FEVER 333 - Strength in Numb333rs Album Lyrics

[Instrumental]

For all the homies doin' time, look alive
For every day your mama cried, look alive
When the five-0 arrive, look alive
Everybody look alive, look alive

You ain't ready, uh
Yeah

See we always on the run
'Cause they be chasing us for fun
When the neighbourhood in pieces
They say to pray and look to Jesus
Light a candle with the sun
'Cause we lost another one
Got us pledging our allegiance
To a hand that doesn't feed us
Preach

I got a mouth like Malcolm
And hands just like Ali
Black Panther, white mother
You better not try me
I got a mind like Martin
Visions of Rodney King
My city's on fire

You know sometimes you gotta burn it down
To build it up again
Lights go out in the town we're living in
Burn it down when no-one's innocent
Burn it down

I am a gun on the run
I am a gun on the run
I am a gun on the run

We live behind the lines
That they be keeping us inside
And if red denotes the devil
Then in hell is where we'll settle
If I had to pick a side
It's Inglewood until I die
We the necessary evil
For all these fake angelic people

I got a mouth like Malcolm
And hands just like Ali
Black Panther, white mother
You better not try me
I got a mind like Martin
Visions of Rodney King
My city's on fire

You know sometimes you gotta burn it down
To build it up again
Lights go out in the town we're living in
Burn it down when no-one's innocent
Burn it down

I am a gun on the run

(Fight for survival but we was dead on arrival
So we gon' fight for survival until we)
Put me in front of the gun
(Fight for survival but we was dead on arrival
So we gon' fight for survival until we)
Put me in front of the gun
Oh, bang, bang
Oh, put me in front of the gun
Yeah, okay, yeah

You know sometimes you gotta burn it down
To build it up again
Lights go out in the town we're living in
Burn it down when no-one's innocent
Burn it down

We point our fingers while they point their guns
Bullets, they miss us, we're guns on the run
So burn it down and built it up again
Burn it down

I am a gun on the run
Oh, we still killers
I am a gun on the run
I am a gun on the run

They held me down so long
Got me closed in like an animal
Take it all, please leave nothing for the cannibals

I was born on the outside (where you from?)
94th and 1st down on the south side
See I was there back when the [?] was great
Before these stupid motherf*ckers gave me something to hate
Back when people used to fight
Before the Trojan form of protest wasn't [?]
Yeah, so don't you act like you don't know me or my homies
We the ones who's comin' back for what you owe-

They held me down so long
Got me closed in like an animal
Take it all, please leave nothing for the cannibals
Can't take this from me
(Never gonna break, never gonna break, never gonna-)
Feel the enemy
(Never gonna break, break)
I'm coming at you like an animal
(I never wanted this, [?])
I'm coming at you like an animal
(But they're gonna take, take, take, they're gonna take, take)
I'm coming at you like an animal

Hunt me down from the chase and take me by the neck
Lock me up in a cage and this is what you get
Another hundred in rage and we never forget
So meet me out on the pavement (what the f*ck did you expect?)
We coming back for what is rightfully ours
We fought the streets and flippin' cop cars
Not afraid of my back, not looking up at the stars
Still ain't afraid to catch a charge

They held me down so long
Got me closed in like an animal
Take it all, please leave nothing for the cannibals
Can't take this from me
(Never gonna break, never gonna break, never gonna-)
Feel the enemy
(Never gonna break, break)
I'm coming at you like an animal

Coming for you like an animal
(I'ma take that yeah I'ma take that)
(Cause we deserve it yeah we deserve it)

They held me down so long
Got me closed in like an animal
Take it all, please leave nothing for the cannibals
Can't take this from me
(Never gonna break, never gonna break, never gonna-)
Feel the enemy
(Never gonna break, break)
I'm coming at you like an animal
(I never wanted this, [?])
I'm coming at you like an animal
(But they're gonna take, take, take, they're gonna take, take)
I'm coming at you like an animal
(I'ma take that yeah I'ma take that)
I'm coming at you like an animal
(Cause we deserve that yeah we deserve that)
I'm coming at you like an animal

You know, we might give birth to a maniac if he's anything like me
Or a baby girl that screams, "F*ck the world", 'cause her mama was wild and free
Then we're gonna raise them up to be dumb enough to fight the powers that be
And then repeat the cycle until they see they own revolution on the TV

