Teach The Children

Eric B. & Rakim

No more time to pass time 'cause these are the last rhymes



'Cause we're living in the last times...



They wanna go to war more wars to come



But most of us fight more wars than one



Discrimination in the racial nation



While they destroy our strong foundation



Nature's balance is way off balance



They tip the scale now it's no more silence



The hole in the ozone layer is outta control



But they wanna fight for more oil and gold



Unemployment, I got laid off



The streets is the last resorts to get paid off



For more, more mint, no doe for rent



I gotta shed blood to make a red cent



Maybe I should ask the president



Somebody give me the president



But he don't want to hear it, it's out of the question



'Cause in my section it's worse than recession



So I go to a rich neighborhood and play Robin Hood



Take from the bad and give to the good



First I go to Bensonhurst, steal a Benz, snatch a purse



Pick up my friends, that's when it gets worse



'Cause I need government and they need government



Alot of mint spent, now I gotta pay rent



Who makes the most dead presidents in the projects



You're gonna get robbed and wrecked



I parked up the block to plot on a kid that made a knot



Let's get him for all he got



I approached him slow like I was a basehead



Put the fo-fifth to his face and said



You see those kids over there wit the hoods



Walk to them real slow and give them the goods



First the gun and the doe and crush the jumbos



One false move and no one knows



'Cause I got a silencer to hush the bust



And I'm in a rush, so hush the fuss



Plus the poison you fed will no longer spread



You good as dead, I'm a fill your head wit lead



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