Ice-T - The tower
Tekst :
I m rollin up in a big gray bus
And I m shackled down
Myself that s who I trust
The minute I arrived
Some sucker got hit
Shanked ten times
Behind some bullshit
Word in the pen the fool was a snitch
So without hesitatin
I made a weapon quick
If found a sharp piece of metal
Taped it to a stick
Then a bullhorn sounds
That means it s time for chow
My first prison meal
The whole feeling was foul
It wasn t quite my style
But my stomach growled
So I flushed the shit down
And hit the weight pile
The brothers was swole
The attitudes was cold
Felt the tension on the yard
From the young and the old
But I m a warrior
I got my ground to hold
So I studied the inmates
To see who hd the power
the Whites? The Blacks?
Or just the gun tower!
In a blink of an eye, a riot broke out
Blacks put their backs to the wall
Cause it was north and south
A gun man shouts
And everybody had doubt
Until the bullets started fly n
Took two men out
Thn they rushed everybody
Back to their cells
Damn the pen is different than
The county jail
I m in a one man cell
I know my life s on a scale
I wonder if that gunman is goin to hell
This is my second day
I got a ten year stay
I learned my first lesson
In the pen you don t plaay
I saw a brother kill another
Cause he said he was gay
But that s the way it is
It been that way for years
and when his body hit the ground
I heard a couple of cheers
It kind of hurt me inside
That they were glad he died
and I ask myself
Just who had the power?
The Whites? The Blacks?
Or just the gun tower!
You see the Whites got a thing
The call White pride
The Blacks got the muscle
Mexicans got the knives
You better be wise
You wanna stay alive
Go toe to toe with a sucka
No matter wht size
A fool tried to sweat me
Act n like he was hard
I stuck him twice in the neck
And left him dead in the yard
It was smooth how I did it
Cause nobody could see
With my jacket on my arm
And my knife on the side of me
Bam bam, it was over
Another one bites the dust
I went crazy in the pen
With nobody to trust
Bench n ten quarters, so I m hard to sweat
Used a tat gun, and engrved my set
They call me a lifer
Cause I m good as dead
I live in the hole, so the floor s my bed
And I ask myself again
Who has the power
The Whites? The Blacks?
Or just the gun tower Inne utwory
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The way she walks
The way she talks
How long I can I pretend
Oh I can´t help it I´m in love
With the girl of my best friend
Her lovely hair her skin so fair
I could go on ´n´ never end
It won t be clean and easy
There s more to carry than a case or two
I come with a history that I won t forget in a life with you
This man s been true to me and I didn t come by him easy...
So much for my happy ending
oh oh, oh oh, oh oh...
Let s talk this over
It s not like we re dead
Was it something I did?
Was it something You said?
Don t leave me hanging
In a city...
Why it is so dark and cold,
Is this a dream or what?
This place is so silent and calm,
I m left alone destined to rot.
I hear them cry above me but why?
I m not dead, suffer from this
Premature burial
Is this my final end?
A slow death by suffocation
Turns my dream into reality
End...
[Red 1]
I m complex from my station, I flex heads like a Hatian
Rockin the mic with solidification
My confederation is the Rascalz
With inspiration, we were movin alien nations
Because all it takes is one bar like Mars
Possessed a spectatin emcee...