In the City-Cunninlynguists/Zion-I/Zion I

[ti:In The City] [ar:Cunninlynguists] [al:Strange Journey Volume 3] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]In the City - Cunninlynguists/Zion I [00:18.54]In the city [00:20.97] [00:23.13]It's always been that way [00:27.63] [00:29.49]In the city [00:31.92] [00:34.08]It's always been that way [00:37.88]In my city is blacks and blocks [00:39.39]Where avenues and street tops where people [00:41.98]Struggle to sleep Ahk [00:43.11]Theres trouble and beef gold teeth rocks get [00:46.19]Thrown at the higher power but don't reach Pops [00:49.33]Aint home Mama been long [00:51.57]Gone away so the children run stray [00:54.22]Cannibalistic war play [00:56.10]Its animalistic where I stay [00:58.27]The devil wan' play [00:59.55]And too many contestants [01:01.03]Thats every day [01:02.26]The level gon stay where it's at [01:04.63]Stay strapped [01:05.47]It's the mantra recital it conquers the bible [01:08.77]By any means see survival [01:10.91]When friends turn to rivals its liable for [01:13.59]These confrontations to be homicidal [01:16.44]A dog hollers back at the sirens [01:18.81]The pain is so blinding [01:20.20]Forgot we all diamonds [01:21.42] [01:24.27]In the city [01:26.20] [01:28.65]It's always been that way [01:31.85] [01:34.94]In the city [01:37.35] [01:39.60]It's always been that way [01:44.18] [01:44.78]Ain't nothing uglier ain't nothing prettier [01:48.85] [01:50.96]Corner stores whores [01:52.74]Drugs galore [01:53.97]Exploitation's core [01:55.52]Guns and gore [01:56.70]I abhor each metropolis between these shores [01:59.38]And then I see it [02:00.53]Faith in humanity restored [02:02.25]An act so selfless that I break out in applause [02:05.15]Giving so elvish that it must be Santa Clause [02:07.81]In the city [02:08.78]Dogs [02:09.27]Foaming at the jaws [02:10.53]That's kept the voice of justice in its claws [02:12.44]Get the gauze [02:13.09]Because [02:13.70]It can silence the loudest man [02:15.75]Whether concrete dirt [02:17.32]Whether canal or sand [02:18.74]You can blacktop [02:19.61]But the backdrop remains [02:21.25]With the same plots [02:22.39]Repeating like famed refrains [02:24.04]The stains [02:24.74]Stare at ya [02:25.52]Intensity of character [02:26.88]Gotta be darwinistic [02:27.86]Got a propensity to bury ya [02:29.66]Home of the merriest [02:30.87]Land of the nefarious [02:32.16]Tomorrow it's the city that will carry us [02:34.46]Prepare [02:35.06] [02:37.74]In the city [02:40.52] [02:42.30]It's always been that way [02:46.29] [02:48.36]In the city [02:51.46] [02:53.25]It's always been that way