Sound Of Philadelphia-Reef The Lost Cauze

[ti:Sound Of Philadelphia] [ar:Reef The Lost Cauze] [al:Feast or Famine] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sound Of Philadelphia - Reef The Lost Cauze [00:21.44]Yo yo [00:22.48]Welcome to the home of brotherly love [00:24.67]Brothers covered in blood [00:26.00]The man's office is covered in bugs [00:27.95]The youth dreams cut short swept under the rug [00:30.74]Love for self is outweighed by the love for the drugs [00:33.64]Go Eagles McNabb and T O [00:35.85]We ain't hard to find homey [00:37.69]Just follow the w**d smoke [00:39.07]We eat rolls of greased beef soaked [00:41.05] [00:41.63]Overweight and evil [00:42.52]A city of justice unequal [00:43.71] [00:44.59]The shadow of New York we still under [00:46.76]So we gotta kill 'em every summer walk a little tougher [00:50.16]Guns bustin' how we chose to fight [00:52.12]When you can go from bein' [00:53.31]A star to a scumbag overnight [00:54.81] [00:55.94]Streets often deserted on the coldest nights [00:58.62]All hair trigger thunderbirds show you're right [01:01.44]Cops don't ask if ya know your rights [01:03.66]Hopeless hypes smokin' pipes [01:04.79]Pavement gamblers rollin' dice [01:05.82] [01:06.53]Short sentence describe your whole life [01:09.15]Low expectancy at a low price for a low life [01:12.50]The mind of many years shines soul so bright [01:15.08]But they could give a f**k in their crib no lights [01:17.66]Everybody rhyme and they [01:19.88]Claim they don't write--it down [01:21.10]Sit down take it all in [01:23.21]Civilization this is where it all ends [01:25.89]The city I call kin [01:27.03]Yo so take caution [01:28.43]It's the sound of Philadelphia [01:29.76]Gun shots and pretty beats [01:31.03] [01:31.72]Come along with me hear my city speak [01:34.25]It's talkin' to ya it's giving you a heads up [01:36.74]It's sayin' that niggaz 'round here is gettin' fed up [01:38.96] [01:39.48]It's the sound of Philadelphia [01:41.01]Gun shots and pretty beats [01:42.54]Come along with me hear my city speak [01:45.33]It's talkin' to ya it's giving you a heads up [01:47.85]It's sayin' that niggaz 'round here is gettin' fed up [01:50.43]On stoops the fruits of my labor [01:52.20]Are made by moves that major [01:53.62]Hood gossip never news from the newspaper [01:55.69] [01:56.24]Don't ask me for sh*t we never do favors [01:58.77]The elders are now just a bunch of reclused neighbors [02:01.23] [02:01.82]Tax dollars go to prisons new judges new chambers [02:04.81]Love it when you lose kill ya if you came up [02:07.56]Niggaz passin' disease f**kin' the same slut [02:09.76]You either cuttin' a demo or gettin' 'caine cut [02:12.66]Don't go to school they'll treat you like a lame duck [02:15.35]You ain't my master yeah it's a shame but [02:18.11]What do you expect from--kids who need respect [02:20.78]Cuz no one was at home for them to learn respect from [02:23.51]We respect guns we respect funds [02:25.79] [02:26.35]Let's face it my future don't look like the Jetsons [02:28.77]Don't ask the government for help cause we expect none [02:31.80]Our heroes get murdered and replaced with the next one [02:33.99] [02:34.56]It's like a wild west done [02:36.16]On the way out I hope I get one [02:38.41]But I doubt that will happen [02:39.74]Cuz of crabs in a barrel [02:41.05]I'll probably end up in a cage [02:42.37] [02:42.93]Cuz I had to let a blast from the barrel [02:45.16]The city of Philly *echoes* [02:46.51] [02:50.72]It's the sound of Philadelphia [02:51.97]Gun shots and pretty beats [02:53.26] [02:53.93]Come along with me hear my city speak [02:55.98]It's talkin' to ya it's giving you a heads up [02:58.99]It's sayin' that niggaz 'round here is gettin' fed up [03:01.18] [03:01.72]It's the sound of Philadelphia [03:02.68] [03:03.36]Gun shots and pretty beats [03:04.84]Come along with me hear my city speak [03:07.45]It's talkin' to ya it's giving you a heads up [03:10.05]It's sayin' that niggaz 'round here is gettin' fed up