Psychology (Explicit)-Dead Prez

[ti:Psychology] [ar:Dead Prez] [al:Let's Get Free] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.61]Intro: [00:00.86]"i was born in a dump [00:03.55]My mama died and my father got drunk [00:06.24] [00:07.05]They left me to die or grow [00:09.68]In the middle of tobacco road [00:11.30] [00:12.61]I grew up in a rusty shack [00:15.11]All I owned was hangin on my back [00:17.05] [00:17.73]And lord knows how I learnt [00:19.67] [00:20.24]This place called tobacco road [00:21.62] [00:23.93]Tobacco road you're dirty and you're filthy [00:26.75]Tobacco road gonna get me some dynamite and a crane [00:29.25]I'm gonna blow it up lord knows gonna start all over again" [00:34.75] [00:35.69]"my mind is the place where I make my plans [00:41.68] [00:44.84]The world is the place where I take my stand [00:48.09] [00:50.41]The beauty of life is mine today [00:52.34] [00:53.46]They cannot take my mind away" [00:54.90] [00:55.59][m1] [00:55.78]F**k what you heard I'm from africa [00:57.90]This ain't no act it's mathematical [00:59.28]Past the black radical [01:01.59]I choose the m1 because it's practical [01:04.71]Nothin was changed we ain't protected [01:05.96]No names it's all factual [01:07.03]They push the wrong buttons count down to detonate [01:09.65]Brooklyn blown away and the world will have to speculate [01:11.96]This is what we learn in the streets f**k a degree [01:15.28]Believe in none of what you hear and half of what you see [01:18.65][stic] [01:18.90]It's like watching your own father smoke crack [01:20.41]I have nightmares on sh*t like that [01:21.78]No way in hell I'll ever get like that [01:23.52]I seen a lot of sh*t in twenty-two years [01:25.21]It's like a tour of duty [01:26.40]My life is booby-trapped it's hard to see the beauty [01:28.40]When your heart is turning ice cold [01:29.96]Cold like your hands exposed to blistering winds [01:32.21]My mother keep her eyes closed she say she prayin [01:35.84]I listen close to what she sayin [01:37.46]When she speak of jesus I ignore it [01:39.27]But when it's practical I'm all for it [01:41.46]You got to think like a soldier [01:43.33]I'm training myself to snatch pistols out of holsters [01:45.47]Discipline keep the mind focused [01:47.34]This whole world is a corn field son [01:49.84]Look out for flying locusts [01:52.61] [01:53.19]Chorus (x2) [01:53.69]Don't let 'em get in your head they try to probe you [01:56.01]Figure your thoughts so they can try and control you [01:57.88]And through you control your whole crew [02:00.13]It's psychology boy now what the f**k that make you wanna do [02:03.38] [02:05.01][m1] [02:05.82] [02:14.57]You can't walk the streets with no state of mind [02:16.51]Blind to the ways of mankind [02:18.70] [02:19.27]And if you know the time give me a sign [02:21.56]Tell me where we draw the line [02:23.13]I got your back if you got mine [02:25.13]My enemy's enemy is my man [02:26.95]One dreadlock is stronger than one strand while the crackers got the upper hand [02:31.26]My comrades stand on lands stolen [02:32.51]Every tooth a golden opportunity [02:33.76]Who holdin my community hostage [02:35.63]10% ransom costing us time we lost and some [02:39.25]This is how the plan runs [02:41.45]Thinkin with a fugitive brain [02:43.07]What we do to live is insane [02:45.07]Holdin the w**d healing my membranes [02:46.58]Just like crack you know it all boils down [02:49.94]To the dollars-and-cents of it [02:50.95]Niggaz commence to get to sentenced to serve terms [02:54.78]Jumping the fence the black germ is loose [02:57.10]When will they learn [02:58.23]Psychology [02:58.47][stic] [02:58.86]We piss on walls and smoke reefa in the halls [03:01.60]No respect for their laws [03:02.54]I cut your face with a kitchen knife [03:03.98]In gladiator times man against machinery [03:05.29]The tree bark fatigues help me blend in with the scenery boy [03:10.04]Life is a series of serious choices [03:12.29]Theories is formed from experience never mysterious forces [03:14.35]Various courses of life can lead to failure [03:16.91]Too much of anything is a trap [03:19.98]My mind snap [03:20.60]Guerilla warfare for two grand [03:21.97]They say karate means 'empty hands' [03:23.29] [03:24.82]So then it's perfect for the poor man [03:26.72] [03:27.59]They say karate means 'empty hands' [03:30.41]So then it's perfect for the poor man [03:32.71] [03:33.41]Chorus (x2) [03:50.59]Bridge [03:51.35][m1] [03:54.26] [04:06.20]When you think of us think of pyramids and pistols [04:08.26]And glimmering gold teeth that shine like crystals [04:10.58]The mind is like a jewel son [04:12.76]Only a fool wouldn't grasp it [04:14.64]Wisdom is a tool you get blasted [04:16.27]When you think of us think of pyramids and pistols [04:19.64]And glimmering gold teeth that shine like crystals [04:21.33]The mind is like a jewel son [04:23.89]Only a fool wouldn't grasp it [04:25.89]Wisdom is a tool you get blasted [04:27.21] [04:51.54]"free your mind and the rest will follow [04:57.22] [05:01.78]Seize the time no-one is promised tomorrow" [05:07.81] [05:11.74]Repeat until fade