If you meet the one with a badge and gun
Just know the bullet is faster than you can run
If you meet the one with a badge and gun
Know the bullet is faster than you can run

Pray for me, prey for me
Pull the trigger, I am the gun
(Click, click, bang, bang)
Pray for me, prey for me
Now I'm on my way to the sun
(Bang, bang)
I would risk the burn so that I can learn
How to be the prodigal one
Pray for me, prey for me
Save me from what I have become

And I am the endgame
I am the endgame
Let's get 'em, let's go, let's go

You industrializing those younger minds
Ain't no liberty in those bells
As you systematically normalize
My baby's personal hell
If history indicates what our people will see
You better get your papers right and hope your skin is light enough
So they'll let you be free

Pray for me, prey for me
Pull the trigger, I am the gun
(Click, click, bang, bang)
Pray for me, prey for me
Now I'm on my way to the sun
(Bang, bang)
I would risk the burn so that I can learn
How to be the prodigal one
Pray for me, prey for me
Save me from what I have become

I am the endgame

And I'ma do my own thing
And I'ma do my own way
I'ma get this, yeah
I am the endgame
Yeah
You know that I am the endgame
Uh
You know that I am the

Pray for me, prey for me
Pull the trigger, I am the gun
Pray for me, prey for me
Now I'm on my way to the sun
(Bang, bang)
I would risk the burn so that I can learn
How to be the prodigal one
Pray for me, prey for me
Save me from what I have become

I am the endgame, hey
I am the endgame
Yes I am

You're not the only one that feels like the only one, see?
You're not the only one that feels like the only one, kick it
You're not the only one that feels like the only one, see?
You're not the only one that feels like the only one

So when you're standing alone in a crowded room
This is the perfect time for the inopportune
We are the best, the worst and everything in between
So let's show them
Watching them stuff themselves using their silver spoons
This is the perfect time for you to sing this tune
You ain't impressed, well let me show you what I mean
Motherf*cker

You're not the only one that feels like the only one, see?
You're not the only one that feels like the only one
Am I the only one? Am I the the only one?
I'm not the only one that feels like the only one
Can't be the only one, can't be the only one
Can't be the only one that feels like I'm f*cked

So do you really wanna know how I feel?
Have you been waiting for that big reveal?
Oh do you really wanna know how I feel?
Have you been waiting for that big reveal?

You're not the only one that feels like the only one, see?
You're not the only one that feels like the only one, kick it
Am I the only one? Am I the the only one?
I'm not the only one that feels like the only one
Can't be the only one, can't be the only one
Can't be the only one that feels like I'm f*cked

You are the minority
We are the majority
F*ck your lies and f*ck your greed
We are the majority
(Shouts out to the wunderkind)
You are the minority
(Shouts out to my family)
We are the majority
(Shouts out to my family)
F*ck your lies and f*ck your greed
(Shouts out to the motherf*ckin' majority)
We are the majority
Yeah, f*ck
Yo, stand up or die
Stand up or die on your knees

Another policy, yeah, to keep you on your knees
Another one in jail, another young black male, he kinda look like me
A law you did not make is gonna seal your fate
Like you had no voice, like you got no choice, but we the remedy

In the lies we trust (You know that we trust)
To survive we must (You know that we must)
'Cause now you're one of us
They gon' cut you down (They're cutting you down)
If you speak too much (If you speak too much, boy)
'Cause now you're one of us

So what did you expect from us?
So what did you expect?

They gotta isolate, they gotta segregate this
Just to keep us down, to keep us broken down, to keep us on the streets
Another body laying on the floor now
Tell everybody they better take their tone out
When talking about it, and everything they saw
No justice, no peace, we at war with the law

In the lies we trust (You know that we trust)
To survive we must (You know that we must)
'Cause now you're one of us (You're one of us)
They gon' cut you down (They will cut you down)
If you speak too much (If you speak too much, boy)
'Cause now you're one of us

Stand up or die on your knees
Stand up or die on your knees
Stand up or die on your knees
Stand up or die on your knees, get up
Stand up or die on your knees, get up
Stand up or f*cking die on your knees
Stand up or die on your knees (Yeah)
Stand up while you're begging them, begging them, "Please"
Stand up or die on your knees, get up
Stand up or f*cking die on your knees

