Melle Mel - Beat Street Breakdown Lyrics
Beat Street BreakdownBeat Street the King of the BeatThey see ya Rockin' That Beat from across the StreetBeat Street is a Lesson Too, Because You Can't Let The Streets Beat YouWell A Picture Can Express A Thousand Words And Describe All the Beauty of Life you GiveAnd if The Whole World was Yours To Do over I know You'd Paint A Better Place To liveWhere the Colors would Swirl and the Boys and Girls Can grow in Peace and HarmonyAnd where Murals Stand on walls so Grand As far as the Eye Are Able to seeI never Knew Art 'Til I Saw Your Face And There'll never be one to take your placeCause Each Time you Touch The Spay paint Can Michelangleo's Soul Control's your HandThen Serenades of Blue and Red and the Beauty of the Rainbow Fills Your HeadKershendo Colors Play in tune Man Why O'why'd You Have To Die so SoonAshes to Ashes and Dust To Dust Where The Good Die Young is All Thy MustCause As Life must Live Death Must Die and the Tears shall fall from the Livin' EyeThe Tear Drops fall for the state of mind of the beautiful Lady that you left BehindIn Love and Alone but now you're dead and she still can't get you out of her HeadMore tears fall for all you've done Tryin' to be a good father to your only SonBut Now who's gonna make sure he's fed put a shirt on his back and a roof over headTell me who's gonna Dream the Impossible Dream of the Beautiful cities and the Islands Genes (?)When your Works of Art Brought into being All that The Ghetto Stopped you from seein'Bums on the Side Walk, Garbage in the Street, Abandon Buildings, Bricks and concreteThe Ladies on the Corner Sellin' that Body and Everybody wants a part in that partyI'm Hangin' Out Tough, Rockin' Late at Night, Runnin' Wild in the town of the Neon LightYou Either play some ball or stand in the Hall, You gotta make somethin' out of Nothin' at AllI'm sittin' in the classroom learnin' the rules and it say you can't do Graffiti in SchoolThey can't be Wrong in the Hollowed Hall so my Notebook turned into a big WallThe heart of A lion and The Courage of Three and the mind of a man mush wiser than MeAnd The soul of a brother who won't come Back, Who Died in My Arms on the railroad TracksCause I'm Caught in The rat race, lookin' for for my own space, There's gotta be a better place for you and MeThere's pie in the Sky and Eye for an Eye, Some people gotta die just to be FreeSearch for Justice and what do you find, You find Just Us on the Unemployment LineYou find Just Us Sweatin' From Dawn to Dusk, There's no Justice, There's Just Us!Still Life Urban Masterpiece, your Trademark was written on Trains and WallsA Million Dollar gift only god Relief And yet you got Killed for nothin' at AllSo After this there'll be No More Hard Time, No more bad time and no more painNo more chump change, none of that Bull, just Movies, Museums, and The Hall of FameSo All You Hip Hops get on Up and Take it to the Top where We BelongCause The Age of the Beat street Wave is here, everybody Lets sing along, now, c'mon and say Ho (Ho! ) Say Ho (Ho! )And To let me know I'm rockin' the microphone Everybody say Ramoe (Ramoe! ) Ramoe (Ramoe! )A Newspaper Burns in the Sand and the headlines say "Man, This Story's Mad!"Extra, Extra, Read all the bad news on the War for Peace that everybody'll LoseThe rise and fall of the last great empire, the sound of the whole caught on fireThe Ruthless Struggle, The Desprate Gamble, the Game that left the whole world in ShamblesThe cheat, the lies, the alibis and the foolish atempt to conquer the skiesLost in space but what is it worth, the president just forgot about earthSpendin' mutli-billions and maybe even trillions, the cost of weapons ran into zillionsThe gold in the street and there's dimonds under feet and the children in africa don't even eatFlies on their faces they're livin' like mice and the houses even make the ghetto look niceThe water tastes funny it's forever too sunny and they work all month and don't make no moneyA fight for power, a Nucier Shower, The People shout out in the Darkest HourThe Sight's unseen and voices unheard and Finally the bomb get the last wordChristians killed Muslims and Germans killed Jews and everybody's body is Used and AbusedMinds are poisoned and Souls are Polluted, Supierority complexes deep rootedLiegends are Lisenced and People got Prices, Ego Maniacs control the Self RightiousNothin' is Sacred and nothin' is pure, so the Revelation effct is our cureHitler and Ceaser, Custard and Reagan, Napoleon, Castro, Musellini andGangus Khan and the of Iran, Meant for the Blood of the Weaker ManThe People's in Terror, the Leaders made the error and they can't even look in the mirrorCause We got to suffer, while things get rougher and that's the reason why we got to get tougherLearn from the Past, work for the future and don't be a slave to no computerCause the Children of Man inherates the land and the future of the world is in your handsJust Throw your hands in the Air, and Wave'em like you just don't care and if you blieve that you're the futureScream it out and Say Oh Yeah (Oh Yeah! ) Oh Yeah (Oh Yeah! ) Beat Stre
