Just Don't Learn-Brand Nubian

[ti:Just Don't Learn] [ar:Brand Nubian] [al:Who Wanna Be A Star? (It's Brand Nu Baby!) (12")] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Just Don't Learn - Brand Nubian (努比亚合唱团) [00:22.98]We dealin with death in abundance [00:24.88] [00:25.57]Dirty guns and the pungent smell of those who fell [00:29.16]Bodies like commodoties ready to sell [00:31.56] [00:32.28]Take you around the world for a hundred dollars [00:34.38] [00:34.93]Meanwhile a little baby hollers [00:36.43] [00:37.24]Hopin that she doesn't follow in her mother's footsteps [00:39.52] [00:40.11]Of drugs and sex every day [00:42.26]More thugs to arrest [00:43.32]And today could be the day [00:44.86]You catch a slug in your chest [00:46.33]Funny thing about life [00:47.91]Nobody gets out alive [00:49.50]The trick is to see how long you can survive [00:52.42]We deprived of our basic needs [00:53.88]Sufferin at the hands of a racist greed [00:56.82] [00:57.39]In the black woman's where I place my seed [00:59.75] [01:00.37]When they grow will they know [01:01.65]That I tried to make it better for them [01:03.85]Will I be dead or inside of a federal pen [01:06.28]Niggaz just don't learn [01:07.84]Niggaz just won't learn [01:09.61]As we walk through the valley of dry bones [01:11.89]Death from New York to Cali [01:13.95]The sh*t hits homes [01:15.13]Niggaz with 40 calibers that'll split ya bone [01:17.84]Other niggaz with silencers [01:19.21]With gats that's chrome [01:20.90]It seems the violence only escalates I'm concerned [01:23.78]When the slug penetrate your flesh see it burn [01:26.52]Livin with the constant threat [01:28.30]That it could be yo' turn [01:29.67]Niggaz just don't learn [01:30.95]Niggaz just won't learn [01:32.28]On 8th Ave keep bouncin in the Mave' [01:35.51]He don't even know the type of problems he gon' have [01:38.71]He facin obstacles greed [01:40.25]It's the large city need [01:42.06]Remember when he ain't smoke w**d [01:44.10]Jail hold's raw spittin seed [01:46.51]In the Polo Grounds [01:48.38]In 89 we dodged steed [01:50.04]All the slaves ain't freed [01:52.17]Make him the captain muh'f**ker we'll lead [01:54.97]Shoot him in the chest muh'f**ker will bleed [01:57.85]Cause way he's goin he's gon' need God-speed [02:00.74]I seen a man die gettin shot in the eye [02:04.54]And then leave this earth with a sigh [02:07.83]I wish I had a dollar for every funeral parlor [02:10.30]That I been to and I ain't tryin to end to [02:12.84]I've been a friend to a lot of dead niggaz [02:15.52]With multiple gunshots [02:16.61]Niggaz used to run spots [02:18.16] [02:18.96]As we walk through the valley of dry bones [02:21.33]Death from New York to Cali [02:23.31]The sh*t hits homes [02:24.65]Niggaz with 40 calibers [02:25.93]That'll split ya bone [02:27.44]Other niggaz with silencers [02:28.72]With gats that's chrome [02:30.39]It seems the violence only escalates I'm concerned [02:33.34]When the slug penetrate your flesh see it burn [02:36.04]Livin with the constant threat [02:37.70]That it could be yo' turn [02:39.16]Niggaz just don't learn niggaz just won't learn [02:41.85]Now little shorties don't have a chance [02:43.88]Cause hard times be comin down like a avalanche [02:46.65]We play the streets until we carried on a ambulance [02:49.54]Day by day we be the victims of the circumstance [02:52.59]See the poison has us movin at a steady flow [02:55.26]It filters through your radio and your video [02:57.78] [02:58.40]You ever once stop to think and wonder why it's so [03:01.35]We don't know [03:02.27]Cause we blinded by the fog of 'dro [03:04.23]So we let it go [03:05.53]We dedicate our whole careers to save our dyin nation [03:08.57]Cause what we facin is the process of elimination [03:11.24]So busy chasin that our history begins erasin [03:13.58] [03:14.37]A savage nation that is headin for anihilation [03:16.72] [03:17.34]Time out - put the killin to a drought [03:19.68]And shorty stop runnin [03:21.13]Around puttin all them dicks in yo' mouth [03:22.78]I be concerned cause we burn baby burn [03:25.91]And we just don't learn [03:27.33] [03:28.61]As we walk through the valley of dry bones [03:31.04]Death from New York to Cali [03:32.73]The sh*t hits homes [03:34.04]Niggaz with 40 calibers [03:35.42]That'll split ya bone [03:36.85]Other niggaz with silencers [03:38.33]With gats that's chrome [03:39.94]It seems the violence only escalates I'm concerned [03:42.68]When the slug penetrate your flesh see it burn [03:45.54]Livin with the constant threat [03:47.21]That it could be yo' turn [03:48.57]Niggaz just don't learn niggaz just won't learn [03:51.28] [03:51.96]As we walk through the valley of dry bones [03:54.15]Death from New York to Cali [03:56.08]The sh*t hits homes [03:57.20]Niggaz with 40 calibers [03:58.49]That'll split ya bone [03:59.98]Other niggaz with silencers [04:01.32]With gats that's chrome [04:02.96]It seems the violence only escalates I'm concerned [04:05.87]When the slug penetrate your flesh see it burn [04:08.69]Livin with the constant threat [04:10.30]That it could be yo' turn [04:11.77]Niggaz just don't learn niggaz just won't learn