In the lies we trust, to survive we must
'Cause now you're one of us
They gon' cut you down if you speak too much
'Cause now you're one of us

Stand up or die on your knees
Stand up or die on your knees
Stand up or die on your knees
Stand up or f*cking die on your knees

You are the minority
We are the majority
F*ck your lies and f*ck your greed
We are the majority

Imagine being born in a hospital whose doors open up right into a cemetery
How's that for metaphor?
Living behind the jet strip
Where women remove they clothes for tips
What was the alternative? How else they feed their kids?
A den for men that feel no love
From block to block from blood to cuz
And when my dad walked through the door I ain't remember who he was
I was seven, watching riots, while the neighbors rolled them tires
Down the street with Dayton rims
You watched the news, I lived in it
Look at the signs, they say "black owned"
So we gon' leave that shop alone
Burning down the Burger King
The ghetto coming back to take the throne
Then my brother came home bloody
He was trying to keep the peace
Now I hear a whole new meaning when they scream "F*ck the Police!"

When you're lost, I'll find you through twilight in Baldwin Hills
When it's dark, I'll light you, a promise I will fulfill
Nothing's wasted, moments, graces, still my heart
When you're lost, I'll find you on the south side of Inglewood

I grew up in "A Different World" but had a thing for Latin girls
She said "I'm not Hispanic or Latina
I'm Mexican and that's por vida"
Her uncle said "Boy, I don't like ya"
So we would meet on Arbor Vitae
Because I can't take you nowhere yet
All I got is cancelled welfare checks
And I couldn't cross the Lennox line
They'd whoop my ass every time I tried
Ambiguous with the light brown skin
"See I'm like you" I kept telling them
Even if you don't believe me
When the cops come, they still beat me
La Cienega and Hill, yeah, that's where my homeboy got killed
In the alley where they tried to shoot my moms, damn
First time I ever thought to grab a gun, shit
So when y'all was learning violin, see I was learning violence
And when all y'all was learning violin, I was learning violence

When you're lost, I'll find you through twilight in Baldwin Hills
When it's dark, I'll light you, a promise I will fulfill
Nothing's wasted, moments, graces, still my heart
When you're lost, I'll find you on the south side of Inglewood

Centinela Hospital where I was born to die
That is of course as long as it don't get too gentrified
Ain't gotta waste no gas on travel
My corpse will be like ghetto cattle to catapult across the street to that same old cemetery

When you're lost, I'll find you through twilight in Baldwin Hills
When it's dark, I'll light you, a promise I will fulfill
Nothing's wasted, moments, graces, still my heart
When you're lost, I'll find you on the south side of Inglewood

Give me one reason to stay and I will, and I will, yes I will
I'll put my fears on display, yes I will, yes I will, yes I will
You don't want the best for me
You just want the rest of me

How bad, how bad do you want it, want it?
How bad? I'ma show you how to get it
How bad, how bad do you want it, want it?
How bad? I'ma show you how to get it
Oh, f*ck, oh

Run straight to the door
Away from everything that you've been dying for
You really think they're ever gonna f*ck with you?
That's a price you might pay, but you can't afford
All I know, know, we can't be sure
I'm married to the game like it's mi amor
Go on and hurt me once again, my painful truth
I might take another L, but I knew the score before
You ain't seen the last of me
I just want the world to see
You can f*cking have it

How bad, how bad do you want it, want it?
How bad? I'ma show you how to get it
How bad, how bad do you want it, want it?
How bad? I'ma show you how to get it
Motherf*cker

You want it bad but you don't really really want the
You want it bad but you ain't really ready for the (Truth)
You want it bad but you don't really really want the
You want it bad but you ain't really ready for the (Truth)
You want it bad huh? (Truth) You want it bad huh? (Truth)
You want it bad huh? (Truth) How bad do? (Truth)
You want it bad huh? (Truth) How bad do? (Truth)
How bad do? (Truth) How bad do you really want it?
How bad?
How bad?
How bad?
How bad do you really want it?
How bad?
How bad?
How bad?
I'ma show you how to get it

You'll get this now
Oh yeah
Haha, ha
I'ma get this now
And I'ma take mine just to get mine

You think, I know
Wide eyes got a narrow scope
You think that they'd know
Not to shoot a man while he on the floor
That's why these youngins they run before talkin' to police because they know the deal
See young Trayvon Martin had just left the market with candy and got his ass killed

