Yo, it ain't no game
Listen up
Do you see what I see?
Look into the mirror, everything's a wreck
If you don't see it, check the news
Coming from a ghetto block
And how life is tracked, seven days around the clock
New York to L.A., back to Brooklyn
Hear the bop, bop, bop
See the young girls hooking, trying to survive
It's what kids die for
Peace to Crips and bloods in the street, Lord
To most of the masses, so it really doesn't matter
As long as on the football, and the bloods don't splatter
But a person is a person, we all feel pain
And it's getting kind of hectic
Feeling home and getting straight
In my head, I'm rolling with the Grim Reaper
We keep digging holes, and they're getting much deeper
Stop the violence, with no more silence
You want a real peace, gots to kill the tyrants
It ain't no game
If you really want change
Like Flashmaster, KRS-One, I'm thinking long range
Movies? Nah, it ain't no sequel
Adore is in the house to give some power to the peace
From the concrete, there's no surrender, no retreat
Slam the child on a hard concrete
From the concrete, there's no surrender, no retreat
Slam the child on a hard concrete
From the concrete, I'll jump to my feet high
Because I'm speaking on the real, not the retreat
On the holidays, about the everyday struggle
Ain't talking about the suburbs, gee, that's about the jungle
Bricks and stone, it's shorties alone
Because the people gots to hustle, to hold their own
Where day to day life brings suits and ladders
Few move on, and much blood scatters on the pavement
It's due to mental enslavement
Most won't admit this, but I can debate it
You take a man who's another man from another land
Put into a world not made for him to understand
What's now a criminal figure
See, it's hard to keep a job, gotta live by the trigger
And even those who do devote to education
Move on, move on, but check the complication
Four years, wanna finish a mission
After three, they wanna raise your tuition
Cut back the eight to build a bigger grenade
But for too long, too hard, the people have paid
But this ain't a song here to make excuses
Cause someone out there, the individual chooses
The road to follow, but the road is hard
Because the child is born, already scarred
From the concrete, there's no surrender, no retreat
From the concrete, there's no surrender, no retreat
From the concrete, there's no surrender, no retreat
A person is a person, opinion is a view
Do what you want, do what you want to
Never discriminate, cause when you do, you create tension
Tryna work it out, it's time for one to mention
Instead of building walls, it's time to build a big bridge
For all kinds to walk in, to help the young kids
Cause they hold the key to preserve our future
No moment of silence, I get a beef, I won't shoot ya
Form your hands, unless you do this in a man's world
It's not worth your life, yo my brother, can't you understand
Dumb ass on beat, crying out your pops guess drunk
Coz you got sent back, cos you didn't play the pump
It's not worthwhile and it's not the cool style
You'll never see another day, you'll never walk another mile
I hope one day, people get it right
From the A. to the D.O. to the R. inside
From the concrete, there's no surrender, no retreat
From the concrete, there's no surrender, no retreat
I'm from the concrete, there's no surrender, no retreat
From the concrete, there's no surrender, no retreat
No surrender, no retreat, I'm from the concrete
There's no surrender, no retreat
Slaying the child on all concrete
Yeah, and I want to dedicate this
To all the children in the struggle
Work on, move on
Move on, move on
Yeah
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