When They Start... That 1997 Uptop Shit
[Verse 1]
I feel as though I'm ancient
Transversing through stages
Trying to grasp the gravity of life shielding you from storms facing
But being a perceptive child it’s time to knowledge truth
For you represent the base of the tree
I symbolize the root
In a world of smokescreens we impact everything
But often left powerless to control
So as you embark on your journey away remember the voyage home to your birth village
Where we long abandoned our wisdom
To navigate the treacherous path from earth ending or quell the anger and resentments toward our women
From the highest state of consciousness we fell into a diabolical game of life that's rigged from the beginning
Where few men who wanted change didn’t have the power and those who had the power to change the situation didn’t
Seeing the unseen
The story of an unknown generational being
Your pops is a production of environmental misery
Yet seeking the truth is every intelligent man's responsibility
To pass down the foundation of guidance 'cuz yours is a stolen legacy
Where we teach strength to those who lost their will
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When we start the revolution all they'll probably do is squeal
Start the revolution

[Chorus]
A lot of these thugs is ostriches who quick to bury their head than deal
Jah willing I’ll be there to consult you when you find yourself alone on the battlefield

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Niggas know the deal
When we start the revolution all they'll probably do is squeal

[Verse 2]
How do I begin this history lesson
How do I teach my seed the government considers him opposition
Targeted with entrapment for slave labor in a prison
If they consider him a threat Lord knows they try to kill him
But he must know about Tuskegee syphilis injections and how scientists turn vaccine into bio-weapons
I'm out here trying to make sense of the time
When you much too young to know the definition of genocide or how they lied about thirty million people on the continent of Africa getting aids from a monkey bite
We dealing with statistics the size of the entire US black population
Every man woman and child killed

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When we start the revolution all they'll probably do is squeal
Start the revolution
They sleepwalkers
They sleepwalking
We call 'em sleepwalkers

[Verse 3]
The greatest killing machine ever of all time was a silent weapon
When it was applied gradually people learned to tolerate and adjust to its presence
A killing machine so perfect at first they couldn’t intellectualize it therefore they were afraid to ask any questions
But understand this:
Jah makes no perfect weapons
You will no longer be able to control us through suppression
The poor are getting hungry and our ribs are showing
What was seemingly impossible to move mountains is now possible to remove mountains with high explosives
I’ll turn your NWO into a rubble pile
Lord please forgive me for as much heat as I've been through for raising a warrior child