No more excuses
We must refuse this
Silence is useless
Long live the innocent
They tell us stories
Of star-spangled glory
This is your warning
Long live the innocent
Whoa, oh, oh (Oh yeah)
Whoa, oh, oh (Oh yeah)
Oh, oh, oh (Oh yeah)
Long live the innocent
Hey hey
Oh yeah
Oh, oh, oh, oh yeah
Yeah

Eyes of the law do not (They don't)
Look anything like my own (Not like mine)
I can see clearly now (What they look like?)
That the arraignment is gone
Yes I did go head up with that cop tryna do me like Radio Raheem (Take me to him)
I looked at the judge, said "I feared for my life and I pray that you'll do the right thing"

No more excuses
We must refuse this
Silence is useless
Long live the innocent
They tell us stories
Of star-spangled glory
This is your warning
Long live the innocent

It ain't what you are, it's what you can be
It ain't what you are, it's what you can be
It ain't what you are, it's what you can be
And I see you, my brotha
All they know is what you show them

No more excuses
We must refuse this
Silence is useless
Long live the innocent
They tell us stories
Of star-spangled glory
This is your warning
Long live the innocent
Whoa, oh, oh (Oh yeah)
Whoa, oh, oh (Oh yeah)
Oh, oh, oh (Oh yeah)
Long live the innocent
Whoa, oh, oh
Whoa, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Long live the innocent

It's one, two, 333!
Yeah, ayy, ha

What you trying to be ain't what you want to be
I'm just tryina to keep it real with ya
What you gotta be ain't a reality
So let me tell you 'bout that real shit, uh
And there's a part of me that's that still be trying to be
Part of a culture that don't f*ck with us
In a society that never wanted me
Another brotha on his bullshit, uh

Take back your noose and give me the truth, a la la
Don't light my fuse, I ain't in the mood, a la la
Take back your noose and give me the truth, a la la
Don't let me loose, you know what I'll do

I want to believe (Yeah)
That things aren't what they seem (Yeah)
And I want to believe (Gotta believe something)
That everyone's like me (Like hell, like hell)

So tell me that I'm worth something, tell me, tell me that I'm worth something, whoa-oh-oh
Jump when you're told, out of control
Jump when you're told, out of control (Whoa-oh-oh-oh)
So tell me that I mean something, tell me, tell me that I mean something, whoa-oh-oh
Jump when you're told, out of control
Jump when you're told, out of control (Whoa-oh-oh-oh)

Everybody talking 'bout peace, shit
But they ain't giving none of that to me (So we gon' take that shit back), it's like
Everybody talking 'bout peace (So what you gonna tell me?)
But they ain't giving none of it to me (We gonna take that shit)

Take back your noose and give me the truth, a la la
Don't light my fuse, I ain't in the mood, a la la
Take back your noose and give me the truth, a la la
Don't let me loose, you know what I'll do

I want to believe
That things aren't what they seem, yeah

So tell me that I'm worth something, tell me, tell me that I'm worth something, whoa-oh-oh
Jump when you're told, out of control
Jump when you're told, out of control (Whoa-oh-oh-oh)
So tell me that I mean something, tell me, tell me that I mean something, whoa-oh-oh
Jump when you're told, out of control
Jump when you're told, out of control (Whoa-oh-oh-oh)

They can't take that from you
'Cause you the only one that's got it
You feel me?
Hey
(Yeah, okay
Back on that bullshit
Back on that real shit
But that's what they say, they say that real shit, they call it bullshit
'Cause they wanna tell you what's the narrative right)
Can't take this from
Can't take this from
Can't take this from
Can't take this from
Can't take this, can't take this, can't take this, can't take this
From us

So tell me that I'm worth something, tell me, tell me that I'm worth something, whoa-oh-oh
Jump when you're told, out of control
Jump when you're told, out of control (Whoa-oh-oh-oh)
Tell me that I mean something, tell me, tell me that I mean something, whoa-oh-oh
Jump when you're told, out of control
Jump when you're told, out of control

Everybody wanna be somebody 'til they grab a shotty just to blow up
How you gonna get a perfect body but then f*ck up the head on your shoulders?
Like, luckily can't f*ck with me 'cause I'm in a league by myself
And luckily can't f*ck with me 'cause I'm gonna win by myself
This is what I said, I wanna get ahead but can't hold the weight on my shoulders
Hanging by a thread while wishing I was dead but still live my life like a soldier
Luckily can't f*ck with me 'cause I'm in a league by myself
And luckily can't f*ck with me 'cause I'm gonna win by myself

