Various Artists - Right Now Lyrics
Hey...stay...nappy roots....yeah...hey..now if the world was my oysterbaby girl everyday could be red lobsterand you would be draped in pearlsbut it's not read the front page herald we need helpsometime i wish i could save the worldtill death i wonder if there's any heros leftquiet is kept won't hold my breathland of the slaves, home of the gravesof war aids, young aids, gone crazedthese military ways in a flak scenelove and basketballblood and alcoholcryin' my eyes outas i watch the tower fallnowhere is safe, comfort is a coffin manlookin' out the window duckin' and crawlin' mandaddy your son is callin' manlook at this broken manwith broken plansthankfull as hell we holdin' handsnow i'm feelin' love used to livin' it upnot givin' a f***, livin's enoughyou got to stand for somethinghow about some hardcoresave the worldaround the globe in ninety dayshell on earth they say its nintey-nine waysto meet your maker, dare the devil and i bet you be braveit's just a phaselike in puberty at school to be crazedi got the classroom bully on my list to behaveand if he cant then i'ma show him what it means to be savedi'm just a nerd on my last strawbout ten of this my last callmy self esteem extended like this planet bout to blast off3 - 2 - 1feel the black planetI'm like damn is that granitethat I could be a rapper, a hobo, or some mechanicthat I could be a failure, in fact thats how I planned itcause I could never say the whole world is too demandingand I could never video shoes I couldnt handle itso what if i tried to just do scales and not dibsand i settled every god in the crib untill thenjust prepared for this war to begin so you could stand upyou got to stand for something(so you can stand up)you got to stand for something(understand)you got to stand for something(but nothing)mentally still they whippin' us30 lashesain't no love, ain't no sympathythem dirty bastardsbe washin' our brains with chemicalsinsubliminal leaving our sight impairedbut its right therein plain view claim youpack a pistol already but the missles are already aimed to shootone push of a button and this whole ****** game is throughall of a sudden there's mushroom cloudsevacuate the crowdit's too late, it contaminates the (?)the symptoms are maliable contagiouswithout protection its inffecting all agessoon your body's going through stagesall at once the machine ragesright now(contaminate the planet, do it)right now(no time is better than the present)right now(we got to see some homie make it)right now(im tired of this now)right now(exterminate the planet, do it)right now(no time is better than the present)right now(we got to see some homie make it)right now(the time is now)you got to stand for something