Poor Righteous Dreams-Blue Sky Black Death

[ti:Poor Righteous Dreams] [ar:Blue Sky Black Death] [al:Razah's Ladder] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Poor Righteous Dreams - Blue Sky Black Death [00:01.59]Nah nah son [00:02.38] [00:03.99]You ain't really gotta go out there [00:05.01]And kill them man [00:05.71] [00:06.97]Give me the gun [00:07.59]Lemme talk to you for a minute [00:08.75]Gimme the gun sit down [00:09.65]Lemme talk to you [00:10.65] [00:11.20]I see your destiny revealed [00:12.52]Looking through my windshield [00:13.87]A little child running wild [00:15.24]Since Curtis Mayfield [00:16.52]A lot of homies got killed [00:17.96]Over bagging up crills [00:19.49]Moms stressed out for real [00:20.81]When she adding the bills [00:22.18]I get chills from the pain [00:23.66]Every time that I kneel [00:25.08]Now my head is saying prayer [00:26.48]For the rest of Israel [00:27.81]Ever since crack came [00:29.01]Leaving the projects lame [00:30.47]'Cause we never did invest [00:31.72]In no money we made [00:33.20]It's just a dead end street [00:34.57]One way to the grave [00:35.96]You see the funeral arrangements [00:37.41]Unlocking the cage [00:38.20] [00:38.73]Some will join FBI start [00:40.54]Dropping them names [00:41.46]We was hustling for who [00:42.98]When they copped their caine [00:44.32]CIA traced Escobar [00:45.96]They wired his plane [00:46.84]They tapped the phone calls of Malcolm [00:48.59]So the '70s changed [00:49.79]We became drugs and guns [00:51.44]With God Body names [00:52.55]Tag graffiti on the walls of trains [00:54.43]Then form into gangs [00:55.45]Now we got old gold wishes [00:56.54]And project dreams [00:57.59]Coke in our genes for all the neighbours [00:59.40]Who done turned into fiends [01:00.77]Some controlled like puppets [01:02.14]On strings but who cares [01:03.65]When you can't get a dollar [01:04.92]From none of your peers [01:06.22]Sit on the stairs with our w**d [01:07.91]And beers with ideas [01:09.09]How to make it out the ghettoes [01:10.46]And rise to millionaires [01:11.43] [01:17.45]I'm a street G but still son [01:18.95]I write it deeply [01:20.15]When I zone like Phillis Wheatley [01:21.63]That's how you greet me [01:22.83]Dead poets give me the motive [01:24.50]If they don't promote it [01:25.65]Stay devoted stay focused [01:26.87]'Til there's plagues and locusts [01:28.40]'Cause you can't buy your soul back [01:29.86]From Lucifer's office [01:30.73] [01:31.24]Tell Bush we about to make the hood [01:33.04]Shoot at his office [01:34.00]His tradition in Skull [01:35.36]And Bones sleeping in coffins [01:36.49] [01:37.24]Like Gogathan [01:38.12]They wanna see me on crosses [01:39.39] [01:40.15]German Pope sold canned abortions [01:42.23] [01:42.78]I slow it down [01:43.60]Sh*t I break it in portions [01:45.08] [01:45.59]You heard right [01:46.51]I ain't speaking in Martian [01:48.04]I'm hood but I'm conscious [01:49.20]Todays that's nonsense [01:50.65]I do this for the slaves [01:51.95]And the brains they washing [01:53.35]Who trained with the marksmen [01:54.69]Who slept on the park bench [01:55.87] [01:56.63]Who hunt men coming out [01:58.07]Their apartments [01:58.91]'Cause too much money [02:00.02]Got him thinking he Clark Kent [02:01.69]Get treated like you dark skin [02:02.93]As soon as you as it's all spent [02:04.68]Got patriotic hoes [02:05.63]And America's yard pimps [02:06.87] [02:07.39]Yo yo I dealt with that crush man [02:09.60]I just do whatever I do [02:10.93]About buildin' in the street [02:12.09]Now we got old gold wishes [02:13.65]And project dreams [02:14.98]Coke in our genes for all the neighbours [02:16.82]Who done turned into fiends [02:18.01]Some controlled like puppets [02:19.41]On strings but who cares [02:20.89]When you can't get a dollar [02:22.22]From none of your peers [02:23.49]Sit on the stairs with our w**d [02:25.00]And beers with ideas [02:26.43]How to make it out the ghettoes [02:27.77]And rise to millionaires [02:29.19]Yo 7th pass me that forty man [02:31.17]Yo man sh*t is crazy man [02:32.77]But that sh*t is [02:33.56]What's sellin' to the youths man [02:34.92]They buildin off that sh*t man [02:36.41]Cause you know people do it [02:37.91]Without no health care [02:39.03]It's like you know what I mean [02:40.12]When you look at it man [02:41.33]There's not enough homes [02:42.36]Like we gon' have homeless people [02:43.93] [02:44.73]And the bastards there buildin' [02:45.89]With billions and billions of dollars [02:48.06]That practically print up the money [02:50.59]You know [02:51.11] [02:52.40]That's why they rule [02:53.28]The real estate property