Tác giả : Public Enemy
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I came from a place i forgot 
I woke up in a parking lot 
Far from a meal & a cot 
On the corner 
Where all the streets got the same name 
Maybe my brains on the brink of insane 
Pain between the paperswhile sleepin on the train 
This the land of milk and honey 
Know what i'm sayin 
The invisible man times three 
Black, down & out 
Out standing on a corner no doubt 
Now a nation of homeless 
Sleepin in bus stations 
Another win for the pilgrims 
Who said no more haitians 
As i proceed 
Someone to feed me is what i need 
Through three blocks of dealers 
Tryin to hit me off wit weed 
Avenue & boulevard hungry as a m-fucka 
Hope to get a ride from a trucker 
Everybody know i ain't no sucker 
Everyone used to drop 30 at the rucker 
Away from crazy kids in generation wrekked 
Dissin pyramids while praisin projects 
Walk past old folks gettin no respect 
Callin young folks a bunch a no good rejects 
And i walk on 
 
An eye for an eye 
I can't recognize the man in the mirror 
Is it i, it is i now who this cat i'm lookin at 
Cause i've been waiting so long to get where i'm goin 
An for an eye in this country tis of thee 
Now how the hell can i be free 
Who this cat i'm lookin at 
Cause i been lost so long without anybody knowin 
 
So i move on and i walk on 
Past the preachers and the pimps gettin their talk on 
Now why do home gotta be where the negative roam 
To be or not to be - so i roll alone 
I'm trapped within this skin & these bones 
Temporary kings on cellular phones 
Can i last as i walk past 
Cigarette billboards & malt liquor ads 
Walkin on broken bottles & potato chip bags 
Everyone i see got the nerve to brag 
Where they from what they got 
And don't own squat 
Disrespect where they from and ya might get shot 
Zombies askin me what the latest bomb be 
Should shot the fuckin sheriff & the fuckin deputy 
For ok in the drug trade and lettin it be 
But i know prison for me is an industry 
So i walk 
I heard the best things in life be free 
Didn't god make the land the air we breathe 
Not for the homeless don't give a damn about me 
In the mirror somebody else is starin at me 
Maybe prison is the skin i'm within 
All this time i been sufferin can't fix it wit a bufferin 
Plus they said i'll never work in this town again 
Damn so i keep on walkin 
 
An eye for an eye 
I can't recognize the man in the mirror 
Is it i, it is i now who this cat i'm lookin at 
Cause i've been waiting so long to get where i'm goin 
An for an eye in this country tis of thee 
Now how the hell can i be free 
Who this cat i'm lookin at 
Cause i been lost so long without anybody knowin 
 
Lil day day is big day and just did time 
Seen him standin on the unemployment line 
Which collided wit the line of the health clinic 
I seen crazy stacy her ass standin up in it 
No more welfare cut her medicaid 
Damn my mama used to do her braids 
I keep walkin so they don't see me 
But i doubt if they doin any better than me 
So i walk on never take the planet for granted 
I paved the concrete, asphalt & granite 
I walk past 3 brothers sittin on the porch 
Wit a yard of dirt and littered wit newports 
Talkin how they comin up while they sittin on their ass 
As i walk past em i'm a target of their laughs 
And one said lets get em for his fuckin stash 
As i walked fast past the other yards wit grass 
Had a lil cash tried to make it last 
From a few deals i made from cleanin windshields 
I ran like a rally they caught me in an alley 
Can't get out the ghetto from new york to cali 
I thought i had nuthin till i felt the knife 
And now i ain't even got a life