A Riot In My Mind - Common/Lenny Kravitz/Chuck D.

Lyrics by：Karriem Riggins/Isaiah Sharkey/Lonnie Lynn/Paris A Jones/Burniss Earl Travis II

Composed by：Karriem Riggins/Isaiah Sharkey/Lonnie Lynn/Paris A Jones/Burniss Earl Travis II

Wa da da wa da da da da

Cassius Clay and the Potter

Shape my mind the shape of things the trap the grind

Escape the dream shooting star my aim supreme

Pops said If you gon' aim for king claim the king

My brainstorm reign supreme

Black superhero with a cape and wings

Still I'm a G like a Mason ring

Build with gods and gangstas whose scars and faces

Traces of racist snakes that debased us

Tried to freebase us mark of the beast erase us

But we raised up from East Asia

Children of mother nature

The minority report said that we major and we made ya

I seek greater 'til the fire next time

It's burning down there's a riot in my mind

It's a war outside

When it's quiet it's a riot in my mind

It's a war outside

Won't be quiet it's a riot in my mind

Gotta get ready saddle up

If you really 'bout it we gon' see oh yeah

Gotta get ready time is up

If you been 'bout it we gon' see oh yeah

It's a war outside

Can't be quiet it's a riot in my mind

Paraphernalia I wear like songs by Mahalia

Soldier Buffalo Griselda

Held the scroll that told us seven bowls and seven plagues

Babylon dread the days when the dead are raised

Escapades of the everlasting

Where the ghetto praise for compassion no longer masking

Where black men and black women have been

Art culture fashion the science and mad bling

Kemetic attraction we live for action

Moral arc backbend our spirits attacking

To the to the tick tick tick top

You can lick shots strange fruit get cropped

Get land get stores kick doors ensure

Your fam' is good plus the people next door

Some are tired about the times some inspired about the times

It's where power is refined it's a riot in my mind

It's a war outside

When it's quiet it's a riot in my mind

It's a war outside

Won't be quiet it's a riot in my mind

Gotta get ready saddle up

If you really 'bout it we gon' see oh yeah

Gotta get ready time is up

If you been 'bout it we gon' see oh yeah

It's a war outside

Can't be quiet it's a riot in my mind

Nation against nation

Simulation indication

Uh yo

Nation against nation

Simulation innovation

Generation vindication

Vindication vindication ahh