Guns Are Drawn-The Roots

[ti:] [ar:The Roots] [al:The Tipping Point] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.88]Guns Are Drawn - The Roots [00:02.87]Written by：Anthony Tid [00:04.26] [00:11.45]Tell me how you feel when you sing a song oh [00:14.02] [00:16.51]Tell me what you do when the guns are drawn [00:18.56] [00:21.46]Hey little one you can't knock us all all [00:24.67] [00:26.39]Tell me what you do when the guns are drawn [00:28.44] [00:32.83]Yeah it would be cool it could be too [00:35.16]Stop running round in circles off of what we fuel [00:37.52]Living a lie eventually believing it's true [00:40.05]A lot of people here for us one could be you [00:42.58]It's outrageous and they just ain't nothing but save us [00:45.20]An ocean of brown fists in various flavors [00:47.67]A favor for a favor man this is the majors [00:49.95] [00:50.47]Tell me what you would do with no phone or pagers [00:53.22]No kinko's no Fed Ex and no ATM's [00:55.27]What you gon' do when the police state begins [00:57.82]Well it already began but I guess it depends [01:00.19]On what's really going on what's happening huh [01:03.13]Military target practicing [01:04.45]They finna write another Patriot Act again [01:06.34] [01:07.06]The days is short the nights is long the fight goes on [01:10.62]The pistol and the pipes are drawn c'mon [01:13.03]The middle of the night [01:14.32]We fight like barbarians in sight [01:15.66] [01:16.87]Of the former might [01:17.97] [01:20.83]You might think that it's a waste of our time [01:23.81] [01:24.38]And I think you would be right [01:27.27] [01:28.03]Till he drop that rhyme [01:29.36] [01:30.95]The middle of the night [01:33.04]We fight like barbarians in sight [01:36.91] [01:37.49]Of the former might [01:39.28] [01:40.56]You might think that it's a waste of our time [01:44.70] [01:45.41]And I think you would be right [01:47.67] [01:48.17]Till he drop that rhyme [01:49.85] [01:51.96]Uh and some might say that it's a waste of time [01:54.86]Cause ain't no amount of dancing finna break the bondage [01:57.36]We go to war and transcend space and time [01:59.58]When every record ain't a record just to shake behinds [02:02.12]You know the stakes is high we in the face of drama [02:05.00]That's why we can't shake it or escape the problem [02:07.47]It's like a game of roulette the barrel revolving [02:09.94]They only want to see us occupying a coffin [02:12.34]Mothers crying too often from they lost child leaving [02:14.63]From trying to get over get under get even [02:17.09]Get inside getting getting dumped getting greedy [02:18.96]We got to get it right it's not about to be easy c'mon [02:22.16]You best to pull your goggles up it's about to get greasy [02:25.48]Believe it's on as long as we can still speak freely [02:28.10]The pages of my life will make it hard to free me [02:30.76]I know my people hearing me holler if y'all believe me word [02:33.73]The middle of the night [02:35.28]We fight like barbarians in sight [02:37.75]Of the former might [02:38.95] [02:39.84]You might think that it's a waste of our time [02:44.19] [02:44.75]And I think you would be right [02:47.58]Till he drop that rhyme [02:48.87] [02:50.03]The middle of the night [02:52.67]We fight like barbarians in sight [02:56.47] [02:57.14]Of the former might [02:58.74] [02:59.73]You might think that it's a waste of our time [03:03.88] [03:04.52]And I think you would be right [03:07.17]Till he drop that rhyme [04:34.65]