Songtexte The Message - Declaime feat. Ms. One

I've seen .357's, I've seen 12 gauge shot guns
I've seen 12 gauge on pumps, eight shooters
I've seen 45 on military special with clip on the street
I've seen

Chemtrails everywhere
People killing other people like they just don't care
Can't take the hate, can't take the pain
Martial law by force, I guess I got no choice
Armies in your front door, marines in the back
While my brother selling out for chains and Cadillacs
Tried to get away but I couldn't get far
'Cause the guy at the border possessed my card
So don't push me 'cause I'm close to the ledge, yeah
I'm trying not to lose my knowledge, ah-ha-ha-ha-ha
It's like a struggle sometimes, it makes me wonder
What created lightning and the thunder
It's like a struggle sometimes, it makes me wonder
What created lightning and the thunder

Hang-hanging on the front porch, looking out the window
Watching all the cops go by, shoot a young black negro
Homeless lady living out a bag
Eating food out a dumpster, even make a rat gag
Used to dance all up in the rain
Now she dances just to make it rain
The black princess seems to lost her senses, just lost her brain
Up in the strip club, tricking off strippers
So she could tell her story to her man back home
She went to the city, put on welfare, all alone
Still not grown, will the poor girl ever make it on her own?

So don't push her 'cause she's close to the ledge
She's not trying to lose her knowledge, ah-ha-ha-ha-ha
It's like a struggle sometimes, it makes me wonder
What created lightning and the thunder
It's like a struggle sometimes, it makes me wonder
What created lightning and the thunder, thunder

My little son's bad, watching all that TV
I say "Dude, you watch too much, it's really not healthy"
Door-to-door in the daytime, Adventure Time at night
Can't even watch the U.S. versus every country fight
Tax man ringing on my cell phone
Scare my kids when I'm not alone
Huh, fake education, crossroads initiation
No more jobs, hit the streets, did a strike on Wall Street
Money on my back, back while I'm hanging on the backstreets
Don't look, turn around, got you in range
Let off a single round, police is insane
I might just hijack a plane

So don't push me 'cause I'm close to the ledge, hmm
I'm trying not to lose my knowledge, ah-ha-ha-ha-ha
It's like a struggle sometimes, it makes me wonder
What created lightning and the thunder, thunder
It's like a struggle sometimes, it makes me wonder
What created lightning and the thunder, thunder

My son say "Pops, too grown to go to school"
The teachers, uh-huh, she must think I'm a chump
Better watch your mouth before a little blood's dumped
And all the homies smoke stress 'cause it's cheaper than crack
Why we clean out like that?
Shuffle slave feet, sag my pants
Tilt my snapback and roll with my niggas

'Cause it's all about money, your own fam act funny
You gotta get celebrity from acting like a dummy
Made another diva take her clothes off again
Took the child to Betty Ford when they found her cocaine
Rap legend's heart came to a halt
Got his mind together, plus a brand new start
I can't walk through the park, and someone's home after dark
And they need they peace, keep a gun for police
Feel like an outlaw, broke my last pickled funky glass jar
Wishing up on each and every last star

So don't push me 'cause I'm close to the ledge, yeah
I'm trying not to lose my knowledge, ah-ha-ha-ha-ha
It's like a struggle sometimes, it makes me wonder
What created lightning and the thunder
It's like a struggle sometimes, it makes me wonder
What created lightning and the thunder

A child is born, always defined
Doped up from the drugs they threw down mama's spine
Got her smiling on ya, still frowning on ya
Only God knows what you'll meet 'round the corner
Planet is a ghetto from the shit that they spray
Weather thrown wherever creates hopeless states
Places where we playing, where we stay
Compare it all to nature and it's hella far away
Admiring the ballers, the book takers
Pimp narratives, pushing chariots, the uncreatives
Making new laws, killing folks and they friends
And then it's Entertainment Tonight on CNN
Spin doctors, pickpocket politicians
Oil mavericks raping land for they addictions like
Nah, the pilgrims wasn't really that cool
But they teach the same lies they taught at my school
Get self-employed, involve our choice
Walking around like we lost our voice
Got to pick up the kids, ain't got to be rich
'Fore they get sent to prison for what they ain't did
America's took, free speech and Maytag
Guantanamo CEOs is undercover fags
Hypnotized, power tripping off the pain that they dealt
Guilty, shower, couldn't shake the smell
Former head of opps resigned, was so lost
Shameful institutes be wanting true Black gold to rot
Our eyes is open to an unjust song
And how we fought to the last and we died so wrong
Don't push

Don't push her 'cause she's close to the ledge
She's not trying to lose her knowledge, ah-ha-ha-ha-ha
It's like a struggle sometimes, it makes me wonder
What created lightning and the thunder

I've seen hand grenades
I've seen beer can, beer can bazookas made
Damn things hit you just, just as getting hit with a gun
I've seen .22 zip guns, I've seen .38 zip guns
I've seen, I'll tell you
There's about things that you think
You'll never see on the street, I've seen
I've seen dynamite on the street
I've seen all of this
You'd be surprised, man
Pretty soon they're gonna steal the damn atom bomb