WAR IN THE CITY

[christophersclaybo]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------This here is a hip-hop song I wrote and copyrighted back in 2000.WAR IN THE CITYVERSE 1:Got no need’a scorchin’ sun in the slums: it’s already hell! Inhaled will smolder in the meth lab in the parents they’re cutting’ cocaine on a mirror! The children will cry! Many starve! Some will die! WORSE YET they’ll end up like him: sticking needles in their skin: like their men who hit on the women. Growing UP in the streets but gettin’ DOWN with all the gangs!The blight of city life: is built from in the soul within and there shall be no peace nowhere if there be no peace deep within!…The price of a dime: it can always buy a good time. It will never buy peace of mind.CHORUS:In the distance, LISTEN! Sirens scream out! IT’S WAR IN THE CITY! …Why do we keep talking about peace when we don’t really know what real peace really means?THERE’S WAR IN THE CITY! … … …VERSE 2:I’m a P.O.W. free to get a living in my city! I'm a face without a name. I step out into the crowds! Desegregated the races! DIVIDED we stand. Heaven, help me should I FALL beneath the feet of this people! Busy cutting down one another their brothers to make their money! FEEL the hustle and bustle! People running to their lives!They’re speeding up and down the freeways. To the highways down the byways on the sidewalks. Got no calm in the chaos!People shopping in the malls at night they’re dancing in the halls where they can see all the GRAFFITI on the walls!The strife of city life is built from in the soul within and there shall be no peace nowhere if there be no peace deep within!…The price of a dime: it can always buy a good time. It will never buy peace of mind.CHORUS:In the distance, LISTEN! The traffic gets jammed! IT'S WAR IN THE CITY!Someday we may reach the peace. HA! The day when we reach the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.There’s WAR IN THE CITY!VERSE 3:Wishing to forget the day the joyous singing of the birds could no longer drown out the sounds of the chain saws and bulldozers beyond the countryside…My spirit lingers behind in another time another place when I kept the faith and where I felt the love, where everyone lived in peace…!The plight of city life is built from in the soul within and there shall be no peace nowhere if there be no peace deep within!…The price of a dime: it can always buy a good time. It will never buy peace of mind.CHORUS:In the distance, LISTEN! Gunshots ring out! IT’S WAR IN THE CITY! …Sometimes it is right to fight to keep the peace, but then it is really peace?There's WAR IN THE CITY!

[wrdsnmuzik]

Do you have a recording of this? If so, link please!Otherwise, it kinda belongs in the Lyric Lovers area.

[zingstone]

Yeah, we wanna hear the song!