A Better Tomorrow (Explicit)

A Better Tomorrow - Wu Tang Clan
Yo  this goes for all my brothers and sisters locked down
For all my peoples incarcerated  for those who ain't make it
Yo  in the housing  thousands seen early graves
Victims of wordily ways  memories stays engraved
All my live brothers  is locked down with high numbers
The young hunger  blind to these lies  they die younger
In this New World the Order slaughter men  women and children
Ten feet gates surround the building keep us sealed in
The projects  lifeless like a Vietnam vet
Constant war  sever threats of enemy conquest
Crooked cops comb my building complex that's in the rumble
Streets are like a jungle  can't let my cypher crumble
Vivid thoughts  Devils resort to trick knowledge
They kick garbage  lust for chicks and quick dollars
I know the pain the game bring  I did the same thing
Spaced out in the staircase  performing a sting
It's hard to keep control  I bless those who seek a scroll
Trying to reach a whole nation and break the sleeper hold
Not a role model  I walk a hard role to follow
I sold bottles of sorrow then chose poems and novels
The gospel was told  some souls it swallowed whole
Mentally they fold and they eventually sold
Their life and times  deadly like the virus design
But too  minute to dilute  the science is mine
You can't party your life away
Drink your life away
Smoke your life away
F**k your life away
Dream your life away
Scheme your life away
'Cause your seeds
Grow up the same way
A voice cries from the wilderness of the North
A representation of the families that lost one
All victims of incarceration
Or other divisions of the family structure
Youths are injected with serums that leads
To skin irritations  babies being born with
Disfigurations  experimentations
On their faces there bear world relations
Of mothers that carry the pain
Of blood stained streets where sisters mourn and wail
Big brothers been slain from hails of gun fire
It lightly begins to rain screams of terror
Are hidden by the passing trains
This can't be little Shane  his uncle cried
As he drops to his nephew's side  holding his cane
Just give me a name  of who has inflicted this
Bitter sickness and left us to witness
Yeah  yo
Curses from war  innocent blood spills for days
Soothe in Godly ways  hands  solemn in praise
Tree of life  more precious than Wu is golden game
The wise self flourish inherit  Halls of Fame
Crime visions in my blood got me  locked in prison
While we die hard living people whine about religion  vision
Blow  spin and sin and killing what's revealing
It's a never ending battle with no ending or beginning  listen
Zero process  progress  become the hunted
America's most wanted  good life flaunted  want it
Some love the speed  some satisfy a need
Some want to be down  young gun seed  jungle breed
The stronger speed  someone die  someone bleed
One flew astray and then caught my little seed
Can it be  the ice have us trife life  made me grab the knife
The righteous man would be within these stripes pipes
Take in my energy  breath and know the rest
'Cause the good die young and the hard die best
You can't party your life away
Drink your life away
Smoke your life away
F**k your life away
Dream your life away  scheme your life away
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
Y'all b**ches love dances and pulling down your pants
While your man's on tour  your spending up his advances
Your friends ain't sh*t  all they do is drink  smoke and suck dick
The whole projects is trapped in stench
You either high school drop-outs  one to three cop-outs
Fifteen years old  shorty a** and top out
Ninety-nine cent beer drinking p**sy stinking
F**king so much your a** and titties start shrinking
New World Order slave trade  minimum wage  better cage
Can a devil fool a Muslim nowadays
Inside my lab  I'm going mad
Took two drags off the blunts and started breaking down the flag
The blue is for the Creeps  the red is for the Bloods
The whites for the cops and the stars come from the clubs
Or the slugs that ignites through the night by the dawn
Early light  why is sons fighting for the stripe
As we dwell through this concrete hell  calling it home
Mama say  take your time young man and build your own
Don't wind up like your old dad
Still searching for them glory days he never had
So many bad want to scheme for American dream  no more kings
The cash rule everything now  we going down
These babies looking up to us  it's up to us
The Million Man March MC's  get on the bus
But envy  greed  lust and hate  separate
Though the devil mind state blood kin cannot relate
No longer  brothers  we unstable
Like Kane when he slew Abel  killing each other
You can't party your life away
Drink your life away
Smoke your life away
F**k your life away
Dream your life away  scheme your life away
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way
'Cause your seeds grow up the same way