Beat Street - Grandmaster Flash

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Hip hop

Beat street

The king of the beat

You see him rocking that beat from across the street

And huh huh

Beat street is a lesson too because you can't let the streets beat you

Well a picture can express a thousand words to describe all the beauty of life you give

And if the world was yours to do over

I know you'd paint a better place to live

Where the colours would swirl and the boys

And girls can grow in peace and harmony

And where murals stand on walls so grand as far as the eyes are able to see ha

I never knew art till I saw your face

And there'll never be one to take your place

'Cause each and every time you touch the spray paint can

Michelangelo's soul controls your hand

Then serenades of blue and red and the beauty of the rainbow fills your head

Crescendo of colours hang in tune

Man why oh why d'ya have to die so soon

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust

Where the good die young it's all thy must

'Cause as life must live

Death must die and the tear shall fall from the living eye huh

The teardrops fall for the state of mind of the beautiful lady that you left behind

In love and alone but now you're dead

And she still can't get you out of her head huh

More tears fall for all you've done

Trying to be a good father to your only son

But now who's gonna make sure that he's fed

Put a shirt on his back and a roof overhead

Tell me who's gonna dream the impossible dream of the beautiful cities in the islands genes

When your works of art brought into being all that the ghetto stopped you from seeing

Bums on the sidewalk garbage in the streets

Abandoned buildings bricks of concrete

The ladies on the corner are selling their bodies

And everybody wants a part in that party

I'm hanging out tough rocking late at night

Running wild in the town of the neon light

You either play some ball or stand in the hall huh

You gotta make something outta nothing at all

I'm sitting in the classroom learning the rules and it says you can't do graffiti in school

They can't be wrong in the hallowed hall

So my notebook turned into a brick wall

The heart of a lion and the courage of three

And the mind of a man much wiser than me

You're the soul of the brother who won't come back

Who died in my arms on the railroad track

'Cause I'm caught in the rat race looking for my own space

There's gotta be a better place for you and me

There's pie in the sky and an eye for an eye

Some people gotta die just to be free

You search for justice and what do you find

You find just us on the unemployment line

You find just us sweating from dawn to dusk

There's no justice there's huh just us ha

Still life urban masterpiece your trademark was written on trains and walls

A million dollar gift only god released

And yet you got killed for nothing at all

So after this there'll be no more hard times

No more bad times and no more pain

No more chump change none of that bull

Just movies museums and the hall of fame

So all you hip hops get on up

And let's take it to the top where we belong

'Cause the age of the beat street wave is here

Everybody let's sing along now c'mon say ho ho say ho ho

And to let me know I'm rocking the microphone everybody say ramo ramo

Ramo ramo

Raah

A newspaper burns in the sand

And the headlines say man destroys man

Extra extra read all the bad news on the war for peace

That everybody would lose

The rise and fall the last great empire

The sound of the whole world caught on fire

The ruthless struggle the desperate gamble

The game that left the whole world in shambles

The cheats the lies the alibis

And the foolish attempt to conquer the skies

Lost in space and what is it worth huh

The president just forgot about earth

Spending multi billions and maybe even trillions

The cost of weapons ran into zillions

There's gold in the street and diamonds under feet

And the children in africa don't even eat

Flies on their faces they're living like mice

And the houses even make the ghetto look nice huh

The water tastes funny it's forever too sunny

And they work all month and don't make no money

A fight for power a nuclear shower

And people shout out in the darkest hour

Of sights unseen and voices unheard

And finally the bomb gets the last word

Christians killed muslims and germans killed jews

And everybody's bodies are used and abused huh

Minds are poisoned and souls are polluted

Superiority complex is deep rooted

Leeches and lice's and people got prices

Egomaniacs control the self-righteous

Nothing is sacred and nothing is pure

So the revelation of death is our cure

Hitler and caesar custer and reagan

Napoleon castro mussolini and begin

Ghengis khan and the shah of iran

Mixed with the blood of the weaker man

The peoples in terror the leaders made the error

And now they can't even look in the mirror

'Cause we gotta suffer while things get rougher

And that's the reason why we got to get tougher

To learn from the past and work for the future

And don't be a slave to no computer

'Cause the children of man inherits the land

And the future of the world is in your hands

So just throw your hands in the air

And wave 'em like you just don't care

And if you believe that you're the future

Scream it out and say oh yeah oh yeah

Oh yeah oh yeah

Raah

Beat street breakdown

Raah

Hip hop