Why (What's Going On?)

(album: The Tipping Point - 2004)

WHY?? [6 x's]

Sky's the limit so you know I'm gonna rise and shine
I gotta do my thing, I'm kinda getting a little tired of all that's hidden
That's the reason I'm a speak my mind, keep from going insane
Now work with it, we in the last inning
The world keeps spinning, my peoples steady losing while the rich keep winning
It's like we neva smiling and the devil steady grinning
killing what we representing
Even our children and women, 2K4, living above and under the law
Young teen joins the marines, says he'll die for the core
Inducted up into the goverment's war as if the land of money and oil
Funny how ain't none of it yours
I can't sleep yo I'm paranoid, it's code orange
It's far from right, I guess that's why it feels so wrong
To see the world get stripped out of every resource
And people pray to Coca-Cola now instead of the gods
What's going on?

WHY?? [6 x's]

Keeping your head above water, hustling to survive
Some people chasing a dream, others just chasing a high
Some people blind leading the blind, they chasing a lie
Some people choking backs broken barely making it by
But still they working all they live, they pushing for the light
Giving everything they got to stitch them swishes on ya Nike's
Putting pockets on our jeans, mining diamonds for them rings
Rewarded with small change and bullets in the brains
And it makes me feel strange everything we take for granted
At times I feel stranded on this planet of mine
Now should I pull the hammer, clap it out, and laugh about it
Or stand up, be counted while I cast my ballot
When the undertaker's busy and the prison's is crowded
People living in fear because they vision is clouded
But the sky's the limit, I ain't crying you a river
Gotta move me a mountain, I'm a git up and shout it

WHY?? [6 x's]

When I dream it's hounds on my heels gaining momentum
I'm tired, can't get uninspired or quit running
I can feel they only inches behind, I escape, I survive
Some how I gotta decide how much I want it
Or is anybody listening without a pot to piss in
If I disappear I wonder if the world will know I'm missing
Who my support system, it's not the court system
Gotta letter it said that you're not avoiding prison
People 'neath the microscope 'cause we defining the culture
They smile and insult you like you shining their loafers
Them old heads say we need a modern day Moses
When the leaders is posers we needing some soldiers
It's the X generation, The anger is a nature
Got the writing on the wall so clear that I can taste it
Like a kid sniffing glue somewhere trying to escape
Cause we vulnerable and naked
Gotta show 'em we can make it

WHY?? [hook repeats out]