U Can Be Touched

(альбом: Still I Rise - 1999)

[Napoleon talking:]
Life… What the fuck is life for niggas like us?
Been waking up to another muthafucking day
I'm the type of soldier
A nigga that seen everything in my mothafucking eyes
I seen my parents get killed to my mothafucking eyes
I seen my brother kill himself in my eyes
I seen 'Pac, Yak die in the struggle in my eyes
So I know anybody can be touched, you know what I mean?

[Napoleon:]
Oh God, forgive me, somebody please say a prayer for me
Needed my parents, but they was never there for me
Believe in everything they feed me, I'm seeing demons
I wake up screaming, who believe me or was I dreamin'?
Five fingers on the .45 chrome
Dead aim at my brain, infrared with no lights on
I ain't afraid to die, I want to see what's after this
I'm living blind, writing rhymes 'til they capture this
And if we die, let the world understand why
Soldier my eyes, hate to see a young thug cry
They seeing us inside a casket, that's how they see us
Oh God, forgive us ghetto bastards, we human beings
They leaving us inside this hell-hole
Just waiting to fail, so then they tell us that's what jail fo'
Adolescent young teens turned violent
It's floating, in a world turned silent, cuz you could be touched

[2Pac:]
Young niggas in the wild life
Criminal mind of a juvenile, still live a child life
Thinking he can make his pay, too in a rush
Niggas better slow down cause you can be touched
Young niggas in the wild life
Criminal mind of a juvenile, still live a child life
Thinking he can make his pay, too in a rush
Niggas better slow down cause you can be touched

[E.D.I.:]
I live life high speed, moving a million miles per hour
Towards my destiny, making decisions carelessly
Yeah, it's me, yo' nigga man child
Bomb first, stand proud, ain't looking for hand-outs
25 years up in this bitch
And I'll be damned if I ain't leaving rich and leave my kids a grip
I let my blood drip off in this thug shit, you can be touched
I catch you slipping while I'm on a money mission
Like right now, 30 dollars to my John Hancock
Try to get more so my shit don't flock
I lick off shots for everything they owe me
And when it's my time to go I pray the Lord hold me

[Kastro:]
I was born in the city that never sleeps
Schooled by the realest of the real niggas that ever breathed
And I was big when I was young
And now I see that I was dumb
My nigga, Lonnie just got hit with 10
10 years for trusting a friend, they left him stuck in the Pen'
I love him, we all here just to die here
Plus, nobody cares what got here
Touched by a angel and kissed by the Lord
Praise the thug ways and I'll never be bored
Touched, by a angel and kissed by the Lord
Y'all praise the thug ways, so forever it's on, baby

[2Pac:]
My young niggas in the wild life
Criminal mind of a juvenile, still live a child life
Thinking he can make his pay, too in a rush
Niggas better slow down cause you can be touched
Young niggas in the wild life
Criminal mind of a juvenile, still live a child life
Thinking he can make his pay, too in a rush
Niggas better slow down cause you can be touched

[Young Noble:]
Why grieve this life, planted by the fiends and pipes?
Green lights so I'm seeing-seeing everything twice
Pretty much of nothing nice, we sucking it up
Even when we get a job, we fucking it up
Like it can't happen to us, I could never be a bum
Yeah, right, you wound up one
God forbid I'm touched, y'all keep living it up
Look and learn, next it could be your turn… word

[Kadafi:]
Yes, this a felonies' hobby that got me here, thinking robbery
Day to day all year long, Teflon protects my body
It's such unimportant in this criminal cartel
I'm caught and supporting me
So in these streets of hockey I play the goalie
Secrets of war licks, and score shit
Share between clients and homies
Remember what Pacino told me
Before he past, watch them clowns with them crocodile smiles
Cause they phony, I get that cash, stay lonely
And I'm point like a thong, and it's survival of the strong
Living outside the laws of this crooked world I was born
Touched…

[2Pac:]
My young niggas in the wild life
Criminal mind of a juvenile, still live a child life
Thinking he can make his pay, too in a rush
Niggas better slow down cause you can be touched
Young niggas in the wild life
Criminal mind of a juvenile, still live a child life
Thinking he can make his pay, too in a rush
Niggas better slow down cause you can be touched