I call you when I need to roll one Ayy, Ben, I always call you when I need a hit, man You call me when you need to hold something You only call me when you need a loan And I'm only talkin' murder on my other phone She be right here like she 'pposed to

I was walking round in Paris Near the (inaudible) Zanzibar Said the woman at the front door "Do you know the place you are? This place is from the fancy I don't think you fit the scene You're just an American Black boy I'm a French African Queen" And she

America, America And the red man is right, to expect a little from you And my brothers are all black and white, yellow too Promise and then follow through, America Well I come from, down around Tennessee But the people in California Are nice to me,

Sail to you I sail to you Now there is this place With so much space It's at the bottom of the world So it lay unspoiled Wind and rain, hurricane And the black man reigned Till the white man came

Pile the bodies Set them aflame The human race Sentenced to burn Warfare begins Cities are ablaze Tortured screams Skin turning black Carbonization

The love I feel as I fly endlessly through space Lost in time I wonder will my ship be found Astral engines in reverse I'm falling through the universe again Down among a dead mans vision Faded dreams and nuclear fissions span The strings of fear they

Hey, hey, mama, what's the matter here Hey, hey, mama, what is wrong with you You didn't have to tell me that you love me so You didn't have to crucify me like you did You didn't have to tell me I was just your kid Hey, hey, mama, what's the matter here

How much longer are you gonna pay For yesterday Sins of the father One more cross to bear Go on lose it in the city I am the crazy man Who lives inside your head But I think I'm breaking through the wall You are the innocent

Let your soul glow Jesus, black Jesus I been feeling so down I think they should know now I think they should know what's up That's that road I been down I know how it go down I know how it go now, what's up

They got me trapped (Uh uh, they can't keep the black man down) (Naw, they can't keep the black man down) You know they got me trapped in this prison of seclusion Happiness, living on the streets is a delusion Even a smooth criminal one day must get