Say what you wanted to, say what you needed
But I don't hear your message
I don't need your lessons
I'm not joining your fight
Take what you wanted to, take what you needed
But I don't hear your message
I don't need your lessons
I'm not joining your fight

Every boy and girl born into this world, I'ma do better I promise
Making sure I leave something to believe in for the young gods and goddesses
Luckily, y'all will see, I didn't win for myself
And luckily, y'all can live in heaven when we go to hell
Learn that everything isn't what it seems
Truth it can hurt but it's honest
History repeats, you will meet defeat, try to stay humble and modest
Luckily, y'all will see, I didn't win for myself
And luckily, y'all can live in heaven when we go to hell

Say what you wanted to, say what you needed
But I don't hear your message
I don't need your lessons (Oh)
I'm not joining your fight
Take what you wanted to, take what you needed
But I don't hear your message (Oh)
I don't need your lessons
I'm not joining your fight

[Bridge]
We built our future by burning down our past
We built our future by burning down our past
We built our future by burning down our past
We built our future that
We built our future that
We built our future that, that's built to last

Say what you wanted to, say what you needed
But I don't hear your message
I don't need your lessons (Oh)
I'm not joining your fight
Take what you wanted to, take what you needed
But I don't hear your message
I don't need your lessons (Oh)
I'm not joining your fight

You are the only reason why
I still believe that I could fly away
Die today
And leave this world in better hands
You are the hope that we will find a way
Finally

You're the reason I'm here
You make everything clear

If I'm not with you I am missing
If I'm not with you I won't go to war all by myself
But you're here and I'm still breathing
But you're here
Now I know what it's like to miss things
Now I know how to fall in love when I can't love myself
But you're here so I'm still breathing
But you're here

Your only limit is the sky
Infinite shots to take, so fire away
Rely on me
I fire it up, you burn it down
I teach, you learn
We will survive today
Defiantly

You're the reason I'm here
You make everything clear

If I'm not with you I am missing
If I'm not with you I won't go to war all by myself
But you're here so I'm still breathing
But you're here
Now I know what it's like to miss things
Now I know how to fall in love when I can't love myself
But you're here and I'm still breathing
But you're here

It's always for you and you too, hmm

Just so you know, we are the product of people you stole
Letting you know, this is like nothing that you've seen before
Just so you know, we are the product of people you stole
Letting you know, this is like nothing that you've seen before

How could you blame me? It's what you made me
Behind bars ever since we was babies
They tried to tame me, but can't detain me
I might bend, but you'll never ever break me
I fight mainly (Yeah), just for my safety (That's right)
This ain't a game so you'll never ever play me
Don't spend a day in my shoes, go on and trade me (I dare you)
This is the kind of shit I go through on my daily

It's in my eyes, I've seen the very top of the mountain
I'll die tonight if this is what it takes to believe
My heart won't stop beating 'til there's nothing left
It's in my eyes, you'll see them as we're burning alive
Burning alive

I'd feel better if (If what?)
My future wasn't written 'cause the present is a gift
While they treat us like we don't exist (Goddamn)
He act as if his residents are just f*ckin' irrelevant
Let's address the elephant
You treat me as a felon, what about your f*ckin' delegates?
Let's address the elephant
You treat me as a felon, what about our f*ckin' president?

It's in my eyes, I've seen the very top of the mountain
I'll die tonight if this is what it takes to believe
My heart won't stop beating 'til there's nothing left
It's in my eyes, you'll see them as we're burning alive
Burning alive

Just so you know, we are the product of people you stole
Letting you know, this is like nothing that you've seen before
Just so you know, we are the product of people you stole
Letting you know, this is like nothing that you've seen before

It's in my eyes, I've seen the very top of the mountain
I'll die tonight if this is what it takes to believe
My heart won't stop beating 'til there's nothing left
It's in my eyes, you'll see them as we're burning alive
Burning alive

Yeah, just so you know, we are the product of people you stole
Letting you know, this is like nothing that you've seen before

Oh, we did it, y'all
We did it together
That's how we win
We the people fight the power to maintain our power
And when we win, because you know we will
It's all power to all people