden, Big Jahud from Camden
The chain remains
And it's been happenin' so much
And that's when the cost is the man within
Peace then this is, aah Lil' Pers, aah 14 6 23 0 1 6 Washington DC
Bars and cement instead of help for our people
The chain remains
The chain remains
Who's shot up? Who's strung out? Who's bleeding?
Comin' straight outta Compton, I'm locked up in Fort Dix, New Jersey
Still don't know what the back and forth, looking meaner
Number 0 7 3 9 3 0 6 7 I, I be checkin' y'all out in 1997, later
Some rob blocks does it matter or should it?
The chain remains
Ain't no mystery we need victory
They give a man a cell quick before they give a man work
Representin' Davenport the experimental prison
"We don't need G's" giving out years like free cheese
The chain remains
'Til when the only solutions revolution, no we told ya
The chain remains
(Hang out and hustle wit my friends)
Locked in a facility where time is froze
And we're just as lost as the land we in
I was locked down wit in Borentown, Aleem Jones
Like a slave ta get a hit but won't work to save for a future
Representin' 118 get out in '96
God knows the heart hurts to see no sky, just dirt
And I don't care if we definitely lock down the heat
But brothers staying calm cos they soldiers
How many more times of this humiliation?
Who is locked dizzown 'cos they locked down
Some blast, some based, some dropped down
Jails ain't nothin' but the slave day sequel
Learn the ability to find their goals
The system conspired, the days of the riots ain't retired
The chain remains
The chain remains
So we get into this black, this black cat syndrome
But the breaks on the bricks get worse so it's jail first
Nowadays still we're captured, still hear wicked laughter while shackled
Yo, yo this Puff Daddy number 1 6 double 0 3 0 5 0
Seein' penitentiary's the plan, ta plant the new plantation
Way I'm thinkin' is, aah, it's on mad stuff
Serving most of my brothers another football number
Judges look at our seeds, these brothers like enemies saying
Kenneth Myall, Big Will, Baskerville, Big Bruvon Fuller
And that's all they offer us, ain't that right Mr. Officer?
Prisoner 1 5 4 3 0 5 0 representin' Jersey all y'all niggas better back
How many more bouts do we have to lose
Yo what's up, this Terreet Pett, formerly known as 1 11 7 19
The chain remains
Y' kno' whut I'm sayin'? Representin' double I for life 1 18
The chain remains
Representin' Cleveland and Ill town
The fuck up, man, it's gettin' busy, yo this is Big Kym
The chain remains
They draw a crooked line and wait for your foot ta fall under
Many snap in a trap now new minds explode
Do something, do somethin' bad, peace out
The chain remains
'Til the end, 'til the day we burn pens
The chain remains
Meant stripped made into a convict, booked then fingerprinted
They say we'll take the animals from cottons and crops
This is Lil' Steve 1 6 0 0 6 0 5 0, chillin' at Fort Dix
Stuck in a land where we ain't meant to survive
Maintain for the brothers and sisters locked
We're beaten and battered then cuffed after we're tackled
Tryin' to flee the trap of this nation
