They believed that they were free but in reality they were trapped by their own selfish and greedy desires. American society was not going forward; it was taking people backwards. They were becoming isolated beings driven by primitive animal forces.
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Trapped on Earth, yeah that’s our predicament Ask what it’s worth, now shit if your position is the path to burn Listen to us initiative Blast to burn only if it’s living dividends
Trapped on Earth, yeah that’s our predicament Ask what it’s worth, now shit if your position is the path to burn Listen to us initiative Blast to burn only if it’s living dividends
[Verse 1]
Yo Im dangerous, man your battle station, it’s cold war Stand behind bricks like coke lords Stories passed down from the ghettoist folklore And if you ain’t on top yet then smoke more Presidential glitch, who the fuck did we vote for? The man with the hundred brick stash in the boat floor Bush made a war in Iraq now shit’s crazy Known put a shell in your face like Dick Cheney The Ghetto Dick Tracey, I done seen me a lot of shit Trapped on Earth under reign of a communist Waiting for the Planet X to bring the apocalypse Sick of these whack rappers getting monotonous Move through your city like the damage of tidal wave Gave the hammer to the man and told him to pound away We can build empires, move with the cavalry Get knocked the fuck out, see more stars than outerspace
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[Verse 2]
I done seen a lot of shit since the days of my birth From living on this planet, we call it trapped on Earth Backbone verse is what I give you destined to distribute Tribute to hip hop, the real shit always continues Son I keep it real without a record deal, we can build Parlay on the track take a trip to Dr. iLL’s Reminisce about back in the day we wasn’t stressing We ran the streets, choking off trees, the cipher blessing See my life is a lesson, each day’s another pop quiz Watch this, they found my cousin dead inside his whip Why the good die young? Why they murder Big L? Why I walk the streets, no peace, know living Hell? Put my uncles in jail, wrong decisions got him sitting in detention This life we living got us screaming out, “Fuck the system.” Peace to The Snowgoons, peace to the fam Bloodline, ain’t no stopping me now I’m coming out, it’s my time
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[Verse 3]
Uh, we’re coming to the end of our days And the way shit’s going we ain’t far from our graves Yo this really ain’t adding up Sometimes I just want to bag it up Life is ill son, I’ve had enough Kids killing kids, people kill their families People starving in the streets, that’s the reality Now you got that family that’s all about vanity Crazy kids in college don’t want em to work hourly For that same salary we should act cowardly Send another child to war then leave casualties The rich get rich, the poor keep on missing Cause they cut education to further the prison system See we trapped on earth, I’ve been trapped since birth All you fake motherfuckers take your mask off first So I can look you in the eyes before I take you to church Put you right back in the earth, casket and dirt