By The Time I Get To Arizona

(album: Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black - 1991)

I'm counting down to the day deserving
Fitting for a king
I'm waiting for the time when I can
Get to Arizona
'Cause my money's spent on
The goddamn rent
Neither party is mine not the
Jackass or the elephant
20.000 nig niggy nigas in the corner
Of the cell block but they come
From California
Population none in the desert and sun
Wit' a gun cracker
Running things under his thumb
Staring hard at the postcards
Isn't it odd and unique?
Seeing people smile wild in the heat
120 degree
'Cause I wanna be free
What's a smiling fact
When the whole state's racist
Why want a holiday Fuck it 'cause I wanna
So what if I celebrate it standing on a corner
I ain't drinking no 40
I B thinking time wit' a nine
Until we get some land
Call me the trigger man
Looki looking for the governor
Huh he ain't loving ya
But here to trouble ya
He's rubbing ya wrong
Get the point come along

An he can get to the joint
I urinated on the state
While I was kicking this song
Yeah, he appear to be fair
The cracker over there
He try to keep it yesteryear
The good ol' days
The same ol' ways
That kept us dying
Yes, you me myself and I'ndeed
What he need is a nosebleed
Read between the lines
Then you see the lie
Politically planned
But understand that's all she wrote
When we see the real side
That hide behind the vote
They can't understand why he the man
I'm singing 'bout a king
They don't like it
When I decide to mike it
Wait I'm waiting for the date
For the man who demands respect
'Cause he was great c'mon
I'm on the one mission
To get a politician
To honor or he's a gonner
By the time I get to Arizona

I got 25 days to do it
If a wall in the sky
Just watch me go thru it
'Cause I gotta do what I gotta do
PE number one
Gets the job done
When it's done and over
Was because I drove'er
Thru all the static
Not stick but automatic
That's the way it is
He gotta get his
Taling MLK
Gonna find a way
Make the state pay
Looking for the day
Hard as it seems
This ain't no damn dream
Gotta know what I mean
It's team against team
Catch the light beam
So I pray
I pray everyday
I do and praise jah the maker
Looking for culture
I got but not here
From jah maker
Pushing and shaking the structure
Bringing down the babylon
Hearing the sucker
That make it hard for the brown
The hard Boulova
I need now
More than ever now
Who's sitting on my freedah'
Opressor people beater
Piece of the pick
We picked a piece
Of land that we deserving now
Reparation a piece of the nation
And damn he got the nerve
Another nigga they say and classify
We want too much
My peep plus the whole nine is mine
Don't think I even double dutch
Here's a brother my attitude hit 'em
Hang 'em high
Blowing up the 90s started ticking 86
When the blind get a mind
Better start and earn while we sing it
Now
There will be the day we know those down and who will go