Beat Street-Grandmaster Flash

[ti:Beat Street] [ar:Grandmaster Flash] [al:Message From Beat Street - The Best Of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & The Furious Five] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Beat Street - Grandmaster Flash [00:57.26]Beat street breakdown raah [00:58.94] [01:07.37]Hip hop [01:07.99] [01:17.42]Beat street [01:17.94]The king of the beat [01:19.01]You see him rocking that beat from across the street [01:21.31]And huh huh [01:21.97]Beat street is a lesson too because you can't let the streets beat you [01:25.74] [01:30.19]Well a picture can express a thousand words to describe all the beauty of life you give [01:35.39]And if the world was yours to do over [01:37.70]I know you'd paint a better place to live [01:39.83]Where the colours would swirl and the boys [01:41.55]And girls can grow in peace and harmony [01:44.32]And where murals stand on walls so grand as far as the eyes are able to see ha [01:49.31]I never knew art till I saw your face [01:51.25]And there'll never be one to take your place [01:53.54]'Cause each and every time you touch the spray paint can [01:55.89]Michelangelo's soul controls your hand [01:58.32]Then serenades of blue and red and the beauty of the rainbow fills your head [02:02.88]Crescendo of colours hang in tune [02:05.22]Man why oh why d'ya have to die so soon [02:07.78]Ashes to ashes and dust to dust [02:09.86]Where the good die young it's all thy must [02:12.15]'Cause as life must live [02:13.30]Death must die and the tear shall fall from the living eye huh [02:16.91]The teardrops fall for the state of mind of the beautiful lady that you left behind [02:21.24]In love and alone but now you're dead [02:23.50]And she still can't get you out of her head huh [02:25.99]More tears fall for all you've done [02:28.07]Trying to be a good father to your only son [02:30.36]But now who's gonna make sure that he's fed [02:32.72]Put a shirt on his back and a roof overhead [02:35.15]Tell me who's gonna dream the impossible dream of the beautiful cities in the islands genes [02:39.69]When your works of art brought into being all that the ghetto stopped you from seeing [02:44.62]Bums on the sidewalk garbage in the streets [02:46.82]Abandoned buildings bricks of concrete [02:49.18]The ladies on the corner are selling their bodies [02:51.44]And everybody wants a part in that party [02:53.77]I'm hanging out tough rocking late at night [02:55.92]Running wild in the town of the neon light [02:58.13]You either play some ball or stand in the hall huh [03:00.72]You gotta make something outta nothing at all [03:02.87]I'm sitting in the classroom learning the rules and it says you can't do graffiti in school [03:07.57]They can't be wrong in the hallowed hall [03:09.73]So my notebook turned into a brick wall [03:12.17]The heart of a lion and the courage of three [03:14.50]And the mind of a man much wiser than me [03:16.78]You're the soul of the brother who won't come back [03:19.13]Who died in my arms on the railroad track [03:21.40]'Cause I'm caught in the rat race looking for my own space [03:23.80]There's gotta be a better place for you and me [03:25.89]There's pie in the sky and an eye for an eye [03:28.29]Some people gotta die just to be free [03:30.79]You search for justice and what do you find [03:32.95]You find just us on the unemployment line [03:35.14]You find just us sweating from dawn to dusk [03:37.44]There's no justice there's huh just us ha [03:40.05]Still life urban masterpiece your trademark was written on trains and walls [03:44.45]A million dollar gift only god released [03:46.75]And yet you got killed for nothing at all [03:49.18]So after this there'll be no more hard times [03:51.61]No more bad times and no more pain [03:53.80]No more chump change none of that bull [03:56.04]Just movies museums and the hall of fame [03:58.39]So all you hip hops get on up [04:00.57]And let's take it to the top where we belong [04:02.88]'Cause the age of the beat street wave is here [04:05.16]Everybody let's sing along now c'mon say ho ho say ho ho [04:12.03]And to let me know I'm rocking the microphone everybody say ramo ramo [04:18.01]Ramo ramo [04:19.86] [04:21.00]Raah [04:21.45] [04:23.05]A newspaper burns in the sand [04:24.88]And the headlines say man destroys man [04:27.30]Extra extra read all the bad news on the war for peace [04:30.48]That everybody would lose [04:31.81]The rise and fall the last great empire [04:33.95]The sound of the whole world caught on fire [04:36.32]The ruthless struggle the desperate gamble [04:38.68]The game that left the whole world in shambles [04:41.01]The cheats the lies the alibis [04:43.23]And the foolish attempt to conquer the skies [04:45.57]Lost in space and what is it worth huh [04:48.05]The president just forgot about earth [04:50.17]Spending multi billions and maybe even trillions [04:52.59]The cost of weapons ran into zillions [04:54.91]There's gold in the street and diamonds under feet [04:57.11]And the children in africa don't even eat [04:59.62]Flies on their faces they're living like mice [05:01.77]And the houses even make the ghetto look nice huh [05:04.11]The water tastes funny it's forever too sunny [05:06.34]And they work all month and don't make no money [05:08.69]A fight for power a nuclear shower [05:11.01]And people shout out in the darkest hour [05:13.29]Of sights unseen and voices unheard [05:15.61]And finally the bomb gets the last word [05:17.88]Christians killed muslims and germans killed jews [05:20.26]And everybody's bodies are used and abused huh [05:22.71]Minds are poisoned and souls are polluted [05:24.78]Superiority complex is deep rooted [05:27.34]Leeches and lice's and people got prices [05:29.47]Egomaniacs control the self-righteous [05:31.89]Nothing is sacred and nothing is pure [05:34.00]So the revelation of death is our cure [05:36.41]Hitler and caesar custer and reagan [05:38.77]Napoleon castro mussolini and begin [05:41.10]Ghengis khan and the shah of iran [05:43.37]Mixed with the blood of the weaker man [05:45.75]The peoples in terror the leaders made the error [05:47.96]And now they can't even look in the mirror [05:50.24]'Cause we gotta suffer while things get rougher [05:52.64]And that's the reason why we got to get tougher [05:54.85]To learn from the past and work for the future [05:57.19]And don't be a slave to no computer [05:59.41]'Cause the children of man inherits the land [06:01.65]And the future of the world is in your hands [06:03.96]So just throw your hands in the air [06:06.18]And wave 'em like you just don't care [06:07.65] [06:08.46]And if you believe that you're the future [06:10.78]Scream it out and say oh yeah oh yeah [06:14.32]Oh yeah oh yeah [06:16.67] [06:17.41]Raah [06:17.91] [06:30.61]Beat street breakdown [06:32.08]Raah [06:32.73] [06:40.69]Hip hop