Victim-GZA/Genius

[ti:Victim] [ar:GZA/Genius] [al:Beneath The Surface] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.34]Victim - GZA/Genius [00:01.36]Written by：GZA/Genius/Gary Grice/Sulayman Ansari/Kristal Moss [00:03.42] [00:08.66]Just another victim of the [00:12.83] [00:13.52]Victim of the ghetto [00:17.44] [00:19.86]Just another victim [00:24.74]That's how it goes ooh [00:30.25] [00:31.81]Heavy foot traffic jam the hallway all day [00:34.93]Adolescence workin' for small pay [00:37.06]World so little [00:37.90]He could never leave his block [00:39.58]His home full of riddle [00:40.77]So he always need his glock [00:42.42]He coast with his eye open [00:44.13]Keep his metal smokin [00:45.78]Young wasted minds [00:46.84]Fiendin' on dimes cokin [00:48.41]Forgot kids quick to break rules [00:50.14]And known to make fools [00:51.47]Out of many down the streets be more safe than school [00:54.21]There's no diploma [00:55.22]That can break him from the coma [00:56.99]A bloody war in the country [00:58.86]The youth hungry [00:59.85]On the corner [01:00.82]Hyenas amongst me [01:02.61]Yabbin' bout the stories [01:03.95]They be hearin' always swearin [01:05.61]Can't even spell the sh*t that he be wearin [01:08.29]Caught up in the silk web of material [01:10.98]Superficial stains ya brain tissue [01:12.82]That's the issue [01:13.59] [01:14.19]The young is lost at their own cost dreamin [01:16.73]Screamin' how we never hold positions [01:18.61]That's the meanin [01:19.52]Brothers of murder victims share the same grief [01:22.34]The elderly shake their head in disbelief [01:25.08]And no relief came till I aimed [01:27.46]And blast one shot and left my name [01:30.32]The GZA [01:30.74] [01:32.92]Just another victim of the [01:36.99] [01:37.75]Victim of the ghetto [01:41.61] [01:44.01]Just another victim [01:48.98]That's how it goes ooh [01:54.33] [01:55.64]My residence is a city where army veterans smoke rocks [01:58.98]On torn down blocks [01:59.98]Drug spots set out their shops [02:01.53]And cops watch [02:02.36]Innocent niggaz roam in flocks [02:04.12]Romanism in tops [02:05.30]Papers and knots [02:06.05]Churches and liquor stores on every corner plot [02:08.37]To get money not [02:09.55]Some funny niggaz act like they could pop glocks and those who can't cop [02:12.55]Sisters givin' up ass a lot [02:13.97]Brothers givin' up cash a lot [02:15.38]They be strugglin' to become someone because their parents not [02:18.22]Just another victim of the ghetto [02:19.97]Where lost minds settle [02:21.35]When the devil uncivils society and die free [02:23.88]With double w followed by JD around the necks [02:26.89]And wrists the god is now a dog [02:28.42]The earth is called a b**ch [02:29.48]And all my people wish to get rich in this wilderness [02:31.59]To push a lexus [02:32.54]Ice on everythin' from rings and braclets to the necklaces [02:35.27]Children molested within these pest infested buildins [02:37.94]Thieves uneducated in these schools [02:39.77]Paint on the ceilins [02:40.73]Peelin' off [02:41.48]But all I see is lost black babies callin [02:43.79]Please somebody save me [02:45.16]Please somebody save me [02:45.98]Just another victim of the [02:49.86] [02:50.64]Victim of the ghetto [02:54.59] [02:56.90]Just another victim [03:01.34] [03:01.88]That's how it goes ooh [03:07.60] [03:08.26]Just another victim of the [03:12.41] [03:13.07]Victim of the ghetto [03:17.15] [03:19.44]Just another victim [03:24.30]That's how it goes ooh [03:30.02] [03:30.70]Just another [03:32.12] [03:36.26]Just another [03:37.74] [03:41.16]Victim of the ghetto