Babylon
[00:00.41] Yo yo
[00:00.00] Badmon representing
[00:00.00] Yo yo
[00:00.00] Heyaa
[00:00.00] Heyaa
[00:00.00] They say you never know what you got
[00:00.00] 'Till it's all up and away
[00:00.00] And it's all lonely at the top
[00:00.00] Sometimes you wanna throw it away
[00:00.00] But lately I've been talking to God
[00:00.00] He told me heaven is a way better place
[00:00.00] So I'm taking everything that I've got
[00:00.00] And I'm running away, I'm running away
[00:00.00] I just can't cope with the pain
[00:00.00] You just Don't understand
[00:00.00] Running away (away from here)
[00:00.00] I'm running away
[00:00.00] I just can't cope with the pain
[00:00.00] You just won't understand
[00:00.00] Running away (away from here)
[00:00.00] Gone like the wind, I can't seem to win
[00:00.00] I know the end is near, but I just don't know when
[00:00.00] Turn on to CNN, look at what I see again
[00:00.00] It's another black man died at the white hand of justice
[00:00.00] To tell the truth, man, I'm fucking disgusted
[00:00.00] I fear for the lives for my sisters, my brothers
[00:00.00] Less fortunate than I, let's formulate a plan
[00:00.00] I'm sick of holding grudges, I'm loading in all my slugs and
[00:00.00] Aiming it at you judges, fuck the cops
[00:00.00] Fuck the system and the government, you fuckers not
[00:00.00] Protecting and serving
[00:00.00] You more like damaging and hurting
[00:00.00] And letting off shots 'till you motherfuckers certain
[00:00.00] He ain't breathing, you made it clear
[00:00.00] Fuck your breath, nigga, don't even deserve air
[00:00.00] Don't even deserve shit, don't even deserve nothing
[00:00.00] If black lives really mattered you niggas would do something
[00:00.00] Instead we mean nothing, in fact we being hunted
[00:00.00] They don't want us in abundance
[00:00.00] They know there's strength in the numbers
[00:00.00] That's why they gave you off
[00:00.00] The time is coming, no discussion
[00:00.00] If you ain't got a gun then you better start runnin'
[00:00.00] Run to the rock of my salvation
[00:00.00] Run to the stone that the builder rejected
[00:00.00] I run to Ababa, Christ Haile I Selasse
[00:00.00] Hear them call some other name
[00:00.00] Them other guy nuh qualify
[00:00.00] A long long time mi see some idiot a try
[00:00.00] Tell me nmerica is the land of the free, that a lie
[00:00.00] Cuh nobody no free bo ya
[00:00.00] Better we leave Babylon and go a Ethiopia
[00:00.00] And if you don't believe we can achieve that
[00:00.00] Then you're just another idiot or another
[00:00.00] Motherfucker, it's the J-O-Z-I-F B-A-D-M-O-N
[00:00.00] Come on, bring them ends on in
[00:00.00] I'm on the upside now, you can turn 'em M's upside down
[00:00.00] We bout to win, there's an L for the other side of him
[00:00.00] Most grace that you lost, I invite 'em in
[00:00.00] To my soul, don't you feel the vibes when I'm channeling
[00:00.00] The innermost of my spirit been engulfed with plenty gold
[00:00.00] But most of them labels don't paint my soul
[00:00.00] Who you think investing in penitentiaries though?
[00:00.00] Same owners as them labels
[00:00.00] Same owners of your cables
[00:00.00] Spoon feeding you fables trying to keep your mind stable
[00:00.00] Your eyes blind, and your skin's hazel
[00:00.00] The truth is under your nasal
[00:00.00] But even the air's all fucked up
[00:00.00] How we supposed to see stars? Chemicals all above us
[00:00.00] Plus bunch of other shit that's undiscovered
[00:00.00] Detached from your roots, set sail, my brothers
[00:00.00] That's word to motherland
[00:00.00] Sold us on stolen land
[00:00.00] Visions from brother men
[00:00.00] You seen us all holding hands
[00:00.00] Fifty years later still see my brothers choked to death
[00:00.00] R.I.P. to Eric Garner, only right I show respect
[00:00.00] Nowadays they hanging us by a different tree
[00:00.00] Branches of the government, I can name all three
[00:00.00] Judicial, legislative and executive
[00:00.00] Lock your pops away your moms and next of kin
[00:00.00] It's all consecutive
[00:00.00] I'm just trying to break the cycle
[00:00.00] I wonder if I'll do it all before they take my life, yo
[00:00.00] Crucify my image, the Lord is my witness
[00:00.00] Seen them Heaven's gates closed
[00:00.00] I'mma break all them hinges for my niggas
[00:00.00] Yes, I'mma break all the hinges for my niggas
[00:00.00] Yes, I'mma break all the hinges for my niggas
[00:00.00] Yes, I'mma break all
[00:00.00] They say you never know what you got
[00:00.00] 'Till it's all up and away
[00:00.00] And it's all lonely at the top
[00:00.00] Sometimes you wanna throw it away
[00:00.00] But lately I've been talking to God
[00:00.00] He told me Heaven is a way better place
[00:00.00] So I'm taking everything that I've got
[00:00.00] And I'm running away, I'm running away
[00:00.00] I just can't cope with the pain
[00:00.00] You just don't understand
[00:00.00] Running away (away from here)
[00:00.00] I'm running away
[00:00.00] I just can't cope with the pain
[00:00.00] You just won't understand
[00:00.00] Running away (away from here)
[00:00.00] As fast as I can to mount Zion
[00:00.00] I'm running away (I'm running away)
[00:00.00] I'm running away (I'm running away)
[00:00.00] I'm running away (I'm running away)
[00:00.00] I'm running away (I'm running away)
[00:00.00] I'm running away (I'm running away)
[00:00.00] I'm running away (I'm running away)
[00:00.00] Running away (I'm running away)
[00:00.00] Away, running away
[00:00.00] You better start running, running
[00:00.00] Babylon boy them a coming, coming yeah
[00:00.00] You better start running, running
[00:00.00] Babylon is coming, Babylon get jealous of we
[00:00.00] Of we, just because I walk this way, Babylon get jealous of we, of we hey
