Children, groovin, women, confusion Then go away, it's time to understand Everyone's got to make a livin Children, groovin, women, confusion Then go away, it's time to understand Everyone's got to make a livin
Nineteen-ninety-two and, you and I were fightin LAPD beatings got the whole world frontin My man Rodney King and the Reginald ?Deeney? You could look for justice but I bet you won't find any
Because people getting beatin, news keep repeatin Chaos and anger, just surely peakin
Yo everybody's runnin, some of them are gunnin Avalanche the block, feel the anger, wantin something 'Cause some of them are frontin They didnt know the reason Emotion in the end made it feel like revolution
And yeah, yeah, you can yell out your brains I tell you right now, we got eight years of chains
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So hurry up because I'm runnin out of clip Runnin out of time Runnin out of clip Runnin out of time Runnin out of clip Runnin out of time Runnin out of clip (What) Runnin out of time
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Nineteen-ninety-seven, reduction of a nation The government is slayin, new laws is what you're facin Next comes the clonin, they're makin new creation Secretly forming soldiers of you and they station
No more free education on former segregation Politics's about affirmative activation
So make a run for the border Caught by the deporter The immigration caught you but you got to leave your daughter We are slowly being slaughtered So be prepared for the new world order
Yeah, yeah, you can yell out your brains I tell you right now, we got eight years of chains
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Year two-thousand, what's it really holdin Or is it really right, live beyond on what you're knowing Or is it that technology is what keeps on going Could it be that the end of time is what I'm showing
I don't see any grass growin Everything's conquered, we're running out of land
And goddamn yo, I'm runnin out of clip I'm almost out of time Runnin out of Damn, I'm almost out of time
We could all try now but just look up in the sky We ain't got no ozone left, we are gonna die Crime and corruption, is the only season Is it 'cause the reason is that we out of time