A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste-MC Shan

[ti:A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste] [ar:MC Shan] [al:Q.B. O.G. The Best Of M.C. Shan] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste - MC Shan [00:31.74]Gangs usually roll as a savage pack [00:34.03]Once sworn in there's no turnin back [00:36.69]Initiation manhoods are tested [00:38.81] [00:39.46]Do crime you'll fail by becoming arrested [00:41.40] [00:42.00]Get beat down the line cautiously steppin [00:44.48]Always watchin your back with your hand on your weapon [00:47.18]You blink for a minute and get brutally beaten [00:49.73]Every time you diss the colors it will keep on repeatin [00:52.38]When you say you knew somebody that was a gang member [00:55.04]You can't say you know him you can only remember [00:56.96]You have to live life all nervous and worried [01:00.10]But joinin a gang means you wanna be buried [01:02.19] [01:02.76]It's either that or jail cause there's no other place [01:05.39]And a mind is a terrible thing to waste [01:07.70] [01:13.95]Just a walk on the block they tell you it costs [01:15.97]Willingly pay - or be forced [01:18.04]Once your color is set you gotta be stern [01:21.04]A bad influence for the young that are eager to learn [01:23.68]The rules of a gang is fightin and killin [01:26.21]Did you ever stop to think that was blood you were spillin [01:28.87]Duckin from the cops most the time [01:30.76] [01:31.51]Because you live life devoted to crime [01:33.55] [01:34.06]Gangs are mainly based on colors and races [01:36.62]Not everywhere just in particular places [01:38.88] [01:39.40]Hang on the corner or on the stoop [01:41.91]Fightin people lookin just like a terrorist group [01:44.08] [01:44.66]Gangs give a rank at society level [01:47.22]Wear a tatoo skull with the mark of the devil [01:49.83]You have to live life all nervous and worried [01:51.98] [01:52.50]But joinin a gang means you wanna be buried [01:54.75]It's either that or jail cause there's no other place [01:56.94]And a mind is a terrible thing to waste [01:59.86] [02:32.00]Had many bad dreams nights stayin awake [02:34.13]Joinin a gang was the fatal mistake [02:36.68]Just to fill your head with knowledge till your mind goes blank [02:39.23]And rumble with boys and dispose of the shank [02:42.88]GANG can be spelled with capital letters [02:44.14]Yo while you're sweepin the streets does it make you feel better [02:47.28]Some gangs lack action they're basically talk [02:49.68]Until their brains get scattered on the sidewalk [02:51.94] [02:52.46]Your obligation is to serve as a marionette [02:54.95]And by society you're treated like a homeless pet [02:57.56]You wanna live the life of crime doin negative things [03:00.11]When Al Capone died so did gangster kings [03:02.35] [03:02.87]To live the life of a gangster is all out of place [03:05.52]Because a mind is a terrible thing to waste [03:07.42] [03:14.03]Gangs are always violent but jail is rough [03:15.94]You go a man and you may leave a cream puff [03:18.18] [03:18.82]You say you do crime cause you're poverty stricken [03:21.04]And so is everybody that you're robbin and vickin [03:23.90]Gangs ain't gonna be around much longer [03:25.86] [03:26.47]If 5 out of 10 become mentally stronger [03:28.56] [03:29.10]My mother said bein in a gang ain't nothin [03:31.70]I didn't listen to her cause I thought she was bluffin [03:34.19]I thank her from my heart that she stayed on my case [03:36.74]Made sure my mind didn't just become another waste